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NPD Sales Results for March 2009
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I'm not surprised by KZ2's position on the list this week. After selling around 300K in the first couple days of sale last month, it seemed clear to me it wouldn't jump up any higher in the next month. shooters are always so front loaded.
that Army of Two comparison is pretty eye opening, that's for sure.
as far as I'm concerned, the biggest stories are the poor sales of Madworld and GTA:CW. A couple high profile (GTA, esp), mature games for the two biggest selling systems and they do absolutely squat in sales.
Obviously, I'm more surprised that GTA did so poorly. Madworld is certainly more risky (no big name, polarizing art style) but the fact that they both flopped hard is likely to give publishers pause when attempting anything similar on the Nintendo platforms.
a shame, really.
that Army of Two comparison is pretty eye opening, that's for sure.
as far as I'm concerned, the biggest stories are the poor sales of Madworld and GTA:CW. A couple high profile (GTA, esp), mature games for the two biggest selling systems and they do absolutely squat in sales.
Obviously, I'm more surprised that GTA did so poorly. Madworld is certainly more risky (no big name, polarizing art style) but the fact that they both flopped hard is likely to give publishers pause when attempting anything similar on the Nintendo platforms.
a shame, really.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
pizzaguysrevenge said:
Yikes.
Both Anglophone and Francophone Canadians are "normal Canadians". There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a Canadian and not speaking a word of English, nor should there ever be.
Canada has two languages of equal value and equal importance. The country has two national languages. Looking at English as the national language, and French as some secondary language misrepresents Canada.
Kilrogg said:
It's not Québec. Québec is not a bilingual province, it is a unilingual french province where many people also speak English. New Brunswick is a bilingual province. Canada is a bilingual country. It's not about a "powerful french lobby, trying to overthrow English". We are a country with two languages.
In India, Hindi, English, and many other languages are official. In Israel, Hebrew and Arabic are official. Belgium speaks German, French, and Dutch. Finland speaks Finnish and Swedish. Luxembourg speaks French, German, and Luxembourgish. In Ireland, Irish and English. Switzerland, German French and Italian.
There are many multilingual countries. Conceiving of them as having "primary" and "secondary" languages is unfortunate.
jjasper said:
I'd say this is not a fair statement, the PS3 is still basically one year behind in term of sales (no, its not where they wanna be, and yes, the gap is growing again due to pricing), it just shows how bad the market is on the PS3 for any shooter not called 'Call of 'something''(which sells millions) because sony didn't establish a big 1st party shooter franchise early enough in the PS3 life cycle. (resistance was great, but had no 'halo' effect' and R2..well, I wont go there).
and Sony's marketing for KZ (and in general) was weak.. ...maybe, and then the controls and gameplay turned off so many that the hype was quickly replaced with mass internet complaints, surely this thwarted some from buying the game / picking up their presales
(again, Im a PS3 / KZ2 owner)
Stumpokapow
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That Army of Two comparison just shows that shooter fans flock more heavily to the 360 in the US. It's not the best genre to have relatively weak sales in, but there are plenty of other genres and a couple other continents that help level the sales for third party publishers.
I wonder who these KZ2 ppls are. I mean yea I was a defender in that it was trolled to death( 'KZ1 sucked, so will this' mentality) but I never saw it as a 'savior' of sort. Whoever these ppl are, they are delusional. Nothing will make the PS3 skyrocket in sales but a price drop. And I do agree that with the caliber of the game, it should of sold more. No question about that.lawblob said:
NintendosBooger
Member
Nintendo still winning?
Good to see. Thanks, NPD.
Good to see. Thanks, NPD.
pizzaguysrevenge
Banned
Since I'm too tired to respond whilst in character, I'll come out.Stumpokapow said:
That was a troll post. It was made with my tongue firmly placed in my cheek. It was meant to be sarcastic and perhaps even a bit whimsical.
I don't disrespect the French language or anyone who speaks it. Good night.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
pizzaguysrevenge said:
hahaha it's hard to tell when you're dealing with an international forum, seriously!
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Inconceivable!lawblob said:
Cruzader said:
There will always be defenders but I believe the killzone.gifs were used to show that GG was successful in somewhat matching the Jack T fuck up at E3 2005. I mean can you imagine what would have happened to KZ2 had it not looked as good as it does? I would have been an INSTANT FAILURE, I mean people where mocking GG for it (wasn't even there fault). That was the main reason for the .gifs there were so many doubters of GG saying that it wasn't possible and they would never recover. But they overcame that challenge, they really do deserve a lot credit.
Luckyman said:
Leaderboards are people who been online, not everyone goes online.
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perfectchaos007 said:
Actually, I would say that the recession has finally hit Nintendo.
You guys really set your expectations for PS3 software sales too high. The thing has sold what, 7 million units in the US? That means in order to shift a million+ copies of a game, you're asking for a ~15% attach rate. That's an insane number. Maybe 2% of all games reach a 15% attach rate for the platform they are on. The PS3's installed base is just too low to support these mega blockbuster games, simple as that.
lawblob said:
well they should be.
except the chicks that send you naked pics over Live, which happened to me about a year ago for a week straight. It was totally unsolicited. I played with this random girl one game and I guess I was good enough to be put on her special pic list. She was banned from Live shortly after
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
RSTEIN said:
"In business news today, Xbox Live subscriptions QUADRUPLED at exactly 10:26 AM EST this morning and no one can figure out exactly why..."
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I suppose i'm LTTP, so can people give me a quick recap of the more interesting comments/arguments about the success/lack of success of Mad World/GTA:CW?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Grecco said:
I still see tons of ads and I think a new product launch (DSi) raises all ships, so to speak.
John Harker said:
Some of the more notable ones have been MadWorld would sell 500k on 360 alone, GTA:CW is going to be removed from retail shelves by retailers for being an epic fail, MadWorld should be brought to PSN and XBL so it can be played in 1080p for $15, and GTA:CW will never sell another copy in its life because 88k is all its going to get (reference the pulling from retail shelves theory)
Most everyone else just says they will have legs and things will come out OK in the end (the usual reaction to GAF calling something a super bomba)
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Madworld on XBL? Try Chinatown Wars. That would do MUCH better. Just chop out all the stylus stuff (none of which is really necessary anyway) give the art a sharper rez and viola!
Grecco said:
GTA:CW should have legs.
GTA:LCS sold roughly 1/14 of its LTD sales (2 million+ as of fall 08) in the first month and it's still selling 20k or more each month
GTA:VCS sold roughly 1/8 of its LTD sales (1 million+ as of fall 08) in the first month and it's still selling 20k or more each month
GTA:CW isn't going to be ported so it should have better legs than the psp games.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
markatisu said:
:lol
That ones pretty good. I was expecting more though, c'mon GAF
lawblob said:
This is true, and the exact reason why Nintendo fans should not get mad at being a less than bountiful amount of hardcore games on the Wii.
People who want those games have a 360 and to a slightly lesser extent PS3. The Wii isn't even on the same radar. People who buy the Wii want more things like WiiFit, good for them. Give the people what they want.
witness said:
If sales drop dramatically from 88k then that would not be a sign of legs now would it :lol
But I agree, if the added boost of the DSi and even more positive word of mouth and promotion (I also got the Nintendo email reminding me to go buy GTA CW) does not keep it at least close to its 1st month then I think that is more telling
If we are going by sales then based on the last 3 months Wii owners want
-More FPS games (seriously people its like COD WaW did not even happen)
-More Fitness games
-More Lego games
pizzaguysrevenge
Banned
Then they don't spend any money on video games?Threi said: