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Kweh! Kweh!
Just picked up Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Dissapointed that it's a dungeon crawler. But I enjoy the battle system.
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Really?
I despised that system.
Well I haven't really gotten that far into the game since I'm like 15 minutes in (literally). Maybe my tone will change later.
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NPD soon!! Epic month, cant wait for numbers.
WTF.
HW Sales
Hardware Unit Sales
Oct-08
PlayStation 2 136K
PlayStation 3 190K
PSP 193K
Xbox 360 371K
Wii 803K
Nintendo DS 491K
Top 10 SW
Publisher Release Date Rank # Units
360 FABLE II MICROSOFT (CORP) Oct-08 1 790K
WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA May-08 2 487K
360 FALLOUT 3 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS Oct-08 3 375K
WII MARIO KART W/ WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 4 290K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 5 282K
360 SAINTS ROW 2 THQ (CORP) Oct-08 6 270K
PS3 SOCOM: U.S. NAVY SEALS CONFRONTATION SONY (CORP) Oct-08 7 231K
PS3 LITTLE BIG PLANET SONY (CORP) Oct-08 8 215K
360 NBA 2K9 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) Oct-08 9 202K
360 DEAD SPACE ELECTRONIC ARTS Oct-08 10 193K
3 old Wii games in a month of a million games. Unless you are Nintendo or Fable this month sucked. PS3 needs a price drop now.
So lets break this down. Its october so its not mega sales time yet but so many big games got released and not so huge returns YET for most. Obviously there is the economy so that hurts... but then you look at Nintendo and wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Lets start with the reigning king, Nintendo, who at this point I think doesn't have to release a new game for the wii and it will still destory the competition. Seriously guys, the Wii may top the PS2s numbers, its pace is just absurd. These numbers are just out of this world crazy. Any notion that the HD systems will come in and steal sales as prices go down has to be proven wrong already, the wii is selling like this regardless of what the competition does.
On a month with so many new releases, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play (which is NOT a game damn you NPD!!) which came out a million years ago outsold most of the games on the list. Crazy. But if one thing makes me happy is that there is NO Wii Music!!!! VICTORY!!![](http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/shared/emoticons/razz.gif)
360, excellent month, I know that when compared with Wii it doesn't seem so impressive but its sales have increased big time since the price drop. It has now surpassed the PS3 for year sales. Fable 2 shows that 360 owners continue to buy every big time exclusive. Next month Gears 2 will be monsterous.
Sony, thanks for playing. With that price they might as well not compete. Its second savior of the year comes out and nothing. PS3 owners show they hate everything. LBP wasn't horrible considering the epic faliure of a launch it had, hopefully it does very well next month and is a million seller... but we all know how important first week sales are so its not a good sign. Socom selling well, still a big franchise for Sony. Where are the third party games?
The biggest story maybe the death of the music games, well maybe not death but decline. GH4 came out this month... not one SKU made the list. RB2, no longer on the list. Wii Music not on the list. Did they all beat each other up. Other third party games, Fallout 3, great on 360, not so much on PS3. Dead Space deserved better, great game guys. SR2, wasn't the first a million seller, well this one wont be in the US. NBA2k9 made the list, kind of random. No Midnight Club, no Far Cry 2, no Bioshock PS3.
I think there might be too many games out, sales are getting spread too thin. The sales are there, the numbers are very good, just not a big standout other than Fable and the Wii stuff. Last month you have SW sell a bazillion copies, Mercs 2 did better than most games on this list. RB2 (360) sold in the 300K range. So you compare numbers from last month to this month and overall sales are nearly the same but the quality of the games on the list have increased dramatically, sales have not.
I'd say that video games are recession resistant, not recession proof. Nothing is recession proof except for the necessities of life (i.e. food, gas, medicine, shelter, ect.).
My video game purchasing certainly has dropped significantly over the past couple years, and I can see myself buying even fewer games next year. Thankfully, I'm not really seeing this as a bad thing because it has forced me to play the games I own rather than just buying new ones all the time.![Happy](/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif)
NPD soon!! Epic month, cant wait for numbers.
Dvader said:
WTF.
Laughing
Dvader said:
On a month with so many new releases, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play (which is NOT a game damn you NPD!!)
Yes it is.
Dvader said:
The biggest story maybe the death of the music games, well maybe not death but decline. GH4 came out this month... not one SKU made the list. RB2, no longer on the list. Wii Music not on the list. Did they all beat each other up. Other third party games, Fallout 3, great on 360, not so much on PS3. Dead Space deserved better, great game guys. SR2, wasn't the first a million seller, well this one wont be in the US. NBA2k9 made the list, kind of random. No Midnight Club, no Far Cry 2, no Bioshock PS3.
Very true. GT: World Tour all platform sales were less then Guitar Hero III's for the 360 or Wii last year. Personally I'm sorta glad that this trend is out of the way. Poor poor Konami though.Cry
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If you are going to buy an extra controller you might as well get it. I agree that it's not really a game on it's own merit. That being said, it did keep me busy at my cousin's house for a good couple of hours. Especially the tank game. If nothing else it's kind of an extended introduction to Wii on top of Wii Sports, for casual gamers who have never played video games. After that it would make a nice coaster.
It was kind of funny though, every time I went into Future Shop for about a year, I heard a salesperson trying to push Wii Play HARD to mothers buying Wiis for their kid, ie. "You get the controller you're going to need anyway, plus 9 games!
" That, and Happy Feet..... or maybe that was so bad it was thrown in as a package.
wii play is a good laugh for an hour or two.
Demo disc? Wii Play is about as "full" as Wii Sports. And how are you so sure that it wouldn't be on the list?
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Fuck the haters, laser hockey is awesome. Plus witout the controller the game would be 10 bucks! Would probably still sell.
Neogaf pics time!!!!
Fable 2 vs LBP
Someone trolled SMG for no reason and got banned
I am not sure what this is, and it has nothing to do with the NPD thread. But it is funny, so....
Had some rad stuff there. I will reveal all soon...
PVW still no comp here. NPD over 800'000 Wii-ners sold? WTF? BTW guys, if u own a DS you need to get Soul Bubbles. Check some youtube vids out. I got it for $20 from amazon and it's fantastically addictive and well made. P.s just got COD5 on wii. Game is really pissing me off right now .
Damn you GG, well I guess I will have to do the updates at least until Monday.
WTF man that's just wrong, wtf are they even doing?!
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