Top 20 Selling games for 2003 (US-NPD Funworld)

[Mairu]

Same with Prince of Persia, which probably got more air time than any single gaming commercial.

I know this isn't what you were doing, but people need to stop whining about PoP sales, and stop using it as an example of a good game doing badly. It sold nearly 700,000 over all systems. That may not be a whole lot individually, but it's certainly a respectable amount if you ask me.

[Sl1p]

Aside from a print ad, I NEVER saw an SSX3 ad. And like Mairu said, PoP sold fairly well. Sorry, the whole "good game doing badly" golden child is still Beyond Good and Evil.

[Hot Like Wasabi]

Lets see..... I only bought 4 out of that list... The games I played the most that game out this year didn't even make the list. Go figure.

[Roufuss]

Aside from a print ad, I NEVER saw an SSX3 ad.

They showed them quite often, with Allegra snowboarding down the side of a mountain while an avalanche occured.

[NoFace]

Yea I hardly watch TV, but my attention was caught by a few SSX3 commercials in random dorm rooms/apartments.

But it boils down to exposure anyway, if you're not seeing the ads, the marketting people aren't doing their jobs.

[Shin Johnpv]

yeah here i saw an ass load of SSX3 and PoP ads (though i think that one PoP ad with the like bathroom wall behind the guy screweing with the turntables sucked)

[Kinopio]

I know this isn't what you were doing, but people need to stop whining about PoP sales, and stop using it as an example of a good game doing badly. It sold nearly 700,000 over all systems. That may not be a whole lot individually, but it's certainly a respectable amount if you ask me.

They had to give away free copies of Splinter Cell with a purchase of PoP just to move stock. The game was a dissapointment for Ubi Soft, at least in North America.

[Roufuss]

They had to give away free copies of Splinter Cell with a purchase of PoP just to move stock. The game was a dissapointment for Ubi Soft, at least in North America.

Plus the fact it NEVER cracked a top 10 list, on any system, to my knowledge. For as much cash as they threw into advertising (there were, what 3 or 4 different commercials spread across many prime-time spots on well watched cable channels... that equals serious $$$), I'm sure they didn't do as well as they wanted to.

[Mairu]

They had to give away free copies of Splinter Cell with a purchase of PoP just to move stock. The game was a dissapointment for Ubi Soft, at least in North America.

Just to move stock? Oh please.

So they announced and begun that promotion in January, right?
(GCN) NOVEMBER 2003 NPD - 15747
(PS2) NOVEMBER 2003 NPD - 54077
(XB) NOVEMBER 2003 NPD - 43879

(GCN) DECEMBER 2003 NPD - 84145
(PS2) DECEMBER 2003 NPD - 218544
(XB) DECEMBER 2003 NPD - 128580

(GCN) JANUARY 2004 NPD - 24403
(PS2) JANUARY 2004 NPD - 58222
(XB) JANUARY 2004 NPD - 42833

Yeah, it didn't move at all until they started the free Splinter Cell deal. Even if you ignore December, the only significant increase in sales from November to January came from the cube version.

[MVS]

I believe this news, back in biblical times would go something like:

Yea, and I said upon to the Lord, come and help me, My Lord, for I hath been owned yet again, so sayeth me.