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NPD Sales Results for December 2015 [Up1: Super Mario Maker]

Square2015

Square2015

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LTD up to this point:
PS4 12.4m (DEC '15) - eclipses closest competitor
PS3 6.8m (DEC '08) - holding steady year over year while being leap-frogged by competition
PS2 13.0m (NOV '02) - about to reach its biggest month ever
PS1 4.6m (OCT '97) - surging following FFVII release
 
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NDP_Mulcair

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Obliterator said:
Man software a total no show still outside of those LTDs for Nintendo. Nothing for the Bone or PS4 yet.
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NDP_Mulcair said:
The following data release is sourced from The NPD Group's U.S. Games Industry Sales (New Physical Sales Channel) report for December 2015.

All data disclosed to Neo GAF is fundamentally immaterial to the business of The NPD Group, Inc.


NPD's monthly point-of-sale data reports on U.S. Games Industry sales occurring from new physical purchases at retail which is the largest channel for games sales, but does not represent 100% of industry sales; it does not account for consumer purchases made via digital distribution, used game sales, subscriptions, mobiles, rentals, or social network games. NPD's Games Market Dynamics: U.S. is issued quarterly and is NPD's official estimate of the consumer spend on the industry and it does include estimate of the size of these other monetization methods.


The #1 best-selling title of the December 2015 NPD report was Activision Blizzard's "Call of Duty: Black Ops III."

I would like to share its relative sell-through for the past two months when compared to its predecessor.

The #2 best-selling title of the December 2015 NPD Report was Electronic Arts's "Star Wars Battlefront." This is also Electronic Arts's best-selling title and the 4th highest-selling title of 2015.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2014 NPD Report: 4.66 million (including bundles)
December 2014 NPD Report: 2.84 million (including bundles)


Call of Duty: Black Ops III U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2015 NPD Report: 4.89 million (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 3.44 million (including bundles)


Furthermore, Call of Duty: Black Ops III is also higher than its predecessor in both December and lifetime-to-date through 2015 when we look at individual SKU rankings excluding bundles.


More later. Time for work.
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Quoting my previous post so I don't have to repeat disclaimers.

The #2 selling title of the December 2015 NPD Report was Electronic Arts's "Star Wars: Battlefront." This is Electronic Arts's highest-selling title of December, and it's also the 4th-highest selling of 2015 behind Call of Duty, Madden NFL 16, and Fallout 4.

Battlefield 4 U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough (last major holiday shooter release by Electronic Arts)

October 2013 NPD Report: 836K units
November 2013 NPD Report: 1.5 million units
December 2013 NPD Report: 1.36 million units

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
 
Welfare

Welfare

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Quoting my previous post so I don't have to repeat disclaimers.

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
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Star Wars actually increased in December. That's cool.

Fallout 4 would be appreciated.
 
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gundamkyoukai

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NDP Mulcair could you tell us the bundle amount for SW.
Also good sales for SW , would be around 5.5 million plus just counting US and UK physical sales.
 
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Raist

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Quoting my previous post so I don't have to repeat disclaimers.

The #2 selling title of the December 2015 NPD Report was Electronic Arts's "Star Wars: Battlefront." This is Electronic Arts's highest-selling title of December, and it's also the 4th-highest selling of 2015 behind Call of Duty, Madden NFL 16, and Fallout 4.

Battlefield 4 U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough (last major holiday shooter release by Electronic Arts)

October 2013 NPD Report: 836K units
November 2013 NPD Report: 1.5 million units
December 2013 NPD Report: 1.36 million units

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
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Any chance for a rough estimate of Gen8 hardware in Canada? The complete lack of information on it is quite annoying.
 
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allan-bh

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Battlefield 4 U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough (last major holiday shooter release by Electronic Arts)

October 2013 NPD Report: 836K units
November 2013 NPD Report: 1.5 million units
December 2013 NPD Report: 1.36 million units

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
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Great december for Battlefront.

Just to clarify, you includes PC in these software numbers that you provides for us?
 
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cartographer

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Battlefield 4 U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough (last major holiday shooter release by Electronic Arts)

October 2013 NPD Report: 836K units
November 2013 NPD Report: 1.5 million units
December 2013 NPD Report: 1.36 million units

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
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So more than 5 million copies in US with conservative digital estimates. Great numbers for EA.
 
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allan-bh

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Welfare said:
Nice. Thanks, Mulcair!

Bigger drop off for Fallout compared to Star Wars, but now it's done almost 4 million (most likely over). Excellent results :)
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Drop after a big launch month is the standard, CoD dropped too. Battlefront had the movie in december for gain traction.
 
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sense

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weren't there people that doubted star wars popularity and whether it will move in the gaming side of things? could be fun to look back. lol i might be one of them. very good result for a multiplayer focussed game
 
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NDP_Mulcair

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NDP_Mulcair said:
The following data release is sourced from The NPD Group's U.S. Games Industry Sales (New Physical Sales Channel) report for December 2015.

All data disclosed to Neo GAF is fundamentally immaterial to the business of The NPD Group, Inc.


NPD's monthly point-of-sale data reports on U.S. Games Industry sales occurring from new physical purchases at retail which is the largest channel for games sales, but does not represent 100% of industry sales; it does not account for consumer purchases made via digital distribution, used game sales, subscriptions, mobiles, rentals, or social network games. NPD's Games Market Dynamics: U.S. is issued quarterly and is NPD's official estimate of the consumer spend on the industry and it does include estimate of the size of these other monetization methods.


The #1 best-selling title of the December 2015 NPD report was Activision Blizzard's "Call of Duty: Black Ops III."

I would like to share its relative sell-through for the past two months when compared to its predecessor.


Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2014 NPD Report: 4.66 million (including bundles)
December 2014 NPD Report: 2.84 million (including bundles)


Call of Duty: Black Ops III U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2015 NPD Report: 4.89 million (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 3.44 million (including bundles)


Furthermore, Call of Duty: Black Ops III is also higher than its predecessor in both December and lifetime-to-date through 2015 when we look at individual SKU rankings excluding bundles.


More later. Time for work.
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NDP_Mulcair said:
Quoting my previous post so I don't have to repeat disclaimers.

The #2 selling title of the December 2015 NPD Report was Electronic Arts's "Star Wars: Battlefront." This is Electronic Arts's highest-selling title of December, and it's also the 4th-highest selling of 2015 behind Call of Duty, Madden NFL 16, and Fallout 4.

Battlefield 4 U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough (last major holiday shooter release by Electronic Arts)

October 2013 NPD Report: 836K units
November 2013 NPD Report: 1.5 million units
December 2013 NPD Report: 1.36 million units

Star Wars: Battlefront U.S. Physical Retail Sellthrough

November 2015 NPD Report: 2.10 million units (including bundles)
December 2015 NPD Report: 2.58 million units (including bundles)
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Here is the Top 10 chart for December:

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Star Wars Battlefront 2015, Fallout 4, Madden NFL 16, and NBA 2K16 all sold above 1 million copies in December (excluding bundles).

The numbers start to taper off with Rainbow Six: Siege at 808K units, and the Top 10 ends with FIFA 16 at 629K.


gundamkyoukai said:
NDP Mulcair could you tell us the bundle amount for SW.
Also good sales for SW , would be around 5.5 million plus just counting US and UK physical sales.
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Sales of the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle were brisk, as were sales for the "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection" bundles and "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" bundles.

This month the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle was the most popular PlayStation 4 bundle. Sales of the standalone software SKU "Star Wars Battlefront" were below 2 million, a testament to the power of bundles to bring Star Wars Battlefront sales up to 2.58 million.

On the Xbox side of things, the "Gears of War: Ultimate Edition" bundle was also very popular.
 
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Yurikerr

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Here is the Top 10 chart for December:

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Star Wars Battlefront 2015, Fallout 4, Madden NFL 16, and NBA 2K16 all sold above 1 million copies in December (excluding bundles).

The numbers start to taper off with Rainbow Six: Siege at 808K units, and the Top 10 ends with FIFA 16 at 629K.




Sales of the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle were brisk, as were sales for the "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection" bundles and "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" bundles.

This month the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle was the most popular PlayStation 4 bundle. Sales of the standalone software SKU "Star Wars Battlefront" were below 2 million, a testament to the power of bundles to bring Star Wars Battlefront sales up to 2.58 million.

On the Xbox side of things, the "Gears of War: Ultimate Edition" bundle was also very popualr.
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Thanks for your infos, Mulcair.

Just to know, does NPD tracked the Rise of The Tomb Raider Xbox One bundle that was exclusive to Best Buy? If yes, could you provide us a range of sales?
 
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gundamkyoukai

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NDP_Mulcair said:
Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Star Wars Battlefront 2015, Fallout 4, Madden NFL 16, and NBA 2K16 all sold above 1 million copies in December (excluding bundles).

The numbers start to taper off with Rainbow Six: Siege at 808K units, and the Top 10 ends with FIFA 16 at 629K.

Sales of the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle were brisk, as were sales for the "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection" bundles and "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" bundles.

This month the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle was the most popular PlayStation 4 bundle. Sales of the standalone software SKU "Star Wars Battlefront" were below 2 million, a testament to the power of bundles to bring Star Wars Battlefront sales up to 2.58 million.

On the Xbox side of things, the "Gears of War: Ultimate Edition" bundle was also very popualr.
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Thanks for the Info .
Man that is a lot of SW bundles , no wonder they run out of them .
I remember reading that from a few insiders .
 
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cartographer

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etta said:
But 2.5%?
For an online only game???
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While the vast majority of the content is in multiplayer, it isn't an online-only game.

IIRC its concurrency numbers are better than BF4 and BF3's ever were, but that's just based on people posting in the last thread focused on this subject.

Primethius said:
Quick question: how would Zhuge even have WW sold through numbers?

And damn, those Battlefront numbers are great!
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His source is a Facebook post from Hot Toys.

My speculation is Hot Toys just got the latest headline and doesn't have WW numbers.
 
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j_rocca42

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NDP_Mulcair said:
This month the "Star Wars Battlefront" bundle was the most popular PlayStation 4 bundle. Sales of the standalone software SKU "Star Wars Battlefront" were below 2 million, a testament to the power of bundles to bring Star Wars Battlefront sales up to 2.58 million.

On the Xbox side of things, the "Gears of War: Ultimate Edition" bundle was also very popualr.
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Nice. SW bundle did great for Sony (600k +).
 
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allan-bh

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The Abominable Snowman said:
It's really hard finding 3DS HW numbers. I wanted to see what kind of drop off the handheld market has seen. Is the PSP/3DS chart still being updated?
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Code: 
             3DS 2015  PSP 2009  NDS 2009  3DS 2014
     January       74       172       510        97
     February     395       199       588       153
     March        265       168       563       159
     April        116       116      1040       106
     May           97       100       633        97
     June         124*      163       766       152
     July         104       123       539       108
     August        77       140       552        91
     September    123       190       524       140
     October      110*      174       457       138
     November     350       293      1700       515
     December     580       654      3310       810
     Total       2415      2492     11182      2566
 
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Obliterator

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Thank you so much Mulcair for some updated software. Black Ops 3 and Battlefront are just gigantic success stories for both Activision and EA. Congrats to both Treyarch and DICE
 
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