SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The industry thrives on novelty. People want something new and exciting. The new games don't seem that different from the ones people already own and that's going to be a serious problem going forward.
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April 2012 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Best selling game sold less than 236K, Kid Icarus]
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Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
He had to be being sarcastic, as Vita sales proved that wasn't true at all.
so what? It gives me a break from war shooter #45,345.
i buy a lot of bad games at the start of a generation... and i never feel bad about it...
except for star wars obi-wan... wtf was that
i was being serious. why bring up vita? is it a home console? no. home consoles are quite different than mobile devices.
Four_Chamber
Member
Given how bad everybody else did, I have a feeling its numbers will be in the shitter. With Sony's reluctance to say anything about sales (only shipped numbers), I doubt we'll get a straight answer.
The Antitype
Banned
Microsoft and Sony can still drop the price, and interest will bounce back abit.
What we need is more quality releases, spread across the calendar year.
I spent most of April playing Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox originals, just cause nothing particularly interesting came out this month.
When good games are released and marketed well, magically sales go up.
If the simple novelty of a new, fancy toy is what excites you, why not go into an EBGames and buy $500 worth of discounted or used games that you haven't played. I'd wager you haven't played every great game that came out on the Xbox 360 and PS3 (and Wii) over the last 7 year.s
That's not very impressive...
Warm Machine
Member
Prototype 2 had a week on the charts only. Also, XBLA has been on a tear so I think many sales have deferred to online instead of retail with both Fez and Trials up there.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Is that the only/main reason though? All of the biggest games still do massive numbers at the $60 price tag. The ones that don't, still don't perform well at lower bomba prices. This is an incredibly hype driven industry, and it seems if you have that hype then you can get away with $60. If you don't then no one cares. At. All.
Japan rises again!
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
But they're not doing it with 3DS, not doing it with Vita, and the iPod/iPad/cheap entertainment games didn't exist when 360 was released.
It's a totally different world for consumer entertainment compared to when this generation's systems were released.
The new systems better offer something crazy good in terms of novelty or it's going to crash hard.
MasterSheen
Member
Damn, May is going to be brutal. Is it usually the lowest month for sells in the U.S or is it another month?
Exterminieren
Banned
Were you not the one saying that DS had caught up with 3DS in NA last week?
Things change a lot when you think that 13th and 14th months for DS were November and December.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Didn't DS have 2 holiday seasons at this point? If so, I think that's incredibly impressive.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
durrrrrrrrrr
Member
i knew Xenoblade wouldn't chart but now there won't even be hints because it wasn't tracked? godammit
Here are the last two Mays.
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2011:
Software (New Physical Retail only; across all platforms incl. PC)
01. L.A. Noire (360, PS3) Take 2 Interactive - 899K
02. Brink (360, PS3, PC) Bethesda Softworks - 401K [360/PS3 Only]
03. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Wii, 360, NDS, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PC) Disney Interactive Studios
04. Portal 2 (360, PS3, PC) Electronic Arts
05. Mortal Kombat 2011 (PS3, 360) Warner Bros. Interactive - 292K
06. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PC) Activision Blizzard
07. Zumba Fitness: Join the Party (Wii, 360, PS3) Majesco
08. NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, PC) Take 2 Interactive
09. Just Dance 2 (Wii) Ubisoft
10. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii, NDS, 360, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PC) Lucasarts
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2010:
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 360 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE May-10 945.9K
RED DEAD REDEMPTION PS3 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE May-10 567.1K
SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA May-10 563.9K
UFC 2010: UNDISPUTED 360 THQ May-10 221.1K
UFC 2010: UNDISPUTED PS3 THQ May-10 192.3K
WII FIT PLUS W/BALANCE BOARD* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09
ALAN WAKE * 360 MICROSOFT May-10
POKEMON SOULSILVER VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10
SKATE 3 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS May-10
(*includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Mass email nintendo?
Well I'd say Diablo 3 and Max Payne 3 guarantee May's sales will be better than this month's shitfest.
A deal with Nintendo of America.
It is usually between May or July.
flyinpiranha
Member
Awesome news ... for those of us who want next gen already.
Isn't a ton of the Diablo going to be DD and therefore not tracked?
Pretty stupid to limit the game like that.
bigtroyjon
Member
The 360 did 25% more this April than any other April in it's history aside from last year. That's not saturation, that's just having a huge 2011.
It's usually April and July.
So owning over 200 titles in the current generation isn't enough?
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Does anyone think sales started to decline ever since online passes were introduced? Does that have anything to do with declining sales?
Wow, RDR really cleaned up when it came out. I don't know if Max Payne is strong enough to do nearly 1.5 million, but is it unreasonable to say that it'll clear LA Noire and go on to do a million for May?
Exterminieren
Banned
Xenoblade wasn't really going to be a game that supported a wider release, especially since it took so long for NoA to actually bring it over.
A good portion of the potential fanbase had already imported.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Good point...
... and another point that I actually came back to edit for once I realized it. My bad!
Well, judging by their revenue predictions from a few months back, they were expecting some pretty huge numbers up front.
Probably twice as much.
Thats true,I guess it was lucky that the game got release at all.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
I don't think it's as anticipated as LA Noire. I'm thinking 550k-650k...
Good point. I still think you're see it pop up in one of the top positions of the NPD easily.
I feel "about one million" isn't really specific enough with the general range we're talking about here.
I mean, if we even have 50K in rounding that could be a huge percentage of the monthly sales.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
No, console makers are dragging out the generation longer than it needs to and it is reflecting in spending on games. Consumers are sick of playing the exact same games over and over again.
To an extent but not perfectly accurate.
A Black Falcon
Member
I hope we hear something about how well Xenoblade did...
True, but the DS didn't really take off in the US until 2006... I mean, that's certainly great for the 3DS, but it is true that the DS took a while before it really started doing well, because of how early in the GBA's life it launched (and because GBA support continued through the first couple of years of its life, too).
True, but the DS didn't really take off in the US until 2006... I mean, that's certainly great for the 3DS, but it is true that the DS took a while before it really started doing well, because of how early in the GBA's life it launched (and because GBA support continued through the first couple of years of its life, too).