Why doesn't VG Charts have the December numbers for Viva Pinata yet? Did they just decide that the November numbers were so bad that it wasn't worth following up in December?
If any one cares in Japan last month or so this game hit the sales charts as number one. I have a little article that points it out. For strategy games there are not that many out there for xbox and this is a nice change up for a culture that really thrives on RPG and strategy games. I think that for the amount of trading volume (being the most trade stock on this exchange) that this game will pop back up once some real numbers come out for sales.
Its pretty much the most family friendly game for the 360 currently, and alot of people are going to realise this, and there will be a sudden surge of people buying it for their kids. I cant get my little brother off it, i need to play gears xD
I think the fact that since people are having to put so much money down for a system that in some cases people looking for a more "family" friendly game are going to pick it up. Just because they want to include the rest of the family into the investment of the game system.
This game was being sold for 29.99 at Best Buy from December 22nd-December 25th. I would not be at all surprised if Viva Pinata turned out to have been the stocking stuffer gift for anyone with an Xbox 360.
Also like oak I went to my fry's and they had tons of games like full auto and dead rising on the shelves. But they only had one viva pinata in the whole store. The other game chains (Eb, game stop and Game crazy) didn't have a single copy new or used. So I picked it up and checked again earlier this week and they had about a dozen more in at fry's. this morning when I went to pick up another copy of halo 2 (mine fell of the shelf and I steped on it) fry's was completely out again!
I wouldn't just judge the numbers by novermber though. For anyone who was keeping up with the news this year, in novmber the sales of just about everything was not doing as hot as everyone had hoped for. That went for pretty much all items out there, games or not. I think that when some one can get some hard core date from this december then you will see this jump back up. I mean for crying out loud I can't even play gears of war or dead rising cause my wife is glued to this game. She wants to know why they don't put more content out to buy for viva pinata, besides just acessories? I think that once the "non gaming" women out there get ahold of this game it will be a down fall for all husbands gamers out there! Mark my words games would sell to women is an untaped market and this game could bring them to playing consoles than just PC's.
Yeah the most current you can get with video games is last months sales. For investors, the best real time info you can get is doing a "channel check." People used to do this all the time, going to their local retail stores and finding out how well games are selling, then posting them on message boards like the Yahoo! stock message boards. It'd be pretty cool if people started doing that here--like if the discussion boards became a collection of micro sales data points for games.
There is no way to find out real-time sales like current sports statistics in Fantasy Football. The best you can get is last month's numbers. November sales numbers are readily available on VGcharts. NPD sales numbers are very expensive (something like $20,000 a year for home console data). I hear NPD is readying December sales data pretty soon. I think Viva Pinata picked up a bit in December. It was sold out at the local Best Buys following the $30 sale.
is there any way of finding out a games current sales? Because i was in town today, and every games shop i visited (was looking for one for a friend) was sold out of it, and it was at #1.. (im in the uk)
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