VGCharts.org takes the data from NPD, DENGKAI and Media-create and posts them on their site... Find a news story about NPD's December numbers, look at their December sales numbers and they're identical
Why would it be a bad thing to link to vgcharts? They essentially just archive Media-Create and NPD's sales charts and have some (limited) functionality to compare the data...
Oh god...
"According to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, US console sales for the month of January will see the Wii extend its lead over the PlayStation 3, with some 500,000 units expected to have been sold. This is 200,000 units higher than the estimated 300,000 sales of the PS3 for the same period."
Yes, unlike you I have sources that back up my claims
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The American chart is pretty useless at this point in time being that there are only 2 data points, but something to take note of is that the Gamecube never had a shortage and estimates of the Wii's January sales in North America are 500,000 (as compared to the Gamecube's 64,000). The Japaneese chart pretty much needs no comments.
I'm guessing you've never actually talked to a woman, or even a non-geeky man...
Maybe I'm unique, but I have helped dozens of people set up their DVD players, Surround Sound Systems, and videogame systems; just because they're intimidated when looking at dozens of inputs of various shapes and sizes on the back of their TV does not mean that they have no interest in gaming.
Personally, after finishing Zelda I started to play Red Steel which is not a particularly great game but is far better than the reviews would lead you to believe; from that I moved onto trauma center which is an enjoyable little game. Wii Sports still gets a lot of play at "parties" but Rayman seems to have been abandoned in favour of Wario Ware...
We have Sonic and SSX comming up which I'm a little optimistic about... Mario Party 8 comes out in March which will (likely) replace Wario Ware at parties
Being intimidated and being a moron are two very different things... Maybe I'm the only person in the world who has noticed this but many people refuse to learn how to drive a standard because it "seems" too complicated.
I don't know if it has always been this way but most adults today are afraid to attempt anything where they feel they will not be instantly successful.
You do realize that 80% of the PS2's userbase did not buy a Final Fantasy or Grand Turismo game, right? [the top selling GT game was GT3 at 14.84 Million and the top selling FF game was Fianl Fantasy X at 7.93 Million]
What people never seem to get is that people bought a PS2 because videogames are an inexpensive form of entertainment and the Playstation 2 was the most popular videogame system on the market; currently, you can't say that the PS3 is inexpensive, and the PS3 is not the most popular system on the market.
The "Thud" comment is (reasonably) justified... According to VGCharts.org Virtual Fiter 5 sold 49,500 in it's first week
Last week Lets Make a J-League Pro Soccer Club 5 sold 108,250 and Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On sold 81,000 in their first week... The week before Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold 220,750 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms Wars DS sold 81,750 in their first week... And the week before that hack G.U. Vol. 3 sold 132,750 and Wario: Master of Disguise sold 94,000 in their first week...
These are very 'average' games in Japan selling 2 to 4 times as much as Virtual Fighter 5 did... Another way to look at it is that Virtual Fighter 4 sold 367,500 in its first week. At this pace Sega will be lucky if Virtual Fighter 5 sells 100,000 to 200,000 copies in it's lifetime.
The PS3 60GB model has an amazing sales rank of 58
Where the 20GB XBox 360 has a (pretty constant) sales rank of 5 and the Nintendo Wii has a sales rank of 4 according to eproduct wars.
So while you can find them in some stores, the PS3 must be doing something right if people are willing to pay $100 above retail to get them through Amazon.
No, it demonstrates how stupid people are because you can get a 60GB or 20GB PS3 from Gamestop.com for the regular price.
For an example of a bad plan and execution, look at Sony.
Actually the more I think about it the more I realize that Sony's plan is not necessarily bad as much as it is poorly timed. I think there are two assumptions Sony made which didn't come true that are causing all of their problems, they are that Microsoft and Nintendo would wait a full 5 years before releasing their systems (Q4 2006 release for the XBox 360/Wii at the earliest) and that all of the systems would be nearly identical; Sony could then release the PS3 Q4 of 2007, using a 65nm process and a blu-ray drive that had existed for a year for $400.
Microsoft's early release bullied Sony into releasing the PS3 a year early and Nintendo's unconventional design has capatalized.
I work as a contractor in web-development and you'd be surprised by the number of live web-applications I see where SQL injection attacks are possible; in most cases the management doesn't see the risk so they're unwilling to fix the problem.
