Posted Dec 04, 2006 at 01:18PM by Max F. Listed in: Gears of War, Games, Opinions & Analysis, Need for Speed: Carbon Tags: Christmas, Paddy Power
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Admit it, you have the feeling that business analysts make their numbers up. But nobody doubts an Irish bookie, so we'll look at Paddy Power's numbers instead. Yup, bookmaker Paddy Power (PaddyPower.com) has predictions for which games will sell well this Christmas:

the odds are in: which granny will make it?


It's another NFS year. Need for Speed: Carbon is the favourite with odds of 8/13. NFS: Most Wanted took the number one spot last year, while NFS: Underground 2 was the favorite the year before that. Then again, cross-platform games would tend to sell more titles than the single-platform games. (Does that explain why Eragon is up there - we don't know; only a few of us bought the book, and quite a number of us did not buy the game.)

Twilight Princess is up there duking it out with the Xbox 360's Gears of War. Oh. That's a tough one to call right now. If you're a gambling man, you might wanna make a bet, but we won't just yet.


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   by TraxDome (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » devhook 0.51

since when is qj so slow that after 2 hours you guys even still dony have devhook whit FULL 2.01 emulation ;)

   by CSFFlame - 2006-12-04
 » Zelda

Bet on it


   Re: Wii it sucks? (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Lmao

Zelda is a Flop.GS score 8.8 Gears 9.6

Gears FTW!.

   Re: Vistrix (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » RE:Lmao

Gamespot is sponsored by MSN for advertising e.g. Microsoft.

8.8/10 is the lowest score any site/magazine has given a Zelda game ever.

Zelda is beating Gears of War on every other review site.

Take a look at gamerankings.com, a site that takes EVERY review and averages the score:

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp

Zelda:TP is the 12th best game of all time.
Gears of War is the 36th best game of all time.

   Re: petey piper (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » stupid green pixie

WOW zelda is beating GEARS of WAR by 1.2% then its certain zelda must be better despite the fact that its only played by 10 year old tardz dressed up like that little green elf man with the pixie hat watever hes called. And its the multiplayer that makes gears great so there! go back up ur tree to elf land or wherever

   Re: Granavatar_Ofme (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Vistrix was Own3d

Wow i didnt think the score of zelda in Gamespot pissed of Nintendo Fantards like that,Rofl.


   Re: CSFFlame - 2006-12-04
 » It doesn;t

Which is why I ignore the gamespot ratings, and why you use the "you say" and "they say". Generally much more accurate.

What's that? Zelda score better than Gears everywhere else?....

What's that? Zelda is 100 hours long and Gears is only 8?...
   by Granavatar_Ofme (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Dont bet on it.

Superman reruns-16-1,Happy Feet 22-1 and Gta:VCS 33-1....Bullcrap.

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   by Pico (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » lasdhfbviuasd

Well paddy powers not often wrong, and im suprised he's still alive after cheltnam :D .

   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » lool

LOLZERZ look at that picture.

   by penor (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Wow

NFS selling better than Gears, Zelda, and Rainbow Six? I don't think so. GTA and CoD3 should be much higher too, if this guy had a brain that is

Stick to sports and horses you drunkies


   Re: penor (Unregistered) - 2006-12-05
 » my opinions are all true

je suis un ar$ehole
   by .. (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » ...

wow i never realized how retarded people are on the internet. and by people, i mean the people that are commenting. just thought i should clarify that...because you're retarded - you might not have understood what i was trying to say.

   by . (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » .

Wow, it's a miracle considering that carbon for PSP sucks.


   Re: Granavatar_Ofme (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Retard

The PSP Version owned,it score higher than any other version since they made it with an original formula.

The worst was NFS Carbon for the Nintendo DS.
Nintendo Sucks at Multi plataforms.
   by Kawlinz (Unregistered) - 2006-12-04
 » Multi platform games have a better chance

Duh.

   by Vietone - 2006-12-04
 » Yeah NFS:C is on just about all platforms

GoW at best has a chance to sell 1 for every Xbox360.

That means less then 8 Million.

NFS:C is on just about all consoles
PC
PS2
PS3
Wii
Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox360

To make it obvious, GoW has zero chance of beating out NFS:C in number of sales.


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   Re: Vietone - 2006-12-04
 » Ahh forgot

I mean platforms

Also add
GBA
DS
PSP


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