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[Dante]

This is turning into a blowout.

 

[icespide]

The Rest of Us

 

[BuzzJive]

Skylanders bomba?

That's not the new Skylanders game. It's a bundled re-release of the one from last year.

 

[AmuroChan]

This reminds me. Where the fuck is Cerny. He's vanished for months now.

Back to making games.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

wait, what?

didn't it do like 140k in June? that was the bump


I must be missing a joke or something haha

Some people where expecting 100k+ numbers thanks to the MOMENTUM.

 

[Aquamarine]

Wait a minute: did TLOU:R was the best selling game even though was tracked for 5 days only? 0.0

Another example of front-loaded sales:


The Last of Us PS3:

June 2013 (launch) - Very close to 1 million
July 2013 - 170K

 

[Mokubba]

Perhaps the Luigi stare needs to go more viral!

This thread is great already.

 

[Sami+]

Surely Hyrule Warriors will save the Wii U.

/s

 

[Salex_]

Predictable results.

Can't wait to see PS4, X1, and TLOU numbers. Probably going to take a few hours though

 

[QuantumZebra]

Microsoft PR got a stability update.

 

[antitrop]

The Last of Us is one of the best games ever made, it deserves every sale it gets on either platform. I'm greatly enjoying playing through the Remaster right now after the PS3 version was my Game of the Generation.

 

[kitchenmotors]

The momentum....


THE MOMENTUM

You're so clever with your Wii U shade.

 

[ElTorro]

The Last of Us is one of the best games ever made, it deserves every sale it gets on either platform. I'm greatly enjoying playing through the Remaster right now after the PS3 version was my Game of the Generation.

QFT

 

[Vodh]

TLOU is a system seller. Saw someone with the PS4 bundle earlier today, seems like it sells like hot cakes. Say what you want about remasters, but they're here to stay and more to come 100% guaranteed with the success of TLOU Remastered.

I definitely get where that line of thought is coming from, but last-gen games are only getting older, and with the summer drought coming to an end they're going to compete with actual next-gen releases.

More than on remaster success (except for Halo, because everybody knows that's gonna sell like hot cakes) I'd put my money on a publisher getting burned by low sales of a remaster (depending on how much money would go towards remastering a game of course, but I bet SE can put together some $100m for a remaster, they're good with numbers like that).

 

[Drencrom]

This reminds me. Where the fuck is Cerny. He's vanished for months now.

Living the good life and working on a new game.

 

[Chobel]

Let's take MS PR at face value, July got the same momentum (weekly sales) as June.

So weekly sales = 197/5 = 39.4 K/week

July = 4 * 39.4 = 157.2K

 

[vin-buc]

TLOU is a system seller. Saw someone with the PS4 bundle earlier today, seems like it sells like hot cakes. Say what you want about remasters, but they're here to stay and more to come 100% guaranteed with the success of TLOU Remastered.

Added this in another thread but there has to be money on the table for all 360 users who have crossed over to the PS4. All these remasters are catering to them (partially) and the ROI has to be there. GTAV Remastered will be huge. If there is resolution gate there.......oh boy.

 

[RealityPales]

This reminds me. Where the fuck is Cerny. He's vanished for months now.

He just gave a talk with Andrew House in July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77C__jnjX58

 

[Baroquemantic]

Congrats, Naughty Dog and Sony.

Good for Nintendo that Mario Kart 8 is having some nice legs.

Minecraft is still a beast.

 

[Gator86]

MS's best chance at taking #1 is in November. If they can't win that month with FOUR Halo games for the price of one that also comes with Halo 5 beta, the race may be pretty much over.

I'm incredibly skeptical of this. People treat it like 4 new Halo games. Don't get me wrong, it's a tremendous value and offers an obscene amount of gameplay. But I honestly can't imagine the average consumer going nuts for HD versions of half-decade old games. I feel like the people who would go apeshit for this bought Xbones at launch. I expect a holiday season bump, like everyone gets, but I can't see this game really moving boxes like some people expect.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Already done. WiiU ~81k.

I guess people were spending too much time on those Mario Kart 8 parties to leave the house.

 

[shwimpy]

Then Destiny the next month. September is going to be hilarious. I wonder how high their numbers go.

MS is probably gonna get slaughtered so hard in September but I have a feeling they might win next month. That Madden bundle might do well.

 

[googleplex]

Yes...smart decision to keep Tomb Raider off the PlayStation platform at launch. Really forward thinking there Square...

