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XanderZane on 22 April 2011
pezus said:
XanderZane said:
tombi123 said:

GTA4 PS3... lol 

PS3 leading the home consoles. Seriously didn't see that coming after the sales last holiday season.

I did. That has happened for the past 2 years. Wii and XBox 360 have slow sales during the summer months and the PS3 usually does slightly better. Then the holidays come and Wii and XBox 360 crushes the PS3 is hardware and software sales. Happens every year. I think the only year the PS3 didn't lead the summer was the first year and the year when the 360 Slim launched.

Oh, really. Please...look at the 2009 holiday sales and tell us again that the 360 crushed the PS3...lol!

I meant 2008 and 2010. 2009 was the year the PS3 Slim was released. So of course the PS3 did better then the XBox 360 that holiday, but they still got CRUSHED by the Wii. Seems you guys forgot I put Wii and XBox 360 in the paragraph. lol!!



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XanderZane on 22 April 2011
CGI-Quality said:
XanderZane said:
CGI-Quality said:
XanderZane said:
CGI-Quality said:

Both will probably get further bundles (though GT's may be more extensive and have a larger impact). I can't imagine the final numbers being much more for either though (10.5mill tops for GT5/11.2mill tops for Reach).

GT5 isn't going to reach 10 million. It might get bundled again for the holidays, but the chances are still very slim it will reach 10 million. If it doesn't get bundled, it will never reach 10 million.

Really? What's the indicator that confirms it's chances are very slim? We already mentioned bundles, so that's not something new (in fact, most games that hit 10 million are bundled at some point or another - except for rare occassions such as CoD/Wii Fit).

Regardless, why are GT5's chances slim even with bundles? I'm curious.

Just look at the world wide numbers and how much is currently being sold in each region. It's continuing to drop each week until it's down to about 2000 or less a week worldwide. You guys are looking at GT4 and GT3 numbers and thinking GT5 can do the same, but at the  time GT3 and GT4 were selling decent numbers there were almost twice the number of PS2 in gamers homes. Once GT6 is released, GT5 will be an after thought. GT6 won't take 5 years to complete. They will just use GT5 engine and data and add to it.

You're also not factoring in how much GT5 is ahead of GT4 (nobody mentioned GT3, so I'm not sure why you are, as we don't have full data for it). GT5 is ahead of GT4 in total WW by over 340k in the same time frame. Yes, it's behind GT4 weekly because of when it launched, it's more front-loaded than GT4, but to completely lose that WW lead, it would have to drop to near nothing all year. We can speculate with good reason that such a situation won't happen if you factor in holiday #2, price cuts, and/or bundles.

Also, if this gen has proven anything, it's that console user-base doesn't determine what something will/won't sell in conjunction to previous user-bases (looking at God of War III & Metal Gear Solid 4 vs God of War & Metal Gear Solid 2 for examples).

Your GT6 references are all speculation and irrelevant to the current scenario.

It's behind GT4 because there are less PS3 sold on the market. GT6 will probably be out next year. I doubt very much GT5 will be anywhere near 10 million by the time GT6 is released. Most gamers aren't going to jump back to GT5 if GT6 is a superior game (which it probably will be). Stop trying to base sales from what previous games did. You are completely forgetting about the economy, the recent disasters, that millions of jobless people in the world and the user base of the PS3. All of that will play a factor. Talk to me again next year at this time and we can review the numbers again.



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Zlejedi on 22 April 2011

PSP is down in EMEA by 11% after full week of price drop?

Oh well Q1  shipments will be interesting.



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Antabus on 22 April 2011

Wii dropped down to 45,7% marketshare. It just makes me laugh to think what the "better than analysts" on this site said.

 

Wii will sell 200 million, 85% marketshare, all 3rd party support, HD-consoles will have nothing and so on. Haha. Hahahaha.



Pavolink on 22 April 2011
Boutros said:

Yes but it's not because the Wii is doing better than the GC that it is doing good.

Ps3 is down YoY by big numbers (not abysmal like Wii), but still is "doing fine", isn't? Don't see the problem for Wii doing good compared with GC.



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Pavolink on 22 April 2011
Antabus said:

Wii dropped down to 45,7% marketshare. It just makes me laugh to think what the "better than analysts" on this site said.

 

Wii will sell 200 million, 85% marketshare, all 3rd party support, HD-consoles will have nothing and so on. Haha. Hahahaha.

Doub it this is as funny as the Wii is a fad since 2006.



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Nintendogamer on 22 April 2011
Pavolink said:
Antabus said:

Wii dropped down to 45,7% marketshare. It just makes me laugh to think what the "better than analysts" on this site said.

 

Wii will sell 200 million, 85% marketshare, all 3rd party support, HD-consoles will have nothing and so on. Haha. Hahahaha.

Doub it this is as funny as the Wii is a fad since 2006.

Or the fact that all analyst predicted it to have a LT sales of 18M lol.



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Boutros on 22 April 2011
Pavolink said:
Boutros said:

Yes but it's not because the Wii is doing better than the GC that it is doing good.

Ps3 is down YoY by big numbers (not abysmal like Wii), but still is "doing fine", isn't? Don't see the problem for Wii doing good compared with GC.

You're comparing the PS3 with the PS3 (which is fine) and you're comparing the Wii with the GC?

Sounds like cherry picking.

Might as well compare the PS3 with the PS2 and call the PS3 doomed.

 

Anyway I think RolStoppable was kidding when he compared the Wii with the GC.



Pavolink on 22 April 2011
Nintendogamer said:
Pavolink said:
Antabus said:

Wii dropped down to 45,7% marketshare. It just makes me laugh to think what the "better than analysts" on this site said.

 

Wii will sell 200 million, 85% marketshare, all 3rd party support, HD-consoles will have nothing and so on. Haha. Hahahaha.

Doub it this is as funny as the Wii is a fad since 2006.

Or the fact that all analyst predicted it to have a LT sales of 18M lol.

Lol. Now is the best selling this generation.

What about all the crap for motion controls? Those were gimmicks but suddenly transform into the future.



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Carl on 22 April 2011
Pavolink said:

Lol. Now is the best selling this generation.

What about all the crap for motion controls? Those were gimmicks but suddenly transform into the future.

Motion Control itself wasn't gimmicky. The games that used the motion control were gimmicky.

I'm just glad Sony had gimmicky motion last gen, and upped the game this gen...