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shams on 01 July 2008
*bleu-ocelot* said:
azrm2k said:

@leo-j:
You mean a million and a half from now which at this rate will take less than 2 months?

Actually the craziest part of this is the fact that the Wii should settle close to 500k for the week and PS360 close to 275/280k for the week. If HD sales drop and Wii sales go up just a bit Wii could not only outsell HD sales combined it could do so twice over!

 

Please remind me,why are people still buying a wii again? Software>>Hardware. Is the wii some kind of new age toy??

Because the Wii is being marketed and designed for everyone, whereas the PS3 & 360 have been designed and marketed to gamers.

Old BlueOcean strategy, remember? Lets get new customers, rather than recycle the same old ones.

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@all: lets keep this thread nice please, it was doing fine. Consider this a warning to any posts in this thread that have any form of personal attacks (etc). This is also a thread about US weekly sales - so lets not derail it by talking about off topics.

Any more personal attacks (or open insults) from anyone - and bans will be handed out, no more warnings coming.



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leo-j on 01 July 2008
bardicverse said:
DOn't forget that the big initial spike in PS3 80Gb sales was helped with $100 gift cards to Walmart. Even if a big supply of 80 GB PS3s come in, without a gift card, will it still make high numbers?

 

 Vgchartz doesnt track walmart(I think).



 

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FishyJoe on 01 July 2008

Enough already. You guys are giving me a headache. I don't care who insulted who, it ends here.

Stick to the original topic.



Pristine20 on 01 July 2008
carlos710 said:
leo-j said:
carlos710 said:

x360 is cheaper in Europe... and may be cheaper in America soon.

And yes, is all about the games - thats exactly why the Wii is doing so great =)) Galaxy, brawl, zelda, metroid, kart, etc... and Nintendo is just starting, expect a huge lineup of AAA software for the Wii in the upcoming months =))

Are you saying the wii has the best games?

 

yes, and obviously most people agree with me.

You're sure most people agree with you or they just want to swing a nunchuk?

 



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bardicverse on 01 July 2008
JiaJia said:

 

Americans always think the world revolves around them ;)

but.. but it DOES! As Mr. Dennis Leary said, "Because WE got the bombs, OKAY?"

=D

 



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Pristine20 on 01 July 2008
Str8knox said:
Pristine was that sarcasm? I hope so, otherwise, those last 2 sentences in your sig are a real joke.

 

I made reasonable points. If you think they are mindless, prove it. To answer your question, it wasn't sarcasm.



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"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

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carlos710 on 01 July 2008
Pristine20 said:
carlos710 said:
leo-j said:
carlos710 said:

x360 is cheaper in Europe... and may be cheaper in America soon.

And yes, is all about the games - thats exactly why the Wii is doing so great =)) Galaxy, brawl, zelda, metroid, kart, etc... and Nintendo is just starting, expect a huge lineup of AAA software for the Wii in the upcoming months =))

Are you saying the wii has the best games?

 

yes, and obviously most people agree with me.

You're sure most people agree with you or they just want to swing a nunchuk?

 

man, stop trolling i dont want to see you banned

The Wii has a great collection of games for everybody... new/old, hardcore/casual gamers... thats why is selling so well, there isn't any secret behind Wii's success.

As long as there is good supply it will sell like this and even more in America



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bardicverse on 01 July 2008
leo-j said:
bardicverse said:
DOn't forget that the big initial spike in PS3 80Gb sales was helped with $100 gift cards to Walmart. Even if a big supply of 80 GB PS3s come in, without a gift card, will it still make high numbers?

 

Vgchartz doesnt track walmart(I think).

 

Hmm, I thought they added them a few months back?



Str8knox on 01 July 2008

Mifely, the Wii has been DESTROYING the 360 lately. Do you think a price cut will all of a sudden take down the Wii? That price cut will have a positive effect on 360 sales but no effect on the Wii's sales.



shams on 01 July 2008

Walmart has got nothing to do with this. VG gets data from a variety of sources, and uses formulas to extrapolate weekly sales. The figures you see are representative of the weekly US sales - enough said.

The accuracy of the sales figures for this week, will be roughly the same as the accuracy of the last 20-30 weeks (i.e. pretty accurate).

On topic please - if you want to "slag each other off", do it by PM'ing each other or in another thread. This is not the place for it.



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