Nah.
I've seen enough Walking Dead to know zombies actually move.
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April 2013 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Xbox 360 Top Platform, NSMBU LTD, Lego 3DS, Luigi]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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I've seen enough Walking Dead to know zombies actually move.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Zombi U indeed.
Baconsammy
Banned
Should have been DLC instead of selling the game twice to people.
absolute best-case scenario: every piece of hardware combined totaled about 500k for the month. for the entire month of april, the industry sold about 500k systems. that's including xbox 360, ps3, 3ds, ds, wii, wii u, psp, vita, and ps2.
i shouldn't have let jeff roll that die.
i shouldn't have let jeff roll that die.
My god...
shinra-bansho
Member
Doesn't quite fit Microsoft PR, i.e. 360 would only be 41%.
A Black Falcon
Member
Well, it certainly should be ahead of systems like the Saturn and Turbografx/PC Engine CD... certainly destroys the US Turbo/PCE CD, that sold like maybe 100,000 total (CD+Duo combined). Saturn only sold 9.5 million worldwide, maybe 2 million in the US total, so its sales were slow too. On that note, Sega went from 20-something million Genesises in the US, to 2 million Saturns. You can have a massive collapse.
You also see that in Atari, going from the 7800 (which actually sold okay) to the disappointing Lynx and very badly selling Jaguar. And as for the 3DO and Jaguar, the 3DO sold a couple million max worldwide, while the Jaguar sold 250,000 total, about half of those on clearance after it was discontinued. The Jaguar CD probably sold only one shipment of 20,000.
For a more positive situation though, it took a couple of years before the Genesis started selling well. Sure, in 1989-1990 in the US the Genesis beat the other new system, the TG16 (even though the TG16 had better games), no question, but its sales weren't great, not until Sonic in 1991 (EA Sports was 1991 too, but Sonic was the initial hit of course.).
However, every generation, of course, has sold more total systems than the one before, so just comparing raw numbers isn't entirely helpful, because of how that leaves out that the market is larger now than it was then.
metalslimer
Member
Pikmin 3 will not be a big reversal of Wii U's fortunes. The Wii U is already doing much worse than the Gamecube so comparisons to that are not great.
I'm so confused.
Coldnoodle
Member
Dat necrophilia.
That's good to hear, though I didn't get Pandora's Tower due to negative impressions.
It's simple
100K>50K
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Please..someone..anyone..tell me how the heck Nintendo is going to meet their forecasts for the wiiu hardware? I mean god damn..Pachter was 'very optimistic" about the wiiu numbers then...lol think about that for a second
and LOL vita. I LOVE the system..so good. But what a disaster of a number that is....it needs a relaunch. More games, better price, better priced mem cards and potentially with a new version of vita (to cut costs if possible)
Refreshment.01
Member
100k did better than 50k.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Just laugh/cry at wii u numbers.
why? ps3 and 360 are over 100k, wii is 40-50k and wii u is 30-40k
Duxxy3
Member
At some point they should stop tracking the vita. Without a massive price drop (i mean $100) that system is done.
Not "gaf dead", but seriously dead and removed from store shelves.
So basically the Vita needs a relaunch haha!
Just like its sales then!
Yep, I love my Vita too, but good lord. That number is horrendous haha.
50k has no games
Heeey oohhh Dragon Bomba.
Instead of Capcom retiring the IP they are coming out with an expensive sequel on a new platform...lol
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
Ah I see... that new PS4 Capcom game is soooooo not gonna be called Dragon's Dogma 2. lol
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Vita and Wii U both totally misjudged the market. We could all see this coming a mile away.
I honestly don't see how new consoles are supposedly going to fix everything.
Delusibeta
Banned
Vita is dead in America, not much point arguing over it now. Indeed, every console seems to be at best recording a shit number (PS360 + DS + 3DS, presumably) and at worst posting indications of death (everything else except perhaps the original Wii)
Infernal Monkey
Member
Considering the Wii U had, what, one retail game released for it during the entire month of April, those hardware numbers aren't surprising at all.
metalslimer
Member
I think we should start a pool for who misses their forecasts by more. 9 million for Wii U or 5 for PSP+Vita. I'm going with Wii U just because of how big that number is they could miss it by 4 million and and all Vita has to do is ship 1 million WW.
Edit: Once Vita is sub 10k stores aren't carrying it anymore. Complete waste of space.
Edit: Once Vita is sub 10k stores aren't carrying it anymore. Complete waste of space.
DR2K
Banned
Why is Sony not doing anything about the price? Holy fuck do they not care, lol.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Capcom looks to be in a horrible situation along with Nintendo. Capcom investing so much in Dogma and refusing to admit its failings seems bizarre as well.
Vita is dead.
Vita is dead.
UberTag
Member
The Wii U was out for the entire month and Soul Sacrifice was tracked for 5 days.
On a "per day basis", Soul Sacrifice smoked the Wii U's ass.
I believe it. Until Sony does something with the retailers, they will continue to not stock the vita. Sad, and pitiful all the way around. I should be able to buy a vita at a brick and mortar store... Not just a fucking online retailer.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
How much times are we gonna keep using this card.
Not only that but I think the market has contracted a lot.
They'll stock Vitas; they just won't order new ones, since the ones they have are rotting and have been rotting for months. Our store still has First Edition Bundles, for pity's sake.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Least with Capcom it was wholely deserved.
Until no one releases any games for it for an entire month?
It will in Japan, surely. DD + DDDA have sold about 700k there.
They need a better name for the West, I agree. Dragon of War? Call of the Dragon?
Father_Brain
Banned
How much longer can Capcom keep pretending to investors that this IP is a success? Guess until Deep Down bombs outside Japan, at least.
Good god. Wii U's number is more newsworthy, and represents a bigger relative failure given that the platform holder in question actually gives a damn about it, but... with numbers like that, I don't know why SCEA bothered hiring a new Vita PR person. I don't know if combined November/December sales will even break 250K, given how few retailers will be ordering.