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NPD Sales Results for February 2009
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GreyMatter
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Man God said:
I'd still give the both of them one up on the Wii in the names of Lost Odyssey and, to a lesser degree, White Knight Chronicles. Those had a small share of success upon release. Mind you, I'm giving WKC the benefit of a doubt as far as what its worldwide reception would be. And LO's marketing strategy relied heavily upon riding Sakaguchi's name (and White Rabbit, damn fine song choice) to the top. To those who say Symphonia 2: Tales is a big name only in Japan, and it would take something branded like Mistwalker's games or a new IP altogether with tons of expensive marketing driving it to the top much like Assassin's Creed back in 07. Who knew that one would do as well as it did?
The DS and PSP actually leave me not caring about the state of console RPG's in terms of what I'd like to play since there's enough of everything past and upcoming to look forward to on both. It's just jarring that there'd be such a drastic drop-off in halfway decent console releases.
Son of Godzilla
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It was the only jrpg even released for the damn console. Like, there's that and what? One Fire Emblem game? Truthfully I think that's the only reason WKC has done that well too.Man God said:
Segata Sanshiro
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That's an odd way of spelling Sudeki and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.AniHawk said:
Eteric Rice
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Rlan said:
Not really, will probably sell over the next few months.
Like most Wii games do.
Segata Sanshiro
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Truly two of the watershed moments of our medium. Did I cry? I'm not ashamed to say, "Yes".AniHawk said:
BrodiemanTTR
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Rlan said:
Gotta give it to Sega, they tried. Wii owners just didn't answer the call. So long third-party efforts, we hardly knew ye.
Segata Sanshiro
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At the end of the day, HotD is still a lightgun game. Like shmups, there seems to be a ceiling price that most people will pay for this genre, and I'm pretty sure said ceiling is under $50 somewhere. I certainly hope the producers of other rail shooters aren't expecting that to change just because Wii owners have shown a healthy interest in smartly-priced lightgun games.Rlan said:
Thunder Monkey
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Anyone can banter, but it takes two true masters to banter-babble.Segata Sanshiro said:
frankie_baby
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jeremy1456 said:
chances are HOTD should easily do 350k in europe alone
Segata Sanshiro
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The numbers for those titles haven't been released publicly, so even if some cheeky GAFfers do know, they're not going to be able to say.Sadist said:
Cosmonaut X
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Segata Sanshiro said:
Well, in the UK at least you can get a ballpark figure as HotD 2+3 hit one or two of the ELSPA sales awards. I don't recall which ones, but they're awarded when games exceed certain unit sales.
HotD: Overkill is currently placing better than HotD 2+3 (and sitting longer in the charts) so it's fairly certain it will exceed the sales achieved by HotD 2+3 in the UK.
It's interesting to note that it hasn't performed as well in the US, but I think the price has been a big factor - most people just aren't willing to pay that much for a rail shooter, no matter how good it is.
EDIT:
Here you are - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=14248183&postcount=1.
So, both Ghost Squad and HotD 2+3 have exceeded 100k in the UK alone as of December 2008. I'd expect them to have maybe climbed a little higher since then but we won't know quite how much they've improved unless they appear in the Gold award list or we get a leak.
If HotD: Overkill is charting higher and longer, and it shows the legs of Sega's earlier rail shooters I'd say it's got a good chance of doing 200k+
Eteric Rice
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Blablurn said:
Uhh...
thestopsign
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lawblob said:
Look at the last page.
jeremy1456 said:
Well, for one thing, it had a very good localization. It wasn't something put together the last two months of development.
The voice-casting was generally excellent and some voice actors got to ad-lib their lines. The script was very natural and didn't have the typical problems in a JRPG's script.
The game's artwork appeared culture neutral despite its Japanese origin. A person wouldn't look at the box art and assumptions of what to expect from the game since it had Anime inspired artwork
Most importantly, it had very good marketing that knew its audience.
mentalfloss
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Segata Sanshiro said:
That's a really good point actually. I got the game as a gift and looking back, it's still my favourite game this year - but I wouldn't have paid the retail price. It should have been $40 since HOTD 2+3 and Ghost Squad were only $30.
SilverLunar
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Wii: +321k
360: +136.4k
NDS: +.4k
PS3: -4.8k
PSP: -44.1k
PS2: -220.8k
The change in 360-PS3 from last year is 140k in favor of the 360, yet the PS3 still sold quite well.
I wonder if that's because of Killzone 2, or because people are still just as willing to spend $400 on a PS3 despite the tough economy?
I guess we'll find out next month.
360: +136.4k
NDS: +.4k
PS3: -4.8k
PSP: -44.1k
PS2: -220.8k
The change in 360-PS3 from last year is 140k in favor of the 360, yet the PS3 still sold quite well.
I wonder if that's because of Killzone 2, or because people are still just as willing to spend $400 on a PS3 despite the tough economy?
I guess we'll find out next month.
Segata Sanshiro
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However, it's not quite so good as Wii Fit.Dabanton said:
Rlan said:
I am glad nobody here cares to read the fucking thread at all
The bar for lightgun games on Wii in the US is
REUC 455k and NERF ~500k
REUC took over a year to get to that point (and launched during the holidays) as did NERF
There was no reason to expect more than say 75k from HoTD Overkill at all, its just never happened for a light gun game in a non holiday push (REUC opened at 121k back in Nov of 2007, a time which everything sells inflated)
From the charting position of HoTD Overkill in the UK alone you are going to be proved wrong, the game is well on its way to blowing past the previous iterations and becoming the best selling light gun genre game on the Wii (outside of Links Crossbow Training).
And we will have to wait 4-6 months for see how it does in America but HoTD 2/3 Returns and Ghost Squad never ever made it into the Top 10 of Wii games nor as far as we know into the Top 50 (HoTD Overkill resides in spot #50 of the NPD).
Stumpokapow
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xbhaskarx said:
3-6 depending, the difference is ~1.3mln and wii fit won by ~400k this month. i can't imagine there's going to be a case where wii fit wins by less than 200k or more than 500k for the next little while, so presumably this is a good bounding range.
So did Star Ocean 4 sell much less than 100k? :O That looks like a disaster for Square Enix, their strategy to focus on the US and European market to sell JRPGs exclusively to 360 has been a complete failure. Japan is still by far the main market for these games.
Capcom seems the only smart japanese company this gen, they bet on a serious multiplatform strategy since the beginning and they won, at least sales wise.
Capcom seems the only smart japanese company this gen, they bet on a serious multiplatform strategy since the beginning and they won, at least sales wise.
My imagination is my own. Besides, the sales figures say nothing about versus mode. I hear the wonky console aiming makes it hard to fight off hordes of zombies while covered in boomer bile. I don't find that hard to believe seeing how slow console fps generally are.Dabanton said:
yeah square enix totally failed this gen in terms of platform strategy.. the only platform they choose right was the DS... as a result they dont look like the unbeatable monster third party like they were in the Psone days either.. really i dont get the logic of "US and Europe -> 360" as well.. on all territories the Wii is completely raping 360 and PS3.. (in terms of LTD.. because Japans wii sales in the last month was abyssmal )Elios83 said: