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mr-money on 02 October 2007

DS is still absolutely dominating though. More than 2x the next competitor (PSP). It's ridiculous.



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sieanr on 02 October 2007
NJ5 said:
rocketpig said:
NJ5 said:
I think Diomedes should change his nickname to "TheComplainer"... I mean, he complains about everything, both things which are real and things which aren't...

ioi should create a Diomedes filter... just a simple script that reads this:

"360 is overtracked. PS3 is undertracked. I live in Spain and no one likes Xbox here. The rest of Europe is the same because I am omnipotent".

It would save us all a lot of trouble reading his posts and trying to rebut.


Haha, true :)

 


Actually, I think he should just create a script that post that in every sales thread. It'd save him a hell of a lot of time. 



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erikers on 02 October 2007

ioi, Did you track the new green halo 360s this week? When the sales of the system completely doubles in europe, how does it only increase 19% after all the tons of evidence we've seen of people buying multiple systems in stores everywhere on launch night alone?

To put it in perspective, there were over 10,000 stores open for a midnight launch, if only 2 people bought a console at each store, that's already more than the increase you gave to the 360 hardware in the US. There's no way it just went up 19k, it went up 17k in THE UK ALONE.

We know sales trends tend to follow each other.  The UK is the best selling place for 360 outside of the US where it has a 1.4 million user base compared to 7.4 in US.   In other words it has 19% of the userbase of the US.  Now look at the software sales for halo 3, 2.6 in US and 460k in the UK.  In proportion, the uk sold 17.7% of what the US did in software.  That's almost perfectly in line with userbases.  Now, sales doubled for Hardware in the Uk, how could they not be very similar in the US realistically?

Even you said you expected it to be 200k from preliminary numbers.



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rocketpig on 03 October 2007
ioi said:
http://vgchartz.com/profiles/index.php?name=diom&gender=&keyword=&country=&order=Last+logged+in

Hahahah! Oh, that's great. Hilarious, ioi.




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sinha on 03 October 2007
ioi said:
http://vgchartz.com/profiles/index.php?name=diom&gender=&keyword=&country=&order=Last+logged+in

Awesome.  

 

Does anybody keep a list of ridiculous statements made on vgchartz?  If so, please add this one: 

"In any case this is the heyday of the 360 with Halo 3 ,from now on its on the decline."

 



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Neos on 03 October 2007

hahahahhaha ioi, you're killing me



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Darc Requiem on 03 October 2007
ioi said:
http://vgchartz.com/profiles/index.php?name=diom&gender=&keyword=&country=&order=Last+logged+in

 Thanks Ioi, I needed a good laugh this morning. I almost fell out of my chair.



MikeB on 03 October 2007

Good to see PS2 + PS3 sales are still > than XBox 360 sales even in the Halo 3 launch week. Now we wait for Japan....



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Slimebeast on 03 October 2007
erikers said:

We know sales trends tend to follow each other.  The UK is the best selling place for 360 outside of the US where it has a 1.4 million user base compared to 7.4 in US.   In other words it has 19% of the userbase of the US.  Now look at the software sales for halo 3, 2.6 in US and 460k in the UK.  In proportion, the uk sold 17.7% of what the US did in software.  That's almost perfectly in line with userbases.  Now, sales doubled for Hardware in the Uk, how could they not be very similar in the US realistically?

Even you said you expected it to be 200k from preliminary numbers.


Yes. I love this site and ioi is certainly doing a great job and so on, but I'm pretty sure he undertracked the X360 sales during Halo 3 week. I don't know what went wrong - if it was something with the sources or some mathematical extrapolation error - but there's no way the X360 only sold 125k last week in NA (compared to the "normal" 75,000/week we've seen since going into the fall season). I believe 170-200,000 X360's were sold in NA, and nearly 100,000 in the EU/others.



Kratos on 03 October 2007

I'm actually pretty dissapointed in xbox360 sales, I thought it would be like 300.000 in Us only :S.



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