"So what?"

Molyneux wanted it to sell 5 million. That is the point.

The series doesn't seem to be expanding.

Those NPD figures Gamasutra cites for October 2009 are off - they didn't include accessories in that total. The drop is more severe when you include accessories. You can see in their own damn article from 2009 that they didn't include Accessory figures for October 2009: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26063

But for some reason they included accessory figures in 2010 and forgot to mention that they aren't comparing the right set of data. Idiots.

Moreover, Gamasutra doesnt even read its own articles regarding hw sales, note the different Oct 2009 totals for hw given today and back in 2009:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31493/NPD_Results_October_2010_Industry_Dips_4_Percent_On_Slow_Hardware_Sales.php (wrong total overall, wrong 2009 HW total)

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26063

Don't butt into a convo you're not following correctly. We're talking about how much Fable III is overtracked, not how much pre orders were (well until psrock for SOME reason brought that up) or what peter wants out of the franchise.

My "So what" was to psrock bringing up irrelevance.

NPD became so  boring without numbers... I like numbers.

Nothing about Nintendo, Sony and others games???

There's a perfectly logical reason for that though, and you know what it is.

Sorry, didn't realize I needed your permission to post in this thread. Want to have a conversation? Well, then cut attack bullshit and respond to the valid point brought up.

PSRock's point is that Fable 3 is overtracked and due to that the game is in fact tracking below what Fable 2 was tracking at the same point in it's lifetime. Peter Molyneux wanted to series to expand before putting it on hold and according to this data it has not.

These kinds of discussions are what arises from NPD sales figures.

Although we don't have specific numbers for it yet in Fable 3's defense F3 was available for 1 week in this data. F2 was available for 2 weeks in October 2008.

@Seece

How much do you think it might be overtracked by?

WHile I originally said 500k to 666k, I think it is within the 600k-650k region.

Don't need my permission at all, but I see no point in coming up with some scatty remark when you're not following the convo correctly (like psrock)

I don't care what psrock's point is, all he is saying is "ZOMG MASSIVELY OVERTRACKED" I actually looked at the numbers and said it could be 130k overtracked from 815k we had, or possibly more, thus, not 1/3 or 1/2 or even massively.

You're perfectly fine to have your discussion about what peter molynuex wants, but don't drag points of my conversation into yours and twist them.

Nooo idea, can't imagine we're far off so it's probably close to Fallout 360. I'm not even sure brett adjusts to NPD anymore anyway so we might never know (unless MS or lionhead disclose, which I doubt)