as long as the game is in the public eye and has some sort of positive reaction like good reviews (or in this case, people praising DP for its campy value)  AND it's on sale at a cheap and reasonable price....then people will buy mostly anything. Publishers, take note!

Take not?

The sales prove that GiantBomb is more influential than anybody would dare to imagine.
 
Also, people like cheap games, even if they´re kinda bad.

I doubt this claim. Had the ER featured the newly-announced game, "Mean Girls", I don't think that would boost sales.

It's good to see it selling so well over there... gives us European's some hope.

Yeah no offense to GB, I admit I wouldn't have picked this up without the ER, but I doubt they are that big an influence.  Especially when you consider how Brad rags on Ryan for admitting he bought it, and Vinny and Jeff really don't do much better.  I can say with 100% certainty they didn't have that big an impact on Persona 4, a game which already had a loyal fan base in the states to begin with. 

"I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

It may have added to a small percentage of sales for P4 but the vast majority of them can be accounted to the Atlus faithful (myself amongst them) who even though SMT may not be as big as other series, it's got a very healthy audience that is growing. Most anyone who falls into this category will buy the game early (first week) because of fear of one of Atlus' notoriously short prints.

It proves people like Twin Peaks and Resident Evil, and that they'll put up with horrible textures for the sake of saving forty bucks.

" I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

" @Shinri: Couple percentage points = 2/100.  Persona 4 sold 640k in America.  So that means 2/100 would be 12,800 units.  I think that's entirely reasonable. "

The ER sold 12,800 units?

 
Naw.

So your conclusion is...a game that gets media buzz, is cheap, and receives positive feedback, will sell well? Well I'll be.

" @Shinri: There are 80,000+ registered users of Giant Bomb. Considering how loyal Giant Bomb users tend to be and how many people there are coming to Giant Bomb to view videos but not create an account, it's definitely not outside the realm of possibility.  "

" @Dtat said:

"I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

Lolno.  Persona and SMT in general has a massive fanbase. "

woah, big shocker there.

" I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

I kinda want to buy this game because of the endurance run, I know its bad and all but I just want to own it. 
Problem is it's not out in the UK. Would importing it just to own it be going too far?

"I doubt this claim. Had the ER featured the newly-announced game, "Mean Girls", I don't think that would boost sales."

I'll take a game with uncommon flaws and uncommon strengths over a game with common flaws and common strengths any day.

I'm considering buying it. It seems interesting enough for $20.

It seems reasonable that the ER audience is contributing 100s and maybe 1000s to the number sold. What would be interesting is a survey of percent of GB users who bought the game based on ER. That would be sort of an advertising stat that GB could use for next ER.

" I kinda want to buy this game because of the endurance run, I know its bad and all but I just want to own it.  Problem is it's not out in the UK. Would importing it just to own it be going too far? "

" I kinda want to buy this game because of the endurance run, I know its bad and all but I just want to own it.  Problem is it's not out in the UK. Would importing it just to own it be going too far? "

" @Hannibal said:

" @Shinri: Couple percentage points = 2/100.  Persona 4 sold 640k in America.  So that means 2/100 would be 12,800 units.  I think that's entirely reasonable. "

The ER sold 12,800 units?

 
Naw.

"

" @Cwaff said:

" I kinda want to buy this game because of the endurance run, I know its bad and all but I just want to own it.  Problem is it's not out in the UK. Would importing it just to own it be going too far? "

The NTSC version of the game is region-locked, so...  Why don't you try asking for a PAL version here:  http://www.risingstargames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=62&start=290 ? That's what many of us have done before, to show our interest in a European/UK release of the game. "

Clearly the first ER introduced some people to the Persona series. Personally I bought both Persona 4 and 3 because of the ER, I had no real knowledge of the games before that.  
 
I even bought a copy of DP, even though I don't have a 360. Simply because I think this is a game I may want to play, because of watching the current ERs.  
 
Also I am thinking about getting a 360 soon aswell, just incase anyone was wondering.

" I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

" @Shinri said:

" @Dtat said:

"I'll bet Persona 4 owes a couple percentage points of its sales to the GB crew. "

Lolno.  Persona and SMT in general has a massive fanbase. "

Massive fanbase?  Naw. "

"

It's possible as even Atlus used it as advertising. It may have been a reason why it sold well. "

" @jos4 said:

" @Cwaff said:

" I kinda want to buy this game because of the endurance run, I know its bad and all but I just want to own it.  Problem is it's not out in the UK. Would importing it just to own it be going too far? "

The NTSC version of the game is region-locked, so...  Why don't you try asking for a PAL version here:  http://www.risingstargames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=62&start=290 ? That's what many of us have done before, to show our interest in a European/UK release of the game. "

Don't worry I know, I just meant for the sake of owning it. "