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NPD Sales Numbers for November 2008
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Saint Gregory
Member
Why do I always forget about NPD day?
I can't even wrap my head around these numbers. 360 software is amazing. Nintendo hardware is completely beyond imagination. WTF could Sony be thinking right now?
I can't even wrap my head around these numbers. 360 software is amazing. Nintendo hardware is completely beyond imagination. WTF could Sony be thinking right now?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
KuwabaraTheMan said:
n64 4,800,000
ds 2,600,000
double dash 2,500,000
gba 2,400,000
it won't take until mid-2009
Jason's Ultimatum
Member
I want Far Cry 2 numbers.
Fenderputty
Banned
Guled said:
It's riding off the back of COD4.
:lol @ all those who think that LBP was not marketed enough.
The game was everywhere. NPD shows that 'core gamers just don't care.
Yes, Wii selling 2 million units with no worthy holiday titles is bittersweet. I still believe that Nintendo's success ultimately benefits our industry no matter what. More people playing games is always a good thing.
The only negative here are the Nintendo fanboys that got left behind from the company's roadmap to success.
The game was everywhere. NPD shows that 'core gamers just don't care.
Yes, Wii selling 2 million units with no worthy holiday titles is bittersweet. I still believe that Nintendo's success ultimately benefits our industry no matter what. More people playing games is always a good thing.
The only negative here are the Nintendo fanboys that got left behind from the company's roadmap to success.
Captain Smoker
Member
How many is "loads"?Fredescu said:
Could you show me that "loads" of M$ & SONY published games in the future?
That was not my point I'ver never discussed the past lineup.
pseudocaesar
Member
PS3 is disappointing but I expected it. I suppose we will see the opposite when PS3 do a price cut, in all honesty I thought MS would sell more with the price cut..
Imperial Hot
Banned
HOLY FUCKING SHIT AT WII!
2.04MIL!
Jesus H. Christ.
2.04MIL!
Jesus H. Christ.
frankthurk
Member
Gary Whitta said:
This is Insoms best opening month ever... you make it sound like it wasn't in the top 50 much less the top 10. Insom am doomed is the new Sony am doomed?
mr_bishiuk
Banned
Spike said:
Problem is the best artists, best programmers, best game makers simply dont want to work on the wii.
If Epic or insomniac decided that they were going Wii exclusive I imagine most of the staff would walk out, all companies want to do is palm the wii off to junior staff.
God finally caught up..
this thread was racing for a while there.
I'm still in shock and awe at wii sales.
Nintendo has changed gaming as we know it... the next-generation will be different.
I don't know how anyone can continue to deny it.
Sony's numbers (in November!) are atrocious.
this thread was racing for a while there.
I'm still in shock and awe at wii sales.
Nintendo has changed gaming as we know it... the next-generation will be different.
I don't know how anyone can continue to deny it.
Sony's numbers (in November!) are atrocious.
Spotless Mind
Member
Awesome.Aaron Strife said:
brain_stew
Member
fps fanatic said:
And that of anyone else with an appreciation of good game design, sure.
Heck, those numbers aren't even for the game's premier platform either. There's a very good reason Left 4 Dead sold a huge amount more units, has a much higher metacritic score, and has a an awful lot more people playing online every day. Its simply the better game.
jamesinclair
Banned
1) Whoever at MS decided to launch the Xbox 360 a year early should get a massive bonus. By being a year ahead of Sony on the price-drop curve, but day and date with the big releases, its clear that Sony has no way to win.
2) GH charting (+ all the millions of other SKUs floating around) shows that the Activision doom from last month was way too early. I dont see Rock band 2 anywhere on that chart. Oh, maybe tis because the idiots at harmonix havent released a Wii version yet.
3) Expanding on that, its been 2 years that 3rd parties have continuously failed by not putting more content on Wii. Only the port-lovers at Activision figured it out. Nintendo had nothing this Holiday season, if a 3rd party game was ever going to shine, it was Holiday 2008.
Finally, this is scary.
They can drop the PSP and PS2 prices and get some better sales....but that will only delay their death. Theyre stuck with PS3. Cant lower the price, but they cant let the system become irrelevant.
2) GH charting (+ all the millions of other SKUs floating around) shows that the Activision doom from last month was way too early. I dont see Rock band 2 anywhere on that chart. Oh, maybe tis because the idiots at harmonix havent released a Wii version yet.
3) Expanding on that, its been 2 years that 3rd parties have continuously failed by not putting more content on Wii. Only the port-lovers at Activision figured it out. Nintendo had nothing this Holiday season, if a 3rd party game was ever going to shine, it was Holiday 2008.
Finally, this is scary.
VALIS said:
They can drop the PSP and PS2 prices and get some better sales....but that will only delay their death. Theyre stuck with PS3. Cant lower the price, but they cant let the system become irrelevant.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Oh man where is Fable 2 and Fallout?
Didn't expect them to fall off already.
Didn't expect them to fall off already.
Gary Whitta said:
You're exactly right on the buzz thing. Sony had Resistance 2 releasing, the highly upgraded sequel to one of their best-selling launch titles, and what do they want to talk about? Killzone 2 and LittleBigPlanet.
They should have been heavily into the business of marketing Resistance 2, but it seems like they were more interested in trying to play up other titles (one not even in the cards for this year) instead.
frankthurk
Member
mr_bishiuk said:
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Mama Robotnik
Member
DrForester said:
Very good. But I counter.
Wii
Nintendo DS
Xbox360
Sony Playstation 2 and Sony Playstation 3
Saint Gregory
Member
FraGNeMeSiS said:
Only if you subscribe to Microsoft's definition of HARDCORE
Segata Sanshiro
Member
400k in November. There have got to be some klaxons sounding at Sony right about now.
Toy Soldier
Member
ksamedi said:
Man, I hope so. More content (songs for the jams AND for the orchestra/bell games, instruments, expanded options for creating covers, etc) and perhaps Wii Motion Plus support would be killer. It's an awesome concept that was very well executed, but it could benefit SO MUCH from a sequel or even some kind of disc-based expansion.
Stoney Mason
Banned
pseudocaesar said:
pseudocaesar said:
Spin Attack!
Gary Whitta
Member
The sales aren't bad. My point, at least in part, is that they probably would have been multiple times better if they weren't tied to an underperforming system. If Resistance was a 360 franchise you'd probably be looking at 1m+ sales instead of 385K. As a developer that would bug me a lot. I want to be on the winning team with the largest audience for my game, not propping up a doomed format.frankthurk said:
Leondexter, I think your numbers must be off. Unless you are saying that the Xbox 360 still hasn't surpassed the original Xbox in terms of US sales (the Wii passed the Xbox 360 in US sales earlier this year).
Guled, the fact that it's the Wii version and the Wii sold over 2 million last month explains it.
Guled, the fact that it's the Wii version and the Wii sold over 2 million last month explains it.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Mama Robotnik said:
I pretty much leeched of memory alpha, wanted Cochrane going to warp .gif for 360
I stand by my Wii and PS2 choice.
I feel silly for forgetting the pakleds.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Mama Robotnik said: