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postofficebuddy on 26 August 2010

I'm not entirely sure if those are north American or worlwide sales. IIRC Square said FF7 sold 100k in it's first month on the NA PSN and that game stayed at the to of the best-sellers list for months. It's almost certainly sold more than 340k worldwide.



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NiKKoM on 26 August 2010
okr said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

Benjamin Schlichter? Isn't that mrstickball?


Yeah he is.. he has download numbers for $$$... http://fadellc.com



 

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Barozi on 26 August 2010
okr said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

Benjamin Schlichter? Isn't that mrstickball?

Well of course it is.

The same one who provided the XBLA numbers here.

Glad FADE finally released some PSN numbers.

 

In conclusion looks like PSN is about half as big as XBLA. Not surprising IMO.



ImJustBayuum on 26 August 2010
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

is GT5:P an Arcade game??

The first line in the title: "The best selling PSN games". GT5:P is a PSN-downloadable title. Why shouldn't it count?

I think you'll have to take that up with FADE or whoever the research company is.

Their focus is on the arcade / games specifically designed for the PSN or XBL.

Which actually fits in my point, this "analysis" is flawed. It ignores games like Socom: Confrontation and GT5:P. If something is downloadable, it should count in the data.

NO not really. The main users of this piece of data are the developers of PSN/XBL..Excluding those games you mentioned is appropriate and reasonable.



ImJustBayuum on 26 August 2010
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:

NO not really. The main users of this piece of data are the developers of PSN/XBL..Excluding those games you mentioned is appropriate and reasonable.

I'm not sure how this makes sense. The makers of PSN are the same people who make GT5:P and Socom (Sony). Why again shouldn't that data count?

lol...my bad.

NO not really. The main users of this piece of data are the developers of games specifically designed for the PSN/XBL ..Excluding those games you mentioned is appropriate and reasonable.



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okr on 26 August 2010
NiKKoM said:
okr said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

Benjamin Schlichter? Isn't that mrstickball?

Yeah he is.. he has download numbers... http://fadellc.com

This is very interesting. mrstickball used to post the xbla sales numbers on VGC back in the day, (he already started in 2007 http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=10292 and stopped some day) and later we got sporadic news on VGC with DL sales numbers from Fade LLC. I wonder about the relationship between Ben's Fade LLC and ioi's VGC: Are they rivals now, are they still cooperating, do they even belong together?



Barozi on 26 August 2010
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:
CGI-Quality said:
ImJustBayuum said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

is GT5:P an Arcade game??

The first line in the title: "The best selling PSN games". GT5:P is a PSN-downloadable title. Why shouldn't it count?

I think you'll have to take that up with FADE or whoever the research company is.

Their focus is on the arcade / games specifically designed for the PSN or XBL.

Which actually fits in my point, this "analysis" is flawed. It ignores games like Socom: Confrontation and GT5:P. If something is downloadable, it should count in the data.

NO not really. The main users of this piece of data are the developers of PSN/XBL..Excluding those games you mentioned is appropriate and reasonable.

I'm not sure how this makes sense. The makers of PSN are the same people who make GT5:P and Socom (Sony). Why again shouldn't that data count?

he was obviously talking about XBLA/PSN GAME developers. Not some Microsoft or Sony guys.

Anyway who cares ? Games on Demand or Indie Games or big expansions don't get counted either.

It's about downloadable games only.



Barozi on 26 August 2010
okr said:
NiKKoM said:
okr said:
CGI-Quality said:

Hmmm.....I wonder what GT5:P has done.

So, if the lowest one on there is 260,000, you're trying to tell me that all GT5:P has done is that or less? GT5:P hasn't hit 500,000 on PSN? I'm inclined to think otherwise.

I also love how the the OP left out the rest of that article:

Despite this, creating games on the platform is a strong investment for developers.  'Although PSN lacks the massive sellers of Xbox Live Arcade, many developers have found great success with PSN. In our initial report, we find that 22% of all titles have recorded over $1 million USD in revenue, a figure that should be encouraging to developers that are interested in the platform.' said Benjamin Schlichter, Director of Research & Analysis at FADE.

Benjamin Schlichter? Isn't that mrstickball?

Yeah he is.. he has download numbers... http://fadellc.com

This is very interesting. mrstickball used to post the xbla sales numbers on VGC back in the day, (he already started in 2007 http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=10292 and stopped some day) and later we got sporadic news on VGC with DL sales numbers from Fade LLC. I wonder about the relationship between Ben's Fade LLC and ioi's VGC: Are they rivals now, are they still cooperating, do they even belong together?

yeah well that isn't news to me, though I have no idea about the last part.

Pretty sure they don't belong together, but I guess we still get some news and since we're not tracking any sales of downloadable games I can't imagine how we could be rivals.



Gilgamesh on 26 August 2010

I find it extremely hard to believe Final Fantasy VII  isn't in the top 5. And either VG Chartz numbers are waaaaay off or something is screwy with those number there, since Polyphony Digital has GT5P download sales at around a million.

Is this just America?



Barozi on 26 August 2010
Gilgamesh said:

I find it extremely hard to believe Final Fantasy VII  isn't in the top 5. And either VG Chartz numbers are waaaaay off or something is screwy with those number there, since Polyphony Digital has GT5P download sales at around a million.

Is this just America?


no it's WW and like it was said before FADE probably doesn't count PS1 or digital copies of retail games.