This just shows Strategy informer has no idea how the gaming world works. It's impossible to track consumer sales as retailers dont report there sales to developers thats a FACT. All devs can report are shipped numbers and nothing else all vgchartz and NPD numbers are what you refer to as "shipped" as they are all that matter at the end of the day as they are what make the devs the money and when demand drys up the retailers stop asking for copys.
Launch numbers comapred to non launch?? EPIC FAIL... Also those 2.5 million MS have sold? Those are to retailers not consumers they never once said they were to consumers just idiot sites and fanboys taking it that way. Twisting it a bit.. It's exactly the same as shipped. They both sold to retailers.
I am not saying Kinect won't outsell Move far from it. It will in time just like PS3 will outsell 360. Move got the advantage due to the time factor just like 360 did. ...
I get what your saying to have it as an option but a game like Uncharted would be hard to use MOVE with it. I just can't see how it would fit with say U2. So they would have to change the gameplay to suit both control systems. I like the existing system.
Nintendo Own US only.. Look at sales for PS3 in The Japan articles branding around here. PS3 has been outsellign the wii for months now and pretty neck and neck with Wii. As for US Wii been on top since launch.
And Kinect only Shipped 2.4 million or however many it was. MS can't get real numbers and neither can sony. Stop with this crap about shipped vs sold there the same as there what makes devs the money you actually buying doesn't make the dev the money as they have already sold the game to the retailer and got there cut. So if you see Sold like in the Kienct article thats numbers Sold to retailers not to consumers. It even says so on MS own site with a perfectly good explanation just fa...
Go away Otheros00 Shipped and sold are the same thing when it comes to numbers you see online. Not one dev or site can report actual sold numebrs its impossible if you think differnt your deluded. Those 5.5 million will be sold easily within a month as no doubt retailers will be asking for even more copys.
Black Ops DOESNTY seel consoles. Kinect and Black Friday together sold all those 360s. Plus yet again this is anohter articles stating only US numbers.. Gotta love how they ignore the rest of the world.
I think people are reading too much into this patent they would never release an external processor for the same reason MS would never release an external Hi Def player like Blu-Ray or HD-DVD for 360 for games. That reason?? It freezes out your older customers. Or at least thye say it is anyways.. We all know HD-DVD is dead and Blu-Ray is a no go thanks to the fact they would have to pay Sony cash for each player sold.
Read the article?? The whole point of it is it's not a timed exclusive anymore.. Seems MS decided to not cought up the money anymore.. Guess they pumping even more into Kinect no doubt instead. It's actually coming out on PSN one day earlier.
I hope it doesn't really as they may have to change teh control system to fit MOVE around it. This could make or break a game... This is whats wrong with Kinect and I don't want the same happening to PS3 thankyou.
the thing is people dont want hardcore or expect it on handhelds this is partly Nintendos fault for never making hardcore games for the gameboy brand in the past and it just went from there. Handhelds are seen as a casual thing to do while on the move. Nobody really sees them as hardcore except a select percentage. Consoles is a whole differnt kettle of fish though.
Tehre not NPD numebrs they are the guesses from the analysts your using..
All console sales down after black friday week which isn't surprising.. Wii still doing the best it seems in US... MS claims they got the US but Nintendo have. Sony have Japan and Europe.
Co-op makes a game for me it really does as it adds a massive element of fun to the game. Gears was the first FPS on consoels to do it and thats partly why it sold do damn well as it was a great feature and it seems this year Sony are pulling out all the stops.
Yeah anything to help them sleep at night right? Don't get why they care so much. So what if it sells well on a ps3 if they don't own one?
Exactly but they will rely on this shiped vs sold crap even though they are the same thing as they dont realise its impossible for NPD/Sony/MS to track the exact sold numbers. Anybody who has worked in retail will tell you this hell even Patcher will tell you this. All Sony/MS/Nintendo/NPD care about is the shipped numebrs as they are sold to the retailers so they have already made there profit and the retailers WILL 99% of the time sell all the copys they get especially within the first mont...
Forza 3 total worldwaide sales 3.73 million to date.. Thats just to put things in retrospective for all you people who like to compare. GT5 blew it out the water in 12 days. We can argue all day about shipping vs sold but in reality they are the same thing as there is no way to track actual sold units as too many retailers sell the games and don't report there sales to whomever so all numbers you ever see are shipped numbers. They also don't get shipped unless retailers ask for them. ...
Only one i disagree with is MGS4 90% meta is about right in terms of ratings.. The rest are over - rated. Especially GTA IV and Halo 3. People will call me a fanboy because I picked out Halo 3 but there hasn't been a AAA Halo on 360 in terms of playability they are selling on the HALO name. No Halo will ever come close to HALO:CE and Halo 2.
Yeah was thinking that as the first game bombed hard.
VGchartz report shipped numbers though as they get the same numbers too oh and those numbers vgcharts had were for the first week only.