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MichaelSchumacher on 08 January 2009

Dont expect any adjustments in sales, sales for the weeks to come just will be lower than usual



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Dryden on 08 January 2009

I don't understand what is difficult to figure out here. I own a PS3 and LBP. So there's ONE PS3 sold and ONE copy of LBP sold.

I have TWO PSN accounts, one for me and one for my wife. When I play LBP online we're logged in as me and she can join my session sans PSN profile. However, if she started playing LBP first then I'll just join in ad hoc while we're playing online with her PSN profile.

Anyway you slice it, that's two PSN IDs for one copy of the game and one console. I am certain the average PS3 owner has more than one PSN account -- a certainty for multiuse households, -- and the number is probably even closer to 3:1 or 4:1 after factoring abandoned accounts.

Sony would not deliberately announce a smaller number or convolute the matter with the unclear statistics. Sony would simply use the largest, most impressive number available, and that means LBP sold, according to Sony, 1.3M copies.

I don't know why people go around in circles trying to defend VGChartz when this happens (and it wouldn't be the first time). It's not the end of the world.



johnsobas on 08 January 2009
MichaelSchumacher said:
Dont expect any adjustments in sales, sales for the weeks to come just will be lower than usual

I've never seen vgchartz do anything like that.  Numbers are adjusted all the time.

 



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papflesje on 08 January 2009
radha said:
something is wrong, i dont play a lot and i have played LBP more than 60 hours, so if 1.3millions play 17000 hours that is less that is 0.013476923076923076923076923076923 hours per gamer or
0.80861538461538461538461538461538 minutes or
48.5 seconds , that means that every owner of LBP has played less than 1 minute in 2 month???????????????????????????????????? o.0

Read the thread please...

For the third time:  if you were to play ALL the online levels in a row, you would need 17,000 hours to complete them.  That's what he meant.

 



luisgvm on 08 January 2009

if lbp sold 1.3 million then how could vgchartz overtracked it that much? thats like weird and if it is overtracked 500k then theres must be other games overtracked too right?.



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johnsobas on 08 January 2009
luisgvm said:
if lbp sold 1.3 million then how could vgchartz overtracked it that much? thats like weird and if it is overtracked 500k then theres must be other games overtracked too right?.

it's not like it's the first time a game has been overtracked, it happens sometimes.  Vgchartz actually overtracked LBP before as well.



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

alephnull on 08 January 2009

Sony execs need to start doing all press briefings in a language with a context free grammar.



FishyJoe on 08 January 2009
luisgvm said:
if lbp sold 1.3 million then how could vgchartz overtracked it that much? thats like weird and if it is overtracked 500k then theres must be other games overtracked too right?.

 

There has always been a lot of variability in software tracking. The site has improved a lot, but there are misses from time to time.



Khuutra on 08 January 2009

This is probably a stupid time to bring it up, but I was enjoying watching the race between Kirby Superstar Ultra and Little Big Planet.

The idea that they weren't actually neck-and-neck the whole time is really disappointing to me.



papflesje on 08 January 2009

You have to admit, fishy. This would be a serious miss, no?