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#3881 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Arcade Madness - Round 2, Battle 10 » 892 weeks ago
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#3882 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 892 weeks ago
PS3 sales soar in UK, Japan - Reports
[UPDATE] Slim console sales increase tenfold in Britain during first week on market; more than 150,000 units sell in Japan in four days, the most since launch.
Though the $299 PlayStation 3 Slim was popping up at US retailers during the last week in August, its impact won't be seen until the NPD Group releases its September game-sales data...in October. However, there is already evidence from overseas that the cheaper, thinner, and higher-memory iteration of the console is selling briskly.
First, UK game-sales data firm Chart-Track has told industry magazine MCV that PlayStation 3 sales have gone up 999 percent for the week of August 31-September 6, the 36th of the year. Though it would not offer specific numbers, the data company, whose official Web site is currently down, did say the PS3 was resoundingly beating its competitors. [UPDATE] Chart-Track has since announced the Slimline console by itself sold 40,000 units in the UK during its first week, not including older, marked-down models.
"The sales increase is very impressive, making the PS3 the top selling hardware in Week 36," a Chart-Track rep told MCV. "The Xbox 360, Wii, and DS Lite all sold around the same amount last week, [while] the PS3 Slim outsold each of them by a ratio of three-to-one." (Emphasis added.)
Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Japan, the PS3 is selling at levels not seen in years. Research firm Enterbrain revealed via its Famitsu magazine that 150,252 PS3s sold in the four days after its September 3 launch. That brought sales of all models of the PS3 to 150,832 units for the August 31-September 6 week, the biggest one-week total since the console went on sale in November 2006.
#3883 Re: Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 893 weeks ago
#3884 Re: Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 893 weeks ago
Are we banning him for posting something that he or someone else posted on another site, for being BBA, or just because you want to? I'm just curious.
You've been around long enough to know what kind of person he is.
I find your views extremely annoying, but I still haven't exactly started a petition to get you banned.
#3885 Re: Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 893 weeks ago
If we're being honest here, every single replacement since 1990 has been a degradation to the musician that they have replaced. Judging by the majority of posts that I read on this forum, it seems to be the consensus that the 2002 lineup was far better than (what we know to be) the line-up that we have today. Josh Freese was/is a pretty in-demand studio drummer and he knew that he had better things to do with his career than to wait on Axl to dig up the courage to release an album. Bucket - while I personally don't think the dude had any business being in GNR, he is a pretty badass guitar player. He too knew that he did not need Axl Rose to be a successful. Finck - while I don't personally see anything special about his guitar playing, some did. And he had Trent and NIN to fall back on.
Look at our lineup today. Do any of you see Fortus, Ferrar, Pittman, Ashba, or Bumble walking out on Axl? I sure as hell don't. What better do they have to do? What more are they capable of? They're all 40 something average musicians who are barely recognizable (if at all) to the general public. If these guys were to leave it would likely be because Axl chose to fire them.
Do you guys think this is what Axl was aiming for? Surely it has to get old replacing guitar players and drummers every tour simply because they get sick and tired of wasting their lives doing nothing. But if Axl is able to keep a bunch of over the hill, nowhere else to go, average at best, studio musicians on the payroll, this is one concern that he will no longer have.
Does anybody else get the impression that this is what Axl is hoping for? Or is it just a coincidence that this has been the case thus far?
Hello BBA 
Nice to see you back again.
#3886 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Arcade Madness - Round 2, Battle 10 » 893 weeks ago
Zelda 
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#3887 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 893 weeks ago
I didn't say he had a mental breakdown, I said he logged off...
...But I think it's fair enough, him not wanting to discusing those kind of things with forum nutters.
#3888 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 893 weeks ago
monkeychow wrote:russtcb wrote:From everything I've gathered, GN'R (for all their big talk) is very reactionary to the forums. And more than a few people speculated that the Better video would end up being a mash up of 06/07 live footage.
I've thought this before too. It does make you wonder at times. Like we have a few beers come on here on night and rant and next thing you know Axl's deleted a track or something. lol. Well maybe it's not that way - but I do sometimes wonder if I should watch my mouth more.
I personally like live peformance videos. GNR is awesome live. I think a video capturing that would be preferable to Axl wandering around in a studio, or some kind of narative story in the video that in many bands clips has nothing to do with the song itself and is just for novelty. I would have been down with live footage if they can get some of those really pationate shots!
I could be putting way too much stock into what the band thinks of the forums, but since no one else talks about GNR these days, my guess is it's where the band gets it's idea of what "the public" thinks.
According to one of the staff members at MYGNR, Dexter frequently visted the place, with his profile set to "PRIVATE"/"Hidden".
That obviously stopped one day, a few months ago, when he logged on without being "PRIVATE".
He viewed the "Guns N' Roses" board, then immediately logged back out again.
The top topic at the time, was the Seymour divorce.
#3890 Re: The Sunset Strip » Best Album of the 80s II elimination- Final Round » 893 weeks ago
Yeah, I should have stated in the first post how to vote like I've done with previous rounds. Even though its tied, it's obvious that Purple Rain won this thing.
*Insert Witty Rebutal*
