DrForester
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Why the heck didn't Nintendo use the Fatal Frame name to help Spirit Camera...
Hope we'll eventually get numbers for Xenoblade.
Hope we'll eventually get numbers for Xenoblade.
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April 2012 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Best selling game sold less than 236K, Kid Icarus]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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March was 1 week for KI wasn't it?
How is the friend code (notice the singular, cuz there's only one) any different from a gamer tag? Even better, how is it any worse than a phone number? Please explain it to me in detail.
My point was that the jump in online capability from Wii to 3DS was an order of magnitude, but you assume, based on the tone of your post on the subject, that it can't happen again. When all physical evidence proves otherwise.
yeah
Tylahedras
Banned
Jesus those are some terrible numbers. 
I was rooting for you Xenoblade
Niche Genre for Hardcore gamers releasing in a slow month on Wii, and retailer exclusive. Did people really convince themselves that it had any shot of doing that well?
Yeah, and it was mentioned that it would have made the top 10 for individual formats for March, as well.
Version 3.0
Member
Are YOU serious? Wii software sales were healthier than they ever had a right to be, considering the overall quality of the library. Just because the good games got lost in the mountain of shit doesn't mean there was no potential there. The market died because people learned (through trial and error) to avoid the shit, and there was nothing of quality left except those Nintendo games.
Nothing bombed on Wii that wouldn't have bombed just as hard or harder elsewhere. In fact, several Wii games and their sequels did bomb harder elsewhere.
bigtroyjon
Member
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking it came out last week of Feb and was out all of March.
Hard to tell what it did then.
Conrad Link
Member
If it can't/wont be proven then I'm just gonna assume Xenoblade sold a billion units.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Death if Vita sold less than 50k.
Pachterballs
Banned
prototype 2 did INFAMOUS 2 numbers?
about right no? kind of disastrous
about right no? kind of disastrous
SuperSonic1305
Member
I'm sure people are chomping at the bit to play ports of current gen games on new hardware.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Well, yeah, in that context... Xbox had no ability to ever get there, GameCube got there and it didn't matter, and PS2 didn't really need to get there.
That said, the shift in pricing strategies between last generation and this one is hard to ignore. It seems nobody is really making a move for the mass market with pricing strategy, they prefer to keep the prices stable and increase demand with services and gimmickry. And again, it's not like all 3 haven't been successful, so I guess the old paradigm is a relic of history for the moment.
You don't lose those purchases if you have a Club Nintendo account.
Whether its better than the Wii or not, it's still light years behind the standard of the 360 and PS3. If Nintendo truly want to capture the core gamer they're going to have to do a hell a lot better than offer the online functionality of the 3DS.
The Witcher 2 should have sold a million copies. No excuse for that, but yes software releases in April lacked any multimillion selling brands.
Price drops. Price drops. Price Drops.
Clearly the market is saturated at the current price level, and no amount of bundling will solve this. Of course this is mainly directed at the PS3, and Wii, while the 360 is down it is still a successful month for them, but they should price drop also.
The 3DS and Vita are probably doing ok for their new downsized markets, but they both need marketing pushes, which will probably be revealed at E3.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I thought that nobody bought Nintendo systems for 3rd-party games? Wouldn't your statement be irrelevant?
And high res yoshi
huh
Firstly, point out where I said 'hardcore games' (that is, games with a violent theme appealing to the 16-35 male demographic).
Secondly, what would I blame myself for?
I don't think the Wii market is lucrative. It's 2012. That's the point. It's not lucrative any more because the wider industry made practically zero attempt to sustain it. Now, you might argue that it's not up to them, but I'd say it would have been in their best interest to do so, for the very reason sales are down 30% this month.
outunderthestars
Banned
Lower prices don't change mediocre game releases. There were simply no games that were good enough to drive demand.
Even if Diablo 3 went on to sell 50 million copies in May it wouldnt do anything to reverse industry trends.
RukusProvider
Banned
likely on hold with Sony PR for tips.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Maybe they're writing as if they were Princess Peach again.
There is also the simple matter that neither the 360 or the PS3 are the PS2. I'm not that surprised when one of the best selling systems ever takes longer to hit its lowest official MSRP.
I think we may have started to see the manifestation of Opiates theory on "active user base" coming true
MasterSheen
Member
IGN said that Nintendo declined to give their NPD report.
The Wii and 3DS numbers must be horrific.
speculawyer
Member
No doubt. No matter how good Max Payne 3 does, there is no way it can beat Diablo 3.
But with two big games next month, at least we won't have another Schleprock month.
3ds sales are probably very poor.
wii sales are obviously going to be very poor, but i'm guessing the 3ds is massively underperforming.
Wii has likely finally reached gamecube level sales at this point of the generation which means 80-100K max. 3DS even if it sill manged decent sales will be kept quiet because its decent sales still look like shit compared to the heydays of the DS
OldJadedGamer
Banned
The reason systems lowered prices last gen was because of competition. Remember at E3 206 when Sony announced the price of the PS3 and a MS rep was quoted as laughing and saying that the 360 got a price drop the second Sony announced? Meaning Sony wasn't any competition at that price so MS kept their price high. Even as the PS3 dropped over the years, it still never was any serious over the years so MS stayed the same. Sony are close to 13 million behind in the US according to NPD numbers.
Had Sony launched with a respectable price they would have kept MS honest and made them compete and they would be battling it out for prices. Now Sony drops in price and still can't outsell MS so why would they drop their price to compete if it wouldn't change anything?
Price drops are only pissing matches between the companies. MS only dropped to $199 to compete with the Wii. Once Sony gets to $199 we will see more aggression towards price drops. Sure, the current gens have had their prices last the longest but we have also see the prices start higher than they have previously.
You cannot redownload them to a new system. Something you can easily do in seconds anytime of the day on PSN and XBL.
RukusProvider
Banned
The handheld market is NA is on it's way out despite what "hardcore" think/want/pray.
The 3DS is still doing better than the DS did in its timeframe. The real question is does Nintendo have it in them to make the 3DS turn into a phenom that suddenly explodes up the sales chart
Please tell me this isn't true...
06nbarnhill
Member
50 million x 59.99 = 2,950,000,000
"Total video game sales fell off a cliff, dropping 32 percent to $630.4 million"
In short. I know you were trying to make a point. You are wrong though.
outunderthestars
Banned
DR2K
Banned
I'm sure consumers are just waiting for new $400 - $600 consoles. lol This industry is dead.
What part about industry trend did you not understand?
What part about industry trend did you not understand?
Do some research before you make shit up.
A quick call to Nintendo lets you redownload them. They even let you sometimes if you do not have an account they can use to verify your purchases.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
LOL, you have to ask permission... great. And only if you link your account. With XBL and PSN you press one button and it downloads because they have universal accounts and the purchase is tied to your account and not the machine.
06nbarnhill
Member
Then the point itself was beyond stupid. If that was the point.
(And yes the trend line would shift......so I am still right. A 3x normal month would prop up the entire quarter.)
timetokill
Banned
Kid Icarus outselling Vita could be good... if it means that Kid Icarus basically held on from last month
But we know 99% that it didn't, so it appears US Vita has joined its Japanese brethren in the cellar.
But we know 99% that it didn't, so it appears US Vita has joined its Japanese brethren in the cellar.
plagiarize
Banned
i wouldn't panic until May NPD. as Anita says, good games are selling as well as ever. there just weren't many good games released this April.