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May 21

Video game sales numbers

Where can I find accurate sales numbers for video games? Chevy monte carlo 05:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll narrow it down. Nintendo sales? Chevy monte carlo 18:39, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is going to cost you. NPD Group accumulates sales data from thousands of retail stores in the US and piles it into a big Excel spreadsheet which they then sell to the video game publishers who pay for their services. (They also perform this service for many other categories of products sold at retail.) Not all retailers participate, so NPD performs some guesswork to try to paint a complete picture for customers — but because it's based on data from the point of sale, it is by far the best data available. Since it's just a bunch of Excel columns and rows, you can quickly sort by revenue, by units sold, by platform, by the genre of game (though they're historically not great at correctly identifying video game genre), etc. etc. It's a great resource. I don't know exactly what it costs, but it's multiple tens of thousands of dollars for a year's subscription to the least expensive version of the reports; so really this is something intended for the publishers to buy. Occasionally they cough up a snippet of free data just to tease everyone. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:03, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about download sales? Vimescarrot (talk) 07:55, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind! Thanks though, I will check out that NPD data stuff... Chevy monte carlo 05:21, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

name of cartoonist on the tip of my tongue?

He's that guy, still working, I think, who does moderately crude illustrations in the style of potboiler 1930s adventure novels - often westerns - with strange non-sequitur captions - 'Jake really loved his German hermeneutics texts' - that sort of thing. Can anyone put me out of my misery please? Adambrowne666 (talk) 10:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Glen Baxter? Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spot on! Thanks!Adambrowne666 (talk) 11:06, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

name of a movie

I want to know the name of a movie. On this movie a guy goes to jail. But bombs continue to explode in city. on some part they tell to him in prison something like "stop doing this", and I think that he says "I am im prison I am not doing those bombings". Sorry about the lack of info, but I only saw a comercial about this movie, a and more than 1 year ago. 201.78.181.139 (talk) 20:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Law Abiding Citizen? Everard Proudfoot (talk) 21:14, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the movie is that one.189.99.56.178 (talk) 02:26, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who

Who is this person [1]?174.3.123.220 (talk) 22:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, guessing from the name of the photo, it's Patrick Kearney. DuncanHill (talk) 22:38, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But not that Patrick Kearney, who's a serial killer and is locked up. In fact, not any Patrick Kearney at all, but Patrick Kerney. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 22:51, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not my fault if he can't spell his own name! DuncanHill (talk) 22:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]