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NPD Sales Results for April 2007
- Thread starter sonycowboy
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Imperial Hot
Banned
Almost two million copies of Pokemon!!!!!
HOLY SHIT!
HOLY SHIT!
MightyHedgehog
Member
Indeed. How any third party plans to make any money on boxed retail releases on the PS3 is beyond me...especially exclusive ones that have production budgets north of twenty million and big marketing budgets of the same size or more.jarrod said:
the thoroughbred
Member
Does NPD data stop counting on 30th April? If not then when?
abacab driver
Banned
laserbeam said:
:lol
The VF2/Sega Rally/Virtua Cop trifecta was in 1995. 1996 brought stuff like Guardian Heoes, NiGHTS, Panzer Zwei, Fighting Vipers, Virtual On, Daytona CCE, VF Kids, Legend of Oasis, Clockwork Knight 2, Baku Baku, Virtua Cop 2, Gun Griffon, Decathlete and others.MightyHedgehog said:
<3 <3 Saturn
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
A price drop alone won't save the PS3, quit with the pipe dreams.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
MightyHedgehog said:
On a related note, is there any PS2/PSP game that won't make its way to the Wii this year?
I don't mean this in a joking way, it'd be borderline retarded for any developer to not make a Wii port of any game hitting either platform, including the SE RPGs.
golduck342
Member
I'm mad late, I know
MightyHedgehog
Member
Well, you know what I meant.jarrod said:
PS3 is the new Saturn...except that it doesn't have a pretty good business in Japan for hardcore players.Ketchup Boy
Junior Member
lol now, thats Nintendo's idea of a Wii360!
Night_Trekker
Member
golduck342 said:I'm mad late, I know
Nice work :lol
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
I hope they'll do better in the coming months. The PS3 is practically the only hope high-end gaming has in Japan. I'd say if they're in the same shape after a year of this then the system is officially dead. Nothing would save it.Luna104 said:
Eteric Rice
Member
Come on third parties, you can't run forever!
Beer Monkey
Member
It seems by definition the PS3 will be in 'shortage' for the time being regardless of production. Sony thinks a store needs to stock 30+ systems and advertise it, but if you take all of the Gamestop/EB, Wal-Mart/Sam's, BestBuy/Futureshop, and Costo locations alone, you are taking over 10,000 stores in North America. Divide it out (and include other chains like KMart/Sears et al) and you're looking at stores selling an average of eight PS3 units, at best, per month; of course some locations will sell more and some will sell less. No retailer should want to carry 3-4 months worth of inventory in-store and tie up $18,000 worth of cash flow. Frankly, lots of retailers probably shouldn't want thirty units in-store of anything but Wii (lol) and DS. At least until the holidays.
Earthstrike
Member
Luna104 said:
What are you talking about. You think other people are acting irrationally by predicting an extremely low market share for PS3 and that your assertion that they'll just "get their act together" and start selling ps3's magical is real? It's the other way 'round.
BRAVO NINTENDO AND THEM POKEMONS!
Pfft 360, numbers sure could do a lot better but that's nothing compared to what PS3 got. However we spin it, the fact remains that price has been a major hinderance for the two nex-gen consoles. How did the PS2 and original Xbox fare at the equivalent point of their life cycle?
Pfft 360, numbers sure could do a lot better
but that's nothing compared to what PS3 got. However we spin it, the fact remains that price has been a major hinderance for the two nex-gen consoles. How did the PS2 and original Xbox fare at the equivalent point of their life cycle?the thoroughbred
Member
AniHawk said:
Please elaborate. It came out on 22nd April, so 2 weeks would mean NPD stopped tracking on 5th May. Is this correct?
I assumed it stopped tracking on the 30th April.
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
Pokemon is unstoppable.
Mr. Pachunga Chung said:
Speak for yourself. Just because the PS3 may not have anything that appeals to you doesn't neccessarily mean other people feel the same way.
Tobor said:
You know, the Xbox and Gamecube pretty much sold like shit compared to the PS2 but both systems still had plenty of great games to enjoy. Shit, the GC even got one of the best games of last gen in RE4 and that was more than half-way through it's lifecycle when it was very clear that it would never catch up to PS2. It's like people think that second or last place means that the PS3 can never be a profitable business.
Oblivion said:
Cute. Please show me where I said that.........yea, that's what I thought. Go play with your pokemons.
Beer Monkey
Member
adelante said:BRAVO NINTENDO AND THEM POKEMONS!
Pfft 360, numbers sure could do a lot better
In its second April the Xbox sold < 130k even though it had been at $199 for eleven months. Not sure about PS2.
Imagine if Xbox were $399.99 back then. It may have sold 1/10 of what 360 is selling now.
i don't think it's at the point of no return they just need to drop the price and they will get their sales back up. there are still millions of gamers out there that haven't got a next gen system yet and sony needs to price the ps3 competitively with the other two because it won't be around if it keeps this up. what will it take for sony to lower the price? selling 50k next month or maybe even lower?AniHawk said:
Projectjustice
Banned
This is awesome. MGS4 coming soon to a 360 near you!
I hope this doesn't come out as sounding fanboyish, but sony fans have always had their system on top. People are just so used to sony being on top that when they aren't its a total meltdown. DS was just the preperation, and they were shrugging that off as, "handhelds are a different market" etc etc, but now its just starting to sink in. Nintendo read the market and gave the market what it wanted at the price it could afford.Tobor said:
Eteric Rice
Member
smurfx said:
For all we know, those millions of gamers could stick with the PS2. They're not obligated to buy any of the three next gen systems.
Gonna be fun to watch this generation. At least for me.
Not so fun for Sony fans.
Father_Brain
Banned
Projectjustice said:
Unless Konami is getting massive Sony moneyhats, that is. Which, based on that podcast, seems less likely than it did before.
TekunoRobby
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I'd be incredibly shocked if it didn't show up on the 360 at some point.
Bauer Action Hour
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Sony is in so much trouble at this point. They need a price drop BADLY, it doesn't matter if it will increase losses, they need to get units in peoples hands. Simple game/BRmovie bundles won't cut it. They need to match the 360 elite price, at the very least, ASAP.
Flat sales for 360, not awful for the time period, but if they care about being market leader, they'll need a price cut in advance of 'rolling thunder' in August. $380, $280 and $200 should be the price points.
Monster sales for Ninty, nothing much to add. Seems Wii has captured the imagination of the mainstream, but it can't hurt that they're still $150 cheaper than the nearest comp (360 Pro).
Flat sales for 360, not awful for the time period, but if they care about being market leader, they'll need a price cut in advance of 'rolling thunder' in August. $380, $280 and $200 should be the price points.
Monster sales for Ninty, nothing much to add. Seems Wii has captured the imagination of the mainstream, but it can't hurt that they're still $150 cheaper than the nearest comp (360 Pro).
the thoroughbred
Member
Master Z said:
Well i am sure you know this, and you were probably just being sarcastic, but developing for the PS3 costs a lot more than for say Wii. Whereas before the development costs were not too far of from one another. Even then GC was the cheapest, if I am not wrong. Unfortunately the way Sony have glued their back to the wall, PS3 demographic is going to want games that are expensive to make, add this to my previos point, means that its highly unlikely for any developer to feasibly make a game on the platform, unless funded by Sony.