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Colts92 on 12 December 2008

Sony placed a considerable publicity campaign behind LittleBigPlanet, and the Media Molecule-developed PlayStation 3 exclusive generated lots of buzz. It didn't make November's top 10 titles, though -- so how did it sell?

Well, LBP moved 141,000 units in the United States during November 2008, according to figures provided to Gamasutra by the NPD Group. The title had debuted eighth in the October console software sales charts with 215,000 units sold.

 

 

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21509



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Tyrannical on 13 December 2008

Well, LBP moved 141,000 units in the United States during November 2008, according to figures provided to Gamasutra by the NPD Group. The title had debuted eighth in the October console software sales charts with 215,000 units sold.

That gives LBP 356k sales in the US for October / November.

VG gives LBP in Americas 503k ending 11/29.

Subtract 10% gives you 453k for just the US covering the same period. Those number are 27% higher then NPD.

VG has other's numbers at 412k for the same period. If we assume the same 27% overage gives us 324k for an estimate.

VG has JP numbers of 85k. I'll leave those alone as we always get more JP data from a variety of sources.

356 * 1.10 gives us 392k for Americas

324k for Others

85k for JP

That gives LBP 765k world wide Oct/Nov. Looks like it'll probably break a million world wide by the end of the year, but probably not much more. I'd put the high end at 1.2M for the year, low end 950k.



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I LOVE GIGGS on 13 December 2008

bundle ?



Aj_habfan on 13 December 2008
Tyrannical said:

Well, LBP moved 141,000 units in the United States during November 2008, according to figures provided to Gamasutra by the NPD Group. The title had debuted eighth in the October console software sales charts with 215,000 units sold.

That gives LBP 356k sales in the US for October / November.

VG gives LBP in Americas 503k ending 11/29.

Subtract 10% gives you 453k for just the US covering the same period. Those number are 27% higher then NPD.

VG has other's numbers at 412k for the same period. If we assume the same 27% overage gives us 324k for an estimate.

VG has JP numbers of 85k. I'll leave those alone as we always get more JP data from a variety of sources.

356 * 1.10 gives us 392k for Americas

324k for Others

85k for JP

That gives LBP 765k world wide Oct/Nov. Looks like it'll probably break a million world wide by the end of the year, but probably not much more. I'd put the high end at 1.2M for the year, low end 950k.

Lol. Why would it be overtracked in Others just because it was in America? In Europe, we at least have charts for each country and can see where it placed compared to other games.



Aj_habfan on 13 December 2008

No bundle in America.



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Luthor on 13 December 2008

I don't think it's overtracked in others, the LBP bundle is doing it's job.



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Tyrannical on 13 December 2008

Lol. Why would it be overtracked in Others just because it was in America? In Europe, we at least have charts for each country and can see where it placed compared to other games.

Aj_habfan said:
Tyrannical said:

Well, LBP moved 141,000 units in the United States during November 2008, according to figures provided to Gamasutra by the NPD Group. The title had debuted eighth in the October console software sales charts with 215,000 units sold.

That gives LBP 356k sales in the US for October / November.

VG gives LBP in Americas 503k ending 11/29.

Subtract 10% gives you 453k for just the US covering the same period. Those number are 27% higher then NPD.

VG has other's numbers at 412k for the same period. If we assume the same 27% overage gives us 324k for an estimate.

VG has JP numbers of 85k. I'll leave those alone as we always get more JP data from a variety of sources.

356 * 1.10 gives us 392k for Americas

324k for Others

85k for JP

That gives LBP 765k world wide Oct/Nov. Looks like it'll probably break a million world wide by the end of the year, but probably not much more. I'd put the high end at 1.2M for the year, low end 950k.

 

 Lol. Why would you assume Others is accurate if America was over tracked? Most of VG's sales info is from NA sources, and their NA number should be more accurate then Others anyways.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

Max King of the Wild on 13 December 2008
Tyrannical said: 

 Lol. Why would you assume Others is accurate if America was over tracked? Most of VG's sales info is from NA sources, and their NA number should be more accurate then Others anyways.

 

 Well considering LBP already had over 100k and under 200k sales in UK alone 2 weeks ago I'd assume LBP is over 500k in Europe now. (UK is about 25% of all of Europe for Ps3) If it was at the higher end ofthe scale in UK the game could probablly have 700k in Europe right now... but I doubt that.



Tremble on 13 December 2008

Don't worry about this game, it shows good legs and is already profitable (I think that only 25 people worked on the game). It will probably be over 1,5M by the end of this year, so everything's ok. Should easily top 2,5-3M LTD.



kamil on 13 December 2008

@Tyr:
But why use NA? You claim would be logically as good if you said that if Japan is accurate than Others must be also accurate thus Others sales should be at 412k.

But there is no connection between Others accuracy and Japanese. So there isn't between NA accuracy and Others. Unless you can prove it.

Sure, others numbers are subjected to under/over-estimation but it can go either way and there are no reason to think that American overestimation has to be repeated in Others.

I would also like to know where you got the information that "Most of VG's sales info is from NA sources" as I don't really remebmer ioi stating that.