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alfredofroylan on 17 July 2009

The total numbers before the info was ereased:

152 games in the leak, all over 20k

NDS:42
Wii:34
360:32
PS3:17
PS2:15
PSP:12

I think that the final numbers won't be so far of this chart.



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magik10 on 17 July 2009

Killzone 2 has been killed off in the US.



MANUELF on 17 July 2009

That's a lot of DS.



Erik Aston on 17 July 2009

LULZ at Conduit numbers.

EA Sports Active > Wii Fit = craziness.

And Peter Moore has the top two games on Wii. Your 2006 selves are astounded.



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alfredofroylan on 17 July 2009

Beautiful .... just beautiful
http://www.castle-vidcons.com/2009/07/16/comic-85-my-son/#comments



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Ail on 17 July 2009

I don't think the Conduit numbers (71k) even cover the cost of the advertising in the US.
There were a significant number of TV adds.
The marketing budget was definitly in the 5 Millions$ + range...

That might explain one of the complains you often see on these boards, the one about lack of marketing/Tv adds for Wii third party games.

If sales can't cover the cost of TV adds, you're better off not doing them...

 

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail on 17 July 2009
Soriku said:
Ail said:

I don't think the Conduit numbers (71k) even cover the cost of the advertising in the US.
There were a significant number of TV adds.
The marketing budget was definitly in the 5 Millions$ + range...

That might explain one of the complains you often see on these boards, the one about lack of marketing/Tv adds for Wii third party games.

If sales can't cover the cost of TV adds, you're better off not doing them...

 

 


You know this game'll have long legs, right?


Will it ?

It's not like Sega will be able to afford to keep airing TV adds for long...

And seeing how sales in 2 weeks were 71k my guess is second week sales were at best 30k, maybe less...

That doesn't bode well for legs...

HVS might end up making money, but honestly with the marketing campaign they did, I doubt Sega will...

 

Even if by some miracle the game has legs, sales won't have been affected much by the huge marketing so the return on those TV adds will still be very weak.

The idea with TV adds is that you expect them to significantly boost sales at the time they are airing... That did not happen.



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

lazyrider on 17 July 2009
alfredofroylan said:
Beautiful .... just beautiful
http://www.castle-vidcons.com/2009/07/16/comic-85-my-son/#comments

Pretty funny!

 

@Ail - Where do you get all your intel? You sound so serious but I take it your just a guesser like the rest of us...



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outlawauron on 17 July 2009

Muaha! I knew RB and MHFU were undertracked! (RB moreso than MH)

Conduit sales are a little disappointing as it has had lots of hype and advertising.

Oh and go BlazBlue.



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ajaghvajagh on 17 July 2009

PS3 needs another MGS4 type game soon (c'mon GT5 :D)