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[Azure Dream]

They sold the Titanfall Bundle with a 2nd controller for 499€. Next to it: The standard edition for 499€. What kind of advertising is this?
MS needs to support retailers and allow them to create "unofficial" bundles with a retail copy of a game for the same price, or else these green boxes will exist until dust eats them up.

I think they are, at least in the US. I've been seeing normal Xbox One boxes with "Includes [game] (as a digital code)!" slapped on them lately, when I don't believe they were bundles before. I mean that's sort of official, but clearly meant as a secondary effort to push old consoles out of retailer storage.

Target's was pretty crazy. They had the console with a recent game (Forza I think?) for $449. You got a $50 Gift Card on top of that. You were allowed to use your Red Card, which is a 5% savings (doesn't even cover tax, but it's still something), AND they were simultaneously running a promotion where you got a major discount on controllers and certain accessories and Xbox Live cards if you bought them at the same time. I don't know how long that promotion was going on, but that's a hell of a retailer push.

I think this was during the same week where they were running their Buy 2 Get 1 Free promotion on all games.

 

[TheUnsunghero26]

Good luck going against TLOU.

I can't tell if this is serious. They won't even be released in the same time frame.

 

[xxracerxx]

I'll repeat myself - he clearly says in one of his tweets that it's 'only good for basic hardware sales data'.

So enough with the 'digital console sales' nonsense - he didn't say it, I didn't say it.

Calm down buddy, he was just joking around.

 

[polyh3dron]

Kuchera is right about NPD not counting digital sales, and who knows how many Xbox Ones were sold digitally in March. This could be huge.

aaahahahahahahah

 

[miDnIghtEr20C]

Not yet. Soon maybe.

Always a silver lining.

Just meant for the Month. But ya, I hear ya...


And to those with the doom and gloom that MS is done for.. uh, the 360 did great, and this little one here

Xbox One continues selling at a strong pace with 311,000 units sold in the U.S. in the month of March, surpassing Xbox 360 sales by more than 60 percent at the same point in time.

That seems like they're doing and gonna be just fine.

 

[Dragon]

May have been asked, but is Titanfall on the XB1 the highest selling game in March, or the highest selling game in March when taking the XB1 and PC into account?

We do not know unfortunately. My guess would be physical PC sales for Titanfall would be pretty small.

It's a shame it came from him because it's a very good point - look at the headline about the drop in software sale from retail. Is digital picking up that gap? Is the overall market growing but the retail channel shrinking?

It's a shame that places like Japan have better tracking of digital sales than the US. Although I guess that should be blamed more on Sony/Microsoft than NPD.

 

[Portugeezer]

Wait wait...5 Mil sold to *retailers*? So what's the sell through look like? That's a much bigger gap between Sony / MS than I anticipated.

Current estimates are around <4 million, assuming a lot though (optimistic PAL sales).

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108572385&postcount=216

Nothing solid right now, but it's a good base.

 

[SyaraSystem]

 

[Nirolak]

Ignoring the MS angle do we have any idea if Respawn and/or EA are happy with Titanfall sales? I bought the game for PC on a whim a few days ago and while it is a barebones package I've gotten hooked. Hope there is an opportunity for Titanfall 2 to drop in 2 years and be even better.

Well, so far we have:

As an official statement, "As you can imagine, [Titanfall] will be a franchise that's around for a long, long time," [EA CFO] Jorgensen said.

As a rumor from GameSpot, "Electronic Arts has secured sequel rights for Respawn Entertainment's multiplayer shooter Titanfall, a reputable source has informed GameSpot. The option to land Titanfall 2 was based on the performance of the original, our source said. Official sales data is not available, but from what we're hearing, Titanfall has performed well and even helped boost Xbox One sales. We already know that's true in the UK."

 

[unknownstranger]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

 

[Kysen]

The winner in all this is EA, MS paid upfront for the game as well as the advertising. MS cant be happy with this result, only 311k units last month with an extra SKU and a price drop at some retailers. Now that the 360 version is out, you can forget about a boost next month.

 

[Toki767]

May have been asked, but is Titanfall on the XB1 the highest selling game in March, or the highest selling game in March when taking the XB1 and PC into account?

