CrimsonEclipse
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Well, technically Xbox One is a Windows 10 device...
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NPD Sales Results for February 2016 [Up1: Fire Emblem]
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Well, technically Xbox One is a Windows 10 device...
ethomaz
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PS4 pac-man.
AncientDiety
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Few years? This year most likely
PS4 over half of the total HW sold. Whelp that paints the picture pretty clearly. Unfortunately we dont have any numbers to use to calculate the sales via the pie.
DeepEnigma
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Whoa!
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Sony and Nintendo have proven time and time again, you cannot support one platform without staving the other. How is Microsoft, with the smallest amount of first party content, going to expand its offerings?
It really would be catastrophic for Microsoft to transition Xbox over to Windows.
If they have no interest in keeping the brand as is today, sell the brand to Samsung, Amazon or anyone willing to do the Xbox brand justice.
Would be a sad day if they pull the plug on hardware and I really am intrigued and excited to see what they could bring to the next gen after learning so many valuable lessons this gen.
Obliterator
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That is some market domination
PeterLegend
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Street Fighter 5 bombing, i'm not surprised.
Though I do wonder why so much faith is put on EVO to drive Street Fighter V sales only.
Shouldn't every game at EVO also benefit from that?
Did the previous years helped considerably in sales for all the games? Because the versions Street Fighter IV at retail went down in sales despite EVO. So it seems that whatever benefit was acquired did more to convince current owners to upgrade or download DLC.
I'm talking about the blurring of boundaries between Xbox and PC when I say expanding.
Yes but until recently their NPD statements focused on "the Xbox One all in one entertainment center" or however the hell they say it and there was also no mention of Windows 10. This is a big departure and frankly it is very telling.
AgentP
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This year is included in the next few, but I was being kind.
DustyVonEric
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AncientDiety
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Putting a few first party games a year on Win 10 is not going to do much of anything for the brand....gears, halo forza are small potatoes on PC. People are not going to leave steam for MS PC vision/.
SEGAvangelist
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Wow at SFV bombing. Third party console exclusives are not turning out to be a good idea this gen.
DeviantBoi
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Nevermind, I read that wrong.
creamsugar
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SF5 < 210K
Well, depends.
If you buy all your games on the W10 Store, great. They gobble up those 30% and are probably very happy with it.
If you only buy a couple of the W10 exclusive games there and go for Steam for everything else? I'd guess they would care quite a lot. Especially when you add Live Gold to the mix!
that would only get us the minimum hw figures.
Cow Goes Moo
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bomba
welp.
DecoReturns
Member
Ouch.
Hooray for Fire Emblem tho
Hooray for Fire Emblem tho
Actually theyll be crossing paths in the next couple of months. By the time the holidays roll around the XB1 will be significantly behind the 360 given the YoY declines its facing and the sales trajectory the 360 enjoyed during the same period.
Chobel
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It has nothing to do with exclusivity in this case though.
You fucked up, Sony and Capcom.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Which ultimately will lead to a spinning down of the traditional console model.
There is no two ways about this. If Xbox gets any closer to windows, it basically is windows. At that point, its just a Windows PC with Xbox branding a la surface.
Which is fine, microsoft are still making consoles after all, but they are closer to branded HTPCs than what we currently play on.
Nope. NA + UK + JP = Under 300k. Adding the rest of EU and digital wont add 700k sales.
EDIT:
And there's cream.
DriftingSpirit
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Oh yeah, I forgot all about PvZ2!
and keep in mind this is Xbox's STRONGEST territory afaict. Thats just nuts.
I imagine that pacman's mouth will close more as the year advances.
AncientDiety
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Cream thanks for the pies. Missed that sweet delicious warm apple pie [face_drooling]
Insert American Pie gif here.
Holy shit, you're joking right?
DryEyeRelief
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confirmed?
DeviantBoi
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Yeah, I read it wrong. Thought that it said if had sold 800K, but that was referring to SFIV.
Cow Goes Moo
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im hoping for 30-50k for digimon
im ready for disappointment
im ready for disappointment
Coffee Dog
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Could Pokken outsell SFV?
Xbox 360 didn't take off until the Kinect launched Holiday 2010. It's February at the same period in its life cycle for example was 250,000.
Hopefully it at least matched Capcoms estimates, considering it was a single SKU.
Well, the financial incentives from Sony for exclusivity, at least on consoles, combined with good, not great sales should keep them somewhat optimistic.
Considering we keep getting remasters from them, its at least refreshing for them to actually release a AAA game.
Hopefully they now can make moves to announce Resident Evil 7 and DMC 5- and if it leaves a positive first impression they could be on to a big money spinner in the future.
Steam is at about 130k. I'd say its probably 500k at best with all Digital sales included. Really dont see it hitting that 2million mark.