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sales2099 on 07 December 2012
walsufnir said:
pokoko said:
It's just hard to understand the PS3 numbers otherwise, especially when you consider 2012's lack of exclusive titles.

it is no wonder - playstation is a very known brand, the first two consoles were great and by now the prices are low. so no surprise to. the games you mentioned coming in 2013 are most likely not the reason as i believe that the masses don't even know about these titles, perhaps except god of war. last but not least the ps3 is a great console so why should people not buy it? but i do think things would look different if ms had done a pricedrop but they didn't so sony's console was bought also.

lol its simple. Europe.

360 didnt price drop in europe. Sony released a 20 gig super cheap PS3 in Europe.

That is all.



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acdcste on 07 December 2012
sales2099 said:
walsufnir said:
pokoko said:
It's just hard to understand the PS3 numbers otherwise, especially when you consider 2012's lack of exclusive titles.

it is no wonder - playstation is a very known brand, the first two consoles were great and by now the prices are low. so no surprise to. the games you mentioned coming in 2013 are most likely not the reason as i believe that the masses don't even know about these titles, perhaps except god of war. last but not least the ps3 is a great console so why should people not buy it? but i do think things would look different if ms had done a pricedrop but they didn't so sony's console was bought also.

lol its simple. Europe.

360 didnt price drop in europe. Sony released a 20 gig super cheap PS3 in Europe.

That is all.

Its a 12gb model that was released. Around £135 at the moment.



sales2099 on 07 December 2012
pezus said:
sales2099 said:
ryuzaki57 said:
sales2099 said:
ryuzaki57 said:
sales2099 said:

Damn MS why didnt you price drop in Europe as well? Thats the reason for this insultingly close gap. They even said numerous times that Europe is the real battleground of this gen.

Also, looks like next week will have Forza 4 outselling GT5 in 2012 sales, making it 2 years in a row :)

What about total sales? Just sayin' but... GT5 outsells Forza 3&4 combined.

The kids on the left are Forza 2, 3, and 4 :P

Does that mean Microsoft are the bad guys? Wouldn't say it better myself...

Not necessarily. The one guy could have totally deserved it. He may have conned them out of their lunch money or sold them fake Yugioh cards :P

Picture just means "gang-up effect". Judging what they did is all relative.


I have to laugh at the idea of you googling "3 vs. 1" just so you could manage to say 3 Forza games beat one GT game.

EDIT: Beat in sales, quality is another matter ;)

Shhh! dont give away my super secret ways to obtain pictures. It totally ruins the effect. Also you probably had to do the same thing to prove your theory lol.

BTY....just Forza 2 and 3 combined outsell GT5. But lets not derail this too much. Just saying Forza 4 will have outsold GT5 in 2012 only sales, like it also did in 2011. Not bad winning the past 2 years, taking advatnage of competitors slow release schedule.



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sales2099 on 07 December 2012
acdcste said:
sales2099 said:
walsufnir said:
pokoko said:
It's just hard to understand the PS3 numbers otherwise, especially when you consider 2012's lack of exclusive titles.

it is no wonder - playstation is a very known brand, the first two consoles were great and by now the prices are low. so no surprise to. the games you mentioned coming in 2013 are most likely not the reason as i believe that the masses don't even know about these titles, perhaps except god of war. last but not least the ps3 is a great console so why should people not buy it? but i do think things would look different if ms had done a pricedrop but they didn't so sony's console was bought also.

lol its simple. Europe.

360 didnt price drop in europe. Sony released a 20 gig super cheap PS3 in Europe.

That is all.

Its a 12gb model that was released. Around £135 at the moment.

My bad, but im sure we all get the idea. Sony capitalized on a lack of 360 price drop with their own super cheap PS3 model.



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acdcste on 07 December 2012
sales2099 said:
acdcste said:
sales2099 said:
walsufnir said:
pokoko said:
It's just hard to understand the PS3 numbers otherwise, especially when you consider 2012's lack of exclusive titles.

it is no wonder - playstation is a very known brand, the first two consoles were great and by now the prices are low. so no surprise to. the games you mentioned coming in 2013 are most likely not the reason as i believe that the masses don't even know about these titles, perhaps except god of war. last but not least the ps3 is a great console so why should people not buy it? but i do think things would look different if ms had done a pricedrop but they didn't so sony's console was bought also.

lol its simple. Europe.

360 didnt price drop in europe. Sony released a 20 gig super cheap PS3 in Europe.

That is all.

Its a 12gb model that was released. Around £135 at the moment.

My bad, but im sure we all get the idea. Sony capitalized on a lack of 360 price drop with their own super cheap PS3 model.


Couldn't agree more. These cheaper ps3 systems have been flying off the shelves here in the uk. In my local tesco they probably have three or four times the ammount of the super slim ps3 than the other systems combined.



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Max King of the Wild on 07 December 2012

Anndddd.... VGC adjusts 360 up while NPD shows otherwise. The gap is smaller in US then VGC shows. This trend will continue till q4 financials are released and the inevitable adjustments occur...

Also, it takes Sony over a month to sell through shipments of october with the biggest sales week included.



sales2099 on 07 December 2012
pezus said:
sales2099 said:
pezus said:
sales2099 said:
ryuzaki57 said:

Does that mean Microsoft are the bad guys? Wouldn't say it better myself...

Not necessarily. The one guy could have totally deserved it. He may have conned them out of their lunch money or sold them fake Yugioh cards :P

Picture just means "gang-up effect". Judging what they did is all relative.


I have to laugh at the idea of you googling "3 vs. 1" just so you could manage to say 3 Forza games beat one GT game.

Shhh! dont give away my super secret ways to obtain pictures. It totally ruins the effect. Also you probably had to do the same thing to prove your theory lol.

BTY....just Forza 2 and 3 combined outsell GT5. But lets not derail this too much. Just saying Forza 4 will have outsold GT5 in 2012 only sales, like it also did in 2011. Not bad winning the past 2 years, taking advatnage of competitors slow release schedule.

No, I just looked at the URL ;o

At the other: Well, Forza 4 was released last year...

Edit: Still, shipments are what Sony cares about and so far it has shipped around 1.5m this year and 2m last year. I wonder why MS don't keep records of Forza shipments...?

To continue my use of google images, the point is to show that even a God can bleed.

And im sure MS has records, but they have 0 obligation to tell us.



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Conegamer on 07 December 2012
kitler53 said:
pezus said:
3 third party Wii U games in the UK chart. One is ZombiU at #16 with 19k in sales, another is that Sonic kart game at #69 and third is Batman at #97...

Not encouraging


i said it months ago and i still stand by it... late ports of ps30 games will not do anything for the wiiU regardless of what things they add.

This is true, but effectively redundant. The 100th game last week, Kinect Star Wars, sold about 4,300 in the UK. There's obviously a small boost in terms of sales, over last week, so I'd imagine Sleeping Dogs, game 100, sold about 5k units. As such, so did Batman. And it would lead to an attach rate of 10%, similar to the other ports. Whilst not great, I'd imagine most of them would be able to leg it out WW to around 400-500k, which is the most you can expect really.



 

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Blood_Tears on 07 December 2012

Nice PS3 sales this week and another thread derailed by Forza/GT trash talk..



Conegamer on 07 December 2012
Blood_Tears said:
Nice PS3 sales this week and another thread derailed by Forza/GT trash talk..

You sound surprised? This is always the case and likely will be for some time to come yet.



 

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