Probably the latter.

 

[Nirolak]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

PC retail is very small, so not too high.

Like it's not unusual for PC retail games to do like 12K in their opening month NPD even for titles that might end up doing 1+ million digitally worldwide.

This is why you see a lot of companies not ship physical versions of PC games in North America anymore (they do better in Europe).

 

[Randolph Freelander]

To everyone thinking a price drop is going to make this better, it will not. X1 needs games, something to justify the purchase. At best a price drop will give them a one month bump.



Yep.

I know next to nothing about either library, but my impression from the sidelines is that it's in no better or worse position with software than Sony is. $399 vs $499, or even an "unofficial" $449, is just an unfavorable position to be in. I think if they drop the price, they can get close. I don't know that they could ever win, maybe just lead the odd month here or there. But without parity, there's simply no chance. None.

 

[Mr. Waffle]

One game, assuming it's not Wii Sports or Grand Theft Auto III, isn't a move. That's the part I have always rejected, that Titanfall (and, specifically, its release) would make any real difference. It would have to be a breakout phenomenon (see: aforementioned titles), and for all the accolades (I'm assuming, I haven't read any reviews or anything), this doesn't seem like one of them, and it would have been very presumptuous to even think it could have been.

Microsoft thought so...

 

[kyser73]

I believe our friend was being sarcastic.

Calm down buddy, he was just joking around.

Yeah, overreaction on my part *shamed*

 

[GalacticToast]

Kuchera is right about NPD not counting digital sales, and who knows how many Xbox Ones were sold digitally in March. This could be huge.

lol

 

[n00bsauce87]

Ya know, the moment where I thought the Titanfall ad campaign was getting to be too much was when I saw it in the movie ads before Captain America 2 was starting. I was like man Microsoft is getting desperate for this title.

What's XBO's next AAA game?

 

[TheRagnCajun]

May have been asked, but is Titanfall on the XB1 the highest selling game in March, or the highest selling game in March when taking the XB1 and PC into account?

Its PC plus xbone, but since NDP only counts physical, its by and large xbone sales.

 

[balohna]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

How many people actually buy PC games at retail?

 

[antitrop]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

Slim to none.

 

[Principate]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

Probably quite low unless pc retail sales suddenly had a massive upswing in the US.

 

[dakun]

it's crazy how the PS4 sells really.. just an example out of Germany

i have been going to the the biggest electronic shop "Media Markt" just about every week since launch and haven't seen a single PS4 until today. Xbox One's were there since day one and it never looked like they had problems making it look like there are tons of One's in the shop.

Like i said today for the first time i saw PS4's being sold.. but you couldn't buy the console by itself.. they only offered a special bundle containing:
PS4
PS Camera
Controller
Killzone
Infamous
MGS Ground Zeroes

all for about 570€. and the freaking pile of PS4's was down to 4-5 units at the end of the day. I'm still glad i preordered on Amazon the day it went up.

 

[Salex_]

Didn't you expect Titanfall to start closing the gap between the two consoles? Why act like people didn't expect that now.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=95496634&postcount=700

 

[franknbeans]

Sony made the first move, we countered, now its Sony's turn again. Get these effing games out.

 

[Mory Dunz]

Already a huge lead for the PS4, wow.


Let's not go overboard and start comparing the XB1 to the Wii U though...heh.

 

[shinra-bansho]

To everyone thinking a price drop is going to make this better, it will not. X1 needs games, something to justify the purchase. At best a price drop will give them a one month bump.

The products are pretty comparable. The price disparity is the major differentiation. Although the difference in hardware power may provide greater value even at the same price.

 

[miDnIghtEr20C]

Did it? I didn't see the Xbone numbers for Titanfall.

Also, the fact that it released on PC and 360 means its really not that exclusive, right?

Don't think 360 numbers are in this are they? And I'm guessing the PC numbers sold are small beans compared to the X1 numbers. Like most PC vs Console of the same game numbers are.

 

[catmario]

Nintendo

lol!

Nintendo is too quiet!

 

[infiniteheteroskdasticity]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

Overall not large. PC retail is tiny. It was on the market for one week less though so normalized to a full month, I wouldn't be surprised if they did outsell Titanfall.

