NPD TIME!

[Bebpo]

Demo, Demo, Demo

Dead Space coulda been this year's Bioshock if it had a demo.

I thought it was this years Bioshock when I played it.  But those numbers tell differently.

Maybe you're right and it's the demo factor.  I guess we'll see how ME does.

[CajoleJuice]

Yeah, demo would've helped.

[Van Cruncheon]

Surprised so many games did relatively poor (<200k).  Publishers see this and yet they'll still be stupid and release everything in Oct/Nov again next year.  smh

surprised? read the wall street journal lately?

[duckman2000]

Wait a minute, are we talking about US sales only? If that's the case, I'd have to alter my KZ2 prediction a bit. I think it will be massive, but that's including both territories.

[duckman2000]

Surprised so many games did relatively poor (<200k).  Publishers see this and yet they'll still be stupid and release everything in Oct/Nov again next year.  smh

surprised? read the wall street journal lately?

You have to wonder how much Gamefly has benefited from this.

[Eel O'Brian]

explain wii sales, then - i mean, that's a $250 system that nearly one million people purchased

dead space didn't sell because there's a shit fuckton of games out this time of year, and stuff like gears 2 and cod5 are familiar sure bets

no one knew what the fuck a dead space was

glut killed dead space, not bad economy

[cool breeze]

Wii is cheap and people are dumb

[Bebpo]

Surprised so many games did relatively poor (<200k).  Publishers see this and yet they'll still be stupid and release everything in Oct/Nov again next year.  smh

surprised? read the wall street journal lately?

Well, everyone in the industry has been saying how games & dvds & movie theater ticket sales won't be affected by this recession because they are cheap forms of entertainment that people will fall back on as they cut down on bigger purchases.

[Eel O'Brian]

$250 isn't cheap

[drew]

i went to Target today and the wii aisle was a barren wasteland

[duckman2000]

I'd imagine it's also quite difficult to market well. It's a horror game in which the key gameplay element involves strategic dismemberment of reanimated corpses. How exactly do you market that to a wide audience?

[AdmiralViscen]

demo

[Van Cruncheon]

Surprised so many games did relatively poor (<200k).  Publishers see this and yet they'll still be stupid and release everything in Oct/Nov again next year.  smh

surprised? read the wall street journal lately?

Well, everyone in the industry has been saying how games & dvds & movie theater ticket sales won't be affected by this recession because they are cheap forms of entertainment that people will fall back on as they cut down on bigger purchases.

dvds and movies are under $20 a pop. games are $40-$60. even the folks buying games will hafta settle for one-two games this season instead of several. expect LOTS of big losers!

[duckman2000]

explain wii sales, then - i mean, that's a $250 system that nearly one million people purchased

dead space didn't sell because there's a shit fuckton of games out this time of year, and stuff like gears 2 and cod5 are familiar sure bets

no one knew what the fuck a dead space was

glut killed dead space, not bad economy

Because men do what women tell them to do, irrespective of account standings. One couple shows off the Wii to their friends, and makes special note of how much the kids love it. And then the nagging starts. In some cases, the male believes that getting the wife onboard the video game train will somehow help with future entertainment purchases, but that of course rarely works. So they have a Wii, and soon they hate it.

That, and it's still floating on the elusive treasure image, I think. So they become impulse buys because, hey, who knows when they will come across another Wii.

[Draft]

2+ years of being an elusive treasure. It's not a fucking diamond, you schmuck.

[Eel O'Brian]

duckman: your post negates the "poor economy" excuse, though

"money's tight, but hey let's grab one of them $250 wiis over a $60 game, and while we're at it let's grab one of them $90 plastic boards you stand on"

i don't buy the poor economy reasoning

dead space failed because of fallout 3, and guitar hero, and lbp, and gears 2, and every other game which came out in a two-week period

i expect the same for mirror's edge

publishers will learn some painful financial lessons this holiday season

[Brehvolution]

It's too much in the same timeframe, that is why we see sales are so spread out. All these game should have good legs over the coming months because who can afford to drop $300-$400 in a span of 3 weeks on games?

[hyp]

i love EB NPD threads.  i was so lttp today.   

fable 2

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[Smooth Groove]

LOL at Socom making the top 10. 

