Principate
Saint Titanfall
TBF aside of Nintendog Nintendo purposerfully didn't bring their A game to the launch to leave space for 3rd parties.
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NPD Sales Results for February 2012 [Up 3: Kingdoms Of Amalur, Syndicate, Asura]
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TBF aside of Nintendog Nintendo purposerfully didn't bring their A game to the launch to leave space for 3rd parties.
Is there a place it didn't bomb?
Kid Icarus will not be interesting at all. It won't chart in NA and we will all call it a bomba. It comes out on March 23rd which only gives it a week.
I'm disappointed in RE:R, but we have no way to know how it did. Do we know if it made the top 20 atleast? I don't think selling 100k-150k is horrible for a 'M' gane if it has a bit of legs. If it was sub 100k, then what happened? Such an awesome game.
EDIT: I think I know what happened. Revelations probably sold like 75k, and Revelaitons sold another 85k. So it didn't chart, but if they had spelled it correctly it would have :s
Risk Breaker
Member
Vita will actually have a good word of mouth though, unlike the extremely overpriced and lacking in software 3DS.
Not saying that Vita won't sell less next month, just that the fall shouldn't be that large.
Well this is a thread about US sales so.... ;p
What is with this guranteed 'word of mouth' people talk about.
Since the vita has been out in the UK one of my friends has one and on my commute to work day in day out I have seen 0 people playing a vita. Nobody at my work has one either.
bigtroyjon
Member
That's my point, if sales maintain better than the 3DS then launch sales will look a lot better but that's all we have to go on right now.
But if they don't maintain better.....
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Won't the memory card issue produce some bad word of mouth? There will at least be a fair number of potenial customers who won't like it when they hear it.
CadetMahoney
Member
I have to agree. It outsold it both at this point in time and in launch window comparisons.
Psychotext
Member
Neither.
Bruno MB
Member
So Resident Evil: Revelations sold below 100,000 units during its first 3 weeks on the US market. That's a painful flop.
I'm afraid the market has spoken, in fact the market spoke last generation when PSP had massive commercial failures like Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Unless you release a Nintendo title the odds are that you are going to have a very hard time trying to sell your product.
At this point I feel that the portable console market in the West is in a terribly bad shape, much worse than five years ago, and the future doesn't look any brighter.
The publishers haven't done their homework and they are the only ones to blame. They barely market their products in a very hostile and competitive environment. Most of the time they ship just a couple of units of their products (it took me ages to find Tales of the Abyss in Spain). It is also disheartening to enter into a shopping center and taking a look at the shelves for portable console games.
I'm afraid the market has spoken, in fact the market spoke last generation when PSP had massive commercial failures like Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Unless you release a Nintendo title the odds are that you are going to have a very hard time trying to sell your product.
At this point I feel that the portable console market in the West is in a terribly bad shape, much worse than five years ago, and the future doesn't look any brighter.
The publishers haven't done their homework and they are the only ones to blame. They barely market their products in a very hostile and competitive environment. Most of the time they ship just a couple of units of their products (it took me ages to find Tales of the Abyss in Spain). It is also disheartening to enter into a shopping center and taking a look at the shelves for portable console games.
By good, you mean almost half the other console launched in around the same time as well as the same price tag, even with a much better launch titles...
Hiro_Kunimi_80
Member
For a (mostly) forgotten mid-tier franchise with little advertising, I'd say it did pretty well considering.
Opus Angelorum
Member
These are the real numbers, not an estimate.
Petrae
Member
The month it was launched in theoretically should have boosted sales in the US as tax refunds added to spending in the month. Considering that Vita missed the Q4 window, I think that February was a decent call.
I was expecting similar numbers to the 3DS launch followed by a sharp drop in the upcoming months. I'm still expecting the sharp drop in the incoming months, but the launch was not what I was hoping for.
God, I am looking forward to a Twisted Metal price drop. Really want to play that game, but 60 for that is too big of a pill to swallow. And I'm somebody who bought a PS1 to play TM2, and a PS2 to play TM:B.