 

[Killing_Joke]

Uh, no. Not even close. Everyone and their grandmother knew about Titanfall.

What proof do you have? Sold a million in 9 days. Was always the first first AAA game for PS4 like TF was for X1. And came in at number 2 on the NPD with no bundle and a later launch release.

 

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[Randolph Freelander]

Microsoft thought so...

I can't help them if they did.

I, uh, can't help them anyway, but whatever.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

To everyone thinking a price drop is going to make this better, it will not. X1 needs games, something to justify the purchase. At best a price drop will give them a one month bump.

Price drop is more important since I think it's arguable X1 has the better current line up. But a price drop is not the end all be all of what they need to do. The power difference is hurting them (not something they can change at this point) and they need a fundamental shift in the perception consumers have in them as a whole. That's not something that's going to happen overnight.

 

[iamvin22]

Kuchera is right about NPD not counting digital sales, and who knows how many Xbox Ones were sold digitally in March. This could be huge.

yea you're getting the kobe.gif

 

[N.Domixis]

The best thing about ps4 winning is that we wont have any more BS about how titanfall will change the game, like it would have happened if MS won this month. I also find it funny how every time amazon showed ps4 as #1 it actually won the months NPD.

Spoiler

It feeels sooo good seeing all the crow being served to all the people claiming xbox had it in the bag.

 

[mrklaw]

To everyone thinking a price drop is going to make this better, it will not. X1 needs games, something to justify the purchase. At best a price drop will give them a one month bump.



Yep.

Wait, I thought it was the PS4 that didn't have any games?

 

[Tabular]

Ok so we know American sales outcome. What are WW March figures? PS4 must have really cleaned up. Infamous could even be #1 game for March no?

 

[Kiote]

NPD isn't reliable now?

thats the spin huh? Cmon Son

NPD isn't reliable, but it is quite funny how they, all of them, only admit that when they are losing.

 

[mcrommert]

May have been asked, but is Titanfall on the XB1 the highest selling game in March, or the highest selling game in March when taking the XB1 and PC into account?

From the individual tweets it is the #1 on xbox one

And for those for who this xbox sales news makes sad (among which i'm one of them) it is better for Microsoft to be on the defensive...we have seen what happens when they get cocky

 

[Orayn]

So what are the odds Infamous: Second Son outsold the XBO version of Titanfall?

Extremely unlikely unless the games were somehow neck and neck. PC retail version's sales were probably a five-figure amount.

 

[RoboPlato]

Kuchera is right about NPD not counting digital sales, and who knows how many Xbox Ones were sold digitally in March. This could be huge.

Pretty much my line of thought. It's a retail sales data company, we know they don't count digital sales, which is why there seems to be such a large drop in software sales YoY, and it would make no difference in consoles anyway.

 

[Raziel]

and inFamous had just as much or maybe even more hype than TF.

 

[Nzyme32]

People still fall for this?

Yes, since I literally just glanced by the post now, read the results, and the first page of comments. Some of us don't own any consoles but are still interested and a fan of the medium as a whole. Seeing the reactions to this post is just beyond me. I had no idea some take this console wars stuff so full on amd some are equally sarcastic about it. Sucks to be me wondering by right?

 

[BronsonLee]

But

What about the chalkboard

...ONTO THE NEXT CHOSEN ONE

 

[Ranger X]

I must be an alien apparently but I never thought in a million years that a new IP would have reversed the steam. I am not surprised at this NPD results, it sounds in line with what I would have thought. The only thing that is almost surprising is that the general sales of Xbone aren't better than last month, that's all.

 

[El_Chino]

Well I did my part, I bought the Titanfall X1 bundle plus Forza and other X1 games.

 

[Donos]

What can MS do with piles of cash on the games front this year? Snagging up GTA V next gen (timed) exclusivity?

 

[delta25]

As much as I'm intrenched in the PS4 I still want to see Xbone succeed. I wouldn't be surprised if MS goes full bore and buy's up some big exclusives that nobody we'll see coming. Some kind of exclusive with the next GTA or possibly a new Red Dead is something I could really see happening at this point.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

so uh

what about Wii U