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Boutros on 28 December 2010
morenoingrato said:
Boutros said:
mortono said:


I've been here a while plus I work in the game industry. I know my facts, but I also take the time to explain them rather than just mouthing-off short meaningless opinions.


Wow. You are joking right?  You do not have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that games seem to sell more in the holidays, because that is when a lot of people buy games for gifts. That is not opinion, that is fact. Also, I am calling BS on you working in the industry until you prove otherwise.

I work in the industry, but I'm not crazy enough to try and prove it by giving away my personal information. I just find it interesting how some forum dwellers reply with the assumption that I'm "new" or "dumb" when they can't even come up with more than one sentence to explain their opinions.

The topic of this thread is that uDraw's sales are increasing at a faster rate than normal (holiday boost included). If you compare uDraw to other games, this is true. 

 

No that's what YOU made of this thread. The topic is about uDraw's sales increasing every week. And that's the Holiday boost. Fact.

Some games have a bigger Holiday boost. Fact.

And besides, the critics haven't been very positive of the product (the tablet) unlike what you said. I don't know about the games.

It's simply a game that appeals to kids and kids are the main targets during the Holidays.


So there you have it, that was my first argument in the first place, not to mntion word of mouth from kids. Not ONLY the holiday boost.

I never said it was only the Holiday boost :P



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Moren on 28 December 2010
Boutros said:
morenoingrato said:
Boutros said:
mortono said:


I've been here a while plus I work in the game industry. I know my facts, but I also take the time to explain them rather than just mouthing-off short meaningless opinions.


Wow. You are joking right?  You do not have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that games seem to sell more in the holidays, because that is when a lot of people buy games for gifts. That is not opinion, that is fact. Also, I am calling BS on you working in the industry until you prove otherwise.

I work in the industry, but I'm not crazy enough to try and prove it by giving away my personal information. I just find it interesting how some forum dwellers reply with the assumption that I'm "new" or "dumb" when they can't even come up with more than one sentence to explain their opinions.

The topic of this thread is that uDraw's sales are increasing at a faster rate than normal (holiday boost included). If you compare uDraw to other games, this is true. 

 

No that's what YOU made of this thread. The topic is about uDraw's sales increasing every week. And that's the Holiday boost. Fact.

Some games have a bigger Holiday boost. Fact.

And besides, the critics haven't been very positive of the product (the tablet) unlike what you said. I don't know about the games.

It's simply a game that appeals to kids and kids are the main targets during the Holidays.


So there you have it, that was my first argument in the first place, not to mntion word of mouth from kids. Not ONLY the holiday boost.

I never said it was only the Holiday boost :P

Ok then, it's just that you made it sound like it was that way.



ninty_shareholder64 on 28 December 2010

I like the idea of tablet use for RTS games.



mortono on 28 December 2010
Boutros said:
morenoingrato said:
Boutros said:
mortono said:


I've been here a while plus I work in the game industry. I know my facts, but I also take the time to explain them rather than just mouthing-off short meaningless opinions.


Wow. You are joking right?  You do not have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that games seem to sell more in the holidays, because that is when a lot of people buy games for gifts. That is not opinion, that is fact. Also, I am calling BS on you working in the industry until you prove otherwise.

I work in the industry, but I'm not crazy enough to try and prove it by giving away my personal information. I just find it interesting how some forum dwellers reply with the assumption that I'm "new" or "dumb" when they can't even come up with more than one sentence to explain their opinions.

The topic of this thread is that uDraw's sales are increasing at a faster rate than normal (holiday boost included). If you compare uDraw to other games, this is true. 

 

No that's what YOU made of this thread. The topic is about uDraw's sales increasing every week. And that's the Holiday boost. Fact.

Some games have a bigger Holiday boost. Fact.

And besides, the critics haven't been very positive of the product (the tablet) unlike what you said. I don't know about the games.

It's simply a game that appeals to kids and kids are the main targets during the Holidays.


So there you have it, that was my first argument in the first place, not to mntion word of mouth from kids. Not ONLY the holiday boost.

I never said it was only the Holiday boost :P

I think we've made progress. We've brought you from saying "No, it's the holiday boost" to "I never said it was only the Holiday boost".

So, now that you've presented a somewhat credible fact that child-friendly games get bigger sales boosts during the holidays, please explain to me why Wii Party and Sonic Colors have not seen the same sales boosts. Do these games not appeal to kids? Didn't Sega say Sonic Colors was targeted at 8 year olds? So why is it not seeing a holiday boost in the same manner as UDraw?

My stance is that Udraw is seeing a larger sales boost because of good word of mouth (not from critics but from customers like Just Dance from last year), and effective advertising. It is not just seasonality. It leads me to believe that it will have significant sales even after the holidays.

Also, the original topic of this thread actually presented the idea that the sales increase may be due to easing supply restrictions, which is also plausible.

 



stopstopp on 30 December 2010

Udraw is still going to hit the wall when the holiday wears off. It's a lot of seasonality.



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Demotruk on 30 December 2010
Boutros said:

It's the Holidays...

Most games have a boost.


These are both true, but insufficient. Look at the other titles released about the same time, whether big releases or small releases, established IP's or new. None of them have a sales pattern of continuous sales growth. This is something you only see with titles like, well, Just Dance for example.



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Degausser on 30 December 2010

 Udraw will continue to sell well long into the early months of 2011 and I imagine the tablet as a platform will be a very successful venture for THQ. VGC sales are good but the success of this thing was pretty obvious the moment THQ shares jumped up a few days before it's release - by that point they already knew they'd struck oil.

 It's just a really well designed producted placed perfectly in the market and positioned perfectly for word of mouth and focused marketing to sell it for many weeks to come, like Just Dance. Now it just needs to come to Europe where it'll really thrive...



Galaki on 01 January 2011

Week 6 rise over week 5. Only game to have a rise week over week that long?



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HappySqurriel on 01 January 2011

While I think there is some elements of holiday shopping associated with the size of its sales, I would say that this title is seeing steady sales increases because it is a really good idea with broad appeal and they underestimated demand. I don't want to make any unrealistic predictions, or make unreasonable comparisons, but I think this title may see steady sales for a long time like many of Nintendo's evergreen games; especially, if the tablet can get significant support and receives interesting games.



jarrod on 01 January 2011

uDraw's sales remind me of Art Academy in Japan actually, started low but it kept selling and actually increasing. Same sort of "game" too actually.  I dunno if it'll drop off entirely after the holidays, but for now it seems to have captured that casual zeitgeist that tends to drive DS/Wii games pretty far with the mainstream.  I'm not expecting a Brian-Age, Wii Fit or Just Dance, but maybe a Cooking Navi, Style Savvy or Sports Active?