Now, the PS3 apears to be outselling the Gamecube in Japan at the current time but that is likely to change in the near future; the Gamecube launched mid September in Japan whereas the PS3 launched in November, the PS3 got its first big holiday sales pretty soon after launching whereas it took longer for the Gamecube to get there (from week 14-17 the Gamecube averaged over 100,000 per week whereas the PS3 is currently selling around 20,000 per week so the cube will likely take the lead soon enough).
Why would anyone rush out and buy a new operating system?
You exchange a series of well known bugs and security problems (that have work arounds and policies to protect yourself) to being put into the unknown. Personally, I'm going to let everyone else rush to be the lab rat and only upgrade when I'm forced to.
Per system sold who will buy more movies someone who bought their system because it played games or someone who bought a stand alone movie player? Will movie collectors buy a $500 HD-DVD player, a $500 videogame system or a $1,000 Blu-Ray player? Will the average (non gamer) who bought a HDTV for TV/Sports buy a $500 HD-DVD player, a $500 videogame system or a $1,000 Blu-Ray player?
The answers to these question will determine which is the winning format in January 2008...
There never was a 'war'. Sites like Slashdot pretended there was one to rack up post counts, but HD-DVD never was a viable competitor to BluRay.
Let me change that for you:
"There never was a 'war'. Sites like Slashdot pretended there was one to rack up post counts, but The PS3 never was a viable competitor to The Wii."
The fact is that, although early sales figures support these statements, it is far too early to predict the outcome of either "war". The fact is that it took 3 to 4 years for DVD to become a viable format and over 6 years for it to sell more than VHS so, being that both formats are less than a year old, it is unlikely that either format has won anything yet.
One thing to consider is that one of the main reasons there is such a push to HD formats is because of companies like Apex Digital; when many companies were selling $400 DVD players Apex Digital came along and produced the $99 DVD player that ended up making them (at the time) the #1 DVD player manufacturer in the world. If you notice, Apex Digital (and similar companies) are not part of either groups at the moment.
If the DVD forum wants to win at all costs all they have to do is allow (and encourage) the inexpensive product manufacturers to choose their format; if you can walk into Walmart and buy a $99 HD-DVD player instead of a $500 Blu-Ray player who is going to win?
It is a parents responsibility to control their children's access to certain content and (In my opinion) Gamestop is just acknowledging that fact...
It's imperfect (much like beer) a child can ask an adult to buy their "mature" games for them, but for the most part if a child wants a "mature" game their parent will have to buy it for them; thus a parent will have control on the content their children have access to.
#1 rule for success as a manager... hire employees who don't need to be managed
You may not always have the option (the current labour shortage in Calgary means even terrible employees can't be fired) but, in general, if you have to look over an employee's shoulder in order to ensure they're doing what you told them they weren't a good hire.
Re:Clippy did its job... Unfortunatly.
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Personally, I think clippy represents what is wrong with office more than anything else. For most users Office is far too complicated, and has far too much functionality, so it "needed" a way to inform average users how to use some of the features.
Personally, I see three classes of Office users and there seems to be a reasonable argument that there should be three seperate classes of Word/Office for these people; the classes are students/home use who want something which they can write a paper or resume on, office workers who want a little more control over their presentation, and professionals who want complete control over their presentation.
this is crazy... flat out crazy... but how about rather than whining about the problem we use the technology ALREADY IN PLACE???
I live in Idaho the supposed nuclear energy research capitol of the U.S. (The INL). Yet the lab here hasn't built a reactor for 20 years. and they are getting less and less money each year for research.
Our state is now building five some odd coal plants... (not the gen 3 plants we should be).
When was the last time a nuke plant was built in the US?
You want to see the essence of hypocrisy? Look at the half finished nuke plant in Washington, its construction was blocked by the same people whining about dirty power and global warming..... stop waiting for the magic technology bullet and use the technology we ALREADY HAVE! basically, PUT UP OR SHUT UP!
There are essentially two groups of environmentalists today, acutal practical environmentalists who (tend to) look for reasonable ways to limit the impact our society has on the environment and socialist anti-coporate crusaders. Patrick Moore was a well respected and important environmentalist who left greenpeace mainly because "He believed Greenpeace became more concerned with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization rather than environmental issues"
You can convince a practical envronmentalist that Nuclear power will reduce greenhouse gasses until we have a better technology available, but the extreme elements in the envionmental movement will not be happy until they have killed the evil "Capatilist".
