Pretty sure they were actually proven to be US only.
Edit. Here's the actual PR.
525,000 PS3 consoles were sold in the US during Black Friday week.
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NPD November 2012 Results [Up6: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, Most Wanted, Assassin's Creed 3]
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Pretty sure they were actually proven to be US only.
Edit. Here's the actual PR.
525,000 PS3 consoles were sold in the US during Black Friday week.
In the case of an hybrid, it'd be basically an handheld platform just a little more powerful than Wii U ( but with a modern architecture) capable to be connected to the TV through a sort of station connected to it. And then, you can use the console as the pad. Mmmh...
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Between 630k and 790k, closer to 790k as that came figure from creamsugar. My guess would be ~ 770k...
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
So that puts ZombiU somewhere less then 55k. If it did around 50k then that isn't horrible like you said, that means around 1 in 9 WiiU owners bought the game. Does that last part mean that anything out of the top 9 did less then 10k?
JohnnySasaki86
Member
Isn't that pretty good? Slight increase over last year? I thought I remember it being 700k
Father_Brain
Banned
Ah, so you're saying we'll be unlucky if Vita isn't discontinued within a year.
Kacho
Gold Member
I'm happy to hear that. Still, the sales leave a lot of be desired I guess. Maybe it will fare better in the month of December.
zombi u did around 50k then, eh. 10% isn't a bad attach rate, i guess. but it's pretty bad for anything second from the top.
so less than a million pieces of software sold at launch, not including nintendoland bundles.
neat.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Can you tell us what total Wii U software sales were?
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Downloading games. :3
Hey, I'm playing ZombiU, so don't blame me!
TheBaldEmperor
Member
Don't look at me! I picked up 6 games at launch!
Ah yes, that reminds me, I get paid today so nanoassault will be my first download!
gamergirly
Member
I wonder if it will do better this month. Higher Wii U installed base, holiday season, and more exposure. Maybe....MAYBE 20% attach rate
max sales time:
nsmbu: 243k
zombi u (not half of red steel's first month): 50k
scribblenauts (less than zombi u): 50k
cod9 (less than scribblenauts): 50k
just dance (less than cod9): 50k
nland (less than just dance): 50k
six games between nintendo land and the 10k mark: 300k
17 games at less than 10k: 170k
total: 963k
so keep in mind that this is probably the absolute best case scenario. real numbers are much lower.
If we had CoD PC numbers we could maybe get to a closer estimate.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
The reaaaaaaall winner this month is........
killed it this month. yah bargin bin pricing, i guess?
uDraw ...
shinra-bansho
Member
If not by half from John Harker is to be taken literally, with Red Steel at 107K, then 11 of the titles are essentially less than 50K or less.
So maximum software sales would be around:
243K
+ 11 x 55K = 550K
+ 17 x 10K = 170K
= 963K
But presumably it's quite a lot less than that.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Zombie U sales aren't disappointing if you're using the assumption that it has legs and will continue to sell as long as new wii U owners continue buy it.
If not though...
If not though...
but like harker sort of said, I guess this is the more disappointing part overall. 60% doing less than 10K is..... :/
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
So reading between the lines:
For comparison:
Pretty bad. :/
For comparison:
lunchwithyuzo said:
Pretty bad. :/
Those numbers are going to be pretty awful, cause who in their right mind is buying a physical copy of CoD? It's Steamworks. And it's online. That combination eliminates most of the Luddites. So like the XCom numbers that caused it to "bomb" in NPD, the vast majority are gonna be online sales.
$10 black friday sales IIRC lol
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
People probably confused it for the Wii U GamePad
k that made me laugh haha
In retrospect, I'm kind of shocked at how much 360 owners really loved buying software.
Achievements.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
MS managed to attract the shooter crowd to the xbox and never let go the entire generation. Shooters always did reallllllllllllllllllllllly well. No matter the kind too, from COD to Borderlands. They got them in from the get go, top2 games by far were COD2 and Perfect Dark Zero. Then it just snowballed into other games.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Math's still off.
