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Pristine20 on 03 March 2009
c0rd said:
shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

I think people grossly underestimate the potential of a Pokemon MMO. Even if it is a big franchise, there are two things going against it - the pay to play model (requires parents to pay monthly), and its appeal for home consoles/PC. We know how big the Final Fantasy franchise is, yet it only managed ~500k. On the other hand, WoW's subscriptions are pretty damn close to Pokemon Diamond / Pearl sales.

Anyway, WoW's revenue got even more ridiculous thanks to WotLK. I wonder when the damn thing will start declining, it's been over 4 years. Everyone I know that quit got back into it thanks to the expansion, I'm being pressured to do the same...

you meant "overestimate" right? Otherwise, your post isn't congruent at all.

 



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Bitmap Frogs on 03 March 2009
GTAIV08 said:
are there even any good activision games on ps3? i aint surprised really. we want good games.

 

Oh god. The lengths some people will go... it's just astonishing.





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scottie on 03 March 2009

I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony



Bitmap Frogs on 03 March 2009
scottie said:
I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony

 

gebx is a sony fanboy, confirmed.





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scottie on 03 March 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
scottie said:
I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony

gebx is a sony fanboy, confirmed.

 

I'm not trying to say that, it just seems odd to have that in the title when

 

Wii+DS is most likely > PS 2/3/P

 



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Dallinor on 03 March 2009
scottie said:
I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony

He just lumped the two playstation consoles together, hence the "PS" in the thread title.

Wii + DS revenue is most likely greater then the PS revenue, but we don't have exact numbers for the DS.

All in all it's a trivial point.

...

Why am I even posting this?

*Whistles as he strolls out of thread*

 

 



 

mike_intellivision on 03 March 2009
Ail said:
Those 99 millions $ of PC sales do not include the WOW box sales actually, those are in the MMORPG section.
The reason being that WOW expansion sold over 3 million copies at 50$ each last quarter so it can not be included into that.
So PC sales have to be sales of others games like CoD, Diablo2 battlechest, starcraft battlechest.
Heck when Diablo 3 was announced last summer Diablo 2 battlechest climbed to the top 5 pc sales shortly there after for a few weeks.

Actually, this was net revenue (profit) not gross revenue. And the article said that the PC sales were included in there -- I would guess because maybe that information was gotten out of the financial report document (but of course, this is Kotaku, so one can never be sure).

 

 



      


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mike_intellivision on 03 March 2009
FreeTalkLive said:
The Wii numbers are more evidence that the NPD numbers which show Guitar Hero 3 selling far more on Wii than Xbox 360 are more accurate then the VGChartz numbers which show the Wii only outselling the Xbox 360 version by a little amount. The Wii versions of Guitar Hero games may even be outselling the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions combined.

 

I am not sure I follow you on this. Considering this is profit (net revenue not gross revenue) and considering it is for all Activision games. There is more to Activision than Guitar Hero. For example, Call of Duty which is selling better on the PS3 and Xbox 360 (though the Wii is starting to sell better).

 

 



      


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Procrastinato on 03 March 2009
scottie said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
scottie said:
I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony

gebx is a sony fanboy, confirmed.

 

I'm not trying to say that, it just seems odd to have that in the title when

 

Wii+DS is most likely > PS 2/3/P

 

Umm.  It is a positive for Sony.  Software units sold is... software units sold.  Doesn't matter what platform the software was sold on, unless you're playing the fanboy "my favorite console is #1!" game.  The fact that Wii+DS revenue may be bigger than PS2/PS3/PSP combined revenue is immaterial, really.  

Sony got more revenue than MS from Activision/Blizzard this quarter, and Nintendo probably had more revenue from Activision/Blizzard than Sony did (but it looks close, and we don't really know).  Revenue, not fanboy games, is what the report is about, and gebx called it correctly.

 



 

noname2200 on 03 March 2009
Dallinor said:
scottie said:
I see what you did there. You ignored the face that the order is

Wii>360>PS2>PS3 and tried to present it as a positive for Sony

He just lumped the two playstation consoles together, hence the "PS" in the thread title.

True.

But also a really odd decision.

Like, really really odd decision.

Like, "where the hell did that come from?" odd decision.

Like "and then she woke up and realized this entire season was just a dream" odd.

He's been reading too much SDF...;P