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NPD Sales Results for August 2007
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Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
JudgeN said:
It's on the PSP, you really don't want to know.
As much as I love that damn thing, people aren't buying any games for it.
The Sphinx said:
What is even more troubling is that the Western sales will determine whether they make more games or not. The bad sales in its first month point to no.
speculawyer
Member
WarLox said:
I wish we had the xbox number so we'd know if
Madden(360+xbox) > or < Madden(PS3 + PS2).
crazyscreenwriter
Banned
The Sphinx said:
I don't think so. I think just about everyone saw that one coming from a mile off to be honest.
Holy Order Sol
Member
Drinky Crow said:
Wow, having reminiscences of your former greatness, are we ?
That's like, Tyson vs Botha.
radioheadrule83
Banned
Maxwell House said:
Nothing wrong with your latter statement, but Atlus, Capcom and others are clearly making money. Its worth quoting you just for when we have more than a top 20 full of Maddens, Metroid and Bioshock!
MirageDwarf
Member
Sonycowboy, any chance of getting Bioshock PC numbers?
MobiusPigeon
Banned
titiklabingapat said:
not as well as and not with the legs of 360 software. again wii is outselling 360 2 or 3 to 1 CONSISTANTLY. its not like those buyers dont have good choices in software. zelda, mario, trauma center, EA sports, i mean a NICE WELL ROUNDED SELECTION of titles and what sells? wii sports and wii play. everything else shows up as a blip and fades into bolivian
360 has consistantly sold software even tho it sells half as many systems. how can so many people ignore that?Segata Sanshiro
Member
While I'd bet that Warhawk had by far the bulk of its sales on PSN, and therefore did okay, LAIR looks set to lose a metric fuckton of money. Yes, it's two-and-a-half days of sales, but much like with Metroid Prime 3, I'll bet next month shows that it could be 3 days or a week, and the sales wouldn't look terribly different.Crisis said:
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Finally. Caught. Up.
What a ride. What a wild wonderful ride. GAF, you're tops and you teach me new things every day. (I'm on a Mr. Show kick today.)
Not much to say that hasn't already been said, but I was right in 2005 about the PS3. When ever they scramble their way up, 360 will just drop and knock them back down. I honestly thought they'd hold at around 170 which would have still not been great, but I really didn't see them dropping.
And with Halo ringing in a MASSIVE 360 holiday, there's just no way they'll be able to bounce back in any significant way. As was said way backthread, the only people left buying premium consoles are HARDCORE gamers, and that well is quickly running dry. Sony is not in good shape and when they're big games finally start dropping, it will most likely be too late to turn that big freighter around.
What a ride. What a wild wonderful ride. GAF, you're tops and you teach me new things every day. (I'm on a Mr. Show kick today.)
Not much to say that hasn't already been said, but I was right in 2005 about the PS3. When ever they scramble their way up, 360 will just drop and knock them back down. I honestly thought they'd hold at around 170 which would have still not been great, but I really didn't see them dropping.
And with Halo ringing in a MASSIVE 360 holiday, there's just no way they'll be able to bounce back in any significant way. As was said way backthread, the only people left buying premium consoles are HARDCORE gamers, and that well is quickly running dry. Sony is not in good shape and when they're big games finally start dropping, it will most likely be too late to turn that big freighter around.
DeaconKnowledge
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Not surprising though. Perhaps it can be chalked up to the luke warm reviews partially.The Sphinx said:
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Hcoregamer00 said:
It's not that the devs want to make "pretty games", it's the publishers who look at the Wii userbase and say "Well, we have no games in our lineup for those people, so might as well make cheap ports for the few who will buy our games.". And they are right. You can dream all you want about it being the devs/publishers' fault, but the fact is there is no space for third parties on Nintendo's console, except for a very select few, mainly Capcom and Square.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Kusagari said:
I dont.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
DeaconKnowledge said:
We can also argue that the XBOX 360 market is more western oriented, which means games that are very Japanese like Blue Dragon would not sell as well as it should have.
Maxwell House
Member
If PS3 drops to $399 this year, you know 360 will drop by $50 across the board in response.
I wonder how well a $299 premium 360 would do this Christmas vs a $250 Wii??
I wonder how well a $299 premium 360 would do this Christmas vs a $250 Wii??
