Captain Tuttle
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I think 195,000 is generally accepted.
Sony hasn't given numbers for months now, have they?
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NPD June 2012 Results [Up1: Microsoft/Nintendo Hardware, Lego Batman 2, Lollipop]
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I think 195,000 is generally accepted.
Sony hasn't given numbers for months now, have they?
MightyHedgehog
Member
Been more than a year since the last PS3 numbers were given out, I think.
i don't know about the US but it wasn't a full price game in Europe (lollipop i mean). So they did learn.
specialguy
Banned
Shh, we can never talk about when Pachter is right
Discotheque
Banned
Freaking disgrace how low Shadows sold.
I will again say that this month has been good for both the consoles.
Looking at the no of releases and other stuff like WII decline as well as 360 had a bizzare last year at this month.
Sales have been good.
With Good games releasing with also a price cut, i see them doing well.
Looking at the no of releases and other stuff like WII decline as well as 360 had a bizzare last year at this month.
Sales have been good.
With Good games releasing with also a price cut, i see them doing well.
Stealth20k
Banned
thats speculation
but we do know there are 35 percent less games on the market
which would lead to less sales
Damn, why did I miss the troll dooming everything? Stupid sleep..........
I am a handheld gamer, its my bread and butter
If they ever went away, likely so would I
No it should not, If Vita gets games that are exclusive then people say things like this. When it gets ports people say it needs more exclusive games.
Seems like a lot of the hate comes from people not wanting to buy yet another system to play content they might want. (I know GR started as a PS3 game)
Goes hand in hand with the thinking that Uncharted GA is not a real version. If its not a real version then I dont have to buy the console and feel like I missed out. I think this is Vita's biggest problem right now.
Seems like people some people say (Hell I have IOS,PS3,360 ect....dont want to buy that also fuck it)
Some people might not feel this way but I think that a silent majority do. Gonna be an uphill fight.
Hope they turn it around years ago PS3 started poorly and people said it was a bomb. When the price dropped and the masses came in it became great. Just my thoughts.
70k - 77.5k
more like 6 or 7
The EA Partners program has been a complete disaster since Brutal Legend scared EA away from doing promotion on those titles. Respawn's will be an exception, but only because of the pedigree and what kind of game it will almost assuredly be. It's such a damn shame.
Heart Attack
Member
wow @ Lego Batman 2. The batman name is strong. Surprised that many people purchased Lollipop. Warnes Bros is doing things right.
anon_mastermind
Member
I think Wii could really benefit from a price drop. Right now it's selling near 100k with basically nothing coming out, but at $99 bundled with Mario/Kart I think it would have the potential to double that, at least.
Mr. B Natural
Member
But when you spent as much as you did advertising Lollipop, you might as well sell 25k again.
But then what's the point? Might as well just let it slide and make profits while putting 0 effort into your product.
Petrae
Member
A Wii price drop-- either with a AAA game like Mario Kart or not-- makes sense, and I'm honestly surprised that it hasn't happened sooner. There is ample inventory to sell and I think that there is time for one last push before WiiU steals the spotlight.
I'd also like to see one more expansion of the Wii Select line of budget re-releases to enhance hardware sales and move some inventory.
BassForever
Member
Really impressed with Conquest sales, I was really afraid it would bomb.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/pachter-vita-will-rob-nintendo-market-share/03008
Every comment he made about it seemed to suggest he thought it would do nearly as well as 3DS.
shinobi602
Member
Vita...shit 
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
I thought the 100k for Vita+PSP sounded too high.
Stealth20k
Banned
Well pachter hates nintendo. He knows nothing about them or the games
if you listen to the last gametrailers, webcast he did with side something or other
he had no idea who yoshi was.......
Maybe Nintendo doesn't want to get people into the habit of thinking that $99 is an acceptable price point for a console? Then again this is the end of the generation so I don't know.
The Gamecube stayed at $99 for a long time and, as I recall, the SNES got there eventually also. It makes a lot of sense to drop the Wii to that magic price point (along with budget re-releases of popular titles) to bring in one last wave of late adopters before launching the WiiU.
Man, bad month.
Do we have even the faintest inkling about how much of this revenue loss is being recouped in digital?
