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DMeisterJ on 13 November 2008

Game                              VGC U.S.                       NPD U.S.

Fable 2                            803.7k                           790k

Wii Fit                              567k                              487k

Fallout 3                          403.2k                           375k

Saints Row                      373k                              270k

Mario Kart Wii                  313.2k                           290k

Wii Play                            366k                              282k

Mario Kart Wii                  313k                              290k

Little Big Planet               313.2k                           215k

NBA 2K9                          245k                               202k

Dead Space                     297k                              193k

GH: WT                            318.6k                           Less than 193k at least.

So LBP and Dead space over by 100k.  GH:WT 360 over by at least 120k  2k9 over by 45k  Wii fit over by 100k, Saints row over by 100k Wii play over by 80k, and Fable 2 about spot on.



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DMeisterJ on 13 November 2008
starcraft said:
Fable 2 spot on with it's massive sales.

LBP disappointing.

Xbox 360 WOW.

Wii? Just embarrassing.

LBP is disappointing *according to NPD*



Hyruken on 13 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
Hyruken said:
i love the way the sony fanboys are now backing away from their LBP expectations. It was on sale 5 days and sold 215k with near 7million consoles to do it on. You can put whatever spin you like on it but it was never going to sell another 300k in 3 days to make it up to the figures it is on VGC. LBP thus far has been the biggest bomb of 2008, i dont think anyone can disagree with that. Nothing on the calander was given so much money and support and sold so little.

 

 huh? Link to LBP's budget please.

BTW this says hi

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=22053®ion=All

Im not talking about the budget in terms of how much it cost to make but in terms of exposure. The game has been hyped up to a level near GTA4 in places. For the best part of 2 years the game has been on every front page magazine, every news source, every tv channel and so on and so on. The advertising is emense. I have yet to see a single advert for Fable II,Gears 2,Fallout 3, or to see any picture of the charaters on shop windows or in fast food resturants. I have not seen any game spoken about by word of mouth more then LBP. I remember being at E3 2 years ago when it won game of show where everyone was talking about it ahead of GTA4,Halo 3,COD4,MGS4 etc.. etc.. the game was defined as the next best thing, the thing that would shift consoles for the PS3. Remember a few weeks ago when that report came out (i will try to find it, found it  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/jinnygudmundsen/2008-10-23-littlebigplanet_N.htm ) about SackBoy going to be bigger then Mario?..... That is where we were at.

For the game to then go on to sell only 200k with all that behind it can now only be described as "too much hype". To me this is a prime example of how the games industry is right now. So many grade A games coming that each and every one of them is talked up by every media outlet. They dont do that with music and they dont do that with films so much. But they do it with the summer blockbusters, and this would be compared to a summer blockbuster flopping. 

I do find it funny however that you linked Too Human. Can't say i saw anything to do with the game. Except reading about the court case they had. The fact you try and compare it with LittleBigPlanet is amusing. 



Max King of the Wild on 13 November 2008
Hyruken said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Hyruken said:
i love the way the sony fanboys are now backing away from their LBP expectations. It was on sale 5 days and sold 215k with near 7million consoles to do it on. You can put whatever spin you like on it but it was never going to sell another 300k in 3 days to make it up to the figures it is on VGC. LBP thus far has been the biggest bomb of 2008, i dont think anyone can disagree with that. Nothing on the calander was given so much money and support and sold so little.

 

 huh? Link to LBP's budget please.

BTW this says hi

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=22053®ion=All

Im not talking about the budget in terms of how much it cost to make but in terms of exposure. The game has been hyped up to a level near GTA4 in places. For the best part of 2 years the game has been on every front page magazine, every news source, every tv channel and so on and so on. The advertising is emense. I have yet to see a single advert for Fable II,Gears 2,Fallout 3, or to see any picture of the charaters on shop windows or in fast food resturants. I have not seen any game spoken about by word of mouth more then LBP. I remember being at E3 2 years ago when it won game of show where everyone was talking about it ahead of GTA4,Halo 3,COD4,MGS4 etc.. etc.. the game was defined as the next best thing, the thing that would shift consoles for the PS3. Remember a few weeks ago when that report came out (i will try to find it, found it  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/jinnygudmundsen/2008-10-23-littlebigplanet_N.htm ) about SackBoy going to be bigger then Mario?..... That is where we were at.

