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I agree with your title, but not with the rest.

RIP Ensemble. :'(



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ROFLOL...you sucked in all the sony fanboy drones who HAD to check it out!



"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."

- From By Schism Rent Asunder

BOOOO

Age Of Empires FTW! Ensemble FTW!

MS FTL!



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Squilliam said:
shio said:
Where did you get the 110 millions figure? And does that include XBLA games?

But 110 millions seems awfully low for a 3 years old console. PC does better than in less than 1 year.

Took the million seller list, sorted by publisher then I took the Microsoft total and removed it from the absolute total and took it down a further 6 million for good measure. No it doesn't include XBLA games because I can never see the complete list as the site eats the side of the list which gives the totals.

"But 110 millions seems awfully low for a 3 years old console. PC does better than in less than 1 year."

Im pretty sure a particularly large torrent site could do those numbers for PC game downloads in a year as well.

 

Well there is your problem, the million sellers list won't include any games below 1 million sold.

Edit: Erm... just checked the million sellers list and it shows 96.3 million games including MS games... so I guess you mean a different list.

As well as this there will be a decent number of sales missing from "others" games that are not tracked weekly or even at all.

For instance, Nintendo's fiscals for the end of March 2008 show a total of 148million games, that's for a system only 1 year and 4 months old. (the total now it probably 180-190 million)

Compare that to the total number of X360 games shown on the million sellers list, Now I checked it to be 96.3 and the Nintendo number is higher.

MS unfortunately doesn't give out software numbers in it's fiscals, but I would estimate the total (including MS) will be between 200 and 250 million..... perhaps as high as 300 million. And VGC shows roughly 25-30 million sales under MS (which will be relatively accurate as most MS games will sell well enough to be tacked properly on VGC), so take that away from 200-250 million.

For reference Nintendo is forcasting to sell 177 million games in the current fiscal year (and will likely surpass that with ease), which helps show the exponential way LTD software sales grow with more years on the market.

 



darthdevidem01 said:
BOOOO

Age Of Empires FTW! Ensemble FTW!

MS FTL!

 

Have you ever owned and played an original (as in, not pirated) ensemble game?

I'm asking because there isn't a single strategy game in your profile and there are 62 games on your games collection.





Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).

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Bitmap Frogs said:
darthdevidem01 said:
BOOOO

Age Of Empires FTW! Ensemble FTW!

MS FTL!

 

Have you ever owned and played an original (as in, not pirated) ensemble game?

I'm asking because there isn't a single strategy game in your profile and there are 62 games on your games collection.

Not everybody puts all of their games in their profile. I mean I have a whole lot of games that I haven't put into my profile, since I mainly list my current gen games in there (DS/360/Wii). I have a whole bunch of PS1/PS2/Super Famicom/SNES/NES/Genesis/Saturn/DC/GB/GBA/PC games that I haven't put into my profile.

I mean I just got about 25-30 Sega Saturn games in the past week!




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another bitching comment...sigh



Bitmap Frogs said:
darthdevidem01 said:
BOOOO

Age Of Empires FTW! Ensemble FTW!

MS FTL!

 

Have you ever owned and played an original (as in, not pirated) ensemble game?

I'm asking because there isn't a single strategy game in your profile and there are 62 games on your games collection.

I have all the AOE on actual discs.....I have many more PC games I havn't put down as brought

 



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

This is the part where some one is meant to give a f**k , right ?