Vince-
Thus, they sold 3/4ths of a Million PS2's in August Alone!!!
Wow, are you willing to conceed that? Thats outragous... but all corect in Ben's eyes.
Why is it outrageous? Check out Sony's shipped numbers for North America this year from January to the most recent release. It has gone up 6-7Million units. Obviously not all of those have sold, but the PS2 also hasn't put up those kind of NPD numbers every month either not to mention that there was already on hand stock at the beginning of the year.
Think of it this way. We know the PS2 sells the best in the US along with all of the other consoles. If the PS2 sold 450,000 a months in each territory every single month it would take them
almost thirty months to hit forty million units. Think about that. Nearly two and a half years if it sold 450K units every single month in each territory. Change that to 750K and it works out to about eighteen months. Which do you think is closer to the truth?
Ben, you know I respect you, but you sound like Johnney.. and thats not a good thing.
This in regard to PS2s failing. Let me ask you Vince, is your PS2 still working? Would you expect anyone's PS2 to be dead by this point? I would say the same thing about any XBox or Cube too. The only difference I see between all three of them is that Nintendo gives you a year warranty instead of ninety days.
Two years? What the hell do you your consoles? I mean, either you guys are spewing rubblish, or you genuinly have a problem with taking care of your property... Which after looking (and smelling) the sterotypical guy at E3, may be the cause
For the launch era PSX? Having one die inside of two years is the norm, not the exception. The CD drives in them crapped out early and frequently. This has been covered by pretty much every major gaming publication along with being the norm for end users.
Johnny-
Ignoring the ignorant Vince for a second, Ben wouldn't it be closer to 70% for NPD, since Halo hit one million about about the same time that it's NPD numbers were around 700,000? That sounds a little more reasonable, but you would probably know better than anyone around here.
MS was actually using NPD numbers for their press releases for a while in terms of game sales as they were for console sales through Q1 of this year(were you taking part in the conversation we had at the time about that?). That gave them a chance to change up to actual sales or shipped numbers at the drop of a hat and help cover any slow periods over the course of the year.
The easiest way to do it is to compare say Nintendo's(or EA's or Activisions- whoever) NA software sales in dollars versus NPDs year end results for them based on their figures. It works out to roughly 60%. It will be higher or lower then that in pretty much any given circumstance, titles that are particularly popular with the younger demogrpahic will be particularly smaller using NPDs figures as they don't track WM. Take a title like that Britney dancing game and NPD likely reported less then half its total sales as it
only would appeal to much younger gamers and likely sold at WM considerably better then at dedicated gaming stores on a comparitive basis.
How many games have you guys purchased at Wal-Mart this generation just as anecdotal evidence? I don't have a dedicated gaming store within a half hour drive of where I live, thirteen out of the fifteen Cube games I have came from WM(eleven) or KMart(two) with two out of three of my Box games coming from WM(one from EB- my local WM never got Morrowind in for XB).