You also forgot to mention that Nintendo is the largest videogame publisher in the World, and has remained in the #1 spot for handheld videogame market for over 15 years (Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GBA, Nintendo DS).
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Look at rap music ... ...
For the most part, Rap music has the worst portrail of black people and it is created (for the most part) by black people
Simply having more black people in the industry is not going to change how black people are represented in games
It is an interview that was translated from japaneese ...
It is quite likely that "Side Scrolling Adventure" is a (reasonably) correct translation
No, that's Nextgenwars ...
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VGCharts.org takes the data from NPD, DENGKAI and Media-create and posts them on their site
Find a news story about NPD's December numbers, look at their December sales numbers and they're identical
Why would it be a bad thing to link to vgcharts? They essentially just archive Media-Create and NPD's sales charts and have some (limited) functionality to compare the data
"According to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, US console sales for the month of January will see the Wii extend its lead over the PlayStation 3, with some 500,000 units expected to have been sold. This is 200,000 units higher than the estimated 300,000 sales of the PS3 for the same period."
Yes, unlike you I have sources that back up my claims
America Japan The American chart is pretty useless at this point in time being that there are only 2 data points, but something to take note of is that the Gamecube never had a shortage and estimates of the Wii's January sales in North America are 500,000 (as compared to the Gamecube's 64,000). The Japaneese chart pretty much needs no comments.
Well, my Wii is gathering dust because I haven't been cleaning much because I've been playing my Wii ...
I'm guessing you've never actually talked to a woman, or even a non-geeky man ...
Maybe I'm unique, but I have helped dozens of people set up their DVD players, Surround Sound Systems, and videogame systems; just because they're intimidated when looking at dozens of inputs of various shapes and sizes on the back of their TV does not mean that they have no interest in gaming.
Personally, after finishing Zelda I started to play Red Steel which is not a particularly great game but is far better than the reviews would lead you to believe; from that I moved onto trauma center which is an enjoyable little game. Wii Sports still gets a lot of play at "parties" but Rayman seems to have been abandoned in favour of Wario Ware ...
... Mario Party 8 comes out in March which will (likely) replace Wario Ware at parties
We have Sonic and SSX comming up which I'm a little optimistic about
Being intimidated and being a moron are two very different things ... Maybe I'm the only person in the world who has noticed this but many people refuse to learn how to drive a standard because it "seems" too complicated.
I don't know if it has always been this way but most adults today are afraid to attempt anything where they feel they will not be instantly successful.
You do realize that 80% of the PS2's userbase did not buy a Final Fantasy or Grand Turismo game, right? [the top selling GT game was GT3 at 14.84 Million and the top selling FF game was Fianl Fantasy X at 7.93 Million]
What people never seem to get is that people bought a PS2 because videogames are an inexpensive form of entertainment and the Playstation 2 was the most popular videogame system on the market; currently, you can't say that the PS3 is inexpensive, and the PS3 is not the most popular system on the market.
The "Thud" comment is (reasonably) justified ... According to VGCharts.org Virtual Fiter 5 sold 49,500 in it's first week
... ... ...
... Another way to look at it is that Virtual Fighter 4 sold 367,500 in its first week. At this pace Sega will be lucky if Virtual Fighter 5 sells 100,000 to 200,000 copies in it's lifetime.
Last week Lets Make a J-League Pro Soccer Club 5 sold 108,250 and Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On sold 81,000 in their first week
The week before Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold 220,750 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms Wars DS sold 81,750 in their first week
And the week before that hack G.U. Vol. 3 sold 132,750 and Wario: Master of Disguise sold 94,000 in their first week
These are very 'average' games in Japan selling 2 to 4 times as much as Virtual Fighter 5 did
Where the 20GB XBox 360 has a (pretty constant) sales rank of 5 and the Nintendo Wii has a sales rank of 4 according to eproduct wars.
No, it demonstrates how stupid people are because you can get a 60GB or 20GB PS3 from Gamestop.com for the regular price.
For an example of a bad plan and execution, look at Sony.
Actually the more I think about it the more I realize that Sony's plan is not necessarily bad as much as it is poorly timed. I think there are two assumptions Sony made which didn't come true that are causing all of their problems, they are that Microsoft and Nintendo would wait a full 5 years before releasing their systems (Q4 2006 release for the XBox 360/Wii at the earliest) and that all of the systems would be nearly identical; Sony could then release the PS3 Q4 of 2007, using a 65nm process and a blu-ray drive that had existed for a year for $400.
