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Official Sales Thread
ShyGuy:
Necro Nesia will steal the hardcore Giant Insect crowd away from the 360.
PS2 and Gameboy numbers are insane. Sony should have just milked the PS2 for another year or three. Gameboy could last another year in the US at this rate.
UncleBob:
As per the GameBoy numbers - remember, both Toys R Us and Wal*Mart had those cheap-ass Game Boy Micros for $35-$40. This would help account for why they were so large.
However, GameBoy Advanc e SPs are still selling quite well, despite my efforts to talk everyone into getting DSLites.
couchmonkey:
I think Blue Dragon may make a small difference in North America. It's obviously designed to appeal to the traditional Japanese RPG set, and Rare is finally starting to offer some less "mature" titles for the system too.
I'm not going to predict any big changes for Microsoft, but with PS3 charging way more for similar gaming capabilities and PS2 languishing, games like these might attract a few Sony fans to the 360 next year. As someone who doesn't fit Microsoft's target demographic at all, I'm already finding Xbox 360 a little more interesting than Xbox, and I'm a lot more interested in it than PS3. (I'd still buy a PS2 before either of these systems, though).
Edit: And let's not forget the post-launch drought effect. Sony's lineup is going to continue looking like poo for months and Nintendo's looks weak too (though third parties have yet to announce games for next year). 360, meanwhile, should have a good amount of software all the way through next year.
Artimus:
I think the GameCube in the US proved that the occasional genre game isn't enough to attract a new crowd. This applying to Blue Dragon in Japan.
Kairon:
From the information and posts in this neogaf NPD thread I'm thinking our best guesses for Wii Software sales are the following:
Zelda: TP ......................... ~412k (NPD sourced)
Red Steel ......................... ~107k (unknown source)
Super Monkey Ball .............. 50k < ~ x < 107k (guess) (let's assume 70k for no reason whatsoever) (confirmed third though by Gamespot)
Rayman: RR .................... ~ 50k (guess)
CoD 3 ............................. ~ 48k (NPD sourced)
Madden '07 ..................... ~ 45k (unknown source)
Total Guesses: ................ ~ 732k (VERY INACCURATE BY NOW)
Using NPD's tie-ratio of 2.1 and NPD's hardware numbers of 476k for the USA......
Total Wii Software Guess: ~ 999.6k (VERY INACCURATE BY NOW)
Sales left for the Wii's other launch titles, including Trauma Center, DBZ BT2, Excite Truck, TH: DJ, and others:
......................................... ~ 267.6k (EXTREMELY INACCURATE BY NOW)
Anyone else gathered enough information to guess or seen educated guesses from others?
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
edit: applied some more guesses and data from IGN.