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[StreetsAhead]

Can FE pull 1M LTD world wide? Already at ~700K, no?

 

[Aquamarine]

40% per week rise for wiiu is impressive considering it had no new games in feb.

Many gaffers were predicting 20 -40k for WiiU , what are they to say now ?

Historically speaking, it's HORRIBLE.

Wii (first February, NPD) - 335K
Xbox 360 (first February, NPD) - 160K
Xbox (first February, NPD) - 139K
PS3 (first February, NPD) - 127K
GameCube (first February, NPD) - 78K
...
Wii U (first February) - 64K to 66K

 

[digoutyoursoul]

The word of mouth seems to be there. It's why I downloaded it despite never playing a FE game in my life. Just need copies of the game to be there too.

How much is digital FE compared to boxes retail version ?

 

[specialguy]

God of War will outsell Gears next month.

God of War fans actually seemed legitimately hyped, albeit not as much as a main release, for it. Nobody seems to give a shit about Judgment at all.

ahahahahahaaa

no.

 

[serplux]

Best selling month in franchise history!

Building off its 92 Metacritic score, Fire Emblem Awakening for Nintendo 3DS had the best first month sales in franchise history, selling more than 180,000 units (more than 117,000 at retail + more than 63,000 digital units). By comparison, the previous hand-held entrant in the franchise – Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon – has sold a little more than 250,000 units life to date in the U.S. Fire Emblem Awakening sold 70 percent of that figure in just 28 days.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

40% rise is bad ?

40% rise of good numbers is good.

40% rise of very bad numbers is still bad.

 

[donny2112]

In a separate statement, Nintendo reported that 455,000 units of hardware were sold in the U.S. in February, pushing 3DS past 8 million units to date. 180,000 copies of Fire Emblem Awakening were sold in the U.S. in February (117,000 at retail and 63,000 digitally). Nintendo added that "by comparison, the previous hand-held entrant in the franchise – Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon – has sold a little more than 250,000 units life to date in the United States

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/14/dead-space-3-leads-us-sales-in-february

...Digital numbers.
WE HAVE THEM.

117K retail + 63K digital

...

*Sees no Fire Emblem in Top 10*

*Sees > 100K retail and huge digital sales*

 

[Lagspike_exe]

The Best-Selling HD Remasters At Retail #1

The list does not include download sales, however. Most HD remasters are now available digitally through PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Download-only titles like Resident Evil 4 HD and Beyond Good & Evil HD are absent from this list for that reason.

Here is the list ranked by most units sold:

God Of War I & II Collection (Nov. 2009) - 1,748,663
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Nov. 2011)
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (Nov. 2011)
The Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection (Sept. 2011)
The Sly Collection (Nov. 2010)
God of War: Origins Collection (Sept. 2011)
Tomb Raider Trilogy (Mar. 2011)
Prince Of Persia Trilogy (Apr. 2011)
Tekken Hybrid (Nov. 2011)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Trilogy (Sept. 2011)

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Halo was close to a million? could be wrong tho
Anyway, there's probably a huge fall between GOW and the other collections, but it's still pretty high up.

God of War collections sold 1.74m? Without digital sales? That's just shocking considering they costed ridicolously low. The ports were done in 15 weeks. That's an insane ROI, and that's without going into WW sales or the fact that releasing the collections helped energize God of War 3 sales. That's better marketing than Super Bowl ads. And it makes money in the process.

 

[Kusagari]

ahahahahahaaa

no.

Where is the hype for Judgment?

 

[EloquentM]

Maybe nintendo really should consider downsizing in europe and north america at this point and make wiiu a japan only affair

I swear you're like burnt pork's father.

 

[Zen]

<88k, both platforms combined.

Well at least that was only under a week of sales... (released on the 20th, NPD doesn't track until the very end of the month).

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Very, VERY happy with Sly 4 sales.

Moderately okay with Wii U sales. Wasn't expecting a huge leap, but happy it's a much bigger number than the poor Jan sales. No games came out for it in Feb. I'm more anticipating the NPD sales on Wii U for March what with all the games being released for it this month. If it doesn't do near or over 100,000 in sales in March, then there's gonna be some REAL trouble for the system.

I dont think monster hunter and lego city will push it over 100K. I think there would be problems when pikmin and W101 are out and it still dont 100K.

 

[leatherhat]

Vita still dead in the states. Wii U has a weak pulse.

Yes, the reaper demands more consoles. His dreamcast is getting old.

 

[Nirolak]

.....

Oh, so now EA is bragging about their almost canceled series?

No I think he's legitimately sad about how it sold.

"Woo Dead Space!! #NPD" would be bragging.

 

[BlackJace]

So we're not getting a definite number for the Wii U?

 

[WinFonda]

Whoa, did the new Nintendo Eco System just come out? Those sales are godly.

OH SHIT NO WONDER

 

[DaBoss]

God of War will outsell Gears next month.

God of War fans actually seemed legitimately hyped, albeit not as much as a main release, for it. Nobody seems to give a shit about Judgment at all.

ahahahahahaaa

no.

We'll see.

 

[Celine]

I swear you're like burnt pork's father.

lol

 

[Sage00]

Do we have to re-evaluate what we think of digital sales across both 3DS and Vita after seeing those FE numbers?

 

[goomba]

Historically speaking, it's HORRIBLE.

Wii (first February, NPD) - 335K
Xbox 360 (first February, NPD) - 160K
Xbox (first February, NPD) - 139K
PS3 (first February, NPD) - 127K
GameCube (first February, NPD) - 78K
...
Wii U (first February) - 64K to 66K

Hey I ain't saying its good , just Better than many expected and a 40% rise with no new games is something unexpected

 

[Derrick01]

Wow nice numbers from Fire Emblem. That'll be the first game I buy when I eventually get a 3DS (probably digitally thanks to shipment issues).

