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07/16/09
The Wii numbers are significantly down on last year, suggesting that the Wii has saturated the market at it's current pricepoint. I wouldn't be surprised to see pricedrops announced for this holiday season from all 3. Sony because they have to, MS in response to Sony, and Nintendo because they can.
On the software side, it's interesting to note that this is the first month that Wii Fit hasn't appeared in the Top 10 since it launched. It's only the 2nd month that Wii Play hasn't been in the Top10 since June '07. Wii Fit may have saturated it's market too, or may simply have been made obsolete by EA Active. The absence of Wii Play is remarkable, as it's sales have proportionally tracked the sales of the Wii itself extremely closely, as it's the usual method by which you get a second Wiimote.
Infamous's sales have to be disappointing. ~370k in the first couple of months is not fantastic, especially for such a flagship title. This lends credence to the idea that the days of PS3-exclusives are over.
07/16/09
Far from that. As the article points out, inFamous was going against two other open world games, one of which was a pretty old franchise. And it was the only exclusive of the bunch, on the platform with the smallest userbase, yet it managed to be in the top 10. I'd say that's pretty impressive.
Also, the days of pretty much any next gen third party-funded exclusives are over. Prices are too high, userbases are too small. However, the days of first party titles are from over, and the PS3 has plenty of those. inFamous is one, so don't expect it on other platforms.
At this point any PS3 owner would be silly to worry about exclusive titles. Even if Sony decided to just milk the new IPs there would be plenty of PS3-only games. Plus the old PS franchises like GoW and Socom.
07/17/09
For the most part I agree with you, first-party exclusives won't be going anywhere, but I can see publishers looking at the sales of Infamous, crunching the numbers and seeing that they can't recoup development costs off PS3-only sales, forcing them to go multiplatform.
Compare with the sales numbers of Prototype on 360, and a publisher would have to have their palms crossed with silver by Sony to justify PS3-only development.
At what point does the PR benefit of having a platform exclusive cease to outweigh the loss taken when your exclusive game doesn't set the world on fire? That's some tough math for Sony to run, and looking at Infamous, it's not a pretty equation.
07/16/09
okie doke. 100% of the journalistic integrity you were trying to tell me about the other day just evaporated.
if Tiger Woods did well on any other console would it be because of moms and dads? or the "definitive sports game for dads"?
you, sir, are part of the problem.
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how many [term that means hardcore to the people here] gamers do you think just picked this up because they were intrigued by M+?
why not mention that?
you say I'm looking for something that isn't there, but the entire point of that portion of the article was to say that EA did not have a successful Wii game with [term that means hardcore to the people here] gamers.
you simply speculated and chose to do it in a way that furthers what is a negative stereotype in the culture of gaming that you and I operate in.
if you can tell me you honestly weren't aware of that then I can acknowledge that I'm reading too much into what you've written lately.
but if you can honestly tell me you weren't aware of that, then I don't think you should be writing for a gaming blog =\
07/16/09
Wow, you americans really aren't that much for the PS3, are you?
Not blaming you or anything like that. Just a quiet observation.
07/16/09
At $99 and with a gigantic used games market, the PS2 is the most sensible choice for low income families when they consider a system for their children. These PS2 numbers will continue to be strong for years and they still are in Europe too.
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PS2 is a great console and I might soon be buying another one.
07/16/09
As for the PS2, it's $99. Not much else to say there.
The days of American's putting the importance of quality over price are long gone, at least for now. The trend in America is to buy the cheapest product you can find, and this permeates throughout all consumer goods; whether it be electronics, or food items and clothing. It's just the way things are right now.
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Just a thought, but that can't be possible, Wii games only sell if they're mini games, made by Nintendo or come with a peripheral.
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So it goes, so it goes.
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That or people found out the Harry Potter games aren't too great :/
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(Sorry Ryan! I will get your Birthday present soon)
07/16/09
I don't know, Harry Potter actually got delayed. The film was supposed to come out last year but Warner pushed it to Summer 09 because they needed a movie to fill in the gap created by the writer's strike.
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Oh and give it up to Red Faction- a game that everyone counted out for being "just another shooter"; did fairly well considering the competition.
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DS software sells consistently, with extremely long legs... thats why is the system with the most amount of software sold in this entire gen, and is also the system with the most million sellers.
Heck, GTA DS is already 700,000 worlwide.
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Get your facts correctly... the DS is the system with the most software sales this gen.
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Anyway, there are so many titles for the DS (and tons of good ones), that there's probably no one title in particular that will dominate sales aside from New Super Mario Bros. or Mario Kart DS. The sales are probably distributed amongst a variety of titles instead of being concentrated on a select few.
07/16/09
People go for console experiences first and pick up portable title when they feel like it.
Though as for total DS software sales.... Nintendo is probably raking in a big chunk of that.
People buy DS games... it just as awhole they buy them less often... but there are enough of them doing so it doesnt matter as much.
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For reference, according to VGChartz, Uncharted sold only 32,000 in its first week and that went on to sell 2.44 million total.
It even outsold LBP's first week sales which were at 110,000.
Anyway, inFamous is a great game and it deserves to sell well even if I do have to research the entire city because I missed two blast shards. :[