I can see one thing for certain, once the Wii secures that 50% marketshare, all the devs are going to have to buckle under the pressure of the market leader stability.

I expect that studios are going to start making ground-up Wii games instead of scalred down ports from the HD consoles, and it will also be the end of PS2 ports. Just like how 3rd party development buckled to the pressure of the DS by the start of the 3rd year, the time for 3rd party support for the Wii is arriving and will carry the system to a place untouchable by any other consoles.

Boo-urns. NPD months where the PS3 gets rocked are much more fun. The 360 fanboys we do have keep quiet until they can calmly and rationally come back and spin. The PS3 fans go nuts immediately damage controlling and getting banned.

Has there even been a single warning in this thread?

crumas2 said: azrm2k said: Alright 360 fans. Don't disappoint. The PS fans have shown how to have epic meltdowns and now it's your turn to shine. Entertain me please.   I'm not seeing a lot of spinning or meltdowns from 360 fans, but I do see a lot of gloating from PS3 fans.  I guess that will have to do for entertainment.

I'm console agnostic, but if I did have Squilliam love for the 360, I would be shutting the hell up right now.

crumas2 said: azrm2k said: Alright 360 fans. Don't disappoint. The PS fans have shown how to have epic meltdowns and now it's your turn to shine. Entertain me please.   I'm not seeing a lot of spinning or meltdowns from 360 fans, but I do see a lot of gloating from PS3 fans.  I guess that will have to do for entertainment.

The real 360 fans aren't even here yet. (Starcraft, Squilliam, Mrstickball, Gebx etc.)

RE: NPD number altering:

I remember some guy from NPD really trashing VGChartz on the GAF or somewhere on the net. They really seem to hate VGChartz. ioi was talking about it one day too. I know the repercussions for such an action would be devastating for NPD. But one has to wonder sometimes...

That makes zero sense.  Third parties are more likely to make games on the HD consoles and than scale down.  This will just mean more Wii games.  New GTA coming out?  It'll have a Wii port.  New RE coming out?  It'll have a Wii port.  The casuals still haven't proven to buy in numbers that the hardcore have for third party games.

Are you serious you little sob, let's look through our post histories to see who knows what they are talking about.

@you and leo-j

What the hell do you two think the entire idea of statistics  and sales counting is? Estimation. Its all about getting as much "real" info you can and from that estimating out the remainder of the potential sales. Only difference is NPD has a bigger chunk of the "real" numbers and therefore has a good chance of being closer to reality. But, their estimation is still quite large as they don't have some of the biggest retailers, like Walmart. They could easily be off as much as VGC.

Do you all fail to forget last xmas when NPD's total sales were way too low for reasonable sales based on what the manufactures stated they shipped? Whereas VGC was pretty much right on with expectations? You all are just being fanboys and going with the answer that best fits your dreams.

As far as I'm concerned PS360 were equal last month and Wii destroyed them both combined.

Oh there will be some spin.

When our resident spinner from down under wakes up, the spin will make you dizzy.

What will MS say this month in their usual post NPD spin? Stay tuned!

I'm devasted, what happened to the price cut, NPD is wrong, wrong i tell you. 360'S were flying off Amazon this month. IT went up 345678777% i think.