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Dolla Dolla on 13 November 2008
HeroeDeLeyenda said:

That looks like one of my creations

I contributed to the 190k for PS3 this month. Not a thing to software though sorries!



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fastyxx on 13 November 2008

Speaking of street dates being broken, I wonder how much software 7-11 ended up selling. They had kotaku stories on breaking dates all over the place. Wonder if NPD or VGC tracks them.



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jasonnc80 on 13 November 2008
fastyxx said:
Speaking of street dates being broken, I wonder how much software 7-11 ended up selling. They had kotaku stories on breaking dates all over the place. Wonder if NPD or VGC tracks them.

Did you see the 1up yours video from last week?  It had a part about Gears 2 date being broken at 7-11.  Pretty funny lol.

 



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trestres on 13 November 2008

Wow, Wii Music bombed disastrously. I wonder how are Nintendo of Japan feeling now, after seeing that the game they hyped up the most ended up being a "failure" yeah, failure because they spent the whole of E3 and almost all their Japanese conference talking about it, and games that they didnt talk about and didnt even hype bombed also, but are selling on par with this.

Let's hope AC doesnt bomb this bad.



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FishyJoe on 13 November 2008
trestres said:
Wow, Wii Music bombed disastrously. I wonder how are Nintendo of Japan feeling now, after seeing that the game they hyped up the most ended up being a "failure" yeah, failure because they spent the whole of E3 and almost all their Japanese conference talking about it, and games that they didnt talk about and didnt even hype bombed also, but are selling on par with this.

Let's hope AC doesnt bomb this bad.

 

I'm sure Nintendo is crying about Wii Music bombing, and wiping their tears with $100 bills.



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trestres on 13 November 2008

@Fishy: I'm sure they are not happy with their most hyped game bombing, because the rest of their games bombed too, since all attention was put into this. Hopefully 2010 will be a better year for 1st party Nintendo games if they change their mentality :)



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Dianko on 13 November 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
BKK2 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Dianko said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Dianko said:
kutasek said:
The problem is, we don't know if they tracked LBP, unofficial week. If they were, than it is disappointing being outsold by socom.

Of course it's tracked. If it was sold, it would be entered into the database as a sale, early or not. They're not gonna simply sell it without any data being recorded into whatever retailers system.

 

 

 Uh... the problem here is that only a few stores broke release date. Who is to say that NPD recieved data from those stores? NPD gets data from a certain % of retailers then expands the numbers that they think the rest of the market would be. It's not like NPD has control of retailers data base.

Also I think Sony is confused with this recall along with retailers... whos to say trackers arent confused as well

I was never arguing that NPD isn't getting the full picture. I was stating that sales will tracked for LBP, whether it was unofficial or not. How that reflects on NPD, I don't know. But I was simply stating that retailers will track all sales, they don't do business under the table.

 

 

 And my point was the the hectic release is leaving retailers confused which would leave NPD confused.

Also it won't be tracked if NPD doesn't get any sales data for it.

The SKU will still get tracked by the EPOS regardless of if it was sold before or after the official release date. We often see games with broken street dates in PAL charts before the official release, it certainly doesn't confuse the retailers EPOS systems.

 

 

 But does NPD get the data from the stores that broke the date? Yes it would still be recorded for the store obviously but the only way NPD gets the sale is if they get the data.

If the chain of retailers that NPD gets data from had stores that sold LBP early, it will be included. If a chain of retailers doesn't give their data to NPD but sold LBP early, then it will be estimated based on the data that NPD does have. Not a 100% but they can get fairly close because they have enough early sales numbers to estimate the rest based on whatever formula they use.

 



outlawauron on 13 November 2008

We overtracked .... well almost everything.



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Sqrl on 13 November 2008

I'm wondering if any of you have considered the possibility that LBP, like many Wii games, will have decently strong legs?

It seems to me that it is the type of game that is likely to do well over time, particularly during the holidays, thanks in part to the sackboy boxart being the type of thing your typical household gift buyer would grab.

I had the launch pegged to bomb *relative to expectations*, but I also said the game would do much better as time went on. I'm already proven half right, so hopefully I can keep up the streak.
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outlawauron on 13 November 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Some others:

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

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

Nintendo had a Wii branded title do poorly?!

 

And Activision had it coming when they stripped the soul of the GH franchise.



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