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i love a little lemon on my crow.



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johnsobas said:
i love a little lemon on my crow.

  *showing respect*



Desroko said:
I'll join in on the Lair thing. I'll also eat crow if it sells more than Heavenly Sword.

I think Heavenly Sword will be the best selling new IP on PS3 this year. There is no way Lair approaches Heavenly Swords sales. I think Uncharted and HS will out sell Lair handily.



Darc Requiem said:
Desroko said:
I'll join in on the Lair thing. I'll also eat crow if it sells more than Heavenly Sword.

I think Heavenly Sword will be the best selling new IP on PS3 this year. There is no way Lair approaches Heavenly Swords sales. I think Uncharted and HS will out sell Lair handily.


Since everyone seems to agree w/ me that HS will outsell Lair, I'll have to think of another prediction, just so that people won't think I'm pitching myself softballs.



I don't think Uncharted will outsell Lair this year because it's late in the year. I do think overall though that Uncharted will outsellf Lair.

I do think Heavenly Sword will outsell Lair because it is more accessible and it's a more popular genre.



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I already ate a little crow for Sony's Bluray.
Still seeing how it pans out, of course, but I had expected it to tank right from the beginning. All in all, I found it to be a good experience though, my arguments for and against consoles are a lot more rational now.

I actually ate more crow when I had thought that Zelda TP for the Wii would have the option to mirror reverse everything to play left handed just like the Gamecube version. I found that to be very disappointing.

I had never expected Xbox to make another console, but since the Wii is already about to surpass the 360 in sales I don't quite feel the need to eat crow for that. Before that I had asked for a gamecube over a PS2, but that was for Smash Bros. Quite frankly if I had to do it again, I'd have bought the gamecube even if Smash Bros Melee was the only game ever made for it. Along that same vein was Windwaker, which I thought would be complete crap, but turned out was pretty decent, the sailing around everywhere is still a bore though, so no crow for that one either.



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ckmlb said:
OriGin said:
Alright i'll put my money where my mouth is, we'll give it until the end of December for 1 million... stamp it down.

Deal.

But first I have to serve crow to a few people here:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=4383

Rolstoppable's predictions for HSG 5:

80,000 first week
150,000 first month.
80% hardware boost for the PS3 (for the month, I think)

The weekly prediction for HSG 5 was beaten in the first day, the monthly prediction was beaten in the first week.

The first week saw 40k ish PS3 sales, the PS3 was going at a rate of 15k a week so let's say the monthly amount for that is 60k. An 80% increase in this would be a jump to 108,000 for the month. This prediction is still unbeaten, but is in danger for now.

CapAmerica's predictions:

40,000 First Week
100,000 First Month

Monthly prediction beaten in one day....

Darconi's predictions:

90k first week
180k first month

Diegomoroc77's predictions:

First Week- 70k
First Month-150k

Darknight DS' predictions:

Check Rolstoppable.

Lyngyis' predictions:

100k first week
160k first month

We can see a pattern of the whole month's prediction being beaten in one week in most these cases (except CapAmerica who predicted less for the month than the game sold in a day). I only listed people who are either rabbid anti Sony or are massively off (1 week = 1 month prediction and such), people who predicted low but not insanely so, shouldn't eat crow really.

Bon Appetit


A crow feast! Enjoy, gents. My Gundam Musou prediction was spot on



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I don't think it's fair to serve crow for sales predictions that were wrong. Especially predictions that were ASKED for.



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omgwtfbbq said:
I don't think it's fair to serve crow for sales predictions that were wrong. Especially predictions that were ASKED for.

Well, you don't have to predict the sales

Crow is for those who predict one thing and are pretty certain of their predictions. If they are off, their prediction was wrong, and eating crow is just a polite way of facing up to your incorrect prediction. You don't lose face ... as a matter of fact, your willingness to eat crow garners respect, because you have the fortitude to admit when you are wrong (a rare quality in people nowadays).

Speaking of crow to be served, I know kber started a whole new thread about having John's head, but the official serving of sir Lucas is here:

johnlucas said:

THE SURE

Wii will catch the worldwide sales of XBox 360 within the month of July (July 1 to July 31)


Close, John. Very close.