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Forums - Sales - EMEAA Up - 18 September 2010

MDMAniac said:

LOL at PS3 and Move sales. Looks like people have little intention in buying so called "Wii HD" after all.


move sales arent bad. and ps3 sales arent bad, 360 sales are high because of the slim(the boost is still their) and reach, just because theirs a big difference doesnt mean its bad.



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Metallicube said:

You put far too much importance on price cuts. I've said a thousand times and I'll say it again: It's games games games. People buy consoles for GAMES, they don't buy consoles because they look nice in the living room. If your console has no games, no price cut will help you. The HD consoles both have had slim models (which I contend have done far more than the price drops). And they've also had stronger releases this year than the Wii thus far. A price cut will give a very temporary boost but that's it.

HD consoles could outlast the Wii, but if they do, it'll be because Nintendo wil fail to release games that people want. Wii did bad this year (speaking in relative terms) because people had no new reasons to buy a Wii. It's biggest two games were a Mario Galaxy sequel (which even the first game barely moved consoles) and a Metroid spinoff with very limited appeal.

I don't quite get how you see it as likely that the HD consoles will outlast Wii, when Nintendo has pumped out some of the best selling games of all time for Wii in just 4 years that have insane legs, and chances are good they could release another one.

As for the HD consoles are "gamers" consoles, and have more loyal core gamers or whatever, I'm not gonna bother arguing with that one because it's nothing more than hardcore elitist nonsense.


This again.  Over the last couple of weeks this argument has been stated a couple of times and I share the numbers last year and the truth of the matter is the Wii price cut is what propelled Wii sales at the 2nd of 2009.  People say it is impossible for a title to sell the amount of copies that NSMBWii sold and not move hardware and to a modest extent they are right every title pushes some people over the edge,just not in the magnitude many believe.  Look even Halo Reach will only marginally increase hardware sales on the 360 after the 1st few weeks.  Looks like this initial week Halo Reach moved an extra 150K.  That wont last long.  Yet here you are in  this thread saying software moves the hardware then you say SMG, even though it has sold 9 million copies, hasnt moved hardware much.  So which is it?

The most ludicrous thing I hear is that it wasnt the $100 price cut on the PS3 that moved the PS3 hardware the last year.  In reality you say it was the slimming it down.  Yeah I can hear the conversation  "Mom can we get a PS3? No honey it takes up to much space on the entertainment center."  Or would the more likely conversation be "Mom can we get a PS3 now it isnt $400 any more it is now $300".  The 360 is a different scenario. MS added value and with the redesign the RRoD perception  has been removed to harnass demand and eliminate the nervousness of purchasing hardware that could go bad.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

johnglen said:
zgamer5 said:
johnglen said:
zgamer5 said:

i expected more by reach numbers, ofcourse numbers in na will be much higher then halo 3 but this shows you that the franchise is only massive in the us,


Yeah, 1 million in one week (non-holiday week at that)  shows that the franchise is not massive in Europe ??

Sony fanboys sure have some weird criteria judging the success of things !!!


it sold 50k more then halo 3, a game which came out 3 years ago, i expected more.

does anyone disagree that halo isnt massive in europe? halo 3 sold 8 million in the us, 3 million in eu. the 5% increase shows that the franchise didnt go in europe(although i expect it to beat halo 3 sales in emeaa).

and considering this is halo 1 million isnt something to brag about.

and im not a sony fanboy :)

 


Yes you are, of the worst kind in fact. Anyway what other single-format games have had a better first week in Europe ??

The only bigger games i can think of are MW2 and GTA4 .

Just a tip: Calling people fanboys is flaming, and that can get you banned. What he said was barking mad, definitely, but there's no need to risk a ban over such things.



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dejelek said:

ps3 sales because of ps3 slim


You mean PS move?



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tuoyo said:

Wii is dead. So sad.

Whats so sad about it? It has the weakest library of games out of the 3 consoles by mile yet it outsells both HD consoles.

360 and Ps3 are more attractive right now, People are getting bored of the wii..now that move and Kinect are around the corner they can enjoy motion gaming without looking at a blurry piece of crap on the screen.

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MDMAniac said:

LOL at PS3 and Move sales. Looks like people have little intention in buying so called "Wii HD" after all.


It's September. It's only launched. It has no good games.

Do the maths.



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Oh, sweet damage control. It's not like Sony could pull a better game lineup in future. They will not have Wii Sports rival in the very same way they never had anything like Mario or Pokemon or Zelda. And the reason is very simple: Sony is clueless in what drives gaming.

As for September point, the competition will be even tougher in upcoming months, so...

Move will be not the 1st in the line of Sony's failures, so why so defensive?



People saying that Wii is dead will be so butthurt come holiday season...



zgamer5 said:
johnglen said:
zgamer5 said:

i expected more by reach numbers, ofcourse numbers in na will be much higher then halo 3 but this shows you that the franchise is only massive in the us,


Yeah, 1 million in one week (non-holiday week at that)  shows that the franchise is not massive in Europe ??

Sony fanboys sure have some weird criteria judging the success of things !!!


it sold 50k more then halo 3, a game which came out 3 years ago, i expected more.

does anyone disagree that halo isnt massive in europe? halo 3 sold 8 million in the us, 3 million in eu. the 5% increase shows that the franchise didnt go in europe(although i expect it to beat halo 3 sales in emeaa).

and considering this is halo 1 million isnt something to brag about.

and im not a sony fanboy :)

 

Halo 3 sold more than any PS3 exclusive in Europe, so by that no PS3 exclusive to date is massive in Europe?