Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation moves 'close to 600,000' units [Update!]]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/07/assassins-creed-3-liberation-moves-close-to-600-000-units/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/07/assassins-creed-3-liberation-moves-close-to-600-000-units/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/07/assassins-creed-3-liberation-moves-close-to-600-000-units/#comments Assassin's Creed 3's PlayStation Vita companion piece, Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, has either shipped or sold "close to 600,000" units, Ubisoft announced during a financial investors conference call this morning. We say "or" because, while the word "sold" was used, this terminology was also used to refer to Assassin's Creed 3's 12 million shipped units, and therefore the true nature of the statistic is unknown.

It's also unknown what percentage of Liberation's volume is accounted for by its PlayStation Vita bundle. We've reached out to Ubisoft for clarification and further information and will update when either is received.

Update: Ubisoft has confirmed with us that Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation has shipped nearly 600,000 units. For clarification, the term "sell-in" refers to units shipped to retailers, while the term "sell-through" refers to units purchased from retailers by customers. Thus, Ubisoft (or anyone else, for that matter) can say units have been "sold" when referring to either statistic.

JoystiqAssassin's Creed 3: Liberation moves 'close to 600,000' units [Update!] originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Doing well!
VGCharts, the "premier source for videogame sales charts on the internet", has totaled worldwide Wii sales now in excess of three million units. The same list has Xbox 360 at 7.74 million, and the PS3 at a rather stunted 1.18 million. By comparison, other-unofficial-internet-tallying site NexGenWars has the three consoles at 9.18 million for the 360, only 2 million for the Wii, and 800,000 for the PS3.

Which should you believe? We're inclined to roll with VGCharts, which seems to have a very meticulous method of gathering numerical data. The competition uses an arbitrary "unit sold every x seconds" formula until the site owner can alter the data manually after press releases and official data; in the first week of sales, the Wii inexplicably went from 700,000 to 400,000 in the blink of an eye.

We all know that Nintendo promised four million worldwide by year's end, but over 75% delivered isn't such a terrible let-down. And hey! There are still five days left! C'mon, Nintendo, you can do it!

[Thanks, Richard!]

JoystiqThree million units sold? originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ChartsFourMillionNexGenWarsSoldTallyThreeVGWed, 27 Dec 2006 17:36:00 EST<![CDATA[The mecca of used game stores]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/15/the-mecca-of-used-game-stores/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/15/the-mecca-of-used-game-stores/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/15/the-mecca-of-used-game-stores/#commentsFiled under: ,

You know that old game you loved but can't seem to find anymore? The one you think you may have lent to a friend, but your memory isn't clear enough to accuse them of anything? Well don't yell at your best mate just yet. We think we may have found your lost game, along with every other person's lost game ever.

A used game store in Japan has such an insanely large collection of used video games on sale that I can only assume that the owner has a super-large magnet in his basement that can pick up loosely place NES carts by the thin metal connection strip and transport them from as far away as Brazil. You're thinking, "but CDs are made out of plastic, how does he manage to collect them with a magnet?" He doesn't.

Two words: Oompa loompas. Trillions of them.

[Via Insert Credit; thanks linus]

JoystiqThe mecca of used game stores originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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