NPDNESS

[MrAngryFace]

Gundam Crossfire is so not a good way to support anyone

[cool breeze]

Gundam Crossfire is a good way to support euthanasia.

[maxy]

No MGS4 numbers?Also Namco 2 million shipped

[laesperanzapaz]

 

keep arguing over your meaningless NPD cum drippings, fools

SMH @ message board fanboys

[Mr. Gundam]

Gundam Crossfire is so not a good way to support anyone

it's my way of telling Sony that that's the sort of games we want to see....

... this backfired spectacularly when Namco dropped trou and shat out Operation Troy on the X360.

That said, Operation Troy is way better... but this is like comparing the sensation of eating a bucket full of gravel vs. eating a sandwich consisting of screws and razor blades. 

 

It's looking more and more likely that Bandai's mecha titles are going to the PSP, if not staying on the PS2.

[Mr. Gundam]

It's looking more and more likely that Bandai's mecha titles are going to the PSP, if not staying on the PS2.

troy , all joking aside, was nowhere near as bad as i was expecting. Offline it's utter garbage, but online it's short and snappy and the battles are fairly enjoyable.

It's still C grade, but i've come to lower my Gundam expectations and use CH for my big robot kicks. And ACE to some extent.

I'd love to try Operation Troy, but I already buy so much crap that I'll never play that I can't justify the purchase of a 360.

[cool breeze]

I would really like to try Operation Troy, but last I checked the demo was removed off of XBL after a long period of being gold exclusive.

My favorite Gundam games are Side Story on the Dreamcast and One Year War/Project Pegasus on the PS2.  I still really enjoy the PSP games and Musou, but nothing has topped those two games for me.  The FPS on Wii is actually quite good for the most part, and I did hear good things about the gamecube game.

[Mr. Gundam]

I've got Ace Pilot, the GC game. It's pretty fun.

I would really like to try Operation Troy, but last I checked the demo was removed off of XBL after a long period of being gold exclusive.

Serious? Wow.

Is it even coming to North America?

[cool breeze]

Gamestop has it listed for October 1st

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=60519

Hopefully there is a demo for the NA region of XBL.

Oh, and Char's Counterattack.  I really liked that game; it was one of the first imports I ever bought.

The intro was so awesome:

[youtube=425,350]jQHCJY5tn7M[/youtube]

[Mr. Gundam]

Yeah, I've got CC for the Playstation, wasn't bad.

[pilonv1]

i got a 3 day ban for trolling that thread

[etiolate]

I'd still rather have a 360 than a PS3 as my second console. Sony has lost that image of always having a game to play or a library to satisfy.  The PSP library inspires no envy, nor does the PS3. It's LittleBigPlanet and then some franchises that are truly the living dead. The 360 still has much more that interests me in games. The console just hasn't had a big release in awhile. Nintendo blew their wad as well, but their games routinely last longer in sales due to a wide audience and the fact N games generally have great replayability.

[Eel O'Brian]

weird, i'm looking forward to more games this year than any year since this gen began

i whittled down my list to 10 must-haves, and there are still around 5 more i want but am holding off on

[Rman]

Which games, Eel?

[Tabasco]

What was always good about npd threads was when we got all the info.  Now, after evilore fagged out,with top 10 only, it's worthless.  eb needs an insider

theres insiders but they value their jobs.

Yeah that could be the case.  But I've seen posts on GAF and have some second-hand knowledge indicating that many devs don't get to see the full NPD results themselves.  I remember reading in one of those "Devs why do you read GAF?" threads that many said they read it for the hilarity and to get sales numbers.

[Eel O'Brian]

Which games, Eel?

