Someone said that his friend said...
Get a life.
Also, even if true, this comes from the "opinion" of ONE person, manager or not.
I am sure the "95%" number is made up so he can impress chicks or underage teenagers to molest in his white windowless van. Hey, I can speculate too, look at that !
So, what will happens if say (0%-50%) of stores canceled their midnight launch instead of the sensational 95% number ? NOTHING. ...
I will be surprised if this sold > 250K first week, or even 500K over its LIFE ! Come back here next week and let's have a chat :)
My point is that SE are killing their own franchise by playing the single platform card. You can disagree all you want but numbers are solid proof.
Same game, really.
Props to the devs who achieved this.
Its laughable if you ask me. Still its one of the best launch for a 360 title in Japan.
Star Ocean is a HUGE IP. For it to do less then 150 K first day is unbelievably disastrous.
This is a flop in Japan. SE, you are a bunch of morons.
@FoxGod
You want some research ? What About 400k+ first week sale for the last SO on PS2 ? Feed on that and get your bubbles nuked.
20$ x 2 millions copies = 40 Millions $ ( hundreds of Millions in profit ?? )
Minus : 25 Millions $ investment = 15 Millions $ ( and don't forget all other cost related to this, marketing etc. )
AND I doubt Microsoft cashes in ALL profit from the DLC. If RS and MS split 50-50 the income, MS needs to sell : 2.5 Millions copies just to break even... ON BOTH DLC!
Basically, if the consumer doesn't buy this DLC, it's going to be one huge epic fail for Mic...
X360 first( and only in the top 100 ) game is at 82.
Microsoft market penetration = epic failure
Makes you wonder also if SE executives are a complete bunch of morons.
If I was an EDGE reviewer life would be so easy. Here is how you review :
Playstation title = -1
Great Visuals almost revolutionary = -1
Fun = -1
I'm not counting all the earnings they made with selling the expansion pack WOTLK.
Just with WOW they have earnings of :
10 000 000 x 3 monthes x 15$ ( I give them 1 million slack to round up )
That makes 450 Millions ( just with WOW ), they say they earned only 438 Millions. What gives ???
I am talking earnings here, not profit.
Kudos to the author for a well written article.
Gaming online should be FREE ! No excuses, not even if you are a mega corporation strangling the poor end user with poor hardware and pay for online service.
Placed just placed my pre-order : Total of 49.65$ ( with free shipping ).
Thanks a lot !
Disappointed.
The gameplay part has very noticeable frame hickups. I feel like SE isn't able to master multiprocessing correctly just yet. Hope they call Sony Tech gurus in QUICKLY to help them, they need to upgrade their programmers!
On another note, all those pre-rendered cinematics and ingame dialog takes ALOT of room on the disc. I wonder if that feature will make it to our side of the world intact since our release will have multiple languages. Bluray will b...
TY D3 !!
Will be day one purchase for me ! :)
PC world is desperate to get hits and $$ from traffic.
On another subject ( sorry for being OT here ), should N4G try to enforce harsher publications approval when dealing with BLOGS ? I cannot see how this community would not benefit from it.
Anyone agrees ?
1) Day one !
2) My boss is gonna kill me for calling in sick for a couple days.
3) You all better have your bluetooth headsets ready for great MP action
4) Sweet intro!!!
The whole truth is :
Open Office > MS Office
Google docs is in an entirely different category.
Either way Microsoft succeed :
In making the 360 a better HD console for Japan ( they cannot beat the PS3 there, FACT )
or
Discredit Square Enix, once biggest supporter of playstation because they had poor sales which in everyone's mind equals poor games.
The power green of green is one that makes you sick.
... following the 10% brickage NXE brought the Xbox 360, Microsoft is pleased to announce that Xbox live accounts have gone up tremendously during the last weeks. User accounts went from 15 millions to almost 17 millions in just a handful of days. Steve Ballmer was seen throwing chairs at the Sony building shouting "You can't compete with us! I will f*ckin bury you!".
Microsoft owns the idea of being able to play any soundtrack you have stored locally in any game ( and its mandatory for any title under xbox 360 to support this ). No other console maker is able to implement this idea without having an agreement with Microsoft.
Just Like Immersion owns the idea of having small rotating weight on electrical motors that gives rumbles, and that idea costed hundreds of millions of dollars to use...
We live in capitalism, GET USED TO IT...
I actually read it to see if there was LEGITIMATE reasons as to why he was playing it.
Who approved this story ? Don't quit your day job!