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Brennan on 11 January 2010

Jarrod, please stay on topic. Uncharted 2 did very well, there's nothing more to say actually.

The topic is "World Wide Sales UP!! PS3 > 500K, Wii > 800K!". Do you see anything about system sellers and Uncharted 2 ?



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STEKSTAV on 11 January 2010
CGI-Quality said:
darthdevidem01 said:
CGI-Quality said:
darthdevidem01 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Whats the margin of error on Vgchartz hardware? + or - 10%? Anything which falls within that range is probably just noise. It would be like saying that the poll results were up 2% on a poll with a 3% margin of error. Statistically noone ought to pay any attention to it, its just noise on the graph.

Smooth out the sales of the PS3 to 2 week periods to remove noise and put a pointer saying this is where Uncharted 2 entered the market and you'd probably see nothing of significance.

If we keep changing the meaning of system seller to ever lower quantities of hardware it really dilutes the meaning of the words. So in the future do we go:

Uncharted 2 is a system seller.

Metal Gear Solid is a system seller.

Final Fantasy XIII is a system seller.

Halo 3 is a system seller.

Wii is a Wii Fit seller.

 

Wii is a Wii Sports seller.

and just keep increasing the size of the text. maybe next year we can say:

Gran Turismo is a System Seller

fixed

You also missed one.

yeah but the other ones are less bigger which would ruin the effect

Fixed yet again.



saicho on 11 January 2010
STEKSTAV said:
CGI-Quality said:
darthdevidem01 said:
CGI-Quality said:
darthdevidem01 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Whats the margin of error on Vgchartz hardware? + or - 10%? Anything which falls within that range is probably just noise. It would be like saying that the poll results were up 2% on a poll with a 3% margin of error. Statistically noone ought to pay any attention to it, its just noise on the graph.

Smooth out the sales of the PS3 to 2 week periods to remove noise and put a pointer saying this is where Uncharted 2 entered the market and you'd probably see nothing of significance.

If we keep changing the meaning of system seller to ever lower quantities of hardware it really dilutes the meaning of the words. So in the future do we go:

Uncharted 2 is a system seller.

Metal Gear Solid is a system seller.

Final Fantasy XIII is a system seller.

Halo 3 is a system seller.

Wii is a Wii Fit seller.

 

Wii is a Wii Sports seller.

and just keep increasing the size of the text. maybe next year we can say:

Gran Turismo is a System Seller

fixed

You also missed one.

yeah but the other ones are less bigger which would ruin the effect

Fixed yet again.

While I could get the logic behind the statement of "Wii is a Wii Sports seller.", what's reason beind "Wii is a Wii Fit seller"?



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

jarrod on 12 January 2010
Brennan said:
Jarrod, please stay on topic. Uncharted 2 did very well, there's nothing more to say actually.

The topic is "World Wide Sales UP!! PS3 > 500K, Wii > 800K!". Do you see anything about system sellers and Uncharted 2 ?

I'm not the one who brought up Uncharted 2 or system sellers.  If you're going to backseat mod, at least try to get the basics in order first.  



Dampfi on 12 January 2010

There have been (Wii) shortages in the US?



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huaxiong90 on 12 January 2010
binary solo said:
huaxiong90 said:
But Sony needs an even lower price point ...for the US region.


Say what!?!

USA is the cheapest PS3 market in the world. Cheaper even than Japan. WTF more do you want? How much more does the rest of the world need to subsidise the US PS3 market? Sony is losing most of its money in the USA now. They need to start focussing more on the markets where they are already selling at a HW profit or break even (and outselling 360 in most of them to boot). Like releasing Demon's Souls for one thing (though it would probably be cheaper for me to import the US version from Play Asia than pay the NZ retail price if/when it gets launched here; gotta love region free game SW). Sony would be financially better off dropping prices a bit (25-50 currency units) everywhere other than the USA.

Keep treading water in the USA until they can actually turn a per unit profit there, then put the marketing into overdrive. I expect some 2010 SW titles will be reasonably attractive in the US market which will help to keep it in a competetive (though not superior) position to the 360.

I meant either a lower price point to nullify the 360 Arcade's selling point, or strong software (which they do have).



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Brennan on 13 January 2010
jarrod said:
Brennan said:
Jarrod, please stay on topic. Uncharted 2 did very well, there's nothing more to say actually.

The topic is "World Wide Sales UP!! PS3 > 500K, Wii > 800K!". Do you see anything about system sellers and Uncharted 2 ?

I'm not the one who brought up Uncharted 2 or system sellers.  If you're going to backseat mod, at least try to get the basics in order first.  

Who said you started ? But you made like 20 offtopic posts about uncharted 2 in this thread, so I guess you're the one needing to get the basics about posting in a thread (I mean being on topic).

 

 



NoCtiS_NoX on 13 January 2010
jarrod said:
I also disagree with "moderate". A cumulative 5k worldwide weekly bump with no sustained effects afterwards is not "moderate". It's statistic noise.

I'm clarifying my position, Uncharted 2 wasn't even a "system seller". Just like every post-launch 1st party PS3 game before it (bar possibly GT5P, though that was technically a "demo").

Was it just 5k? I swear it's more than that or there was an adjustments?