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NPD Sales Results for March 2010
- Thread starter EviLore
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boiled goose
good with gravy
wow at wii sales back on top :0
Compared to the continuous barrage of quality titles on the other systems, wii has gotten nothing in the last months... it seems it will hold up till the nintendo power houses start dropping next month.
DS is just crazy. crazy. 700k is just ridiculous. Pokemon still untouchable.
PS3 big games do well. WTF at people saying GoW sales are disappointing??
PSP dead.
360 chugging along.
:lol at people expecting >100k for Red Steel 2. No one fucking cared the game came out.
Compared to the continuous barrage of quality titles on the other systems, wii has gotten nothing in the last months... it seems it will hold up till the nintendo power houses start dropping next month.
DS is just crazy. crazy. 700k is just ridiculous. Pokemon still untouchable.
PS3 big games do well. WTF at people saying GoW sales are disappointing??
PSP dead.
360 chugging along.
:lol at people expecting >100k for Red Steel 2. No one fucking cared the game came out.
Freezie KO
Banned
Everything about the DS confuses me.
What's the split between the Lite and the DSi? Are they even still selling the Lite? Are people choosing to pay $30 more for the DSi en masse? Will the Lite ever drop to $99 and become destroyer of worlds? And why the 3DS? Sure, you want to still have mindshare for the "DS" brand, but releasing it when the DS is doing 700k looks like cutting the legs off a viable product.
What's the split between the Lite and the DSi? Are they even still selling the Lite? Are people choosing to pay $30 more for the DSi en masse? Will the Lite ever drop to $99 and become destroyer of worlds? And why the 3DS? Sure, you want to still have mindshare for the "DS" brand, but releasing it when the DS is doing 700k looks like cutting the legs off a viable product.
Gotta wonder about FFXIII figures though.
Would MS be happy with the figures?
Square would be, they took cash no matter what system it came out on. But MS would have had a heavy investment in the title. US advertising heavily favoured the 360, exclusive bundles and faceplates for the 360 and a 10 million install base advantage. Even Greenberg said that MS expected the 360 version to outsell the PS3 version.
Did the 360 merely canabalise the expected sales of the PS3 version? What does this mean for future versions like XIV and Versus?
Real discussion please.
Would MS be happy with the figures?
Square would be, they took cash no matter what system it came out on. But MS would have had a heavy investment in the title. US advertising heavily favoured the 360, exclusive bundles and faceplates for the 360 and a 10 million install base advantage. Even Greenberg said that MS expected the 360 version to outsell the PS3 version.
Did the 360 merely canabalise the expected sales of the PS3 version? What does this mean for future versions like XIV and Versus?
Kitschkraft
Member
I want that top 20. Wondering if ME2 made it.
AceBandage
Banned
Freezie KO said:
No one knows the exact split.
Yes they are still selling the Lite.
En masses? No, but it's selling decently.
It'll drop to $99 sometime next year.
3DS because GameBoy Advanced.
And they're releasing the 3DS now while the iron is hot for a new handheld, instead of when the brand is dead.
DevilWillcry
Member
This.ShockingAlberto said:
speculawyer
Member
Who keeps buying all those PS2s? Can you even buy new software for it anymore?
AceBandage
Banned
speculawyer said:
Yeah, you can still find all the license and sports games brand new, plus most of the PSP ports.
Freezie KO
Banned
AceBandage said:
I must say I'm surprised if the DSi is beating out the Lite. Not much has been done with exclusive content, and, at $30 more, I'd really think price would be an issue. DS is my favorite system, but I think the handheld probably skews young, where price becomes more of a factor than downloadable distribution.
As for 3DS, sure, GBA was selling well when the DS was released, but would the DS have been released if the PSP wasn't on the horizon? Without PSP, GBA could've kept going as well. And I understand what you're saying about striking while the iron is hot, but the iron is really really hot. At least wait until sales slow to 400k or something, while still beating out the rest of the consoles.
Freezie KO
Banned
jvm said:
Very interesting. Surprising to me. I'd think the $30 would be a bigger difference in the handheld market. I guess I'm wrong. I wonder what this means for 3DS pricing.
