Could you give Etrian Odyssesy IV combined numbers for Feb & March?
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NPD Sales Results for March 2013 [Up5: BioShock Infinite]
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Could you give Etrian Odyssesy IV combined numbers for Feb & March?
You also have to consider how much larger the market is now.
It's abysmal for the WiiU.
Nope, Wii U version now actually now has less players compared to a month ago.
Oh shit, Need For Speed was a great port and a commendable effort by Criterion. Damn.
Dawn of Sorrow did 76K in its first month (very early in the platform's life)
Portrait of Ruin did 120K in its first month
Order of Ecclesia did not chart as far as I can tell (NPD had switched from doing top 25's to top 10's at this point, I believe)
Delusibeta
Banned
I still say that people are being way to hasty in writing off EA Sports support for the format. I mean, FIFA still gets released on the PS2, for Pete's sake. If they can get 5k out of a zero effort port or roster update, they will do so.
Non-Sports EA games, on the other hand? Yeah, they're probably not happening.
Non-Sports EA games, on the other hand? Yeah, they're probably not happening.
Can Crusher
Banned
It's not like Wii U has much competition, and that game wasn't available on the Wii so I consider that invalid.
Right now only Nintendo games look like possible sellers on it.
speculawyer
Member
The WiiU is really gonna be Gamecube isn't it?
Well, sales may pick up once there are price-cuts and a 3D Mario is released for it. But it is never gonna be big.
Sony & MS better not fuck-up like that.
Well, sales may pick up once there are price-cuts and a 3D Mario is released for it. But it is never gonna be big.
Sony & MS better not fuck-up like that.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
No kidding. It's pathetic to actually see it happen.
And probably cross again (perhaps only briefly) this holiday season.
bigtroyjon
Member
Microsoft's earnings today showed just how irrelevant NPD/physical numbers are becoming. Down month after month in NPD revenue but overall they had a 33% yoy revenue increase.
Maybe. Although is anything going to be moving big numbers on PS3/360 in 2015? Which means you're now working with new hardware again - and bumping the costs again anyway.
But for this 2013 game itself - these sales come pretty damn close to the definition of disaster, based on the dev budget/time and expectations.
I fucking hope so. Does the sales of Mirror of Fate make it the worst selling handheld Castlevania game to date? Didn't Dracula X Chronicles do better?
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I'd just like EA to release ONE game for Wii U that hadn't been released months before for other consoles to see how it does.
Of course it won't do well, but I just want to see how much of an improvement it would be over the crap they've thrown out.
Keep in mind, by the way, that NFS had that half-price sale on Origin.
Of course it won't do well, but I just want to see how much of an improvement it would be over the crap they've thrown out.
Keep in mind, by the way, that NFS had that half-price sale on Origin.
The best port sold 10k. People can't really complain about lazy efforts :/
The "tracking ahead of X" only matters positively in a positive trend. Otherwise, its an asinine point to bring up and only serves to confuse folks and cloud the real situation.
I hope you don't believe that the ONLY leg someone had to stand up on in regards to arguing why this game sold poorly. Besides, no one called this a lazy port.
Maybe a lazy way of attempting to sell it perhaps.
Wikipedia says Dawn of Sorrow did 160k in 3 months in the US.
It's not really surprising to be honest, who is going to chose a port over the 2 exclusive games that are generally more appealing to begin with.
I had much higher expectations for 3DS hardware, and not just cuz I picked one up last month myself. $40 off at several retailers, a well publicized free game promotion with Luigi's Mansion, other $30 off sales different weeks, an entirely new Pikachu model (even if it ended up being somewhat limited) ... tiny growth is not enough here considering all the stops that were pulled. I guess it'll take Pokemon in the fall to really turn things around.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm fully convinced that it would have been beneficial for EA to just pull the plug on that port. No way they are making any money on that one.
Makes you think about almost any future 3rd party game getting 2nd and 3rd thoughts before committing.
Makes you think about almost any future 3rd party game getting 2nd and 3rd thoughts before committing.
speculawyer
Member
Well, there are probably a lot of active PS2s in various 3rd world countries with huge soccer fans. I don't think that is a good comparison for the WiiU.
