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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Sept 12, 2009 9:08:47 GMT -5
6 in NPD sales for august. yes, a game for the freaking playstation 2 placed number 6 in august 2009. www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25227here's the sadder part, it beat out wolfenstein for the xbox 360 AND dissidia final fantasy. I'm just amazed this actually happened. |
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Post by Gopher Mod on Sept 12, 2009 10:01:24 GMT -5
thwak, one problem with your numbers: Madden came out on 8/14. Where Wolfenstein has no excuse (it was released 4 days later with zero hoopla), Dissidia wasn't released until the 25th. That only left it 1 week to beat a game that had been out on markets for 11 days prior.
Once September's numbers roll in, we'll see if Dissidia is really more popular than Madden.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Sept 12, 2009 10:42:52 GMT -5
thwak, one problem with your numbers: Madden came out on 8/14. Where Wolfenstein has no excuse (it was released 4 days later with zero hoopla), Dissidia wasn't released until the 25th. That only left it 1 week to beat a game that had been out on markets for 11 days prior. Once September's numbers roll in, we'll see if Dissidia is really more popular than Madden. and yet, arkham asylum came out that day too and it placed better then both of those games. |
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Post by Gopher Mod on Sept 12, 2009 10:49:29 GMT -5
thwak, one problem with your numbers: Madden came out on 8/14. Where Wolfenstein has no excuse (it was released 4 days later with zero hoopla), Dissidia wasn't released until the 25th. That only left it 1 week to beat a game that had been out on markets for 11 days prior. Once September's numbers roll in, we'll see if Dissidia is really more popular than Madden. and yet, arkham asylum came out that day too and it placed better then both of those games. Dang it. You're right. If there were more PSP's sold, it would've been higher. But obviously, Sony has some issues selling their machines that aren't ~10 years old. |
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Sept 12, 2009 11:04:47 GMT -5
Well, how many people still own a PS2 and not a 360 or PS3?
It's not hard to believe these people would keep buying the version for the system they still own.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 12, 2009 11:23:36 GMT -5
Once September's numbers roll in, we'll see if Dissidia is really more popular than Madden. It won't be. PSP games historically don't sell THAT well in the US and well, it's dat Madden. |
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Post by default on Sept 12, 2009 11:37:33 GMT -5
I'm not surprised. There is still somewhat of a casual gamer market and Madden leads into that well.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Sept 12, 2009 16:46:15 GMT -5
Why would Dissida be expected to sell well? It's a fighting game involving characters from the late 80s/early 1990s from games that most Americans didn't play until the games were too dated to play. I mean, I think it sounds cool and I would probably get it if I had a PSP, but I don't really expect to do that well.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Sept 12, 2009 16:48:50 GMT -5
and yet, arkham asylum came out that day too and it placed better then both of those games. Dang it. You're right. If there were more PSP's sold, it would've been higher. But obviously, Sony has some issues selling their machines that aren't ~10 years old. They sold 50 million PSPs! How many more do they need to sell?! |
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Sept 12, 2009 16:52:03 GMT -5
Well, how many people still own a PS2 and not a 360 or PS3? It's not hard to believe these people would keep buying the version for the system they still own. Well there is over 120+ million PS2s sold, and only a paltry 50 million+ combined PS3 & 360 units sold. |
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Post by mrwednesdaynight on Sept 12, 2009 18:16:32 GMT -5
i still have a ps2 but not a newer system. I won't buy the new Madden. I know it will pretty much be Madden 2004 with new rosters and a new feature that I will never use because it will make the game less fun and more complicated. I'm sure this year its "Enter a Morkat Kombat fatality code while a pass is in the air to increase your chances of getting an interception." The last Madden I bought was 2006 and I felt ripped off. I will never buy one of these games again, at least until I get a new system. Even when I do buy a new system I will buy exactly one year of Madden and that's ot. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, um, don't get fooled again.
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Post by Kananga on Sept 12, 2009 18:20:59 GMT -5
I still own a PS2.
Don't plan on getting any newer system.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Sept 12, 2009 19:05:21 GMT -5
Why would Dissida be expected to sell well? It's a fighting game involving characters from the late 80s/early 1990s from games that most Americans didn't play until the games were too dated to play. I mean, I think it sounds cool and I would probably get it if I had a PSP, but I don't really expect to do that well. Well, it was likely the characters from VII onwards and the franchise name that helped it do as well as it did. |
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Post by Dirty Hazy on Sept 12, 2009 23:50:54 GMT -5
I suspect THIS is the final year of NFL on PS2.
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