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[Leona Lewis]

We got a chart for the Wii U, but not the Vita? Can we get one?

Here you go.

 

[Inuhanyou]

I mean, to be fair, do you believe the Xbox One is a success or not? Many believe that the system falling far behind PS4 means it's not a success and you would not really be able to gather that trajectory from debut sales.

This is what people mean when they say "don't read too much into early sales".

I think its a decent success yes. If PS4 had not been in the picture it would be seen in a far more positive light now considering its been keeping pace with 360 in HW sales and even if it wasn't, the ecosystem sales(in digital purchases) angle is far more lucrative now than it was back then to make comparisons to 360's position in the market apples to oranges.

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...


I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

Your not gonna last much longer if you keep going like this. I think you should cool your jets a bit.

 

[Tubie]

So HZD sold 600k in an entire month...

>200k Germany
>200k UK
>200k Japan
>600k USA

That's ~1350k in a month but it supposedly sold 3M in two weeks LOL, not buying it.

It's a small world after all!

 

[Reg]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...
Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

Looks like you're the salty one lol.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...



I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

LMAO that you have the nerve to call us salty. Look in the mirror. How exactly do you know it is any more front-loaded than most AAA games? You seem salty that it's a massive success. 2.6 million in the first 2 weeks so it is WELL over 3 million by now and possibly 4 million. Deal with it.

 

[dracula_x]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...



I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

Wait, are you saying that Sony is lying? Are you serious?

Do you really believe that they published false data here → http://www.sie.com/en/corporate/release/2017/170315.html ?

 

[jayu26]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...

You don't know what this means.

Being salty is the same as being bitter towards something or someone.

pissed, upset

We are not bitter or pissed...we are making fun of your incredibly silly (and uninformed) post(s).

 

[Jawbreaker]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...



I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

Hey, can I interest any of you guys in a projector?

 

[DecoReturns]

Man Capcom, might be me just talking in hindsight, but maybe this was your chance to bring back Megaman.

 

[OfficerRaichu15]

Thinking Switch will do better than expected next month.

 

[oSoLucky]

I know we talk about it all the time, but has there ever been a AAA game with the same legs that GTA5 has? I know Minecraft charted consistently until recently but that wasn't AAA. I can only remember GTA not being in Top 10 NPD a few times, and those were mostly holiday months.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

It was stated by Zhuge that Horizon numbers don't include Digital while ME and Recon do include them.

Plus Horizon debuted February 28th in the US and I believe charted last month, so it's missing a chunk there too.

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

I know we talk about it all the time, but has there ever been a AAA game with the same legs that GTA5 has? I know Minecraft charted consistently until recently but that wasn't AAA. I can only remember GTA not being in Top 10 NPD a few times, and those were mostly holiday months.

We've never seen anything like GTAVs performance. The games that have sold as much or more are either a fraction of the price available on tablets/phones or given away.

 

[shandy706]

Nice, lots of info again.

- Starting next month, Microsoft's digital sales will be reflected in the software charts.

Cool

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Thinking Switch will do better than expected next month.

I could see the Switch winning NPD comfortably through August.

 

[theprodigy]

Plus Horizon debuted February 28th in the US and I believe charted last month, so it's missing a chunk there too.

No it isn't.

 

[oSoLucky]

We've never seen anything like GTAVs performance. The games that have sold as much or more are either a fraction of the price available on tablets/phones or given away.

I was surprised to see it still at full price in 3 different retail stores today. Ridiculous.

 

[Justified]

XBO number 2? I mean I and lots of others bought one for Planet Earth II

 

[MHWilliams]

I think its a decent success yes. If PS4 had not been in the picture it would be seen in a far more positive light now considering its been keeping pace with 360 in HW sales and even if it wasn't, the ecosystem sales(in digital purchases) angle is far more lucrative now than it was back then to make comparisons to 360's position in the market apples to oranges.

Well that's good. All that is very sensible. This is why I like you.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

I'm surprised Ghost Recon is the topper. The game opened to mediocre reviews and nobody seems to be talking about it both on and outside my internet bubble. Same with For Honor for that matter. I guess a ton of people bought it and traded it in a week later.

 

[Deleted member 471617]

Woohoo!!!

I love me some Ubi!!! GRW and For Honor in the top ten is very nice.

 

[_Clash_]

I could see the Switch winning NPD comfortably through August.

August 2018?

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Plus Horizon debuted February 28th in the US and I believe charted last month, so it's missing a chunk there too.

No it was not in last month NPD.

 

[shandy706]

The Big 3 should all be very happy with how things are going.

 

[OfficerRaichu15]

August 2018?

Next Wii confirmed

 

[Ravage_Hydra]

XBO number 2? I mean I and lots of others bought one for Planet Earth II

Switch #1
PS4 #2
XBO #3

Not sure where you getting that XBO was number 2

 

[Luigiv]

If baseball is for the ADD crowd how god damn boring is cricket.

I fell asleep at the only baseball game I've been to.

Don't ask Questions you don't want to know the answers to.

How do you figure Wildlands Xbox is above Zelda given ?

I don't know if we have numbers for the other tom clancy launches?

I don't, just speculation. The top three could really be in any permutation.

 

[Evil Monkey DTT]

Gta 5 at number 6.... like the real winner here god damn!

 

[LastMinuteHero]

We are really getting baited by this fool huh..

 

[olag]

Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

And just when I thought this would be a boring predictable thread, looks like we got a new contender for the gauntlet. Lets see how long he lasts......

