I would say that only the stodgiest of fanboys would want it to be exclusive, so as to be another entry in their list wars. Everyone else realizes that more people get to play it if it's on multiple consoles, and more potential sales increases the likelihood for future sequels and spinoffs.
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NPD Sales Results for March 2015 [Up1: Nintendo numbers, PS4 placing]
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I would say that only the stodgiest of fanboys would want it to be exclusive, so as to be another entry in their list wars. Everyone else realizes that more people get to play it if it's on multiple consoles, and more potential sales increases the likelihood for future sequels and spinoffs.
Yep. I'll be waiting for him here in Ipoh, Malaysia. We have great food indeed.Welfare should drop by Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia) from time to time. We have great food.
aspiegamer
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Based on the breakdown of BF it seems Bloodborne barely missed out on being top SKU. That would have been quite the coup. Sadly they have to take #3 under 2 BF versions.
SE cares, depending on the porting and licensing costs. They're almost assuredly bound by contract to publish XV and KH3 to the XB1 (NA/EU) but were they able to rewrite those contracts now after seeing the insane console breakdown of RPGs and other Japanese-y games and the console sales worldwide they might choose to pass. Must feel pretty awkward to develop a game that'll be imported elsewhere for one console but not even have a version of it exist in your home market.
I think with FFXV at release we'll see the PS4 outsell the Xbox One version, there's no doubt about it. That said, I think a proper FF will garner far more purchases on the Xbox One than a PSP remaster with a demo. Kingdom Hearts, by being Unreal Engine based, I think comes to the system regardless of the sales of XV. It's an environment that Microsoft has heavily worked with rather than a proprietary engine like the Luminous Engine they're using for XV so getting the game running won't be nearly the task it must be with XV.
As far as Square Enix goes, I don't see them not putting a game out on the Xbox One in the US, barring a paid exclusive, because there will be decent to good sales. Smaller Japanese publishers would probably have to be courted pretty heavily by Microsoft but I don't see them pushing too hard unless it's some major brand that they managed to get a previous entry on the 360 and already had a working relationship.
Nightengale
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Welfare
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Welfare should drop by Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia) from time to time. We have great food.
See you guys in a decade or two
That's nothing new, both Dark Souls didn't have a 360 version in Japan, FF XIII was PS3 exclusive in Japan for quite a long time, I'm sure there's a couple other examples out there.
I know we are both Malaysians, but is it wrong if I like Western cuisine more?
I'll be waiting XDSee you guys in a decade or two
Yeah the drop will be significant I think (but so was last year too..... (may be worse)).
The 100k gap I considered a safe bet, but hec, it was closer than I thought.
like way more cooler, way bigger explosions, and way better special effects
Well, if you've followed http://bfhstats.com since launch, then it's pretty clear that with worldwide and digital numbers included, it has easily sold most on PS4.
It's the mixtures coupled with the traditional nexus of spices.
Tandoori Nasi goreng from a kopi tiem in kl: legit genius. All the cultural mixtures inherent in SEA produce the greatest dishes.
PoweredByHentai
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Eh Sony doesn't need to even offer money to keep SE off of the XBO at this point looking at sales. Just a we'll help with marketing will do it for 95% of games and a we'll offer you 2-5 mil and give you a destiny style marketing blow out would likely do it for both FFXV and KH3 combined assuming they didn't accept money from Microsoft to make them in the first place.
Nightengale
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I know we are both Malaysians, but is it wrong if I like Western cuisine more?
Nah.
But Malaysia food is essentially cheat mode, because we're a melting pot of Indian,Chinese, Malay food culture.
To be honest, at this point, it would be better for Sony to use those resources just to fund for more exclusive jrpgs than to keep content from the competition, especially when the games in question will sell in a ratio of 9:1 worldwide in Sony's favor.
[NDS] Fossil Fighters {2009.08.10} - 92,000 in 20 days
[3DS] Fossil Fighters Frontier {2015.03.20} - 35,000 (retail only) in 15 days
Surely a consistent drop from the first one, but it wasn't a huge franchise since the beginning, and it shouldn't stop selling right away, considering it's also at 29.99. Btw, what's the LTD for the first FF? Did we ever get to know that?
Codename:STEAM, instead (22 days counted) is a bomba. Nintendo didn't even promote it at launch IIRC (I mean, no TV ad), but it's a bomba. I doubt the upcoming update will help its sales at all.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
December - 250,000
January - 30,000
February + March - 46,000
It's still selling, good. Wasn't it over 150,000 in Japan by January? In the case, it should be near 500,000 with US+Japan combined. I wonder if it can hit 1 million WW (at least in shipments) in the next 12 months
Bayonetta 2 was at <135,000 in December, it sold 10,000 in January (thus, < 145,000) and now it's at 157,000. This means it sold >12,000. Including first month's digital sales (10% of debut), it's at around 164,000 units sold (it's actually slightly higher, since I'm incuding just first month digital sales, but the max is 170,000 IMHO). In 6 months, it did outsell what Bayonetta 1 sold on PS3 in 18 months (150,000), and now it's going for what it sold on 360 in 18 months.