September 7th, 2008 - SPORE

September 14, 2008  Rock Band 2 (game only)

September 23, 2008  Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

October 7, 2008  Fallout 3 Collector's Edition - I know it's cheesy, but I want that bobblehead and lunch box

October 21, 2008  LittleBigPlanet

October 26, 2008  Guitar Hero World Tour + guitar (I don't have a wireless guitar)

November 4, 2008  Left 4 Dead 360 (will also get the PC version once the mods start kicking in)

November 4, 2008  Resistance 2  (wasn't too thrilled with the first one, but 8-player co-op sounds neat)

November 7, 2008  Gears of War 2  

November 11, 2008  Call of Duty: World at War

holding off on Mercenaries 2, Dead Space, Endwar, Force Unleashed, SOCOM, and some others I'm iffy about

[GilloD]

Can we not do this on this forum? The temptation to play BUSINESS ANALYST with NPD numbers is exactly what torched GAF.

[Wolf Gang]

Heavenly Sword, Lair, Uncharted, Genji 2, Ratchet & Clank, Metal Gear Solid 4 - bomb after bomb. Every PS3 excluisve game disappears from the charts after being only a month out.

Where's PLAYSTATION 3's multimillion sellers like Gears of War? Halo 3?

LBP is next. Oh boy, will it bomb. Bomb HARD.

Crysis would still have sold better on PS3 though, am I right?

[Third]

Poor Xflop360. Still not outselling the Ps3, even after a pricedrop.

[Brehvolution]

Heavenly Sword, Lair, Uncharted, Genji 2, Ratchet & Clank, Metal Gear Solid 4 - bomb after bomb. Every PS3 excluisve game disappears from the charts after being only a month out.

Where's PLAYSTATION 3's multimillion sellers like Gears of War? Halo 3?

LBP is next. Oh boy, will it bomb. Bomb HARD.

Further proof that only sfags are ruining the forum.

[radioheadrule83]

Is Sam & Max Season 1 out on the Wii in America?
Its out in Europe on the 29th

[hyp]

Jesus titty fucking christ. Evilbore is getting big enough now that there's this? Ugh. Hate it.

there's been an NPD thread every month i've been on this board.  nearly 2 years now.  or are you just surprised at the responses?

[Smooth Groove]

Jesus titty fucking christ. Evilbore is getting big enough now that there's this? Ugh. Hate it.

there's been an NPD thread every month i've been on this board.  nearly 2 years now.  or are you just surprised at the responses?

Yeah, but there were far less angry people.  I guess that's due to the recent influx of Sfag members.  NPD threads at EB used to be Xbot circle jerks instead of GAFFOT-like "discussions". 

[hyp]

i always looked at NPD threads on this board as joke threads.  chill out people. 

[Eel O'Brian]

Well, I can't find a Wii in this town to save my ass, and I have the money right here in my hand.  If I have to stand in line or hunt one down all over the place then fuck it.  Eat my balls, Nintendo.

[duckman2000]

The nice thing about the Wii is that you can buy one, play it for a few months, and then sell it for more than you paid. It's like a rental system of the Gods.

[Eel O'Brian]

i can get a ripoff bundle full of shit like the m&m cart racer online, but fuck all that

i just want the wii, some component cables, and that's it - i intend to rent wii games

the fact that i've wasted valuable minutes of lifespan calling around is making me rapidly lose interest

again, eat my balls, nintendo

i'm hacking the fuck out of it

[Smooth Groove]

I keep my Wii around for friends.  The 360 and PS3 games are fun for them to watch but other than fighters, everything else is too complicated to pick up and play.  

[Trent Dole]

The nice thing about the Wii is that you can buy one, play it for a few months, and then sell it for more than you paid. It's like a rental system of the Gods.

Unless you're a dumbshit who bought a bunch of VC stuff. In any case folks who bought a Wii and expected it to be a satisfactory sole console are a bit foolish considering how the 64 and GC went.

[Eel O'Brian]

I want one now because until September, there aren't any 360 or PS3 games I want to play, and I can catch up on the 5 or so Wii games out that I want to play.  After that there's a flood of 360 and PS3 stuff to occupy my gaming time.  The closer it gets to September the less I will want a Wii.  They've had plenty of time to ramp up production on these things. It can't be stated enough - eat my balls, Nintendo.  

