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nikosx on 07 August 2011
okr said:
Carl2291 said:
okr said:
Terrible sales for 1st party PS3 games.

How many did they all sell?

As ioi doesn't want to offer us the full chart anymore I can only tell from the available data that Sony is not in the top 5 of publishers, i.e. for the week ending 30th July they are below Atlus with 249.000 copies sold. This means Nintendo sold more than 550.000 games more in one week than Sony. Only one Sony published game in the top 40 compared to Nintendo with 11 (not counting Wii Sports). Provided I read the data correctly.

Check the worldwide yearly chart for a top 30 publisher list. Sony is currently at position 5, so sales for 1st party games can't be that bad. 



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Icyedge on 07 August 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
Does the American version of Catherine include Japanese voices? Thinking of importing it.


No but if your PS3 OS is in another language then english you will have japanese trophy though. This apply to the european version too. Atlus are kind of strange sometime, my system is in french, so they install japanese trophy pack on my american english game. I dont mind but I know people who were really frustrated. They had to back up all their save game, delete their main account, then retrieve the account, put system to english, copy save game and sync their trophy, then re-install the game lol. If not the game trophy would always remain in japanese.



ninty_shareholder64 on 07 August 2011
TT Makaveli said:
ohoh 3DS...i mean if the PSP is outselling you 2:1 you know something is really wrong...


ohoh, trolling incoming...i mean if someone isn't aware of the 3DS price cut here on VGChartz something is really wrong...



Troll_Whisperer on 07 August 2011
Icyedge said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Does the American version of Catherine include Japanese voices? Thinking of importing it.


No but if your PS3 OS is in another language then english you will have japanese trophy though. This apply to the european version too. Atlus are kind of strange sometime, my system is in french, so they install japanese trophy pack on my american english game. I dont mind but I know people who were really frustrated. They had to back up all their save game, delete their main account, then retrieve the account, put system to english, copy save game and sync their trophy, then re-install the game lol. If not the game trophy would always remain in japanese.

That's weird. Though I'm Spanish my system is in English, so no problem. I wouldn't mind having the trophies in Japanese either, as long as they add up. My gf could translate it for me if I wanted to know what I got/need to get. Thank you for the advice though.

Actually, you may be able to get the throphies twice by just changing the language. That's odd.



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Xen on 07 August 2011

Woo, go Catherine!



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Icyedge on 07 August 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
Icyedge said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Does the American version of Catherine include Japanese voices? Thinking of importing it.


No but if your PS3 OS is in another language then english you will have japanese trophy though. This apply to the european version too. Atlus are kind of strange sometime, my system is in french, so they install japanese trophy pack on my american english game. I dont mind but I know people who were really frustrated. They had to back up all their save game, delete their main account, then retrieve the account, put system to english, copy save game and sync their trophy, then re-install the game lol. If not the game trophy would always remain in japanese.

That's weird. Though I'm Spanish my system is in English, so no problem. I wouldn't mind having the trophies in Japanese either, as long as they add up. My gf could translate it for me if I wanted to know what I got/need to get. Thank you for the advice though.

Actually, you may be able to get the throphies twice by just changing the language. That's odd.

I dont think you can earn them twice though, it just change the language in which they display. Its funny though, atlus said they werent going to patch. If you google catherine japanese trophy theres a lot of people complaining on different boards. It happened to people with spanish on their system as well ; ).



Jay520 on 07 August 2011

Can someone tell me why LittleBigPlanet sold so much this week?



zuvuyeay on 07 August 2011

good sales for catherine,wan't expecting that

lbp must be bundled i guess ^^^



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reviniente on 07 August 2011
CGI-Quality said:
okr said:

These are the IPs I mean. These new current gen IPs plus Killzone are all million sellers but compared to the internet hype and the upfront media support they get I don't think they sell very well. LBP would have never made it to 4 million without bundles, more like around 2.5 million or 3 which its successor probably won't even reach. Many of these games are in the 1, 2, maybe 3 million range. Aren't these the IP's for which gaming media adopted the silly term AAA this gen? If so, these games aren't really successful compared to other new IPs this gen like Sony's own Uncharted, Gears of War or - to mention a successful new current gen "AAA" 3rd party IP - Assassin's Creed, which sold 12 million copies on PS3 so far.

The sales of the current gen Sony IP's outside Uncharted make me think:
- These games are not cheap to develop, so is Sony really making money with them and are they really content with these sales?
- Do Sony fans really like these IP's as much as they claim and if so why does none of the games manage to sell 4 or 5 miilion copies or more?
- Most of Sony's games hit the half-price section pretty fast, so why don't sales pick up considerably at this point?
- Do neutral and new PS3 owners actually care about these new Sony IP's?

The most successful Sony 1st party game last week was Infamous 2 with 29.000 copies sold in its 8th week on the market, the next Sony game is outside the top 40, i.e. below 19.000 copies for the week, most probably LBP1 or GT.

Very much like PlayStations of the past, Sony's 1st party IPs have never sold much more than 3-4 million. Can't explain why that is, other then Sony has so many IPs to offer, the userbase is divided up with each franchise, or their IPs mainly appeal to a certain amount of people (save for Gran Turismo). Frankly speaking, hardly of any Sony IP's are doing terrible (besides maybe ModNation Racers, SOCOM, or Motorstorm - and even then, you'd have to know expectations of sorts). With the plethora of IPs they own, that seems like a small price to pay when games like Killzone 3 or LBP2 are guaranteed to hit 2-3 million, Uncharted 3 is guaranteed 3-4, Gran Turismo 5 will keep on leggin' until whenever and so on and so fourth. Between Microsoft & Sony, their IPs don't sell too different from one another (which actually doens't look half bad for Sony considering how many IPs they have versus Microsoft).

So, in a sense, I can understand your sentiments regarding the PS3's software vs hardware ratio, it's just the term "terrible" that I wouldn't use as I doubt it's that bad.

I was hoping you'd say 10 million for GT5.