Vita number is horrific. The thing that saved the PS3 is not first party games. As discussed in the "Did the PS3 have a system seller?" thread, there really wasn't one to come out of Sony.
So what makes you guys think that it's going to save the Vita? A critical mass of third party software is what has kept the PS3 selling throughout the years, and the Vita does not have that luxury. At best, what I see for Vita are a bunch of iOS/Android ports. After the thud that device landed with in Japan, and with it crapping the bed in the USA? What third party developer in their right mind is going to put substantial resources behind that albatross?
Vita number is horrific. The thing that saved the PS3 is not first party games. As discussed in the "Did the PS3 have a system seller?" thread, there really wasn't one to come out of Sony.
So what makes you guys think that it's going to save the Vita? A critical mass of third party software is what has kept the PS3 selling throughout the years, and the Vita does not have that luxury. At best, what I see for Vita are a bunch of iOS/Android ports. After the thud that device landed with in Japan, and with it crapping the bed in the USA? What third party developer in their right mind is going to put substantial resources behind that albatross?
Captain Tuttle
Member
Damn. When you read it like that it's very...sobering.
yankeehater
Member
I love the over-reactions on GAF. The Vita is going to do fine. The thing is so fucking amazing, word will get out about that.
Portugeezer
Member
Damn those are not so pretty Vita sales, for launch anyway... Wii almost outsold it.
It's actually on-par with most multiplat splits that tend to favor one side over the other.
Meccanical
Member
*Insert snarky comment about fans who demanded a sequel to XIII*
Anyway, XIII-2 looks like it was made cheaply, they probably profited majorly on it.
Anyway, XIII-2 looks like it was made cheaply, they probably profited majorly on it.
lol, yes. The fans wanted it! All 350K of them...
dragonfart28
Banned
This looks to be a very pivotal month for the industry.
It's pretty easy to see where each manufacturer and device is heading now.
It's pretty easy to see where each manufacturer and device is heading now.
60/40 PS3/360
yankeehater
Member
Does anyone have the split for XIII? I wonder which fanbase was more turned off by that game.
Oooh, thanks, pretty good for the 360 ver (better than FFXIII, right?). Interesting (well, not a lot, but a little).
This is why I will not buy one yet. Don't want a DOA device in a year's time.
Chris23235
Banned
Don't know, if this was asked before, I didn't found it, when I searched the thread for it, the NPD charts always say:
Does "bundled with hardware" include the Resident Evil: Revelations pack that came with a Circle Pad?
Does "bundled with hardware" include the Resident Evil: Revelations pack that came with a Circle Pad?
Well... FF13 also sold 882K/498K its first month whereas FF13-2 barely managed over 215K/140K ... so yeah.
Going from 1.3 million to ~350K is a huge drop.
Meccanical
Member
"Fans wanted a sequel hurr durr"
Sorry, I can't help it.
Sorry, I can't help it.
Damn.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Define "fine". 3 months after launch in JP it's selling 10k a week. It could dip below 25k a week without a price drop in the next 6 months in the US, the only big software on the horizon is Call of Duty.
did it have many days in February?
I got to say I too would be perfectly OK with it bombing. It was one of my most hyped 3DS games, and people on GAF had these impressions, and it just left me gobsmacked when I played it. I've probably never experienced a bigger disconnect between the gushing, overhyped impressions and the actual experience of playing it. The game did not do itself favors for the vast majority of my playtime. I'd give it like a 5/10 or something
pieatorium
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Released on the 7th
yankeehater
Member
By fine I mean it will end up like the PSP interms of sales, sell a lot but not beat out the 3DS, but the main thing is it will keep getting the big PS3 games and 3rd parties will also bring games out for it. I expect Madden to be big on it, especially if they have cross platform save sharing like the Show has, and I am sure as time goes on more games will take advantage of stuff like that.
ah good good then. probably sold like 80k or something i bet