Max King of the Wild said:
Capulous said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Capulous said:
thismeintiel said:
Cunning_Linguist said:
Forgive me if I'm wrong as I don't live in the US but Thursday was Thanksgiving right? Are the shops normally open that day? I assumed they closed. My point being that are these numbers not 2 days EMEAA and 1 day US/Japan or have I got that wrong?
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That's a good point. I know Wal-Mart is open, but closes pretty early. Other than that, I think most retail stores are closed. This means that those sales would be held off til Black Friday, which would have given GT5 a nice boost without that fact. So yea, technically it's 2 days in EMEAA, and only 1 day in US/Japan.
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Sears, Kmart, Toyrus all opened on Thursday; I do not believe it was the whole day though. Online retailers still took orders as well. Only the US had a holiday, the rest of Americas did not. So it is correct stating that it is 2 days sale in the Americas.
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Vgchartz does not track online sales and Toysrus was open for 2 hours (10pm) for blackfriday door busters.... and who the fuck goes to sears?
And again... How many people are wandering around looking for a game when almost the whole nation is shut down having dinner with their family?
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Plenty of people go to Sears or it would have gone out of business a long time ago. You seem to be taking this personally for some reason.
Sales are ridiculous this time of year. Plenty of people go out shopping. If you didn't know, people start lining up the day before Black Friday just to get at those sales, and some even earlier than that.
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LOL... ok, you don't know what your talking about. No, sales before thanksgiving aren't ridiculous. It isnt till black friday that they get insane. Stores are like ghost towns on thanksgiving. Everyone is having dinner with family. The country is basically closed down for that day. I have sales numbers if youd like? Last weekend my store did 30k before 1 o'clock on saturday ending with 60k. Today 50k before 1 o clock going on to 100k. Yesterday 400k. Last friday 40k.
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Actually all I said was sales are ridiculous this time of year and just mentioned how people start lining up before Black Friday for these sales. There were also plenty of sales online and offline leading up to Black Friday.
The country is not closed down for the day. People still work, people still go out, and everyone is not having dinner with their families for 24 hrs. Stores were opened, items were sold, how much effect if had on GT5 sales, I have no idea. But the point is those stores were opened and sales were made. Still not sure why you are trying to argue this point.
And of course the weekend of Black Friday will have huge sales, that is a given. And making claims and giving me random numbers for a store means absolutely nothing. The store you work at apparently was not opened Thanksgiving day, so you have no sales numbers to compare for that day.
