ethomaz said:
Fixed. |
No, broken in a way only you can. As confirmed by Aaron Greenburg, the 281K units sold by Microsoft represents 48% of the sales of home consoles.
ethomaz said:
Fixed. |
No, broken in a way only you can. As confirmed by Aaron Greenburg, the 281K units sold by Microsoft represents 48% of the sales of home consoles.
Scisca said:
Are you trying to tell me that they sold 3 million in retail and 9 million digitally? The games you have are most probably mainly from some ridiculous Steam sales, aren't they? I can't recall Diablo 3 getting any such sale. So no, this number is terribly wrong, is a disgrace to this service and should be corrected. Moreover, if the publisher officially gives us the number of copies sold, they should listen to them and correct the numbers... I think the publishers know better. |
VGChartz only tracks retail sales, do you understand that? IoI won't change the Diablo III sales to 12 millions. It's the same with X360 digital download bundled games, IoI won't add them even knowing the game sales (p.e. Alan Wake) because that's this website philosophy. It's not his problem if you don't like it.
TheSource said:
It's 281,000 divided by five for X360, 55,000 divided by five for Wii U etc etc. So on a weekly basis X360 dropped to 56,500 from 67,500 in January 2012 to January 2013. The payroll tax will probably hurt disposable income this year too. |
And should it perform better? It's like PSV fans saying that it 'deserves' more sales. The thing did not wow the market a la Wii, that's evident, and there is little or no reason to get one yet. It'll probably be a slow year, hopefully for Nintendo it's not going to keep diving, and with those minor releases in the horizon it will sell more. Then again, Nintendo should not panic, they can't keep rushing things. Further establish 3DS is a good estrategy, besides I think they may be sacrificing Q4, to have a better FY.
Adinnieken said:
No, broken in a way only you can. As confirmed by Aaron Greenburg, the 281K units sold by Microsoft represents 48% of the sales of home consoles. |
Don't be so condescending. Aaron Greenberg posted that tweet like 4 hours ago. Yesterday they said 44%.
Scisca said:
Are you trying to tell me that they sold 3 million in retail and 9 million digitally? The games you have are most probably mainly from some ridiculous Steam sales, aren't they? I can't recall Diablo 3 getting any such sale. So no, this number is terribly wrong, is a disgrace to this service and should be corrected. Moreover, if the publisher officially gives us the number of copies sold, they should listen to them and correct the numbers... I think the publishers know better. |
Eh Blizzard has it's own digital store. Pretty obvious that games from Valve, Blizzard and EA have even more digital sales as other third party games on their own services.
Also I think I've read somewhere that the 12m numbers includes a few hundred k units that were free for people who own some Blizzard products or something like that. Can't remember for what you would get it for free.
Also the game has a free starter edition. Maybe they counted those as well.
On retail we know that the first weeks and months were certainly not undertracked in the US. Also it was gone in most European charts after ~2 months. Let's not forget that it came out in May, so the game didn't need amazing legs to chart during the following months.
Barozi said:
Eh Blizzard has it's own digital store. Pretty obvious thatgames from Valve, Blizzard and EA have even more digital sales as other third party games on these services. |
WoW. If you paid a 12 months subscription, you got Diablo III for free. 1.2 million of those copies were obtained this way.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/23/diablo-iii-crushes-pc-sales-records.aspx
If you're playing Diablo III, you're definitely not alone. According to Activision Blizzard, the action-RPG has broken day-one PC sales records, selling more than 3.5 million copies of the game in 24 hours. And that's just the beginning.
When you include players who got the game as part of the World of Warcraft annual pass, that number jumps to 4.7 million players worldwide on the game's first day. Diablo III has sold more than 6.3 million copies in its first week.
Boutros said:
Don't be so condescending. Aaron Greenberg posted that tweet like 4 hours ago. Yesterday they said 44%. |
No they didn't. Neither Larry Nelson nor Aaron Greenberg posted that the Xbox 360 was 44% of the sales.
44% is a number ethomaz derived by taking the 305 (53%) that was already mentioned and adding 52K to it to (incorrectly) make up for the difference of the Wii U. However, the Wii U is already a part of the 305, which is where ethomaz' error is. No one, except ethomaz mentioned 44%.
Next time try to get your facts right.
ethomaz said:
It's 44% for 360... Wii U + Wii + PS3 = 357k. |
I'm pretty sure that 357K doesn't include the Wii U, as MS specifically stated "current gen" home console.
| Adinnieken said: No they didn't. Neither Larry Nelson nor Aaron Greenberg posted that the Xbox 360 was 44% of the sales. 44% is a number ethomaz derived by taking the 305 (53%) that was already mentioned and adding 52K to it to (incorrectly) make up for the difference of the Wii U. However, the Wii U is already a part of the 305, which is where ethomaz' error is. No one, except ethomaz mentioned 44%. |
You're right. No one mentioned 44%. Well, except MS. In their official press statement.
"Holding 44 percent share of current-generation console sales, Xbox 360 sold 281,000 units in January, maintaining the number-one console spot in the U.S. (Source: NPD Group, January 2013)" - Source
Maybe you should get your facts right before posting. 
thismeintiel said:
You're right. No one mentioned 44%. Well, except MS. In their official press statement. "Holding 44 percent share of current-generation console sales, Xbox 360 sold 281,000 units in January, maintaining the number-one console spot in the U.S. (Source: NPD Group, January 2013)" - Source Maybe you should get your facts right before posting. |
Fair enough.
I was sourcing from Twitter, where neither Larry Hyrb nor Aaron Greenberg said it. Didn't see an official press release.
My guess is that the 48% is a mistake then, and 44% is the official number.