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Forums - Sales - LBP dropped to 66K in NA (3rd week) , good or bad ?

Vanadium2k8 on 12 November 2008

I can't believe this casual-hardcore stuff resulted in so many posts XD

I salute you Dinomax, I could not believe people would fall for such obvious intended sarcasm/flamebait.



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"It will sell closer to 125k" - Me I agree. ME = OWNED :(

End of '09 Predictions:

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X360: 35 million
PS3: 27 million

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darthdevidem01 on 12 November 2008

@selnor

well guess what your LBP prediction will actually come true....

unlike ALL your other horrible predictions



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bdbdbd on 12 November 2008
Dinomax said:
bdbdbd said:
So let's see...
Aside from Nintendogs and Brain Training, none of the games were "new and original". Wii Sports would have been a better example.
Wii Fit had the "Wii series". Mario and Sonic had, well, Mario and Sonic. Shooters are rarely original. Motorstorm was a standard racing game. Big Brain Academy used the Brain Training "hype". Sequels are never new.

But if you want to, you could take a look how many new and original IP:s lately have sold in large numbers, opposed to how many haven't sold in large numbers. Secondly, due to the new audience, it's basically easier to have hit with new IP on DS and Wii.

 

Please don't cherry pick.

You called it,

new and original IP:s don't usually sell these days. 

The fact that the biggest selling game THIS GENERATION (or as you say these days)  IS.  A.  NEW.  IP.

And well....yeah...thats it.

 

Nothing to really argue about.

 

 

 

 

 

LOL, whatever.

 



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theprof00 on 12 November 2008

well seeing as how the game is being show on the chartz from oct 28th to nov 8th, i can't really say it is all that bad. That equals ~450k in 10 days, i think it is pretty good.



lapsed_gamer on 12 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:

 Though I believe you weren't talking about week after because of the context it was taking from I will still ignore it for now. You still didnt adress the real issue though. The game reached 1 mil in 2 weeks. Why wouldn't it reach 2mil in 104-156 weeks? (under 10k a week)

Edit: you also say it wont get ANYWHERE close to 2 mil. Well I consider 1.75 close so you don't think this game will sell 740k more copies in 2-3 years... even after it gets the greatest hits treatment because it already qualified for that and you know damn well sony will make it one

Where are you getting this number?

 



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Max King of the Wild on 12 November 2008
lapsed_gamer said:
Max King of the Wild said:

 Though I believe you weren't talking about week after because of the context it was taking from I will still ignore it for now. You still didnt adress the real issue though. The game reached 1 mil in 2 weeks. Why wouldn't it reach 2mil in 104-156 weeks? (under 10k a week)

Edit: you also say it wont get ANYWHERE close to 2 mil. Well I consider 1.75 close so you don't think this game will sell 740k more copies in 2-3 years... even after it gets the greatest hits treatment because it already qualified for that and you know damn well sony will make it one

Where are you getting this number?

 

 

 It's at 740k right now. Famitsu shows it at about 20k 760k And I think Others numbers will be more than 100k the bundle just got released and it's opening week was close to 300k so I was slightly off. nitpick if you will.



Bodhesatva on 12 November 2008

It's a steep drop, for sure. It's Christmas time, however, so there is a reasonable chance it can rebound moderately.

I have LBP, but my PS3 has started skipping strangely, so I'm sending it in for repairs. Bad timing!



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theprof00 on 12 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
lapsed_gamer said:
Max King of the Wild said:

 Though I believe you weren't talking about week after because of the context it was taking from I will still ignore it for now. You still didnt adress the real issue though. The game reached 1 mil in 2 weeks. Why wouldn't it reach 2mil in 104-156 weeks? (under 10k a week)

Edit: you also say it wont get ANYWHERE close to 2 mil. Well I consider 1.75 close so you don't think this game will sell 740k more copies in 2-3 years... even after it gets the greatest hits treatment because it already qualified for that and you know damn well sony will make it one

Where are you getting this number?

 

 

 It's at 740k right now. Famitsu shows it at about 20k 760k And I think Others numbers will be more than 100k the bundle just got released and it's opening week was close to 300k so I was slightly off. nitpick if you will.

It also has only been 10 days. I'm sure 4 more days with a bundle will break 1m.

word of mouth will carry it from there. People simply do not know about this game. Wait till vacations when people go to their friends houses for hours at a time and play lbp. A game like this sells on recommendations.

 



Grey Acumen on 12 November 2008

Yeah, it's less than 3 weeks till the big Xmas day sales are going to hit. People who are planning to get this, but didn't absolutely need to get it launch week are going to wait a month and make it a christmas present. Low sales at this time period in this region is no biggie.



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WiiStation360 on 12 November 2008

Fable II dropped from 700k in week 1 to 82k in week 3 in NA. It that bad? No, that was expected.

SMG dropped to 1/4 of its NA launch sales after 3 weeks (just like LBP), and continues to sell well to this day.

All games drop after a few weeks, it is all about where the sales levels off, at and what kind of legs it has. Just wait a few weeks and see how it sells over the holidays.