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Forums - Sony - Kaz says Little Big Planet sold 1.3 million-- oh noes! Did I win my bet?

makingmusic476 on 09 January 2009
Godot said:
"Still, Hirai said it has added 2.1 million accounts in the last couple of months. He’s showing off a PS 3 exclusive game from November, LittleBigPlanet, and is praising its appeal to the mass market. It’s being played online now by 1.3 million people. There are now 300,000 levels available, thanks to user-generated content for this game. That’s pretty impressive."

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/08/live-blogging-ces-sony-ceo-howard-stringer/

They seem to claim the same thing as IGN.

 

Hm, seems that he did say played.

Personally, I think that GameSpot interpereted that statement as every LBP owner playing the game, rather than those just playing online, and thus assumed that 1.3 million copies had been sold.



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Euphoria14 on 09 January 2009
Kasz216 said:
Euphoria14 said:
Solid_Raiden said:
This is rediculous. It's funny to me how people are screaming how sony fans spin everything and are trying to cover their own asses when at least half of this thread is Xbox fans screaming how LBP is overtracked, a flop, and how wrong vgchartz is. I'll tell you right now, that the sony fans aren't the only ones throwing crap around in this thread. Xbox fans have already attacked this game every chance they've gotten and this thread would not have gotten to 13 pages without people on both sides fanning the flames of war. All I know is that when there was good evidence for games such as GeOW 1 and 2 being overtracked just a month or two ago a thread about that was dismissed quickly and ended at a page or two and just look at this. It's epic failure on both sides. Sickening. Shut up all of you and just go play games, we are gamers! I think this has gone on long enough with obvious agendas on each side. Just wait for further information to be given and comment then.

 

Hmmm, maybe when people said "LBP will be HUGE" they meant like this. Just look at what this one game alone did to this site.

Also this may sound strange but I am actually enjoying myself in this thread. I am not getting heated or anything like that, I am actually having quite a bit of fun and learning some new stuff at the same time.

I think so... either way, to me it's not a matter of what's right... but why people think something is right.

If you end up being right, but used a flawed method.... (Choosing to agree with one site.... out of many.) it's going to lead you to keep making wrong assumptions.

The methods people use to come up with their conculsions are the problem.

It's not really a matter of throwing VGchartz under a bus as Ioi... or i guess i should say Brett himself will tell you the Software numbers are a work in progress.

 

Yeah I know software could be off, it is just the "userbase" and "61.3M" that got me all confused.

I believe that "userbase is 61.3M" was present on every website am I right?

Either way, in the end it won't even matter how much thought I put into this.

 

@Twesterm

You know, I was going to edit my thread and mention that very same thing.

 



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reptile168 on 09 January 2009

PSN accounts are for both PS3 and PSP.



Aj_habfan on 09 January 2009

What a mess. "Others" numbers can't really be overtracked because we have seen how well it has been tracking and can compare to other games, so it comes down to the Americas.

I suppose we should wait for NPD results to settle this?



Spankey on 09 January 2009
reptile168 said:
PSN accounts are for both PS3 and PSP.

 

my PSP and PS3 PSN accounts are the same one.



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AE86 on 09 January 2009

This really is a mess, someone just hit up kaz on his cell so we can settle this!



Jai93485 on 09 January 2009

Variety says that the 1.3 million figure does not mean 1.3 million copies sold, and makes a note to specifically state that "1.3 million unique users have played Little Big Planet"

http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2009/01/microsoft-vs-sony-stats-from-ces.html



AE86 on 09 January 2009
Jai93485 said:
Variety says that the 1.3 million figure does not mean 1.3 million copies sold, and makes a note to specifically state that "1.3 million unique users have played Little Big Planet"

http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2009/01/microsoft-vs-sony-stats-from-ces.html


"Note that this is not the same as Sony saying it has sold 1.3 million units of the game."


Well, now that IS interesting.



Max King of the Wild on 09 January 2009
Aj_habfan said:
What a mess. "Others" numbers can't really be overtracked because we have seen how well it has been tracking and can compare to other games, so it comes down to the Americas.

I suppose we should wait for NPD results to settle this?

 

 NPD has the game at 356k in USA already. The difference between these numbers and VGC's is 500k. You expect NA numbers adjusted down to 300k? ;)



Max King of the Wild on 09 January 2009
Jai93485 said:
Variety says that the 1.3 million figure does not mean 1.3 million copies sold, and makes a note to specifically state that "1.3 million unique users have played Little Big Planet"

http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2009/01/microsoft-vs-sony-stats-from-ces.html

 

 /thread

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