[Bocsius]

The only reason I'd want a Wii is to play Virtual Console, but the only things I'd want to play on VC would be Mario Bros. and Mario Kart, but I have a DS which I also use to only play NSMB and MKDS so having a Wii for VC to do the same thing would be ridiculously redundant. So screw the Wii, from the ever-caring-to-own-one standpoint.

However, the Wii is a troll on the entire online gaming community, and I for one love it.

Wii

[Kestastrophe]

They've had plenty of time to ramp up production on these things. It can't be stated enough - eat my balls, Nintendo.

I hate it when people say "oh, but they're shipping more than any other console in history". While that is completely true, it doesn't negate the fact that demand is still outstripping supply here in the states nearly 2 years after launch. It's not like the company doesn't have enough cash to plop down for increasing production, which should be relatively simple anyways because the hardware is simpler. They must be using extremely conservative assumptions in their inventory predictions.

[Eel O'Brian]

everyone on craigslist wants more than the fucking thing is worth, too

[duckman2000]

Nintendo has successfully kept up the supply vs demand hysteria going for 2 years, which is obviously working out for them. I don't for a second believe that demand would be anywhere near as rabid had the system been well stocked. We put up our ad, and given the fast, almost panic struck response to the ad, you'd think we were giving away gold for free. It wasn't even a good price for the system, but it was snatched up immediately, and allegedly, this person had been driven to desperation due to having had no luck in stores.

everyone on craigslist wants more than the fucking thing is worth, too

And they will get it. Not much more, but some. People want it (because hey, Bob and Janet has one, and it's such great family fun, even the dog wants to play with the Wii!), but they don't seem particularly interested in paying a ton of money for it.

[Eel O'Brian]

well, fuck it, i'll spend my 250 elsewhere, and just pick up a cheap wii after the flood of unused systems hit the market a couple of years from now

eat my balls, nintendo

[GilloD]

Seriously. Can we lock this thread? If I have to read another bone-headed analysis form people with absolutely ZERO background in business or the finer points of tech production, I'm going to lose my mind. No more NPD, ever, please, god, please.

[Eel O'Brian]

i've owned and operated a business for over ten years, sport

[Oblivion]

Ah, thank you, Mojo.

Nintendo has successfully kept up the supply vs demand hysteria going for 2 years, which is obviously working out for them. I don't for a second believe that demand would be anywhere near as rabid had the system been well stocked.

Um, you do realize that it's been selling 600+ units nearly every month since launch, right? Not to mention Nintendo's actually been trying to ramp up production by manufacturing like a million a month or something like that.

[Bocsius]

We could take the nerdery one step further and have Media-Create threads.

[Mr. Gundam]

We could take the nerdery one step further and have Media-Create threads.

Oh, fuck no. I thought we were better than GAF?

[Kestastrophe]

Kest - I've seen them a few times in Kalamazoo without even looking for them. 

Oh, I have one. Got it last year in the Gamestop on Westnedge

[Mr. Gundam]

I was at a Fred Meyer in Seattle yesterday, and they had five Wii's just sitting in the case. I was afraid that I'd be trampled at any moment by a mob of soccer moms. 

[trh]

more like npdgayness

[Jansen]

it would suck ass to have a wii as your only console.

like owning a gamecube last gen.

[Smooth Groove]

it would suck ass to have a wii as your only console.

like owning a gamecube last gen.

GC at least had some pretty games though. 

[laesperanzapaz]

Seriously. Can we lock this thread? If I have to read another bone-headed analysis form people with absolutely ZERO background in business or the finer points of tech production, I'm going to lose my mind. No more NPD, ever, please, god, please.

