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mai said:

Esa-Petteri said:

owned a DS and I played a LOT of ds games. I enjoyed only a couple of games. I really don't care if "community" thinks that professor layton or phoenix wright are good games. They aren't. That is my opinion and of course I can say that with a "straight face". PSP just has a lot of better games than DS.

 

Name me a better visual novel on PSP, better than any Ace Attorney game.

Uh, I don't know is there any "visual novels" on PSP. You know why? Because I don't care about that kind of games.

 



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Esa-Petteri said:
mai said:

Esa-Petteri said:

owned a DS and I played a LOT of ds games. I enjoyed only a couple of games. I really don't care if "community" thinks that professor layton or phoenix wright are good games. They aren't. That is my opinion and of course I can say that with a "straight face". PSP just has a lot of better games than DS.

 

Name me a better visual novel on PSP, better than any Ace Attorney game.

Uh, I don't know is there any "visual novels" on PSP. You know why? Because I don't care about that kind of games.

 

Well, you can't answer me, because you just have been banned for trolling (once again), but, please, read carefully.

I asked you whether there's better visual novel than Ace Attorney not because there's objectively a better visual novel. I just would have liked to know your opinion. But you've failed to name a better visual novel than Ace Attorney and still insists that it's a bad game, like you've said earlier (compared to what? you wasn't able to name one). You either didn't tell me everything you know or simply haven't got your own opinion on this matter. I assume the latter and the usual reason for this kind of statement is that you're not into adventure genre, and you've just admitted this.

Moreover judging by your previous statements I can say that you're not into (action-)adventure, (japanese) role-playing, tactical role-playing, (turn-based) strategy, platformer, puzzle etc. genres of games, which DS has a lot to offer. And that's a lot of genres, a lot of gaming. With so rudimentary involvement into gaming in general you're hardly an experienced gamer (no offence, just statement of fact). Obviously you can't say smth about smth that is beyond your knowledge. Here's my advice to you... play some games already, widen your gaming experience.

Think about it, please, and stop trolling.  There's a better use of your time. Play some games.



Didn't NPD March only cover 2 weeks of sales for CTW?

As I have said a couple of times now: with Easter, DSi and a full month to sell - lets see the NPD CTW figures for April. I think they will be a lot better than March figures. I wouldn't be shocked to see it in the top#10.

CTW is a really good game - the engine is completely amazing, and easily the best I have ever seen on the DS.



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saicho said:
EssosDeeos said:
52k in Americas this week is encouraging.

it's highly likely overtracked base on the discrepancy between VGC March nunmber and NPD March number.

 

First two weeks of Americas CTW on VG come to 108k. Take away 10%-20% to cover non-US sales - and you get pretty close to the 88k NPD figure. If only 2 weeks of sales made the NPD report, then its not overtracked at all (compared to NPD anyway).

 



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isn't it a little soon to call gta a flop, the game came out on the 17Th of march give it some time.



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Apparently Call of Duty 4 has done almost 500,000 on DS after debuting to sales 36,000 in month one (November 2007)

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/04/17/nintendo-chinatown-wars-sales-will-prove-m-rated-content-belongs-on-ds/

GTA: DS did 89,000 in a single month. Now for a DS game it could be relatively front loaded, but if it gets to anything close to reaching a lifetime total 14 times higher than its launch month total, it has to be considered a slow burning, long term hit.

It could easily do something like this in the Americas in 2009:

Mar ~ 100k

April ~ 80k

May ~ 60k

June ~ 40k

July ~ 30k

Aug ~ 25k

Sept ~ 25k

Oct ~ 20k

Nov ~ 30k

Dec ~ 50k

 



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TheSource said:

Apparently Call of Duty 4 has done almost 500,000 on DS after debuting to sales 36,000 in month one (November 2007)

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/04/17/nintendo-chinatown-wars-sales-will-prove-m-rated-content-belongs-on-ds/

GTA: DS did 89,000 in a single month. Now for a DS game it could be relatively front loaded, but if it gets to anything close to reaching a lifetime total 14 times higher than its launch month total, it has to be considered a slow burning, long term hit.

It could easily do something like this in the Americas in 2009:

Mar ~ 100k

April ~ 80k

May ~ 60k

June ~ 40k

July ~ 30k

Aug ~ 25k

Sept ~ 25k

Oct ~ 20k

Nov ~ 30k

Dec ~ 50k

 

 

So you see about 460k in Americas alone throughout the year. Europe will have good sales for CW well. Even if it sells 1 million,it will get panned as a flop because it didn't sell as much as GTAs before it.

 

No matter what Nintendo does, they can't win with most gamers anymore. I think they've lost the market of gamers who haven't purchased a Wii yet, but lurk gaming websites.

 

Just check the most recent VGC poll. A majority of voters just outright say they hate the Wii.



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shams said:
saicho said:
EssosDeeos said:
52k in Americas this week is encouraging.

it's highly likely overtracked base on the discrepancy between VGC March nunmber and NPD March number.

First two weeks of Americas CTW on VG come to 108k. Take away 10%-20% to cover non-US sales - and you get pretty close to the 88k NPD figure. If only 2 weeks of sales made the NPD report, then its not overtracked at all (compared to NPD anyway).

That was before it was adjusted. I believe the first week was at 90k.



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