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Forums - Sales - AC PSP overtracked, only 500K sold

palancas7 on 15 February 2011

Weird thing is... for some games we're willing to adjust when we get numbers from publishers or NPD, but for others no. Why's that?



 

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jarrod on 16 February 2011
Kasz216 said:

Eh, 500K still isn't bad for a portable game.

The game was heavily bundled with hardware though.  That's undoubtedly where the majority of sales came from.  It also had actual television ads, which is a bit of a rarity for PSP games (only other ones in 2009 were MHFU, Dissidia, LBP and GT iirc).

Anyway, can't say I'm surprised about the overtracking.  The recent NPD top 10 per platform for 2011 article showed VGC has been somewhat significantly overtracking for PSP games in general in America, wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same story for PAL regions.  Time to recalibrate those multipliers, PSP's basically dead outside Japan and has been for awhile now...



Kasz216 on 16 February 2011
jarrod said:
Kasz216 said:

Eh, 500K still isn't bad for a portable game.

The game was heavily bundled with hardware though.  That's undoubtedly where the majority of sales came from.  It also had actual television ads, which is a bit of a rarity for PSP games (only other ones in 2009 were MHFU, Dissidia, LBP and GT iirc).

Anyway, can't say I'm surprised about the overtracking.  The recent NPD top 10 per platform for 2011 article showed VGC has been somewhat significantly overtracking for PSP games in general in America, wouldn't surprise me at all if it was the same story for PAL regions.  Time to recalibrate those multipliers, PSP's basically dead outside Japan and has been for awhile now...


Which is why I'm going to ignore Tactics Ogre sales.  Outside the copy I bought... which of course didn't arrive on time because Gamestop is incompetant.  I've got 2 to 1 money they don't even have the preorder thing when i go pick it up today too.



huaxiong90 on 16 February 2011
M.U.G.E.N said:
Mr Puggsly said:
M.U.G.E.N said:


just because it's an IP of a console originated game doesn't mean it's'watered down' by any means..

So its not watered down?

I'm wrong and its at par with the console versions?


not this game that's for sure..this one sucked!! Doubt many psp owners will argue with that..heck for a change I think even the critics agree with users on this one

yeah games like VC2 are on par with console versions. Games like Tekken DR I would argue are better than the console version. It's not always the case as there are fluctuations in quality (as every other platform would have) but no there are many such IP's that are a blast to play on the go. Playing on consles have their benefits but so do portables. I find this watered down generalization outright stupid tbh.

Gonna have to honestly disagree there. VC2's gameplay aspect felt very watered down compared to VC1 (namely the difficulty and how useful your units are).



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