October NPD software data – Fable II sells 790,000 for top spot

Shatner said basically what I was feeling, and that the problem with the entertainment industry is that there are too many people out there who’d only buy things they know and are comfortable with. These consumers aren’t really sentient, they’re barely aware of their own existence, and thus another violent/sports game which is entirely familiar to them is just what they’re going to spend their money on.

What I’d like to see: See that every human alive has a kill-switch in their brain, and then activate them whenever someone buys something that isn’t entirely original (game, movie, and book alike).

The end result? Probably 99% of humanity dies overnight, but what’s left is going to be so amazingly creative and clever that we’ll have a better World because of it. And the clever ones can simply take care of those too poor to have any interest in entertainment.

We’d have achieved Planet Love at that point, humanity needs a good catastrophe every now and then.

So… come on, there has to be a mad Scientist out there somewhere who could achieve this! Chop, chop.

“Why not though? Isn’t the whole point, the whole concept behind the idea is that it is for everyone? Hasn’t Sony been saying that this is the game in its arsenal that will have mass appeal?”

And this post covers this here as well, the problem is that most people will buy a franchise or a sequel before they’ll look at something really original.

It’s a horrid thing when one’s own race is such a bleeding disgrace that it makes one feel sick. If it wasn’t for these people, not even capitalism would work. And yet they keep throwing their money at new football games, uninspired sequels, Cake Mania, Match-Three, and expansions for The Sims.

LOL.

LBP’s failure makes Esha hate humanity!

LOL!

*hangs self*

Esha, ignore the trolls. Are you on any forums or other sites as you have some refreshingly thought out views on certain gaming subjects and it would be nice to discuss them with you in a more constructive environment.

I’d you offer my email address but I suspect the information would be misused if I publicised it here.

Refreshingly thought out views:

“Probably 99% of humanity dies overnight, but what’s left is going to be so amazingly creative and clever that we’ll have a better World because of it. And the clever ones can simply take care of those too poor to have any interest in entertainment.”

Self-righteous lunacy.

From whom? The guy who wrote it or the bloke who thinks it’s refreshing and wants to discuss it in private?

LOL.

I don’t know where the SOCOM hate is from.

On the PS2 it was one of Sonys biggest brands and the new one isn’t too bad.

It’s a bit ‘Yeah! Were americans and we have guns! Die terrorists!’ but that aside, it’s quite a decent multiplayer shooter!

“Shatner said basically what I was feeling, and that the problem with the entertainment industry is that there are too many people out there who’d only buy things they know and are comfortable with. These consumers aren’t really sentient, they’re barely aware of their own existence, and thus another violent/sports game which is entirely familiar to them is just what they’re going to spend their money on.”

Dear chap – the problem with the entertainment industry is that it’s the entertainment industry.

You fools, don’t you realise what Esha is trying to tell us? Sack Boy was sent by Sony to save us from ourselves. And now we’ve rejected him.

Humanity is scum, and now deservedly faces extinction. Forgive us, Sack Boy – we know not what we do!

MMmm… religion. That explains the strength of the opinions.

this is really sad . LBP deserves much much better sell figures

PT has religion-phobia

Saints Row 2 beat both of Sony’s big titles this fall, lol, if that is not the 7th sign, what is?

I am a bit perplexed by dead space @ number 10 though, it’s wonderful game, but it only managed to sell less than 200k.

Both of? You including SOCOM as a one Sony’s two big titles this autumn?

Dead Space got not great reviews but has had very good word of mouth – if you like that sort of game.

The problem is there is no PS2 equivalent this generation.

There’s equivalent in sales, but none of the consoles are actually a causual/hardcore hybrid. YET.

And LBP kind of relied on that, that casuals have access to it, and hardcore have access to it.

Anyway.. 3 Days on [patchy] sale, where the userbase is half the size of the 360, I am impressed it’s even on the chart.

Maybe Sony should have kept the PS3′s backwards compatibility, then surely more of the casual gamers who are still buying PS2′s would start investing in PS3′s.

The PS3 is a good £100 off a casual gamer price. B/C or not.

DrDamn, are you trying to say that that’s where the difference lies?

Becuase why isn’t the 360 selling Wii numbers then?

360 might be cheap, but it’s perception isn’t casual. NXE or not.

“LittleBigPlanet is about a small cloth toy.”

What, like every Mario game is about a fat Italian plumber? Hello?

“It’s got a casual aesthetic but the concept itself is actually quite difficult to grasp. You mum wouldn’t play it, simply because it’d completely confuse her…..Three levels of depth, hitting R1 to hold onto things, “the community,” all that stage-creation stuff… You have to be pretty knowledgable to “get” all of that. It’s actually very complex.”

Yet The Wife, who until last week had never picked up a games controller a single time in her 34 years, has spent over 20 hours during the last seven days playing LBP, often without me. She learnt the controls after a single viewing of the relevant Fry-voiced training videos (so much easier to understand than a traditional controller map image). And why would it be hard to remember than one particular button has one particular action when it comes to this game?

Wow…

I love the game, but I am impressed.

Thinking about it, most of the girls I have put the beta in the hands of get it straight away.

But they are girls of my age 18/19. Brought up during gaming.