Zombi U FINALLY over 200,000 units sold in US XD It had major price cuts, so it had to do it eventually...launch period (excluding the launch week) sucked so much for Wii U...
I don't call sub 100k as respectable, but is good that Wii U it's consistently up YoY. This streak is close to a end tought.
PoweredByHentai
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See you guys in a decade or two
I think current plane tickets to some SE Asian countries are currently ~730 bucks or something.
I know we are both Malaysians, but is it wrong if I like Western cuisine more?
HERESY!!!
You're forgetting Indonesian food culture as well.
If there's one thing I love about Singaporean cuisine it is their Laksa.
Yep, agreed. One of the main reasons tourists visit Malaysia is for the food!
P.S. I know we're getting off topic, but there is nothing wrong talking about food
?? I'm scared....
What was May '14?
I thought I remembered MKs effect being kind of split along May and June
unapersson
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I don't think it's doing too bad in comparison as market leader considering its price.
Well, it's respectable for the Wii U, not necessarily in comparison to anything else.
I think it will continue to be up YoY until we hit the month MK8 came out last year. That's when we'll see a decline, since there are no blockbusters to boost it to similar numbers. Splatoon should help it maintain a YoY gain during the spring here.
KZObsessed
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Bloodborne ~390k
Good. Good.
Good. Good.
theprodigy
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May 2014 was merely 61k, June 2014 was 140k though
if May 2015 ends up being 65k or something, the entire NPD thread will have to put up with so much crap leading up to June 2015....
Yeah I don't think it's worth it to Sony to do it at this point so if it does come to pass it's likely only a SE decision at this point. Just pointing it out it won't take much more than a bag a peanuts for Sony to do it at this point if they wanted to.
Wait why?
PoweredByHentai
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Yep, agreed. One of the main reasons tourists visit Malaysia is for the food!
P.S. I know we're getting off topic, but there is nothing wrong talking about food
The food conversation came about because apparently Chobel has to eat a hat and Welfare has to eat crow. I merely commented that fried crow was tasty because of personal experience.
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On-topic:
Would it be fair to assume that Bloodborne had roughly 50k to 60k digital sales on the North American PSN?
Dougieflesh
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What could possibly get Wii U to 65k though for May?
Yep, and look where we are now XD. Still waiting for Chobel to eat that hat, though.The food conversation came about because apparently Chobel has to eat a hat and Welfare has to eat crow. I merely commented that fried crow was tasty because of personal experience.
Dougieflesh
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Wouldn't most if not all the people interested in Splatoon already have a Wii U though? I don't see how it would entice new buyers personally.
Those sales aren't respectable.
Man I miss martabak.You're right. I especially love this:
It's still a shooter, which is relatively untapped.
That post was a likely joke though. No one actually expects Splatoon to sell any consoles.
If GAF had any say
Well, not if they bundle it with Halo 5.
More, your logic is a bit odd, no? Who's buying WiiU's now of all times? Shouldn't everyone already have one?
tokilamockingbrd
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eh, depends how you define sleeper. I think it does, I don't think it will be a system seller though.
ArchedThunder
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Hardline sold better on PS4? That's actually kinda surprising, didn't Battlefield traditionally sell better on Playstation last gen? Or am I remembering wrong?
Bloodborne at 389,000 is an amazing result, holy crap. A great game, it seems, so great to see the Souls series actually improving it sales. Good job, Sony.
Mario Party 10 sales breakdown (given what we know)
Mario Party 10 - 290,000
Retail - < 270,000
Standard - <143,100
Bundle - <126,900
Digital - > 20,000
Digital should be nearly 10% of retail copies and slightly 6% of overall copies (retail + digital)
Also, before Sammy asks: an update on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, please
Mario Party 10 sales breakdown (given what we know)
Mario Party 10 - 290,000
Retail - < 270,000
Standard - <143,100
Bundle - <126,900
Digital - > 20,000
Digital should be nearly 10% of retail copies and slightly 6% of overall copies (retail + digital)
Also, before Sammy asks: an update on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, please
Eh, I feel like somewhere, there's at least one random person (likely a core gamer) who is buying a Wii U mainly to play Splatoon. I mean it has a decent amount of hype on gaming-centric websites with a decent Nintendo fanbase.
Amiibos should help it