Since 3/20th I believe (and since February on Amazon).
Gamestop trade in deal for XB1 also started on 3/22nd, and through 4/24th afaik.
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NPD Sales Results for March 2016
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Gamestop trade in deal for XB1 also started on 3/22nd, and through 4/24th afaik.
PanicFreak
Member
Driveclub was a flop. I'll give you my reasoning: Evolution no longer exists.
The Artisan
Member
good god, grand theft auto 5 truly is a juggernaut. i said this before and I say it again...the fact that it is so successful going towards the middle of 8th gen makes me think that gta6 won't even be out till NEXT gen.
dope seeing pokken and zelda charting too, exclusive games on the wii u
dope seeing pokken and zelda charting too, exclusive games on the wii u
Interfectum
Member
Don't own a Wii U but it warms my heart to see Zelda up there. 
Not looking good for a temporary price drop.
Thx! And that is NA Retail only, This IP has great value for Sony and is criminally overlooked
Japanmanx3
Member
I'm super late but Twilight Princess & Pokken?!?!?!?! WOW! Congratulations Nintendo!!!!
unapersson
Member
That's flawed logic, it could easily be because they didn't want to greenlight another racing project in the current market.
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Alessandro
Member
What
AnthonypUK
Member
OléGunner;201041974 said:
Absolutely, not sure why people are trying to dispute it.
Has it recovered somewhat from the pre launch debacle, absolutely, it could have been alot worse, your talking WiiU levels if they had forged ahead with the Mattrick vision.
But even taking that into account its a disaster on all levels, first party game sales are weak, even a new mainline Halo entry was down by circa 50%, none of their new IPs's has taken off. They used to dominate 3rd party sales, thats gone, and despite heavy bundling, constant price drops and promotions, hardware sales have still plateaued, this is supposed to be a consoles peak years, and in its number one territory its down YOY, let alone the ROW.
In any business thats a disaster.
AnthonypUK
Member
test_account
XP-39C²
GTA 5 sales are crazy. Cant wait to see how much GTA 6 will sell.
Sales wise however, it looks like SF5 didnt benifit from using this developement method. Hard to say how it would have sold if they did it differently, but still.
By the way, are there any fighting game sequels that have gone the route of a complete new character roster?
People would had to play the waiting game regardless though. If the game is "finished" (so to speak) in 4 months, people would have to wait 4 months. Only difference is that people get to play it earlier with less content instead of getting all content at once, so technically it shouldnt matter when it comes to waiting. If people like this or not is a matter of opinion though. I've saw both positive and negative comments with Splatoon as well regarding this, which had on-disc DLC that were released bit by bit as time went by instead of just giving people access to all the content at once. Same thing goes for Street Fighter 5 (except the content not being on-disc).
Sales wise however, it looks like SF5 didnt benifit from using this developement method. Hard to say how it would have sold if they did it differently, but still.
By the way, are there any fighting game sequels that have gone the route of a complete new character roster?
They did continue to support the game for a long time though. If the base game was a flop, it wouldnt make much sense to support it so much after launch.
I think that might be one of the main reasons indeed.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Bioshock Infinite sold over 5 million copies and has a metascore above 90. Result...Irrational shut down.
slavesnyder
Member
Those dead souls walk among us. They find no rest. And will haunt us once every month until the end of the internet.Nah, man, the consoles already died a long, long time ago. Now, their corpses are being cremated. Next month, watch their ashes being scattered to the heartless sea. In May NPD, the PS4 will be reborn like a phoenix.
American Console Story
From Zhuge. A full breakdown of the U.S. Console Market.
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/720960350661787648
Also:
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/720960350661787648
Also:
Because it was a flop, the game needed to sold a LOT more than it did because how long and troubled that development was (I think they completly discarded entire builds of the game because auteur director and the final game was almost rushed to completition?)
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I'm sorry, but that is not a flop. Poor resource management and planning don't invalidate what would otherwise be a great product and performance. No one thought it was a flop when it released. Revisionist history.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I'm not sure if it's funny or sad the Killer instinct is probably a bigger game than SFV after all the shit talk and proclaimation for being dead.
Primethius
Banned
That's some faulty reasoning. The reasoning could work if Evo stopped existing a few months after Drive Club launched. But it launched in October of 2014. Was largely fixed a few months into the next year. And Evo shut down (and the staff went to Codemasters) a little less then a month ago.
Neither? Because we have no recent sales data on KI whatsoever. So it's hard to disprove any statements like that. But I suppose the game just being a bomb isn't enough. We have to start pretending that games with no sales data are now doing better then it to really drive home the failure point.
Edit: At least we have SFV sales numbers and they have translated to Twitch viewership and tournament turnout. The same cannot be said for KI.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Exciting sales for Twilight Princess!
Nintendo should just put Tantalus on retainer and release one (or even two) of these remasters per year. Twilight Princess is a special case as the highest selling Zelda to begin with, but the ROI would be very nice even for more modestly selling releases.
Nintendo should just put Tantalus on retainer and release one (or even two) of these remasters per year. Twilight Princess is a special case as the highest selling Zelda to begin with, but the ROI would be very nice even for more modestly selling releases.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
So this is what, 2nd/3rd? month in a row they do not even mention the Xbox One itself? And last month they only had one or two sentences about their console games, everything else was Win10?
And people say there is no pattern of shifting focus?... it sure looks like one is developing, and will be interesting to watch next months statement if they do not win. And even more hilarious of they do.
Hard to measure when your current exclusive does not have any casings...
*rimshot* In all seriousness, what year is it?
"It was the summer, people had no choice but to get that."
Before the game won´t be considered barebones by longtime Street Fighter fans it will take a very long time, it surely won´t be 4 months after launch. That´s more due to the chosen business-scheme more than due to not beeing possible to be realized differently. Characters are the absolute core for a fighting game and most have actual expectations in this regard especially when it comes to long standing fighting IPs. They´ll very slowly trickle down additional characters just to push sales of their ingame currencies and season passes.
The other option could have been to actually deliver on point a satisfactory character roster selection in quality and quantity from the beginning, like Tekken and MK. Smash Bros. 4 is a game that really shines in this regard. Even SNK manages to respect the legacy of the King of Fighters series with a character roster that covers the history of the IP adequately. Capcom/Sony on the other hand present you the exact opposit with an incredibly lackluster character roster, in favour of implementing F2P-games like schemes on top of still charging 60$ from the get go.
Every bit of DLC for Splatoon was free. No micro-transactions. Minus the re-skinned amiibo content.
But KI was The fighting game with 6 millions unique players in March...
So I don't think the core are really on playstation. Sorry.
And if you have 6 million players willing only to test a fighting game in march (because we had season 3 and PC launch) could you imagine how many sfv copies capcom would sold for them?
And of course, we also must consider that all core fighting players that are on playstation also have a Xbox...
Chobel
Member
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EDIT for you edit
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Primethius
Banned
I'm glad you edited in that last line. I almost fell for the joke post.
Like Primethius said, I really hope this was a joke post.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That is a lot of unique ad revenue for that MAU.
To be honest I think what killed SFV was not exclusivity or content.
I think it was timming between the games. Could Capcom be more successful if they start this generation with a f2p version of sf4 and make SFV only on the next one?
IMHO I think they would...
Linkstrikesback
Member
Splatoon had a lot of finished content, they just spaced the release of content roughly weekly, and was a pretty original game. Oh and it was all free.
Sfv was a sequel in a well worn genre that was put on market before they'd made most of the game, planning on getting to it later
I imagine 3DS can do well this month as well, since Bravely Second is out today.
May will likely be bad, but June has a bunch of stuff coming, so it might rebound then.
The main problem last year was a lack of bog software after March or so. This year, most months have a bunch of good stuff coming, so it'll likely hold better.
May will likely be bad, but June has a bunch of stuff coming, so it might rebound then.
The main problem last year was a lack of bog software after March or so. This year, most months have a bunch of good stuff coming, so it'll likely hold better.
Neuromancer
Member
When you go from being head to head with your competition last generation, to being outsold 2:1 this generation, I would consider that a disaster.
dragonflys545
Member
More like the Splatoon had nothing else to compete with. While the PS4 had a ton of third party games to choose from.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Yeah, I forgot Wonderful 101 and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze sold around the same as Splatoon.
The closing really doesn't mean that their previous games never sold well. Imo DC had to be a super hit to save evolution. Selling well just wasn't good enough to invest more money.
Primethius
Banned
Do we know yet if Division with bundles is XB1 > PS4.
I was kinda skipping over the SFV talk earlier on in the thread and might have missed it.
I was kinda skipping over the SFV talk earlier on in the thread and might have missed it.
Eh, 3DS might hold better than expected in April, but Bravely Second will probably underwhelm compared to its predecessor. Kirby will do nice for June. Federation Force is still due for spring yet doesn't have a release date, which basically puts it in May. So yeah, May will be bad.