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Viper1 on 25 April 2008
omran said:
I have a quick question that I would appreciate if someone can help me with. When the NPD announced that 2007 video game software sales were $8.64 billion, does that figure not include Wal-Mart?

 That figure is extrapolated just like the sales figures from Wal-Mart are.

 

NPD still guesses what WM sales are and they, both unit and revenue.



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Imthelegend on 25 April 2008
Sqrl said:
DKII said:
Can we take out PS3's Warhawk too, since that was just sold because of the headset? (otherwise they would've downloaded it online, right?) ;>

I'd say we should take out Eye of Judgment too since it was only $10 plus the Eye, but I don't think that'd really make a difference. :P

We're gonna have to take out Wii Fit soon since obviously it has the balance board =P


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The Ghost of RubangB on 25 April 2008

We can't count Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, hell, anything with the name "Wii"in it, so we can't even count the Wii, so the tie ratio is INFINITY.



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omran on 25 April 2008

Got it.  Thanks Viper1!  Does NPD mention that on their website?  I've been looking but can't find anything there that confirms that.



Viper1 on 25 April 2008

I doubt it's listed specifically like that but it's well known they haven't had a tracking relationship with WM since about 2002. They use past sales and sampling from other retailers to extrapolate WM, and the whole market for that matter.

They also recently lost their relationship with Toys R Us.



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elgefe02 on 25 April 2008

I wanna see 10 articles saying that the PS3 owner are not buying PS3 games... Obviously that is not going to happen, first positive news for the Wii this week



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Erik Aston on 25 April 2008

Wow. So the Wii and PSP tie ratios are perfectly normal and reports that they can't sell software are pretty much baloney.

What a surprise.



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Kasz216 on 25 April 2008
hunter_alien said:
But here is the fun part : " Just for kicks, we asked about the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, which have the ratios of 4.7 and 4.2 respectively. " If the PSP tie-ratio is horrible than the DS is suffering to .... its much better than what I was expecting :)

Much better then the 2.2 the PSP has in Japan vs DS 4.4.

Makes you wonder if Europe follows more the US or Japan.

In late 2005 it was just 1.8. It's likely since grown.  (Hey before piracy apparently got big people still weren't buyin games.)



Parokki on 25 April 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
We can't count Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, hell, anything with the name "Wii"in it, so we can't even count the Wii, so the tie ratio is INFINITY.

Did someone just divide by zero?

 

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bigjon on 25 April 2008

if they counted WiiSports it would be 6.3... And many Wii owner buy a Wii FOR that game...



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