I don't wanna hear any more crap from Duckman about how Xbots have no tastes. 

[Bocsius]

360 did better than I thought it would. PS3 did about what I thought it would. at Little Big I Never Expected It To Do Well Anyway.™

Wii

[Eel O'Brian]

man, socom was an ugly game

i mean, i own a wii for fuck's sake, so i obviously don't give too much of a fuck about graffix, but socom was strikingly ugly

[duckman2000]

Yeah, it's not a pretty one. Not that I'd really know; I barely got to play the beta due to connection issues. Good job on that, Sony, what with it being an online-only game and all.

[Eel O'Brian]

i genuinely felt bad for the dev team, i know they couldn't possibly have wanted to release it in that state

[WrikaWrek]

I remember some of my friends playing Socom on the PS2.

Always thought the game looked like shit. And i was a PS2 almost only gamer.

[Eel O'Brian]

what's funny, though, is there were some "making of" videos on the disc

i watched a couple, and in the videos the game actually looks better than the finished product

  i was thinking "uh, are you sure you want people seeing this?"

[pilonv1]

Dead Space should have been an August release. Publishers pushing full price new IP in the current economic climate against established IP are pushing shit up a hill. Guaranteed Dead Space in August does 2x what it did in October.

[Tabasco]

Man these numbers are depressing.  I really thought Fallout/Dead Space/Saints Row/Far Cry would sell more than that.  I don't want a waggle future.

But then the only game I've bought in the last 6 months is Gears2, Gameflying the rest.  I guess I'm part of the problem.

[MrAngryFace]

[y2kev]

You know what's a cheap fucking form of entertainment? Monopoly. Or your mom screaming at your dad because of said monopoly. Or your grandma getting caught cheating.

You can play monopoly until your head explodes.

You know what's not cheap entertainment? Mirror's Edge.

[Phoenix Dark]

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my friends, we have MS right where we want 'em

[drew]

$60 to jump around on fake building

big fucking deal amirite

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13618550&postcount=1074

He died for our sins 

[Tabasco]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o133/VectorBoy/crunk.gif

wtf?

[drew]

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[Crushed]

At least it's from an actual video game this time.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Eh, they will get tired of it.  He'll be banned within six months.

[Joe Molotov]

Eh, they will get tired of it.  He'll be banned within six months.

Then he'll be here.  :'(

[Tieno]

lollers, and people wouldn't even include Fable II in their predictions and thought it'd get steamrolled by LBP and Fallout 3.

Not really mind kind of RPG though.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Too much effort for a joke character.

My guess is that someone invited him here (fess up!) and he has been keeping tabs on this place since.  This is the kind of loser that spends all day making huge .gifs by combing through Star Trek to see if the mouths resemble each other, he would exactly be the type to stalk the board.

Besides, RubxQub isn't clever enough to pull that kind of a ruse.  He's not the shiniest penny in the fountain.

[duckman2000]

one of his early gifs was the Dr. Who gif that was about hardcore vs. casuals and how the Wii ruined GAF... he talked about how "glorious our NPD threads was..." etc etc. IMO he was at the time more than a noob or a lurker, he knew GAF too well.

What, like Crushed?

[Tabasco]

holy crap where did you get that from?

It was in the GAF NPD thread.  Bizarre.

[Kestastrophe]

Anybody have a link to Drinky's PS3/Gamecube comparison from a few NPDs ago? It would make some nice copypasta in the GAF thread

[Purple Filth]

one of his early gifs was the Dr. Who gif that was about hardcore vs. casuals and how the Wii ruined GAF... he talked about how "glorious our NPD threads was..." etc etc. IMO he was at the time more than a noob or a lurker, he knew GAF too well.

What, like Crushed?

Whats funny is when Robotnik did a gif the first time gaf thought it was Crushed.

Another account i wondered about was the one called Amarox.

On topic:

360: nice job

ps3: smh, i think its price drop time but will they pull the trigger.

wii: holy shit

[Brehvolution]

Thank you, AltogetherAndrews, for being the last clown^H^H^H^H man on this forum believeing in Killzone 2 and PS3.

It's way better than what you bring to the table distinguished effete fellow.
 :stfu
What is your contribution to society?