243k NSMBU
50k x 11 = 550k
10k x 17 = 170k
243k + 550k + 170k = 963k max
963k + 319k bundled Nintendo Land = 1282k total max
Though yes, the real figure is likely much lower. In any case Wii U definitely moved less software than Wii launch (1m + 476k bundled Wii Sports) and less unbundled software than 360 launch (1.2m). It most likely moved quite a bit less than 360 overall too. The only real bright side is it destroyed PS3 launch (215k), but that's a pretty low bar. I wonder how 3DS and Vita did in comparison overall?
every month they would crown some sort of game with super huge sales. dead rising, lost planet, oblivion, fight night, graw. it was pretty amazing to watch happen.
And in the end, it's something we've seen for the whole 360 life. Heck, we're still seeing this it.
you're right about my math being off. it's a long running thing with me. i like doing math, but i get ahead of myself a lot.
The power of being first with a next gen graphical leap.
It'll be interesting to see if it XBox 3 is powerful enough and if anyone is exploiting it enough to have a repeat next year. I'm skeptical. Graphics are good enough with the current gen to keep people from recklessly splurging 60 bucks a pop. I suspect they'll be more discriminating. The market's changed.
EDIT: Oh, you guys are talking the entire life-cycle? Not sure I'm totally on board with that. It may be the best platform, but the gulf between haves and have-nots has gotten really big even there.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
What's crazy is that I think this is one of the strongest lineups... yes, I know, lots of ports, but in terms of franchises, you really couldn't beat *who* was there at launch.
Unfortunately, it's the nintendo crowd that lined up day 1 for the system, and the software offerings just failed to convert them. I suppose the hope was 'lets introduce a legion of nintendo-games-only-hardcore-fans' to Mass Effect, Nina Gaiden, Batman, etc, as a starting point to get them into the worlds they likely hadn't played before (not owning ps3/xbox) and committed to future iterations. No idea what publishers expectations were, but it doesn't look like it happened en masse yet.
Unfortunately, it's the nintendo crowd that lined up day 1 for the system, and the software offerings just failed to convert them. I suppose the hope was 'lets introduce a legion of nintendo-games-only-hardcore-fans' to Mass Effect, Nina Gaiden, Batman, etc, as a starting point to get them into the worlds they likely hadn't played before (not owning ps3/xbox) and committed to future iterations. No idea what publishers expectations were, but it doesn't look like it happened en masse yet.
Shalashaska161
Member
I still plan on picking up Zombi U before Christmas, so thats one more sale. Too bad it isn't selling the best though.
I'm surprised Epic Mickey 2 didn't do well though. The previous game did very well on the Wii so I figured it would do well on the successor as well. Guess not though.
I'm surprised Epic Mickey 2 didn't do well though. The previous game did very well on the Wii so I figured it would do well on the successor as well. Guess not though.
I was just saying that because the PC version sold more than Wii U at retail and together they did about 100k. So if we somehow had the PC retail numbers we could get an approximation of the Wii U sales.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Well, if it's any consolation your figure is likely closer to the real software sales.
In what way do you mean?
Freezie KO
Banned
I would've picked up Zombi U if I could've used the pointer. Sorry, Ubisoft.
All great games though, DR is one of my favs this way too long gen.
From another thread: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=503236
425K * 1.2 = 510K?
Edit: Beaten I guess, but top of the page so at least people see it.
425K * 1.2 = 510K?
Edit: Beaten I guess, but top of the page so at least people see it.
did you link to the wrong thing, or did you intentionally quote some random conversation?
edit: oh, it's the thread.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Maybe a combination of a health gaming market + introduction of HD gaming + big IPs + mostly hardcore gamers buying at launch? I don't know, but the numbers suggest that they was selling close to four games per 360 during launch month. That is insane.
bigtroyjon
Member
lol, must have been the from the new post button, just copied and pasted address bar.
schwabdizzle
Banned
^Another trolling uneducated post^