 

[Neuromancer]

§ PlayStation 4 led the month for next generation software sales by a considerable margin, with The Last of Us Remastered taking the #1 spot.

§ PlayStation 4 games accounted for more than half of total next generation software sales.

I said damn

 

[Mysterious]

Video game sales are extremely frontloaded for a lot of console games.

Even for a lot of Nintendo games.

 

[Namikaze1]

Anecdotal but on the day of TLoU Remaster release, my store had about 30 copies in stock. Around noon that same day, only 2 copies remained. Well, technically 1 copy remained since I put one aside for myself.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Another example of front-loaded sales:


The Last of Us PS3:

June 2013 (launch) - Very close to 1 million
July 2013 - 170K

It had to have some sort of legs for it to get to 7 million unless most of that in Europe.
Of course i don't mean by some big amount .

 

[Raptor]

There is no stopping Sony now, I just hope they don't return to that arrogant Sony.

If there is a couple of million people like me that jumped ship to the Playboat then is no surprise TLOU:R is at No. 1.

Fucking game has the best god damn gunplay on a third person shoter right now.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Need the combo for this thread.

beautiful

 

[jhmtehgamr20xx]

Not yet.

Microsoft won the award for worst current-gen NPD PR...and that's about it.

That's a mild way to put it.

 

[KingSnake]

The momentum....


THE MOMENTUM

What are you even talking about? MK8 big impact was end of May and June (with 140k). And the momentum is that a 4 weeks month is quite above what a 4 week month was before MK8.

 

[Welfare]

Going by Microsoft's "momentum" comment, should we assume sales between 150-160k?

 

[Darksol]

Happy for The Last of Us.

Can't wait for numbers.

 

[ElTorro]

This reminds me. Where the fuck is Cerny. He's vanished for months now.

He is taking a long bath.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

You're so clever with your Wii U shade.

Not my fault ppl wild theories crumbles so fast.

 

[Duxxy3]

MS's best chance at taking #1 is in November. If they can't win that month with FOUR Halo games for the price of one that also comes with Halo 5 beta, the race may be pretty much over.

It should win November. MCC, COD, COD bundle, and the sunset over drive bundle from the previous month.

If it still doesn't win that month, then I doubt it will have a chance again until Halo 5.

 

[magawolaz]

fuck is this

 

[DayEnder]

One month till Polygon eats crow?

Anybody know what this is referencing? I don't visit/follow polygon.

 

[Het_Nkik]

One month till Polygon eats crow?

If you're talking about their predicted MK8 numbers, those were world wide. They're already wrong.

 

[EventHorizon]

MS's best chance at taking #1 is in November. If they can't win that month with FOUR Halo games for the price of one that also comes with Halo 5 beta, the race may be pretty much over.

The race is over. The only question is how far behind will the XB1 be.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Let's take MS PR at face value, July got the same momentum (weekly sales) as June.

So weekly sales = 197/5 = 39.2 K/week

July = 4 * 39.2 = 156.8K

It's very possible that they kept the same weekly baseline as June but I think it's closer to 135k or so personally [33.75k a week]

 

[RealityPales]

Any word / theories on exact numbers for PS4 / XBO yet?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Skylanders bomba?

was that out last month? that is big news if it did not chart

 

[Sammy Samusu]

Last month, the bump was going to be this month. The bump was a wrinkle.

Are you making stuff up or did people really expect Wii U to sell more this month?

I mean, there's no reason to believe it would go up in July, especially compared to June (MK8+E3).

 

[Neuromancer]

1. The Last of Us (PS4, PS3)

 

[plainr_]

This reminds me. Where the fuck is Cerny. He's vanished for months now.

On a yacht with Dicaprio.

 

[Heshinsi]

So they are saying that sales doubled month-to-month again? Can't we calculate the numbers then?

No there stating that sales doubled in June. No mention of July, but if it did, one would wonder why they would mention June instead.

 

[Ascenion]

Wasn't the last Wii U lifetime update like 6.17 million? Wow Mario Kart 8....bravo Nintendo, just wow.

 

[MavFan619]

Nice month without surprises.
Microsoft is ecen more vague than usual though.

Spoiler

I still don't get why/how that many people are willing to pay more than 30$ for a one year old remaster though.

I glady payed for it, I fact it was a double dip as I owned the Unmastered edition day 1 as well. It's that good.

 

[Chezzymann]

When was the last time a game had as much legs as minecraft?