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FootballFan on 07 June 2009
Gearbox said:
@footballfan - huh??


and yes it will but right now downloadble titles sell much less than their disk counterparts.
the xbox migth become just as unreliable with their new games on demand. (however the file sizes are to big for my lil 20 gig[says 20 only came with 13!] lol)


I ment to say that the PSN games such as Super Stardust HD Warhawk etc etc etc   havent been tracked at all from the PSN downloads. Its simply to hard to do it. I am prsuming that Socom and Warhawk are both Million sellers because of this. 

 



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d21lewis on 07 June 2009

I guess we'll have to rely on Sony's internal numbers. I don't like the idea of that........



Squilliam on 07 June 2009
Gearbox said:
@footballfan - huh??


and yes it will but right now downloadble titles sell much less than their disk counterparts.
the xbox migth become just as unreliable with their new games on demand. (however the file sizes are to big for my lil 20 gig[says 20 only came with 13!] lol)

Its binary bytes vs decimal bytes and your HDD also has 4GB for a cache.

Its only for older games which aren't tracked reliably anyway.

Oh and the PSP software sales are already considered less reliable even from a store perspective due to some difficulties in tracking them for some reason I forgot.



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atma998 on 07 June 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
The hardware numbers are fine, but the PSP software numbers are already awful. They're not tracked well at all.

PSP software numbers are as awfully tracked as DS software numbers. Beside, in proportion, they are fine. DS is 419 million and PSP is 113 million software sold. If you look at the size of the space shelves in different stores, you will notice that DS space is usually 4 times bigger than PSP shelve space. That makes sense. 



insomniac17 on 07 June 2009
Million said:
DarkNight_DS said:
I wonder what stores are going to carry the PSP go? if I was a retailer... I'd probably drop the PSP altogether as there is no hook to get the players back into the store to buy more product. I would instead focus on the other consoles that allow me to make profits off the games.

But retailers will make no profit from software sales off the new PSP Go , all the transactions will be made through PSN effectivley cutting the retailer out of the loop. I imagine the retailers would want to support the original PSP more.

I believe Sony plans on having vouchers in stores so that people can buy those and use the code to download games.



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MontanaHatchet on 07 June 2009
atma998 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
The hardware numbers are fine, but the PSP software numbers are already awful. They're not tracked well at all.

PSP software numbers are as awfully tracked as DS software numbers. Beside, in proportion, they are fine. DS is 419 million and PSP is 113 million software sold. If you look at the size of the space shelves in different stores, you will notice that DS space is usually 4 times bigger than PSP shelve space. That makes sense. 

No, the PSP wins that battle by a country mile. Are you really going to argue proportions by means of shelf space? What, did you take a ruler and personally measure shelf space in various stores? The PSP's software is horribly, horribly tracked. I'm pretty sure the staff have even gone on record saying the data for it is largely incomplete. Say what you will about the DS's software numbers, but they're at least tracked decently. The PSP software is tracked awfully. Take, for example, the latest Others chart. Are you really going to say that out of 18.6 million PSP owners, that only about 30k of them bought a game that week, and the top selling game only sold 2,400 copies? And besides, who asked about the DS anyways? This is about the PSP, and you're wrong anyways.



 

 

Fame_Mcswagg on 07 June 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
atma998 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
The hardware numbers are fine, but the PSP software numbers are already awful. They're not tracked well at all.

PSP software numbers are as awfully tracked as DS software numbers. Beside, in proportion, they are fine. DS is 419 million and PSP is 113 million software sold. If you look at the size of the space shelves in different stores, you will notice that DS space is usually 4 times bigger than PSP shelve space. That makes sense. 

No, the PSP wins that battle by a country mile. Are you really going to argue proportions by means of shelf space? What, did you take a ruler and personally measure shelf space in various stores? The PSP's software is horribly, horribly tracked. I'm pretty sure the staff have even gone on record saying the data for it is largely incomplete. Say what you will about the DS's software numbers, but they're at least tracked decently. The PSP software is tracked awfully. Take, for example, the latest Others chart. Are you really going to say that out of 18.6 million PSP owners, that only about 30k of them bought a game that week, and the top selling game only sold 2,400 copies? And besides, who asked about the DS anyways? This is about the PSP, and you're wrong anyways.

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Million on 07 June 2009
insomniac17 said:
Million said:
DarkNight_DS said:
I wonder what stores are going to carry the PSP go? if I was a retailer... I'd probably drop the PSP altogether as there is no hook to get the players back into the store to buy more product. I would instead focus on the other consoles that allow me to make profits off the games.

But retailers will make no profit from software sales off the new PSP Go , all the transactions will be made through PSN effectivley cutting the retailer out of the loop. I imagine the retailers would want to support the original PSP more.

I believe Sony plans on having vouchers in stores so that people can buy those and use the code to download games.

That's true but I doubt it'll bring in as much revenue to the retailers as Software sales do .




Dgc1808 on 07 June 2009
We'll just track retail sales then.

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insomniac17 on 07 June 2009
Million said:
insomniac17 said:
Million said:
DarkNight_DS said:
I wonder what stores are going to carry the PSP go? if I was a retailer... I'd probably drop the PSP altogether as there is no hook to get the players back into the store to buy more product. I would instead focus on the other consoles that allow me to make profits off the games.

But retailers will make no profit from software sales off the new PSP Go , all the transactions will be made through PSN effectivley cutting the retailer out of the loop. I imagine the retailers would want to support the original PSP more.

I believe Sony plans on having vouchers in stores so that people can buy those and use the code to download games.

That's true but I doubt it'll bring in as much revenue to the retailers as Software sales do .

No, but it would at least give them a reason to have the Go in stores.



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