This game's broad (read: casual) appeal should help it through this though. Your average Sims player isn't going to hear its leaked or know how to find/use it if they do. They're going to see the commercials, know they enjoyed Sims 2, and head to Walmart or Best Buy to pick it up.
Haha, this was contributed 17 hours after the tickets sold out.
No interest in that myself. I don't want to be playing Gears of War and smell the Locust...
29 minutes to be exact. At least that was the time between their forum announcements of them being for sale and being sold out.
Sounds like the queue system worked well though. Not everyone who wanted tickets got them which would be impossible, but at least everyone didn't spend all day trying to buy tickets from a broken system.
That wasn't even a sentence.
I don't think it's that simple. MadWorld's graphics look great and they're an excellent creative solution to Wii's limitations. But they really wouldn't work as well in HD and I think they'd be scoffed at by most Xbox and PS3 owners who are used to ultrarealistic gore in their brawlers. MadWorld is truly best suited for the Wii.
I bought it, and it's a blast. I'm truly disappointed that it hasn't fared more strongly.
Don't forget that the March NPD covered 5 weeks while this one covers 4. So add 25% to all the April numbers when comparing month to month. That doesn't make April great, and it's down year over year, but do keep in mind that a large portion of that drop is due to "March" having 7 more days than "April".
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Correct, and I believe more accurately each NPD covers a certain number of weeks. This is for 4 weeks (28 days) and March was for 5 weeks.
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Yep and they're not only for Nintendo platforms, they're first-party Nintendo products. Big N is just dominating this generation like no one has in decades. The DS(i?) sold more units than the other 5 consoles combined. Crazy.
Well it DID outsell the PS3... =\
Anyone know the number of weeks covered on this data? I'm assuming it's 4 weeks, since the March report was 5 weeks. Then we need to know whether April 2008 was 4 or 5 weeks before we can really compare year-to-year data for April.
PS2 sales definitely got a strong boost from the price cut. Amazing how strong it's going after so long.
Pachter had the ratios between the consoles about right, but they all sold about 30% less than he estimated. The video game i...
Diablo battle chest in the top 10 and Warcraft 3 and Starcraft battle chests not far behind? Talk about legs...
Anthony here did 4 things wrong by my count:
1) Trading in a Gamecube for $42. Perhaps he owns a Wii, but if not, he'll probably regret that down the road when he feels nostalgic.
2) Buying a $55 used game instead of a new copy for just $5 more.
3) Misplacing his receipt.
4) Writing a letter and blog post apparently without contacting the local store itself first to see if they would replace it.
It's obviously a problem that Gamestop sold h...
I think you're outta luck. Just because it's been ignored forever doesn't make Lost Vikings a "New IP". Though I agree it'd be awesome.
On the 'AAA' definition discussion:
AAA originally didn't refer to the quality of a game at all. It referred simply to the budget of a game and marketing and hype behind it. Really any game that was big and splashy was branded AAA, and genereally each console had a few per year. This is all according the guys on the late 1UP Yours podcast.
Only recently have people used 'AAA' to mean 'good' in the gaming arena. So it's pretty stupid to debate its exact meanin...
I agree that FPS isn't very likely. But if they are being genuine when they say they plan to support WoW for many more years, this new MMO needs to be significantly different from the WoW/EQ/WAR style. More different than just a setting change.
Good story telling yes, though it's told through quests and instances. Cutscenes are pretty nonexistant, you're almost never removed from your character. There are one or two excellent cutscenes in the newest expansion content (as you're leveling through the 70s), but that's a pretty new thing for this game.
I still don't get why punchjump articles end with a string of unrelated information. This article about a Best Buy sale also includes NPD console sales, and a console SKU restocked at Amazon.com. Less than half the "article" is about the headline. Riiiiight...
"Also learn to spell . you dotn make sense"
Quoted for irony.
The way the price is presented is another sign that this is just Amazon, not Sony. Retailers aren't allowed to advertise lower prices on consoles than MSRP set by the makers, which is why price drops happen everywhere at once and you never see consoles "on sale". Online stores sidestep this by doing that "see price in cart" gimmick. The actual PS3 page on Amazon just has a stuckthrough $399.99.