AranhaHunter
Banned
And FIFA 14 is not announced for anything other than PS3/360/PC at this point as well.
Vita is dead, PS4/720 are not out until after August, and 720 doesn't officially exist right now. Make no mistake about it, WiiU not being included in the original FIFA and Madden announcement is bad. Horrible, actually.
FreedomFighter
Member
Just like CoD, Batman, Dark Souls, etc. Everyone already bought that game on the PS360.
Can Crusher
Banned
It really does change things.
I don't buy it. Wii U owners own the other consoles? Why is that such a fact?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Well Wii U owners dug their own grave for EA support with those kind of numbers.
God damn.
TheNatural
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Yeah it's definitely worse by comparison. And Wii U is going to (already has really) get hit hard by things the Gamecube didn't have to deal with. Like huge online competitive advantages over them. Gamecube didn't have to deal with budget battles like the Wii U will have to deal with low priced 360/PS3 this fall, and Gamecube didn't have to go through a next gen competitor launch either besides the XBox.
Lots of bad stuff on the horizon. There's no easy outs here, regardless of the game lineup. The hole is too deep.
i think i've missed all of the major arguments as to why the DS will pass 3DS guaranteed. is there no way they won't put out a revised, thinner, cheaper model this summer? any market conditions preventing them from doing that? it just seems like something they'd do to coincidence with Pokemon coming out.
most of the new branded 3DS's that I see coming out are all XL so it doesn't seem like the OG is meant to be around for too long.
most of the new branded 3DS's that I see coming out are all XL so it doesn't seem like the OG is meant to be around for too long.
I'm expecting that FIFA/PES2013 were the last to hit PS2, but it would be hilarious if 2014 hits the PS2 but not WiiU.
The N64 did spectacular out of the gate, thanks to Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64. But it slowed down when the initial batch of games dried up. Then there was Goldeneye. Then another long wait until Ocarina of Time, with many months of literally nothing in between. That was very, very bad.
Meanwhile, tons of games came out on the PSX, which overtook the N64 again after a year or so...
speculawyer
Member
The only way that is happening is if EA has some big licensed kiddie title.
Portugeezer
Member
NFS U deserved shit sales, you guys are crazy. I commend Criterions efforts, but no it should sell shit.
James Sawyer Ford
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I doubt that revenue increase is due to the videogame portion of EDD.
prag16
Banned
Yeah but not drastically. PS360 player counts are past their peak too.
I think Wii U will get at least one more CoD game. But who knows.
A new model every year will kill consumer confidence.
FreedomFighter
Member
For a game that people already played on the Wii minus all the extra content.
FullMetalx117
Member
i really hope nintendo makes a legit 3ds xl redesign soon. I really want one. I already have at least 5 games on my list that i would buy.
I don't know its first-month sales, but based on its quite respectable LTD sales in a later, leaked NPD report, it must have done quite a bit better.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
What?
TheNatural
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People who own PS360's wouldn't give a shit about buying the Wii U version, much less a Wii U, in the first place anyway. Call of Duty came out all of a week later, only because Nintendo launched the Wii U a week after Call of Duty launched.
No one bought it. No one cares. No one is going to sacrifice their Live or PSN friends list and people they play with all the time for a Wii U version. Out at the same time or not, that's a reality Nintendo has to deal with and why third party support has eroded.
prag16
Banned
Indeed. Especially announcing the trilogy for other platforms right before the Wii U launch. I mean, what the fuck were they expecting??
Justzisguyukno
Member
And they all ended up running worse (for the most part) than the PS360 versions also.
Wrong game. Think you mean MH3U
They played Lego, an exclusive WiiU game?
To an extent, yes, but stacking on the years is still how you really blow up budgets.
Can Crusher
Banned
Does it matter though?
Bro, this is worse. MUCH worse.
Shit, to think if it wasn't for my desperation to play something on my new Nintendo console coupled with my love for MH, I'd have so little software outside of Mario and Zombi U.
And yeah; at least the GC got some day one 3rd party support and better initial 1st party support.