creamsugar
Member
3DS ＞ PS3
Top 10
luigi
lego
pokemon
nsmb2
mk7
fea
sm3dl
smt:dssh
mh3u > 21k
pmss
ki:u LTD > 400k
Top 10
luigi
lego
pokemon
nsmb2
mk7
fea
sm3dl
smt:dssh
mh3u > 21k
pmss
ki:u LTD > 400k
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April 2013 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Xbox 360 Top Platform, NSMBU LTD, Lego 3DS, Luigi]
- Thread starter Nirolak
- Start date
I can see Monter Hunter 3 selling upwards of 100k on the 3DS over here, which I would consider a success. I think Monster Hunter 4 could sell double that here in NA.
Under 30K.
creamsugar
Member
WiiU LTD:
There are 8 3rd party games better than Nintendo land (standalone), MH3U should be the next one.
There are 8 3rd party games better than Nintendo land (standalone), MH3U should be the next one.
Unless something seriously changed with hardware ASPs (and it's possible!) you can bump my 3DS estimate up over the PS3 and drop the PS3 by a couple and the figures still hold.
Perhaps tomorrow's news cycle will shake something loose.
It would be good to know recent ASPs, but that may be unavailable. After January, the Xbox 360 was definitively out of its holiday pricing window, I think. And the supply of remaining $250 PS3 systems should be gone. And the Wii U may have been getting some retailer discounts?
CosmicQueso
Member
Oh FFS.
Total games spending across all forms of gaming has grown every year since the turn of the century. Digital, free to play like LOL and DOTA and the iOS stuff have more than offset physical declines via NPD.
Only the Wii U and Vita have alarming HW numbers. For an 8+ year old box the 360 is doing incredibly well, and the 3ds is just hitting its stride.
The console industry may not hit 2008 levels again but this "total industry crash" horseshit is just misinformed, misguided nonsense.
So you're saying MH3U is on its way to outselling Nintendo Land at retail? Nice to hear, but Nintendo Land stand alone numbers must be low as hell.
i think the reason 360 is still selling more is because of slim version. added wifi, less noise, very low failure rate plus kinect gives reasons for people to upgrade. i still have my launch ps3 and have no reason to upgrade . while xbox 360 added features as it went down in price ps3 did the opposite. good for early adopters that that they are getting the best hardware option up front but bad in terms of sales as it doesn't get people to upgrade to a newer version.
Soul Hackers did pretty well for itself I guess.
Sometimes, the world seems okay.
Soul Hackers didn't seem to do all that well, but not particularly horrible, given how niche it is. I'll be interested in seeing how SMTIV does.
prag16
Banned
Lol yeah but who bought NintendoLand standalone (outside of Japan)..
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Depressing numbers. Next gen can´t come soon enough.
Yeah, just like NSMB2, MK7, Mario Land etc.... right?
Yeah, just like NSMB2, MK7, Mario Land etc.... right?
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Also, zero games from western pubs.
Trevelyan9999
Banned
The Wii U has sold close to 4 million worldwide in exactly 6 months since launch. The system is salvageable from Nintendo's point of view for a few reasons, the first is that they haven't even got started yet releasing games for it themselves....which is what everyone is waiting for to actually buy the system. Nintendo fans who didn't buy at launch are still waiting for something to give them a reason to buy the console. Another reason is that no one clearly knows about the Wii U or what it is right now, which of course is Nintendo's fault 100% and nothing short of a one hundred dollar price drop, having just one SKU and awesome games/content will grab people's attention - and it won't be Wii Sports this time (although I could see them giving Wii Sports 3 a try). Advertising changes are needed extremely bad for people who are not gamers.
Nintendo proved that they can sell nearly 50 million consoles with basically just First Party titles with the Nintendo 64 and if they need to do it again they will give it a shot. The Wii U offers a lot that will make it different enough from the other consoles combined with the First Party games that the system will sell decently to give Nintendo time to better prepare for their next console which will probably be a Tablet/Console hybrid of some sort with a radical change/gimmick to get it out of the gates faster, but killer software would fix that too.
Great, thanks for the data as always.
On the Wii U front, are any third party titles looking to cross over any milestones?
StreetsAhead
Member
Pokemon typically sells 15 to 20 million and is the driving force for a lot of handheld purchases traditionally.
They'd have to release them first.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
What a shit month. The WiiU is a joke.
