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Forums - Sales Discussion - Does ioi includes viva pinata and forza 2 from the packs ?

sinha on 09 November 2007
Griffin said:
ioi will not be including these games with the sales numbers based on what he has done before. GRAW sold 3million copies and was not included because it was a pack in.

Well that is pretty lame if Wii Sports and Motorstorm count in the sales numbers but GRAW, Forza 2, Viva Pinata, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance don't count.

No wonder the 360's software numbers are always so low!

 



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CDiablo on 09 November 2007

Unfortunately its not like all the premiums are the bundles yet. With PS3 you KNOW that the 80s are with Motorstorm and the Wii has Sports, but the XBOX currently has around 5 skus, and I am not sure all the original Premiums or Basic(now known as the arcade) have different skus from their non pack in equivalent.



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mrstickball on 10 November 2007

You could extrapolate the sales and get pretty reliable numbers if you wanted to.

Ie, 10% of X360 SKUs are the Arcade packs. Therefore you'd have 90% being the Elite/Pro SKUs with the games.

Either way, it's not a big deal. The X360 doesn't need bundled software charted here to overinflate sales: it already dominates everything else.



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goldenpp72 on 10 November 2007

I didnt think this sites job was to inflate lesser sellers in order to match that of higher. Bundles should be included for all platforms or none at all if they can't be tracked right.



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