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Stick, do we really have to go through the whole Kutaragi argument again? Did you miss the part where we got the video and it said played? And therefore people making assumptions like you were wrong.

Have some faith in VGC eh?



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@the2bears

maybe NPD undertracked it like they undertracked the wii!



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I really doubt the 1.3 million number was shipped. We already have a really long thread arguing about this that came to no real solid conclusion. I mean you got around 600k NA at least (at 200k dec npd), 130k in Japan, and you got at least 200k in the UK. If we assume 500k total in Europe you only have 70k on shelves.



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I got this one.

It's because there are more people out there who want to play MK vs DC than there are that want to play LBP.

Feel free to call me Captain Obvious!



mrstickball said:
Because NPD confirmed Sony shipment numbers for LBP? Sony themselves said VGC was off by no less than 500,000 units (1.3m shipped by EoY vs. 1.8m tracked). Most likely 100-300k lower in sales, due to units sitting on retailer shelves.

So that'd greatly reduce LBP's December sellthrough numbers, while MK vs. DC may be a little higher - 10-15%.

Maybe Brett just wanted to give the Sony fans some love, and it fell through.

 

Wow, you sure managed to cram a lot of fail into that post.



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Torillian said:
Stick, do we really have to go through the whole Kutaragi argument again? Did you miss the part where we got the video and it said played? And therefore people making assumptions like you were wrong.

Have some faith in VGC eh?

Why is it that every time that NPD shows something that someone doesn't want to believe (low Wii sales, low LBP sales) we always have to discredit the professionals?

NPD showed that 2 games were in different orders. The problem isn't that, as much as the discrepancy VGC between both titles - VGC reported that LBP was about 80% higher than MKvsDCU. At a minimum, MKvsDCU needs increased. However, I tend to think that LBP needs dropped in the process, too.

 



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

And your argument based on Kutaragi? Are you abandoning it as you should or clinging to the idea that it's shipped numbers?

The discrepancy between NPD and VGC is no doubt true, what it means and what should be done about it is debatable, but saying that only 1.3m is shipped is ridiculous.



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I find it funny that Stickball will use Vgchartz numbers when it suits his point, but throw them out the window when it suits another. I don't mean to be a dick, but the hypocrisy is crazy.



 

 

The same reason GeOW 2 has been beaten by COD WAW on just the 360 despite being on many platforms platforms, it is more popular a franchise. LBP is being overtracked on this site though and it seems MK vs DC undertracked but come on, what kind of a comparison is this?



 

we have so many clues but no exact numbers. We know that #29 (rock band 2 wii) is 150k, the only one we know before that is 350k. So everything between 11-29 is between 350k and 150k, but we also know that 7 of the 10 between 21-30 are on nintendo consoles. We also know that MK vs DC is higher than LBP. That means it's actually pretty likely that LBP is out of the top 30 and below rock band 2 wii at 150k. Can't say for sure though.



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