Spoiler

He is probably trolling

OT: Numbers are pretty much in line with what I thought they would be, although Im still baffled by how well wild lands seems to do.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

August 2018?

August 2017. PS4 will easily top the charts in September assuming there is a mass produced Destiny 2 bundle.

 

[gregor7777]

Great for Switch. In march! Lol

Fuckung bomberman sold 100k+

 

[donny2112]

The real story here is how GTA V continues to sell after all this time.

This has been said for like 3 years now, I think? Probably will keep being said until GTAVI comes out. :lol

 

[Curufinwe]

I think its a decent success yes. If PS4 had not been in the picture it would be seen in a far more positive light now considering its been keeping pace with 360 in HW sales and even if it wasn't, the ecosystem sales(in digital purchases) angle is far more lucrative now than it was back then to make comparisons to 360's position in the market apples to oranges.

A console's success has to be judged on its total sales, and we can't do that or compare it accurately to the 360 because MS hides those numbers for the Xbone.

 

[Curufinwe]

If baseball is for the ADD crowd how god damn boring is cricket.

I fell asleep at the only baseball game I've been to.

Cricket can take longer, but doesn't have nearly as much time wasting.

There is much more going on in an average Twenty20 cricket match than an average baseball game, and they both take about 3 hours.

 

[clay_ghost]

Bomberman

 

[Curufinwe]

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...



I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

You seem oddly desperate for Sony to be lying about Horizon's sales figures.

 

[Exquisik]

Man this year is giving me so many games to play.
Off the top of my head:

• NieR: Automata
• Mass Effect Andromeda
• Nioh
• Persona 5
• TLoZ: Breath of the Wild
• Bomberman on Switch
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

And I'm currently playing through Horizon so that I can get it off my list.

My list does not have Bomberman and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (have Mario Kart 8 on WiiU), but add Gravity Rush 2 and Yakuza 0 to the list. I finished HZD over the weekend so I can finally cross one game off the list. I don't know what game to play next!

 

[Steveo]

Man this year is giving me so many games to play.
Off the top of my head:

• NieR: Automata
• Mass Effect Andromeda
• Nioh
• Persona 5
• TLoZ: Breath of the Wild
• Bomberman on Switch
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

And I'm currently playing through Horizon so that I can get it off my list.

I've played all of those games, and putting Bomberman and Andromeda in there just seems wrong.

 

[Welfare]

August 2017. PS4 will easily top the charts in September assuming there is a mass produced Destiny 2 bundle.

But if Nintendo can get the Smash 4 port in September...

The bump in September is going to be interesting. The Destiny bundle sold 300K in September 2014 and the Taken King bundle sold <173K in September 2015. I think >200K from a D2 bundle is a good guess.

 

[onemanasylum]

Some people trying to downplay Horizons success is sad to see.

Lol you guys are so salty wtf...



I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time

You are the only one sounding salty. Pal threads alone show HZD is having good legs

 

[Heshinsi]

HZD shipped almost 3 million WW. For a new IP it's done very well.

It sold 2.6M WW in its first two weeks. The game is a hit.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Horizon deserved way more than that but still happy they performed well within expectations. I mean it was beaten by fucking GTAV!

And who would've known Ghost Recon was this popular... I certainly didn't.

 

[jmizzal]

Yay Zelda

Switch did great

Ubisoft stay winning regardless of haters

 

[ChronotriggerJM]

Totally didn't think wildlands would chart so high, figured Zelda had that in the bag.

 

[AniHawk]

great. now all the switch is going to get is bomberman and zelda clones!

 

[Hero]

As explained, Kinect doesn't hit (launch-aligned) until next year...so it'll be a while before Xbox One LTD sales fall behind. But month-to-month, we can see the process starting already. The Xbox One launch-aligned lead over Xbox 360 is about 1.5m right now. This is the smallest it's been since 2015, and it includes a 1.2m advantage from the launch holiday. In other words, in all of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Xbox One has only sold 300k more consoles than Xbox 360...and they've lost almost 500k in ground during the last three months alone.

The gap will go back up this fall/winter due to Scorpio's release, but after that it's liable to be all downhill, increasingly rapidly.

Gotcha. Thanks for the detailed analysis. Definitely not a good outlook for MS, considering this is their strongest market.

PS4.




Not really, Microsoft offered a benchmark of 909,132 systems sold from Nov 22 until the end of the month. I assume NPD's numbers are below that. Meaning the XB1, Switch and PS4 were marginally close to each other in debut months. In fact, the system's were record-setting for their respective platform holders.

The biggest difference is release month. Those were in November 2013. Of course, the Game Boy Advance comparison is apt, as that system went on sale in the US in June 2011.

Yeah, it's moreso the month that's surprising, considering there were a lot of people that said launching outside holiday was crazy.

 

[Nightengale]

I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.

Sony's PS4 sales ratio highlight that US/UK are closer to 30% of their entire market.

If those 4 markets are 2/3rd of their entire market, they would never have sold >40 million PS4s.

 

[Toni]

August 2017. PS4 will easily top the charts in September assuming there is a mass produced Destiny 2 bundle.

PS4 wont be topped after August, period.

Its got Gran Turismo coming, then Spiderman, Red Dead Redemption 2, Star Wars, Destiny 2 and Call of Duty.

Literally nothing stops Sony this fall.

 

[_Clash_]

Literally nothing stops Switch this fall.

EFA IMO

Switch will go nuclear