NSMB and MK sell much more than pokemon.
EO4's release date was like 2 days before that tracking period ended though. I guarantee EO4 sold better than Soul Hackers in the same amount of time. Well maybe not guarantee, but I'd say it's pretty likely.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Two of those three are outperforming their DS predecessors. The 3DS drop came from the loss of the Touch Generations crowd (to phones and tablets) but crossover and core games actually seem to be doing better on 3DS than they did on DS in general so far.
It really is like the best of DS and PSP rolled into one. No wonder there's no need for another handheld anymore.
Soul Hackers above 21k then. Not bad, I guess...
specialguy
Banned
Just getting here but 360 130k????? And it's better than everything else???
Woowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
That's awful.
Woowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
That's awful.
And Pokemon is arguably the biggest system seller out of the three for Nintendo handhelds.
Yes. No. Maybe. 100K<50K. 100K>50K.
I wonder if the guy I "woooosh"'ed earlier is still here.
that is sort of a recent thing. pokemon's been very consistent over the course of the last 17 years.
NeededSleep
Member
T
thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
I'm not sure if Nintendo is even willing to attempt something like that. It'd likely require a new IP to garner that type of interest, and I don't think Nintendo will make a new IP anytime soon with the exception of obviously niche stuff like Wonderful 101. I don't think they'll even do a brand new Mii based franchise and just stick to the Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Party stuff that was already on the Wii.
A good Wii Sports 3 would probably sell millions if it were released on the Wii even this late in life given proper advertising, but I guarantee you it wont sell people on buying expensive Wii U consoles.
StreetsAhead
Member
Yes they do, but Pokemon is more of a consistent system seller of handhelds, traditionally.
Don't think Nintendo is screwed, but it is really not looking good. Their gonna have to price drop something this fall, so some hard choices to make there. Price drop/hardware revise the 3DS this fall with pokemon or price drop the Wii U.
Still gonna get a Vita next year even though it's dead.
I wonder if Dragons Dogma will pull a Asura's Wrath and stay full price for a long time.
Still gonna get a Vita next year even though it's dead.
I wonder if Dragons Dogma will pull a Asura's Wrath and stay full price for a long time.
Sammy Samusu
Member
YAAASSS at MH3U selling another 30k.
This Pokemon game is also a bad spinoff.
Shouldn't it already have broken 100k?
Wasn't last month 80k?
StreetsAhead
Member
We were talking about Pokemon X&Y in October.
least spoilery gif I could find for the people who take blackouts seriously
We were talking about Pokemon X&Y in October.
least spoilery gif I could find for the people who take blackouts seriously
I'm one of those people.
Cars! People in cars, holy crap holy crap holy crap. Can he pick me up? I'm gonna be playing as a chick.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Ahahahah keep telling yourself that.
It will be a contraction
In my estimation, the industry will contract by about what Nintendo's share used to be.
Between 33k and 40k
At least 3DS is still second and probably more around 110k than 100k, since it's over 100k and over PS3.
Still, terrible month for everyone, who expected such low hardware...Fortunately, 3DS is having lots of titles and that will improve the situation, especially starting with Animal Crossing (it'll be huge).
Ah, 3DS software top 10 is good, sales wise. MH3U sold more than 21k in its second month, and it's 9th. And Soul Hackers sold more than that! The first Devil Survivor sold 27k in its first month, fyi. There seems to be quite a good activity in the lower positions, with titles still selling at least over 10k per month (remember February?), compared to last year.
Still, terrible month for everyone, who expected such low hardware...Fortunately, 3DS is having lots of titles and that will improve the situation, especially starting with Animal Crossing (it'll be huge).
Ah, 3DS software top 10 is good, sales wise. MH3U sold more than 21k in its second month, and it's 9th. And Soul Hackers sold more than that! The first Devil Survivor sold 27k in its first month, fyi. There seems to be quite a good activity in the lower positions, with titles still selling at least over 10k per month (remember February?), compared to last year.
It's not that simple. Safer genre/archetypal/originality yet more expensive to make games. Less games, less sales. Less sales, less publishers and developers. Less publishers and developers, lower market penetration. If you can't see it I would suggest you open our eyes.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
You and others are only saying that because the WiiU is bombing. Nothing supports what you say. Nothing, especially since the PS360 are selling much more the PS2 in the same time period.
Unappealing WiiU console =/= game market is doomed.