Conegamer said: Yeah. Doubling your sales from one release isn't all that bad, is it? And here in the UK, we grade things as follows: 90%=A* 80%=A 70%=B 60%=C 50%=D Below 50%=U Is this not the case elsewhere?

10k sales are still terrible. Like, point-and-laugh levels of bad. And is that really the UK grading system? How bad do you have to be to fail any class?! o_O

noname2200 said: Conegamer said: Yeah. Doubling your sales from one release isn't all that bad, is it? And here in the UK, we grade things as follows: 90%=A* 80%=A 70%=B 60%=C 50%=D Below 50%=U Is this not the case elsewhere? 10k sales are still terrible. Like, point-and-laugh levels of bad. And is that really the UK grading system? How bad do you have to be to fail any class?! o_O

10k is still bad but at least its an improvement and when u take into account it was just Pikmin that caused it, it gives hope that much bigger series like 3D Mario, DKC, Mario Kart and Smash Bros will cause a much larger improvement

RolStoppable said: noname2200 said: Conegamer said:  Yeah. Doubling your sales from one release isn't all that bad, is it? And here in the UK, we grade things as follows: 90%=A* 80%=A 70%=B 60%=C 50%=D Below 50%=U Is this not the case elsewhere? 10k sales are still terrible. Like, point-and-laugh levels of bad. And is that really the UK grading system? How bad do you have to be to fail any class?! o_O In Austria we have similar standards for grades, but we don't use the multiple choice system like the USA (I assume you do). Multiple choice allows you to guess your way through, but over here you either know the answer or you don't. It goes without saying that this makes it considerably harder to get a high percentage of answers correct.

The US doesn't a universal testing that applies to all colleges and universities. Teachers test however they want. Some of my tests were just essay questions, some were fill in the blank, and other were multiple choice (pick the most correct answer, not just correct).

Depends on the class. A few of mine had multiple choice as part of the exam, some had it as all of the exam, but the majority didn't contain any at all.

Off the mark??? It's always accurate. The 100k shipment for One Piece was a mistranslation. It was MH4 first shipment.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=75579271&postcount=419

This blog is always accurate.

- It said Disney Magic Castle first shipment was above 200k and first day sales were 60k (was true).

- It said Ace Attorney 5 opening could match AA4 (was true)

- It said Mario & Luigi was selling bad (was true)

- It said The Last of Us would sell more than 100k first week (was true)

- It said Shin Megami Tensei IV could sell close to 200k (sold 188k, very close)

I'm still waiting this blog being off.

Like I said, I remember reading a post in a Media Create thread on GAF (think it was from you actually) that said 100k shipment; 30% sellthrough, which as we can see this week was way off.

If that was a mistranslation, fair enough, I didn't see any subsequent posts saying that.  That's all you needed to say.

The country is too large to have universal standards, and not to mention that depending on the state you're in, there are differnet rules and laws that universities have to abide by.

noname2200 said: Conegamer said: Yeah. Doubling your sales from one release isn't all that bad, is it? And here in the UK, we grade things as follows: 90%=A* 80%=A 70%=B 60%=C 50%=D Below 50%=U Is this not the case elsewhere? 10k sales are still terrible. Like, point-and-laugh levels of bad. And is that really the UK grading system? How bad do you have to be to fail any class?! o_O

I'm surprised you'd think that different grading system means worse students. Some weird logic right there. Anyway, in most of the universities in the UK (including Cambridge) getting a 70% in an essay is a First/an A. The very first thing me and my classmates were told when we started our masters was: "To all Americans who are used to getting 90+, forget about it. If you were a straight A, top of the class student, you should be content with a 70 here". As a tutor, the highest grade I've given was a 72 and trust me at least 20% of our students (in my department) are Americans. For a student to fail, they need to get lower than 40%.

As far as I know, 100-70%=A, 60-69%=B, 50-59%=C, 40-49%=D

OT: Decent Vita numbers considering the lack of new titles. Relatively good wiiU numbers. Really glad Mind=0 even charted. Did not expect it to. Also, quite happy with Dragon's Crown. Can't wait to hear more about total sales (including digital). 

Seems like the Toukiden/Dragon's Crown combo pushed the Vita's baseline from 10k to nearly 18k nice. Makes me wonder with a steady stream of games before Gods Eater 2 if it's baseline will increase to 25k just before Gods Eater 2's release, 20k seems like it's a lock... hopefully.

Heres what the Vita's lineup looks like: http://www.gamefaqs.com/vita/releases/region-2

It was Chris1964 who mistranslated that part. I was the one (and another user) who corrected him.