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NPD Sales Results for April 2010
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.Macho Madness
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No, it was on sale from May 4th to May 10th.miladesn said:
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Romanes Eunt Domus
Threi said:
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Danthrax said:
When it comes to the $4.98 Bionic Commando (a true super bomb) price bust let me know so I can get some copies for my friends :lol
neutralgamer02 said:
OK so I am confused, they shipped the same, the one with the marketing blitz sold more but is still disappointing.
I still cannot fathom how anyone was expecting 200-300k first month
velvet_nitemare
Member
I just rented FFXIII. The CG is great, so i'm guessing that's where the majority of the budget went. I'll see how the game goes, but my expectations are pretty low.
A Link to the Past
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People need to stop being so gloom and doom about MHTri. Granted, it totally should've cleaned up the Wii charts, but not making the top 10 doesn't mean it didn't sell decently. If it sold more than 100k, it's only 1/5 of the way to Capcom's projected sales, and games in NA have more legs than people realize, since we never hear about what's selling outside of the top 10 like we do with PAL and Japan.
I wonder if the multiplatform strategy hurts FFXIII sale or improves it.
For some reason, when games that cater to one single platform go multiplat, it will not received well in the public's eyes, as if it is some kind of betrayal or something and loses its specialness - thus getting bad reviews.
It may sound unrelated and ridiculous, but there are a lot of precedents to this.
For some reason, when games that cater to one single platform go multiplat, it will not received well in the public's eyes, as if it is some kind of betrayal or something and loses its specialness - thus getting bad reviews.
It may sound unrelated and ridiculous, but there are a lot of precedents to this.
Stumpokapow
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seady said:
Improves it significantly, duh?
... are there?
AceBandage said:
yeah well, when you start adding marketing efforts of previous mh games as opposed to mh3 to the equation than it kinda does look like a bomb. Its obvious both ninty and capcom had alot riding on this release and not cracking the top 10 in a really slow month is nothing short of a dissapointment no doubt.
KuwabaraTheMan
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DR2K said:
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The game sold 1.3 million copies last month, and is one of the top selling titles of the year so far. It didn't have great second month numbers, but that's hardly unprecedented. That trend has been continuing for awhile on the PS3 and 360, especially with big franchise games where everyone runs out and buys the game in the first couple of weeks.
Haters can hate, but I'm damn pleased (and certainly surprised) with Tri taking the 11 spot -- nice performance. It's also crazy (but unlike Tri, not at all surprising) seeing NSMB Wii still way up on the charts.
Pretty sad seeing FXIII leave the charts so soon and I'd agree with those suggesting negative word of mouth hurt its performance.
I still need to try it out for myself, opinions are so split on it.
Pretty sad seeing FXIII leave the charts so soon and I'd agree with those suggesting negative word of mouth hurt its performance.
I still need to try it out for myself, opinions are so split on it.
velvet_nitemare
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DR2K said:
Will we get another mainline FF(XV) this gen? Versus looks interesting, but another numbered FF is unlikely this gen.
PepsimanVsJoe
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seady said:
By "the public" you mean 50 to 100 completely irrelevant fanboy nutters.
Last I checked "No longer PS3 exclusive" wasn't one of the reasons why FFXIII reviewed as poorly as it did.
They never really took advantage of the Xbox 360's power anyway. So them going multiplatform really shouldn't be a problem as far as technology goes. Sales wise should be interesting. There will be the diehards who see Bungie's name, correlate it with Halo and buy their new game no matter what. Whether the casuals will or not is a different story. The same thing can be said for Respawn Entertainment as well.Vinci said:
velvet_nitemare
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AniHawk said:
They could make a handheld version. I doubt it and personally hope not.
GillianSeed79
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DR2K said:
Umm...FFXIII was the fastest selling FF title in franchise history. Granted, I personally didn't care for it as you did, but a lot of people apparently did. Granted it also might not have the legs of other FF titles in the long run but that has been the case with a lot of popular franchises this gen, i.e. strong first month sales followed by dropping fast in the sales charts.
velvet_nitemare
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GillianSeed79 said:
The game won't sell as much as the predecessors, and it was critically panned all over the place. The franchise is losing mindshare. Not quite "shooting for irrelevancy", but they need a better showing next time.
velvet_nitemare
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Kagari said:
I'm obviously referring to single player FF's.
Dave Long said:
Oh, for sure. NPD even specified that ~20% of the loss over last April could be attributed to Easter changing months. It just sounds more and more hollow as a reasoning each time they use it. For this month, using NPD's numbers, the loss would still be 80% of what it was over last April if Easter were in April again this year. From that perspective, there's obviously bigger issues going on that are worth talking about more than which month Easter is in.
I had the same kind of thoughts when they used that as an excuse last year (i.e. that there were bigger issues going on that they weren't addressing), and then April 2009 was less than March 2009 despite having Easter in it. Kind of shines a light on the frivolity of just holding up Easter as a reasoning for the drop. Those feelings carry over to this year, too.
velvet_nitemare
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Kagari said:
Don't think we'll see a XV anytime soon then. Versus XIII is basically the next mainline single player FF.
Versus certainly generates more excitement than XIII ever did...HD towns:lol
HylianScribe
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Will NPD ever switch to weekly data? This "monthly" thing is too skewed when it comes to games at the end of the month.
Final Fantasy, as a franchise, is in a terrible position: it's in a sub-genre that has rapidly lost popularity in the west, with a franchise pedigree that relies heavily on presentation, and with a recent mainline entry in the series being viewed as sub par.
In short: costs are rising rapidly, while sales continue to fall. I'm not sure it's time for profound reinvention quite yet, but if we see sales fall with FFXV, it absolutely will be.
In short: costs are rising rapidly, while sales continue to fall. I'm not sure it's time for profound reinvention quite yet, but if we see sales fall with FFXV, it absolutely will be.
Manmademan
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Opiate said:
I think your analysis needs work:
Sales for XIII were astronomical. GAF might be complaining but this is only going to encourage square enix to keep doing what they've been doing.
Critically panned? what?
Look, I get that previous entries had higher scores, but metacritic scores in the 80s and a near perfect from famitsu is nowhere NEAR "critically panned." Don't mistake the bitching of forum dwellers still pining away for an FF7 remake as the norm.
KuwabaraTheMan
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velvet_nitemare said:
I'm fairly confident it will outsell XII. It probably won't sell as much as X did, but that's hardly the worst thing in the world. It will still be the best selling RPG to not have "Pokemon" in its name for this generation.
As far as being "critically panned", that's both ridiculous and not true. It has an 83 on metacritic, which is pretty good score. It's not as high as some past games, but that's not a bad score by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, some places gave it very negative reviews, but there were also places which gave it extremely positive reviews.