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Forums - Sales Discussion - The January 2009 NPD Thread (Data @ 6:30 PM EST)

BrainBoxLtd on 12 February 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
woopah said:
i think the biggest when here is:

why is the logo of SDF a giant crab?

thats supposed to be there most feared enemy

"this game is based on real events in japanese history"

GIANT CRAB POPS UP ON BATTLEFIELD

"hit the crabs weak point for massive damage"

____

 

remember?

 

 

 I think his question was why use that as a logo, when it was something used to constantly mock the PS3. And my guess is because SDF is all about spinning stuff against Sony into their favor. In this case, using the enemy crab as their logo to change it's preceived image from mockery to defense of Sony.



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Paperdiego on 12 February 2009

awesome for left for dead!
i love this game..
i hope they make it for wii.

cant wait for the FREE DC..
(=



hello how are you.

TowlieFTW on 12 February 2009
woopah said:
i think the biggest when here is:

why is the logo of SDF a giant crab?

thats supposed to be there most feared enemy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3e6Wy19jbo&feature=related



Zuhyc on 12 February 2009
Smeags said:
HappySqurriel said:

The unfortunate side-effect of these results is what is going to happen on the forums for the next couple of weeks ... "Wii Hate Week" and "PS3 Doom Week" are my least favourite weeks on this site.

 

HappySqurriel: So much trolling. What can posters do against such reckless hate?
Smeags: Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.
HappySqurriel: For death and glory.
Smeags: For VGChartz. For your people.
HappySqurriel: The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time!

 

 

Haha good one! You got the pic wrong though :P



Hyruken on 12 February 2009
Blood_Tears said:
Hyruken said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Hyruken said:
darthdevidem01 said:
@hyruken

LOL

360 was overtracked by much more than Ps3 this month in the US

 

 I wasen't really following the 360 numbers but i would hazard a guess the drop is still within the same 25% to 30% week to week decrease we had been seeing with the other formats. The PS3 was falling at just supposedly 6% which i said had to be wrong which is now proven that my theory was correct. Year over year the PS3 is down almost 25% not the 6% VGC we're saying. 360 is still way up and the Wii and DS are on a different planet, a Nintendo planet, formaly known as earth :)

while yourover-exaggerating the Ps3 doom & gloom n saying PS fanboys will be sad.

I willt ell you I am happy with the PS3 sales considering the recession

but TBH its the PSP that is the one showing bad/horrible hardware sales + we know it doesn't do any software anyway

your picking on the wrong playstation system if you want to say SONY is doing awful.

 

Hey i'm not picking on any of the playstation formats, i actually didn't say anything bad about any of them. Was just pointing out that all the other formats we're following pretty much the same pattern as each other but the PS3 seemed to be following a different drop % pattern.

Sony right now is the only one of the three who's growth has gone backwards. It needs to increase sales by 25% just to get back on par with sales this time last year. That is not a good sign for it's 2009 year.

But i love my PS3 and numbers won't change that. If only i could get my fecking music files to stream from my pc to my ps3 i would be over the moon :)

 

They have youtube tutorials on how to do that, it's pretty simple. Or do you mean you know how to do it, it just doesn't work for you?

 

I have been trying for weeks to get it to work, have read everything on the forums, all the guides, have everything selected in the "services" and all the media sharing stuff selected in the media player. My pc just doesn't see my ps3 and vice versa, i can use the net fine and that is what annoys me! I think it is probably something to do with my router. Ah well i'll figure it out i'm sure eventually :) 



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Squilliam on 12 February 2009
Hyruken said:
Nice to see i was right that the PS3 was being overtracked by about 25% in the past 5 weeks :)

So numbers compared to last year

Wii = 679k this year - 274k last year = 405k INCREASE = 147% UP

DS = 510k this year - 251k last year = 259k INCREASE = 103% UP

360 = 309k this year - 230k last year = 79k INCREASE = 34% UP

PS2 = 101k this year - 264k last year = 163k DECREASE = 61% DOWN

PSP = 172k this year - 230k last year = 58k DECREASE = 25% DOWN

PS3 = 203k this year - 269k last year = 66k DECREASE = 24% DOWN

Not a good day for the Sony fanboys then

Vgchartz data: (*0.9)

Wii = 746,234 (+67) +9.8%

DS = 562,021 (+52) +10.2%

360 = 340,986 (+32) +10.3%

PS3 = 219,355 (+16) +7.8%

PSP = 242,228 (+70) +40.7%

PS2 = 108,335 (+7) +6.9%

So we can see that aside from the PSP outlier Vgchartz was systematically higher by between 6.9-10.3%. This indicates that the methods are pretty sound overall with the exception of the PSP sales.

 

 



Tease.

koffieboon on 12 February 2009

Oke, so for every platform except PSP this site seems to be about 10% higher when lowering Vgchartz numbers by 10% for the remaining areas. That is pretty close and maybe more important a similar higher estimation for all platforms. So the ratios between the platforms are almost equal.



celine on 12 February 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
@MANUELF

the news of the day is Wii Fit SW sales

I think its the HIGHEST SW sales in jan for a game ever

Maybe what I know for sure is that Wii sales was the highest sales n January for a system ever.

 



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Smeags on 12 February 2009

@Zuhyc

Yeah, I realized that it wasn't the right pic right after I posted it (and perfectly added the HappySqurriel insignia to his armor...). Ah well, he's on a horse, good enough.



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Bitmap Frogs on 12 February 2009

By the way, the ps2 is very close to 100k.

Will they pull the trigger and go to 99$?





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