Microsoft's early release bullied Sony into releasing the PS3 a year early and Nintendo's unconventional design has capatalized.
Actually it wouldn't surprise me either way ...
I work as a contractor in web-development and you'd be surprised by the number of live web-applications I see where SQL injection attacks are possible; in most cases the management doesn't see the risk so they're unwilling to fix the problem.
More Sonic, less everyone else and better camera controls are what I would suggest ...
Japan PS2 vs. PS3 Japan Gamecube vs. PS3
North America PS2 vs. PS3 North America Gamecube vs. PS3
Now, the PS3 apears to be outselling the Gamecube in Japan at the current time but that is likely to change in the near future; the Gamecube launched mid September in Japan whereas the PS3 launched in November, the PS3 got its first big holiday sales pretty soon after launching whereas it took longer for the Gamecube to get there (from week 14-17 the Gamecube averaged over 100,000 per week whereas the PS3 is currently selling around 20,000 per week so the cube will likely take the lead soon enough).
Why would anyone rush out and buy a new operating system?
You exchange a series of well known bugs and security problems (that have work arounds and policies to protect yourself) to being put into the unknown. Personally, I'm going to let everyone else rush to be the lab rat and only upgrade when I'm forced to.
Here are some questions for you ...
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Per system sold who will buy more movies someone who bought their system because it played games or someone who bought a stand alone movie player?
Will movie collectors buy a $500 HD-DVD player, a $500 videogame system or a $1,000 Blu-Ray player?
Will the average (non gamer) who bought a HDTV for TV/Sports buy a $500 HD-DVD player, a $500 videogame system or a $1,000 Blu-Ray player?
The answers to these question will determine which is the winning format in January 2008
Let me change that for you:
"There never was a 'war'. Sites like Slashdot pretended there was one to rack up post counts, but The PS3 never was a viable competitor to The Wii."
The fact is that, although early sales figures support these statements, it is far too early to predict the outcome of either "war". The fact is that it took 3 to 4 years for DVD to become a viable format and over 6 years for it to sell more than VHS so, being that both formats are less than a year old, it is unlikely that either format has won anything yet.
One thing to consider is that one of the main reasons there is such a push to HD formats is because of companies like Apex Digital; when many companies were selling $400 DVD players Apex Digital came along and produced the $99 DVD player that ended up making them (at the time) the #1 DVD player manufacturer in the world. If you notice, Apex Digital (and similar companies) are not part of either groups at the moment.
If the DVD forum wants to win at all costs all they have to do is allow (and encourage) the inexpensive product manufacturers to choose their format; if you can walk into Walmart and buy a $99 HD-DVD player instead of a $500 Blu-Ray player who is going to win?
It is a parents responsibility to control their children's access to certain content and (In my opinion) Gamestop is just acknowledging that fact ...
It's imperfect (much like beer) a child can ask an adult to buy their "mature" games for them, but for the most part if a child wants a "mature" game their parent will have to buy it for them; thus a parent will have control on the content their children have access to.
#1 rule for success as a manager ... hire employees who don't need to be managed
You may not always have the option (the current labour shortage in Calgary means even terrible employees can't be fired) but, in general, if you have to look over an employee's shoulder in order to ensure they're doing what you told them they weren't a good hire.
Personally, I think clippy represents what is wrong with office more than anything else. For most users Office is far too complicated, and has far too much functionality, so it "needed" a way to inform average users how to use some of the features.
Personally, I see three classes of Office users and there seems to be a reasonable argument that there should be three seperate classes of Word/Office for these people; the classes are students/home use who want something which they can write a paper or resume on, office workers who want a little more control over their presentation, and professionals who want complete control over their presentation.
There are essentially two groups of environmentalists today, acutal practical environmentalists who (tend to) look for reasonable ways to limit the impact our society has on the environment and socialist anti-coporate crusaders. Patrick Moore was a well respected and important environmentalist who left greenpeace mainly because "He believed Greenpeace became more concerned with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization rather than environmental issues"
You can convince a practical envronmentalist that Nuclear power will reduce greenhouse gasses until we have a better technology available, but the extreme elements in the envionmental movement will not be happy until they have killed the evil "Capatilist".
You also forgot to mention that Nintendo is the largest videogame publisher in the World, and has remained in the #1 spot for handheld videogame market for over 15 years (Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GBA, Nintendo DS).