[Brehvolution]

chicken butt

[maxy]

PS3=Titanic after iceberg collision,nothing can save it now
Bad thing is that now sony fans are going to become even more annoying.

[Brehvolution]

PS3=Titanic after iceberg collision,nothing can save it now
Bad thing is that now sony fans are going to become even more annoying.

*read thread*
Yes, it's clear that Sony fans are the most annoying. It's so fucking annoying that they have the NERVE to defend against such hateful attacks. Can't we just troll in peace for fucks sake? It infuriates me to no end how when I say "lol sfags, the PS3 is a piece of shit!" and they reply with "No, it's not"....

Where the fuck does he get off by saying that? Just who the fuck does he think he is?

[Crushed]

PS3=Titanic after iceberg collision,nothing can save it now
Bad thing is that now sony fans are going to become even more annoying.

*read thread*
Yes, it's clear that Sony fans are the most annoying. It's so fucking annoying that they have the NERVE to defend against such hateful attacks. Can't we just troll in peace for fucks sake? It infuriates me to no end how when I say "lol sfags, the PS3 is a piece of shit!" and they reply with "No, it's not"....

Where the fuck does he get off by saying that? Just who the fuck does he think he is?

christ you're annoying


i've seen nfags with less of a persecution complex than you

[cool breeze]

Remember the time when people thought that the Little Big Planet announcement was going to sell systems?

People thought that home would sell consoles

oh wait they still think that

[Brehvolution]

Fake sales chartz already have LBP @ > 750k.

[Crushed]

Crushed calling someone annoying?

[Purple Filth]

Crushed calling someone annoying?

Yea seriously

Remember the time when people thought that the Little Big Planet announcement was going to sell systems?

i remember getting called a troll for suggesting it would do around 750k global in 2008.

the truth is a troll

seems that's the path its heading currently.

[Mupepe]

NPD suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

[Mupepe]

I miss you more

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

LBP probably did sell systems, probably a few thousand, just not enough to win internet fanboy warz.

LBP's biggest thing going against it is its baffling advertising which fails to let consumers know just why they want to fork over $60 or $400+ for this thing.  Either Sony will have to re-advertise the game or hope that word of mouth will spread.  Although to be honest, the only somewhat recent instance where I knew that word of mouth resulted in a resounding success was GTA3.

I will admit that I though it would sell 500k total in the US.  With over 200k now, it might hit a million overall.

[maxy]

PS3=Titanic after iceberg collision,nothing can save it now
Bad thing is that now sony fans are going to become even more annoying.

*read thread*
Yes, it's clear that Sony fans are the most annoying. It's so fucking annoying that they have the NERVE to defend against such hateful attacks. Can't we just troll in peace for fucks sake? It infuriates me to no end how when I say "lol sfags, the PS3 is a piece of shit!" and they reply with "No, it's not"....

Where the fuck does he get off by saying that? Just who the fuck does he think he is?

Sorry...i don't hear anything except blurb,blurb,blurb... :

Its just a machine anyway...or not

[Oblivion]

Sorny's PR:

Sony Computer Entertainment America has responded to the October 2008 video game sales figures for the US, as compiled by NPD Group.

190,000 units of the PS3 were sold to consumers during October, a figure SCEA notes is an increase of 56 per cent compared to October 2007. According to Sony this year-on-year increase in sales can be attributed to "an unmatched line-up of first-party and third-party titles". Speaking of which, Sony noted that 2.3 million PS3 software units were sold during October, representing a 200 per cent year-over-year increase.

Regarding the PSP, Sony noted that sales of 193,000 units represented a year-to-date growth of 9 per cent. Sony also stated that the PS2 sold a further 136,000 units and 1.7 million software units. The console's installed base is now over 43 million units in the US.

[Smooth Groove]

Remember the time when people thought that the Little Big Planet announcement was going to sell systems?

i remember getting called a troll for suggesting it would do around 750k global in 2008.

the truth is a troll

Don't worry.  We still have room on the Xboat for those who were foolish enough to ride on the Titantic/PS3 instead. 

[Eel O'Brian]

get fallout 3

[Mupepe]

get fallout 3

so I can play it without heads and watch it crash every few minutes? :'(