AceBandage
Banned
Freezie KO said:
Well, the problem is, even if hardware is still selling like it's pure gold, the software has taken a pretty big dive, content wise.
There's basically nothing on the horizon in terms of big releases from anyone.
It's time for a new handheld and new ideas.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
No 11-20 info?
Freezie KO
Banned
AceBandage said:
Good point. Hopefully we get more new ideas than old ideas in 3D.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Good sales for FFXIII, it deserves it and I doubt it has hit a wall. I see copies being bought everyday and have yet to see many on the used racks.
charlequin
Banned
Kagari said:
Yes.
ULTROS! said:
Nope.
LeoStenbuck said:
Edging close to 3.5 million, and yes, something like that WW for the 360 version as of the end of March.
FateBreaker said:
Is the work done on converting the executable software of FFXIII to run on a 360, producing a product that runs at a lower resolution and has some minor slowdown in a couple places but otherwise is quite comparable to the PS3 version in how it runs shitty? No, not really; on that level it's solidly what I would call a mediocre port.
Is the whole package, which includes the gameplay portions but also the videos (whose problems are an order of magnitude larger than the gameplay), shitty? I'd be willing to say yes.
This is quite incorrect.elrechazao said:
I lost my launch 20gb so I went on the hunt for a deal on the Slim, found out that just trying to get MSRP was a deal.
Amazon went weeks without stock. Newegg.com, Bestbuy.com, Walmart.com, Gamestop.com
All were out, it was ridiculous. I never believed the "shortage" thing either but it took 3 weeks to finally get one. This included checking local retailers and trying to get Gamestops to hold them for me.
It was pretty easy to follow all this in the "PS3 supply problems" thread that was quite lively while you were banned.
Things seem to be ok as of a couple weeks ago, on that day almost all the major retailer sites got major stock back in, and now I see them at most stores I go to.
EDIT:
Looking at my posts in that thread, hunt started March 3rd.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20158552&postcount=549
And this is the day everyone started getting them back in stock, March 26th, I got mine the next day.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20471412&postcount=877
charlequin
Banned
ULTROS! said:
You might want to wait for, y'know, a few months to actually go by and see whether the game sells any more copies over the next two months instead of just taking Debbie Downer's word for it.
(Historically, FF is not nearly as frontloaded in the US as it is in Japan, especially once it eventually hits Greatest Hits or its equivalent.)
Kagari said:
I found it with about five minutes on Google. Unless there's some exception for posting leaked NPD info just because it was posted elsewhere first I'd rather not take my life in my hands.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Well, how much advertising did it get? My complete disconnect from the world of TV and magazines means I never have any clue whats being advertised and what isn't.sillymonkey321 said:
jamesinclair
Banned
The original gold outsold silver right?
Use of the word "heart" scaring away the tween boys?
Use of the word "heart" scaring away the tween boys?
I thought it was 'just something on the internet' but I really tried hard to get one. I couldn't believe it took so long.bc226 said:
And hell, I live in Dallas/Fort Worth, I have plenty of places to look! And you can't deny that online outlets were out of stock for weeks. One need only look at the thread I linked to to see that. Or CAG, and Slickdeals where I also kept my feelers out.
By the time I got the Slim home, I didn't even feel like playing it. Sticking to handhelds.
Though I did use the Slim once so far to watch Toy Story BD.
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
jamesinclair said:
I think it's cause gold is a cheesy colour for anything except actual gold.
AceBandage
Banned
The_Technomancer said:
More than most third party Wii games.
Far below the average PS3/360 game.
gamergirly
Member
ULTROS! said:
So far FF13 has been a good experience.....but for the sake of the name hopefully Versus does the trick
AceBandage said:
To be fair it could be that there's no big software on the horizon because everyone's mostly moved over to the 3DS, which is coming out in less than a year.
"No" big software is probably an exaggeration too - it'll have the next Pokemon as its swan song, at least. DQIX in the West, Golden Sun. Assuming some of these don't also get moved to the 3DS, but then you're back at point A above.