 

[Scum]

Well, at least there's something to play on the WiiU next week. lol
It would have be fun to see how well Rayman Legends would have done. Oh well.

 

[shinra-bansho]

40% rise is bad ?

The 360 had a 34% rise. So what? It's February, numbers tend to rise over Jan.

64K is awful.

My prediction thread guess was 55K. Not that far off.

 

[Takao]

God of War collections sold 1.74m? Without digital sales? That's just shocking considering they costed ridicolously low. The ports were done in 15 weeks. That's an insane ROI, and that's without going into WW sales or the fact that releasing the collections helped energize God of War 3 sales. That's better marketing than Super Bowl ads. And it makes money in the process.

Sony shipped 2,418,516 of the first collection, and 711,737 of the second one by June 2012 worldwide.

We'll probably see them do this again next gen, lol.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

no but wouldn't surprise me if there were a good chunk of return vita xmas gifts

So that explains the PS3, 360, Wii, and 3DS weekly increases, too? Or is it because its February and people have tax refund money?

What's more likely?

 

[antitrop]

Vita numbers are laughable as usual.

 

[leatherhat]

40% rise is bad ?

Isn't it actually a big drop off because of January returns?

 

[Dan]

I'm glad to see Sly 4 did decently. Fun game, and a nice change of pace from all the shooters and open-world games.

 

[Meelow]

40% rise is bad ?

It's because it's a new system and people expected it to be at least in the 100k cycle.

But than when you look at it, no games released this month for Wii U.

If the PS4 and Xbox 720 do the same numbers or possible even worse when it has no games than it's a fact no games month won't do any good for the Wii U.

If March sales are the same for Wii U since it's releasing 3 bigger games + indies than Nintendo should start worrying and do everything they can to pull around the Wii U like 3DS.

I don't think it's fair for people dooming the Wii U or the Vita this early on.

 

[JohnnySasaki86]

Rising deserves so much better

Supposedly it did really well world wide. Also the PS3 probably did a lot better than the 360 SKU. If the list was seperated into single SKUs, you'd probably see the PS3 version at #3 or #4.

 

[wrowa]

Shadow Dragon sold 250k in the US? And still Nintendo passed on the second DS game? Wtf? I've been under the impression that SD also flopped financially, but it actually reached numbers most other Japanese games of its kind would be glad to achieve.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Where is the hype for Judgment?

Just because there's no hype on the forums dosn't mean people who enjoys GoW will not buy GoW. The same can be said about the other GoW.

And I think the first GoW is more popular than the other GoW......what we were talking about?

 

[Dragon1893]

Surprised to see Sly in the top 10, nice.

 

[Save 'N Quit]

Was quite ubset not seeing FE charting, but looking below and finding out that it actually turned out to have sold decently afterall was quite a relief.

Hopefully, it continues to sell in the coming months when more copies are available.

 

[kobashi100]

good number for Fire Emblem!

63k digital sales is pretty damn impressive!

Still NOA should still get some heat for the retail shipping clusterfuck!!

 

[Scum]

So we're not getting a definite number for the Wii U?

It doesn't matter. It sold poorly this month too.

 

[Nirolak]

I think Fire Emblem did quite well, especially given what it is.

 

[grimshawish]

Can FE pull 1M LTD world wide? Already at ~700K, no?

European Sales should be higher than US ones so I suppose it just might.
Plus NoE seem to have made the right move in delaying the game; they'll be ready to launch it.

 

[BlackJace]

It doesn't matter. It sold poorly this month too.

Thank you for not answering my question.

 

[liger05]

Do we have to re-evaluate what we think of digital sales across both 3DS and Vita after seeing those FE numbers?

Remember FE's digital numbers would be high due to not being available @ retail

 

[Deuterium]

Is this the first time that Nintendo bundled their statistics into a global "Nintendo Ecosystem" bullshit??

 

[M.D]

Wow nice numbers from Fire Emblem. That'll be the first game I buy when I eventually get a 3DS (probably digitally thanks to shipment issues).

Weren't you laughing at Sly a minute ago? =p

 

[TS-08]

How much is digital FE compared to boxes retail version ?

$39.99. Same price.

 

[strangedopamine]

Hey I ain't saying its good , just Better than many expected and a 40% rise with no new games is something unexpected

To further show that that argument is rubbish:

In a research note to investors today, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said that he believes Nintendo sold just 80,000 Wii U units in February

inb4Pachterisalwayswrong.

 

[Road]

If I'm remembering the PSASBR numbers correctly, this means that Sly 4 did at least 30k more copies.

And PSASBR was Sony's big fall title.

Sanzaru wins!

That was because Sly had a huge market campaign while PSABR had nothing, despite its very popular characters.

 

[Acorn]

I love companies using ecosystem/family/brand numbers. You can instantly tell it's bad numbers for one or more of their products.

 

[Nirolak]

Thank you for not answering my question.

Well, I can answer it for him instead. NPD officially reported a 40% increase on a weekly basis, and a guy who claimed the Wii U launched worse than the Virtual Boy said it was 80K.

If I had to choose, I'd probably go with 64K.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Imagine what Sly could have done if Sony bothered to tell people it existed. Nice to see it in the Top 10 however. Very much an anomaly and came from "nowhere".

 

[digoutyoursoul]

$39.99. Same price.

Thanks, that is good numbers for FE, congrats to them

 

[Derrick01]

Weren't you laughing at Sly a minute ago? =p

Sly didn't have horrible shipment problems. Outside of a lack of interest at least