For the game to then go on to sell only 200k with all that behind it can now only be described as "too much hype". To me this is a prime example of how the games industry is right now. So many grade A games coming that each and every one of them is talked up by every media outlet. They dont do that with music and they dont do that with films so much. But they do it with the summer blockbusters, and this would be compared to a summer blockbuster flopping. 

I do find it funny however that you linked Too Human. Can't say i saw anything to do with the game. Except reading about the court case they had. The fact you try and compare it with LittleBigPlanet is amusing. 

Then your blind and thats when i stopped readin

 



DMeisterJ on 13 November 2008

Some others:

GHWT: NPD U.S : 534k VGC U.S.: 778k

Wii Music: NPD U.S. : 81k VGC U .S.: 132.2k



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johnsobas on 13 November 2008

wow vgchartz did pretty good, on guitar hero and LBP are off by a significant amount. It's interesting that every software was right on or was overtracked, nothing undertracked.

HW sales are good also, no huge differences.



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Hyruken on 13 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
Hyruken said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Hyruken said:
i love the way the sony fanboys are now backing away from their LBP expectations. It was on sale 5 days and sold 215k with near 7million consoles to do it on. You can put whatever spin you like on it but it was never going to sell another 300k in 3 days to make it up to the figures it is on VGC. LBP thus far has been the biggest bomb of 2008, i dont think anyone can disagree with that. Nothing on the calander was given so much money and support and sold so little.

 

 huh? Link to LBP's budget please.

BTW this says hi

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=22053®ion=All

Im not talking about the budget in terms of how much it cost to make but in terms of exposure. The game has been hyped up to a level near GTA4 in places. For the best part of 2 years the game has been on every front page magazine, every news source, every tv channel and so on and so on. The advertising is emense. I have yet to see a single advert for Fable II,Gears 2,Fallout 3, or to see any picture of the charaters on shop windows or in fast food resturants. I have not seen any game spoken about by word of mouth more then LBP. I remember being at E3 2 years ago when it won game of show where everyone was talking about it ahead of GTA4,Halo 3,COD4,MGS4 etc.. etc.. the game was defined as the next best thing, the thing that would shift consoles for the PS3. Remember a few weeks ago when that report came out (i will try to find it, found it  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/jinnygudmundsen/2008-10-23-littlebigplanet_N.htm ) about SackBoy going to be bigger then Mario?..... That is where we were at.

For the game to then go on to sell only 200k with all that behind it can now only be described as "too much hype". To me this is a prime example of how the games industry is right now. So many grade A games coming that each and every one of them is talked up by every media outlet. They dont do that with music and they dont do that with films so much. But they do it with the summer blockbusters, and this would be compared to a summer blockbuster flopping. 

I do find it funny however that you linked Too Human. Can't say i saw anything to do with the game. Except reading about the court case they had. The fact you try and compare it with LittleBigPlanet is amusing. 

Then your blind and thats when i stopped readin

 

 

 Well im not stuck to my tv watching it so maybe that is why i have not seen them. But none of them are advertised like LBP which has been advertised for month. It flopped, deal with it.



Max King of the Wild on 13 November 2008
johnsobas said:
wow vgchartz did pretty good, on guitar hero and LBP are off by a significant amount. It's interesting that every software was right on or was overtracked, nothing undertracked.

HW sales are good also, no huge differences.

 

 Are you looking at the same numbers I am. Looks like to me only sw right on is fable 2.

Hyruken - then how the fuck can you comment on LBP ads? You are obviously talking out of your ass.



darthdevidem01 on 13 November 2008

wow people want LBP (wii60 fanboys) & Wii Music (PS360 fanboys) to FLOP BADLY.

judging by most of the posts.

Are they flops?


No they are not as both games have been proclaimed as "legs" games.

If anything is THE MOST SHOCKING

it is GH WT not even charting

otherwise brilliant month for Nintendo....good one for MS....average one for SONY.



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Hyruken on 13 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
johnsobas said:
wow vgchartz did pretty good, on guitar hero and LBP are off by a significant amount. It's interesting that every software was right on or was overtracked, nothing undertracked.

HW sales are good also, no huge differences.

 

 Are you looking at the same numbers I am. Looks like to me only sw right on is fable 2.

Hyruken - then how the fuck can you comment on LBP ads? You are obviously talking out of your ass.

 

 Obviously i watch tv just not 24/7. When i do watch tv there are LBP adverts on, especially the bundle adverts. I have yet to see any of the adverts i mentioned, that does not mean they are not there it means they are less frequent.

The truth obviously hurts.