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Barozi on 22 February 2009

If I were a mod, I would immediately ban everyone who mentions God of War and Gears of War in the same sentence from now on.



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jesus kung fu magic on 22 February 2009
deathgod33 said:
jesus kung fu magic said:

Doesnt the bigger franchise get the shorter abreviation?

 

yeh thats why God of War is GOW and Gears of war is GeOW.

 

But GOW 1 sales alone are basically the whole god of war series on consoles so how is it bigger?

@ Scottie

But why is it written either way anywhere else?

 

Anyways this isnt the point of the thread.



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Solid_Raiden on 22 February 2009
jesus kung fu magic said:
deathgod33 said:
jesus kung fu magic said:

Doesnt the bigger franchise get the shorter abreviation?

 

yeh thats why God of War is GOW and Gears of war is GeOW.

 

But GOW 1 sales alone are basically the whole god of war series on consoles so how is it bigger?

@ Scottie

But why is it written either way anywhere else?

 

Anyways this isnt the point of the thread.

Prove it. God of War sales are known to be incomplete (just like a majority of PS2 sales) and GeOW sales are very possible to be overestimated.

But again, God of War was called GOW before GeOW was even conceived.




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jpain333 on 22 February 2009
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
I honestly doubt Gow1 is overtracked, months ago I read an interview on CNN.com with that Cliffy B guy and he said the game sold 5.5 million copies....

Anyways on topic I can't say I know, I mean the first game is still selling very well, GoW2 will slowly catch up but that will take a while.

 

 Epic made a comment a while back saying the game sold "about 5 million" and I quote and this was at a time that we had sales at 5.5 million.

A. There is no way they could know how much they sold to customers so this is no doubt sold to retailers as is always given to us by companys. This is why Konami said MGS4 sold 4.5 million months ago and it's only at 3.88 million sold on this site.

B. If you know anything about PR they try to "inflate" figures with their words as much as they can. If they had sold more then five million then they would gladly tell us. They wouldn't say about 5 million. Also in order to have 5.5 million sold to customers, they would have had to sell a good bit more to retailers unless their just weren't any sitting on shelves.

C. You do the math.

well....thank you for going through all the effort about something that wasn't a big deal to me. I already told you where I got the 5.5 million quote from, not gonna waste my time looking for the link. I'm sure they know more about there sales than either of us.....

all I know is that the game is around the 5 million range...I don't need you to give me the obvious facts about how they could be wrong or whatever....

 



snyperdud on 22 February 2009

 

  I believe Gears 2 is the better game and will sell better.When? Is kind of a tough estiment.

My guess is Maybe toward the end of the year.



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Solid_Raiden on 22 February 2009
jpain333 said:
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
I honestly doubt Gow1 is overtracked, months ago I read an interview on CNN.com with that Cliffy B guy and he said the game sold 5.5 million copies....

Anyways on topic I can't say I know, I mean the first game is still selling very well, GoW2 will slowly catch up but that will take a while.

 

 Epic made a comment a while back saying the game sold "about 5 million" and I quote and this was at a time that we had sales at 5.5 million.

A. There is no way they could know how much they sold to customers so this is no doubt sold to retailers as is always given to us by companys. This is why Konami said MGS4 sold 4.5 million months ago and it's only at 3.88 million sold on this site.

B. If you know anything about PR they try to "inflate" figures with their words as much as they can. If they had sold more then five million then they would gladly tell us. They wouldn't say about 5 million. Also in order to have 5.5 million sold to customers, they would have had to sell a good bit more to retailers unless their just weren't any sitting on shelves.

C. You do the math.

well....thank you for going through all the effort about something that wasn't a big deal to me. I already told you where I got the 5.5 million quote from, not gonna waste my time looking for the link. I'm sure they know more about there sales than either of us.....

all I know is that the game is around the 5 million range...I don't need you to give me the obvious facts about how they could be wrong or whatever....

 

Well this is a message board. If your not here to discuss, then why are you here?

Again, even if they recently said that sales of the game were 5.5 million they would have to be sold to retailer. There is NO way for them to know how many customers bought. See above example with MGS4. Hell, go to the MGS4 page and look at the comments where people like you who don't know how things work in this world are constantly told that companies only know sold to retailer and not to customers.

Also, it obviously meant enough for you to make a reply to my comment. :P

 




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jesus kung fu magic on 22 February 2009
snyperdud said:

 

  I believe Gears 2 is the better game and will sell better.When? Is kind of a tough estiment.

My guess is Maybe toward the end of the year.

 

Thank you someone actually answered the op , you sir get a cookie.



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jesus kung fu magic on 22 February 2009
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
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*Sits on hand*

*Farts*

Seriously what does this have to do with the thread?

 



N64 is the ONLY console of the fifth generation!!!

Solid_Raiden on 22 February 2009
jesus kung fu magic said:
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH 

MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO

 

 

*Sits on hand*

*Farts*

Seriously what does this have to do with the thread?

 

Everything. Depending on if the original game really is overtracked then it could be the difference between GeOW 2 beating it in x months or y.

 




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jpain333 on 22 February 2009
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
Solid_Raiden said:
jpain333 said:
I honestly doubt Gow1 is overtracked, months ago I read an interview on CNN.com with that Cliffy B guy and he said the game sold 5.5 million copies....

Anyways on topic I can't say I know, I mean the first game is still selling very well, GoW2 will slowly catch up but that will take a while.

 

 Epic made a comment a while back saying the game sold "about 5 million" and I quote and this was at a time that we had sales at 5.5 million.

A. There is no way they could know how much they sold to customers so this is no doubt sold to retailers as is always given to us by companys. This is why Konami said MGS4 sold 4.5 million months ago and it's only at 3.88 million sold on this site.

B. If you know anything about PR they try to "inflate" figures with their words as much as they can. If they had sold more then five million then they would gladly tell us. They wouldn't say about 5 million. Also in order to have 5.5 million sold to customers, they would have had to sell a good bit more to retailers unless their just weren't any sitting on shelves.

C. You do the math.

well....thank you for going through all the effort about something that wasn't a big deal to me. I already told you where I got the 5.5 million quote from, not gonna waste my time looking for the link. I'm sure they know more about there sales than either of us.....

all I know is that the game is around the 5 million range...I don't need you to give me the obvious facts about how they could be wrong or whatever....

 

Well this is a message board. If your not here to discuss, then why are you here?

Again, even if they recently said that sales of the game were 5.5 million they would have to be sold to retailer. There is NO way for them to know how many customers bought. See above example with MGS4. Hell, go to the MGS4 page and look at the comments where people like you who don't know how things work in this world are constantly told that companies only know sold to retailer and not to customers.

Also, it obviously meant enough for you to make a reply to my comment. :P

 

Still ranting eh?

Look, I don't know maybe the MGS4 numbers hurt your feelings or something because their not as high as you'd like them to be. Why are you asking me why i'm here? I didnt ask you to discuss nothing with me, you just tried to prove a point I already knew...mind you the 5.5 million artical was months back, before the holiday sales even began. But if you feel you know the numbers better than them then thats fine....they can adjust it down for all I care.

I'll be heading to bed, exam tomorrow. If you want the last words go ahead. lol.....