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

Nirolak

Mrgrgr
Mortal Kombat sold better than Batman?
Mortal Kombat is really popular, moreso than I think a lot of people think. It's not super huge in the competitive scene but it's up there with Smash for fighting games casuals love. Netherrealm also tends to do a much better job with single player in their FG's than most.
Mortal Kombat sells better than Batman in the US, and worse than Batman in Europe.

They were both at 5 million shipped the last time we got numbers. Hard to say which sold more overall since we don't get fine grain details.
 

Bluenoser

Member
Well my assumption was that this 625k figure you threw was like... not the actually cut off.

Even if it was, isn't it possible Halo 5 was only 400k or less? Why do you believe it was so close to charting?

(not that I'm disagreeing, I have no idea how it sold).
 
Hats off to Mortal Kombat X making the top 10 for the year. Great for MK, beating The Witcher, Batman, Assassins Creed, and Metal Gear.

And people calling out Halo not hitting the top 10 in December?

9 out of the top 10 best sellers in December were also in the top 10 selling games of the year.

EA Sports franchises x2, Minecraft x2, COD x2, Star Wars, GTA, and Fallout. And most of them were cross gen. All of them on multiple platforms.

Very little can compete with those, let's be honest.

With Halo being huge in the US and huge for Xbox, I can see it being the best selling exclusive title in in 2015. No data to back it up, other than it was in the UK.

Only other thing to compete would probably be Bloodbourne.

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I literally did not buy a single title in the top-10 for 2015. Guess my purchasing behavior is no longer a representation of the core market.
 
What else is insane about GTAV's legs is also its price point. That thing is still selling for $60 new at most retailers. Fucking batshit to be there after this long and yet it still charts time and time again.

I didn't say that. But if all you needed to enter the top 10 this year was 625k, Halo 5 should be in there. It did 900k or so in November...

That's just to get into December NPD
 

silva1991

Member
Mortal Kombat sells better than Batman in the US, and worse than Batman in Europe.

They were both at 5 million shipped the last time we got numbers. Hard to say which sold more overall since we don't get fine grain details.

I guess I never knew Mortal Kombat was that big. does Mortal Kombat usually sells better than Street Fighter?
 

Mory Dunz

Member
Maybe not that exact wording but there's too many Nintendo threads online where people say that third-party multiplats don't matter and that Nintendo can live without them because they have more exclusives.

oh, your original statement was third party multiplats don't sell. I guess you meant on nintendo hardware right? Then yeah, people say that. Yeah, they definitely need these games. Will they get them? I doubt it...
 

Kayant

Member
Hmm I wonder if XB1 will be ahead for the full year with bundled sales for FO4. Should be interesting to see how well the marketing worked for them.
 

Yurikerr

This post isn't by me, it's by a guy with the same username as me.
Must be an unusually high digital number then...or Greenberg lied.

I don't know. We estimated that 350/400K sales this month would do the trick.

TR not breaking the top 10 isn't a indication that the game did poor numbers, as the baseline for top 10 was >625K (per Cosmic)
 
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