I assume it's down overall regardless. It's also possible that digital is down too; that is, that PS3/360 are selling less digital DLC/software this year compared to last as they continue to atrophy users.
Stealth20k
Banned
no
but there was an article on gameindustry how digital was retracting too for basically all the major players
shinobi602
Member
We need Wii U/PS4/720 ASAP.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
Naw, a price drop would kick start things. There are plenty of people who have not invested in HD consoles, those Wii bandwagon people from 2006.
$179 PS3 and $149 360 would be huge.
On the first link of the OP, it is said NPD estimates digital revenue for the month to be $491 million, but there's no comparison to last year.
shinobi602
Member
That would of course help a great deal, but fresh next-gen consoles always reinvigorate the industry.
Contracting, not retracting (it's not a big deal, but knowing the difference between words helps!)
Do you have a link to this article? A quick google search didn't find it.
Edit: found it on Gamasutra.
road said:
Right. We don't know last year, and we don't know how trustworthy NPD is for these things. Their estimates might be Chartz quality, for all we know.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
The market needs less expensive consoles during down times. MS announcing another $399 holiday bundle is a joke.
shinobi602
Member
Price drops need to happen, but like I said, new/fresh next-gen consoles are needed to really stimulate the industry.
April npd thread i think [?]
It was based on npd, ubisoft revenue etc i think by jvm. let me search
Xbla games sold well this time around.
Sony is really focussing on psn as well with ps+ and psn games more this year
Also 80% ps3 connected to psn is kind off good as well
I believe I've found it, but these totals don't appear to be console/handheld specific, which is what we'd want here. For example, JVM points out that digital revenue for ActivisionBlizzard shrunk YoY last month; however, it's possible that their digital revenue on PS3/360 grew while the revenue on PC or other devices shrunk by a larger amount.
I'm not sure we have any way to know this, though.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
One thing I'm wondering about, how will NPD count retailer download copies of coming 3DS (and eventually Wii U) games like NSMB2? Will they be combined like other multi-SKU rankings or sectioned off into accessories with points cards? Wasn't Patapon 2 or 3 just a dlc code at retail? Can anyone with access tell us if it was it counted under software?
The problem is of course active userbase, which this doesn't really tell us much about. Absolute install base of the PS3, for example, is always climbing, and will never shrink; active install base, however, is likely already shrinking and will eventually reach zero.
The question, then, is whether the "digital" install base is growing or shrinking along with the retail one. I can imagine both scenarios being accurate.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Not surprised at Lego Batman 2. It's not just the Batman name. The Lego games are good games and they've been getting better.
Batman 2 got great reviews and word of mouth as being the most "for adults as well as kids" game in the series yet. It's suitable for a wide audience.
Batman 2 got great reviews and word of mouth as being the most "for adults as well as kids" game in the series yet. It's suitable for a wide audience.
Opus Angelorum
Member
I think it's disingenuous to suggest apparently poor sales of a game are due to it having x amount of extra digital sales.
I really, really doubt they account for more than 10% of the overall sales. And until I see numbers, I won't think otherwise.
I really, really doubt they account for more than 10% of the overall sales. And until I see numbers, I won't think otherwise.
The Horror the horror
Banned
I'm not convinced that a new generation of systems are needed for the PS3 and XBox 360. After playing some awesome games exclusively on the PSN and Live, I'm convinced that there are a wealth of untapped concepts that can be further fleshed out on the HD systems as full blown retail games if given the opportunity and resources. I don't believe developers have exhausted the full potential of these platforms.
Stealth20k
Banned
@Opiate
did you read the article?
did you read the article?
Holy shit... guy always seemed like he had a stick up his arse but that twitter is just "wow". You better have saved me some chicken, PD
Back to the topic at hand. Nice to see Lollypop Chainsaw get a tiny inkling of sales. Especially in this day when it seems like it's a miracle that a Japanese HD game gets over 100k... just goes to show you how the tiniest bit of marketing can do wonders. I've always wondered what would happen if you took an extremely niche game/concept (i.e. a cyberpunk turn-based strategy game) and threw a COD-style marketing blitz behind it.
toadster101
Banned
shinobi602
Member
I was just about to purchase a Vita but this is very worrisome. Will it be dropped like a hot piece of coal in the near future?