Or you can leave the thread.  For every annoying person in these threads, there's an even more annoying group of people who only contribute how much they hate the thread they're posting in. 

sometimes i confuse myself and mix up the two of you.  i dont know why, maybe because you both like(d) nintendo

[demi]

more like npdgayness

ur mom

[trh]

more like npdgayness

ur mom

[demi]

damn that's tight... i saved it

[trh]

that penguin knows what's up

[Wolf Gang]

How is it that the Xbox 360 got outsold in the same month that it also got a price drop, when it already had the price advantage to begin with?

I don't get it. Who the fuck is buying PlayStation 3s? It has no games.

[Joe Molotov]

People buy the PS3 to play Blu-Rays and the Wii for games. No reason to buy an Xbox.

[Brehvolution]

How is it that the Xbox 360 got outsold in the same month that it also got a price drop, when it already had the price advantage to begin with?

I don't get it. Who the fuck is buying PlayStation 3s? It has no games.

People like me buy it for the games, others buy it for blu ray.  I love the no games meme. It's like saying the 360 or PC has no games. It's a ridiculous statement.

[Van Cruncheon]

what are these ps3 games that are not on the 360 (in better form, to boot)

[tiesto]

I still have no idea why PS3 is now outselling 360 in the US. I could understand that happening last month, when MGS came out, but this month, there's nothing... I think the whole RROD scare really fucked MS over and it turned off many a potential buyer. It's a shame, because outside of that (now fixed) problem, the 360 has the best lineup out of the 3 consoles and it has gone far beyond the original Xbox in terms of diversity and quality.

Also, why is Europe not buying the 360?

[Eel O'Brian]

want games = 360

want movies = ps3

want sad = wii

[Wolf Gang]

I heard Europe is Sonyland. I could be wrong.

I heard that Nintendo was bitter about Nintendo 64 and GameCube and so now they're just having a big, Ricky Gervais-style laugh with the Wii. I don't think that Miyamoto has ever smiled this hard before. He's not smiling with you, he's smiling at you.

I've only been using my PlayStation 3 for movies recently, but I think that it's finally going to start getting some good games too. We all know that Metal Gear Solid 4 was an abortion. (Kojima's American team fucked up the translation on the ending of the first act and ruined the whole game for me.)

[originalz]

I heard Europe is Sonyland. I could be wrong.

Yeah, that's what I keep hearing, that Playstation is synonymous with videogames.  Makes no sense since 15 years ago Europe was Segaland.  I guess the PSX hit at the right time.

Really, I think that Sony brand loyalty is the only thing that's keeping the PS3 above the 360.  I've seen many posts on GAF and other places from people refusing to buy a 360 just because "lol M$ 3fixme only for frat boys", yet somehow the PS3's similar (if not slightly lacking) lineup is fine for them.  Well, then there's those who don't care about either and buy a Wii.  Shit, there are still plenty of RPG players that refuse to accept that the 360 is the go-to system for RPGs and still stick with the PS3 because "Sony has always been about RPGs, eventually they'll all come here!"

It's even more bizarre in Japan, they just can't accept Microsoft.  The 360 has more "Japanese" games than the PS3 at this point, but I hope that Vesperia and other future releases will improve the brand image.

[FFXIII360]

Also, why is Europe not buying the 360?

Since im from yurop I can answer that:

#1 Its made by MS
#2 Its an American product (not much love in EU for the made in USA products )

and

#3 EU loves Sony

I really dont understand all the hate for Sony in the US but the truth is they make excellent electronics (awsome features, quality made, good costumer support........) if not the best ones (right up there with samsung). Sure the prices of their products are distinguished mentally-challenged and sure they are arrogant turds and most of their execs have a god complex, but the truth is if you buy a sony product, you will be satisfied (well, the ps3 is an exception).

#4 Playstation is an official partner of the Champions League (soccer) = HUGE MARKETING

Anyways hello to everyone 

[pilonv1]

#1 and #2 mean shit.

HOWEVER I will agree that Sony have some sort of magical brand loyalty in Europe/Australia. People would buy pieces of shit with a Sony badge if they could.