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vivster on 27 February 2014
the_dengle said:
vivster said:
BasilZero said:
the_dengle said:

I blame this little devil.

 


Those numbers still cant be right though considering the fact that emulators were available quite a couple of years before.

The fact that NDS sold about 150+ mil means pretty sure they sold more software than what was counted @ VGChartz

Well Morenoingrato posted it :o.

Or you could count all the casuals that just bought their Sudoku and were fine with it.

That's right, the casuals are poor customers because they buy the wrong games (and not enough of them). Anything to draw people's attention away from the respectable "hardcore" gamer who buys one cartridge not licensed by Nintendo that gives them questionably legal access to the entire DS library without buying any actual games.

The hardcore are the one true market that will treat you right and the casuals are unreliable and fickle. No way would the glorious hardcore master race be so fickle and disrespectful as to stop actually paying for games if the option presented itself. They're way too classy for that.

Wow. Way to misconstrue the simple fact that casuals on average buy less games than core gamers.

But I hope you had your white knight moment of the day.

Of course the pirating had something to do with it but it's a bit too cheap to just use that argument.



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naruball on 27 February 2014
Wright said:
morenoingrato said:
According to Nintendo, DS stands at 942 Million units of software.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html


Way to ruin the fun.

 

Woah, that would actually mean DS is at third place!

Not necessarily. Are the ps3 numbers the officially released numbers by Sony? If not, especially considering digital sales, I'm sure they're much, much higher. Same with 360. VGC also tends to undertrack ps3 sales in "others".



HylianSwordsman on 27 February 2014

Except no it didn't, because the DS has over 900 million games sold. VGChartz has DS software horrifyingly, obscenely undertracked. Even if this gets corrected though, PS3 will still make top 5, as it will almost certainly overtake the 360.



the_dengle on 27 February 2014
vivster said:
the_dengle said:
vivster said:
BasilZero said:
the_dengle said:

I blame this little devil.

 


Those numbers still cant be right though considering the fact that emulators were available quite a couple of years before.

The fact that NDS sold about 150+ mil means pretty sure they sold more software than what was counted @ VGChartz

Well Morenoingrato posted it :o.

Or you could count all the casuals that just bought their Sudoku and were fine with it.

That's right, the casuals are poor customers because they buy the wrong games (and not enough of them). Anything to draw people's attention away from the respectable "hardcore" gamer who buys one cartridge not licensed by Nintendo that gives them questionably legal access to the entire DS library without buying any actual games.

The hardcore are the one true market that will treat you right and the casuals are unreliable and fickle. No way would the glorious hardcore master race be so fickle and disrespectful as to stop actually paying for games if the option presented itself. They're way too classy for that.

Wow. Way to misconstrue the simple fact that casuals on average buy less games than core gamers.

But I hope you had your white knight moment of the day.

Of course the pirating had something to do with it but it's a bit too cheap to just use that argument.

Is it a fact? Do you have a source? How do you define "casual" and "hardcore" to make it possible to analyze the buying habits of these imaginary demographics?



TheFallen on 27 February 2014
Geo said:
PS2 basically obliterated everyone.


Even more impressive considering the rampant piracy PS2 faced.

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garretslarrity on 27 February 2014
Wright said:
morenoingrato said:
According to Nintendo, DS stands at 942 Million units of software.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html


Way to ruin the fun.

 

Woah, that would actually mean DS is at third place!

Indeed it is.  



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Alby_da_Wolf on 28 February 2014

Wow, considering that 7th gen is quite undertracked on VGC, due to not being currently able to track digital sales, the reports of gaming's death must be greatly exaggerated.



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ZyroXZ2 on 28 February 2014

Is anyone else seeing that piracy has actually assisted some of the systems?



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kupomogli on 28 February 2014

So there's only been six games sold per DS. Nintendo exclusive fans really need to play more of a variety of games. The notion that Nintendo games are better really doesn't work when you've never played anything else.

I own 62 DS games. That accounts for 10 DS systems right there. Maybe the number is realistically five or less.

I do think some of it may be because of piracy, but I'm going with Nintendo fans don't play anything but Nintendo games.

Piracy is ridiculously bad on the PSP though.  80 million systems and only 193 million pieces of software sold.  That's 2-3 pieces of software for each PSP sold.



Dragon246 on 28 February 2014
morenoingrato said:
According to Nintendo, DS stands at 942 Million units of software.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html


And that includes digital sales too. And surely, PS3/360 will easily cross that number if digital sales are factored in. Sony itself sold a massive 283 million software (more than any other hardware manufacterer) units in just 3 quarters this year, a lions share of it on PS3.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=641143

All said and done, I guess PS3 has a decent chance of getting 2nd place in the end.