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Lobster said:
What did surprise me was the decisive thumping that the PS3 version gave it. Granted, people buying a PS3 would be more into Madden, but I assumed the userbase for the Wii would balance it out. Still didn't think the Wii would come out on top though.
titiklabingapat
Member
MobiusPigeon said:not as well as and not with the legs of 360 software. again wii is outselling 360 2 or 3 to 1 CONSISTANTLY. its not like those buyers dont have good choices in software. zelda, mario, trauma center, EA sports, i mean a NICE WELL ROUNDED SELECTION of titles and what sells? wii sports and wii play. everything else shows up as a blip and fades into bolivian
The Wii is 2.5M behind the 360 in userbase in America.
Also, Zelda, Mario Party 8, Metroid, Resident Evil and Super Paper Mario all sold very well, and a NICE WELL ROUNDED SELECTION of titles. That is ina ddition to the already packed in Wii Sports.
dammitmattt
Banned
sonycowboy said:
How do you know that a majority of the sales came from PSN? Did anyone deliver those stats?!?!?
gray_fox224
Junior Member
Bioshock above 400k...congrats Ken
Version 3.0
Member
Excellent Bioshock numbers, well-deserved.
Off 12 days of sales, I'd guess next month to be maybe half of this at best, but it'll easily clear a million this year, maybe 2 depending on how big a hit it takes from Halo 3 in the same genre.
Prime sales are great; it took Prime 1 10 days to hit 250k, so that makes this the fastest-selling game in the series (the whole Metroid series as well, I believe). With only 5 days on sale, it should do a higher number on next month's chart, maybe 250-300k. Maybe it can reach a million this year, but I think Mario and Smash might take too big a bite of Christmas sales.
Madden Xbox! What a shock! Madden Wii is weak, I guess, but at least it charted in the top 20, and looks like it cleared 100k. What's the PSP version doing way down there? There are twice as many PSPs as Wiis out there. And no DS version? Did they not even make one?
Wow at Guitar Hero still in 3 spots. GH3 is going to clean up.
And lastly, a big "Wow" for Wii, of course. 3rd parties better get their act together if they want some of that money, because it looks like Nintendo can go it alone at this point and see no negative effects.
Off 12 days of sales, I'd guess next month to be maybe half of this at best, but it'll easily clear a million this year, maybe 2 depending on how big a hit it takes from Halo 3 in the same genre.
Prime sales are great; it took Prime 1 10 days to hit 250k, so that makes this the fastest-selling game in the series (the whole Metroid series as well, I believe). With only 5 days on sale, it should do a higher number on next month's chart, maybe 250-300k. Maybe it can reach a million this year, but I think Mario and Smash might take too big a bite of Christmas sales.
Madden Xbox! What a shock! Madden Wii is weak, I guess, but at least it charted in the top 20, and looks like it cleared 100k. What's the PSP version doing way down there? There are twice as many PSPs as Wiis out there. And no DS version? Did they not even make one?
Wow at Guitar Hero still in 3 spots. GH3 is going to clean up.
And lastly, a big "Wow" for Wii, of course. 3rd parties better get their act together if they want some of that money, because it looks like Nintendo can go it alone at this point and see no negative effects.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
That's probably the primary reason.Hcoregamer00 said:
Traditional RPG gaming and the 360 fanbase are probably like oil and water respectively.
The game was scheduled to release September 4th but some stores started selling it on the 30th which is the reason why it's counted. I don't expect it to sell much with those reviews (I was questioning a million in lifetime sales if it received 8's/9's) but 48k sales for 2 days on the market hardly anyone knew about (I didn't know about this before on the 2nd) is quite respectable.Kodiak said:
DeaconKnowledge said:
I thought the Wii version would outsell the Ps3 version but i would hardly call the Wii version a bomb. EA sports titles have never sold well on Nintendo consoles..Wii is probably going to change that but I don't think its going to do so for another year. Ps3 version shocked me..
bigmakstudios
Banned
So, what's the US LTD number for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition?
Agent Icebeezy
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Shit, I forgot to call the PSP. Here are my numbers otherwise
Code:
Projected Actual Difference
Wii 380,000 403,600 -23,600
PS3 140,000 130,600 9,400
360 280,000 276,000 4,000
PS2 205,000 202,000 3,000
NDS 400,000 383,300 16,700
GBA 71,000 69,500 1,500
meltpotato
Member
calling that Lair sales figure respectable is embarrassing, even for you.