Spyder_Monkey
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Remember everyone saying Prey was a "bomba"?
Being one of May's two or three major releases and and debuting at 5 isn't exactly good. .
Remember everyone saying Prey was a "bomba"?
Nice to see Zelda is doing better than Horizon
The king of adventure is back.
You and most of us in the NPD predictions thread did too.
I probably won't put them at winning anymore months until the end of the year.
Then watch the stock situation gets fixed. I'm tired of getting burned by Nintendo with my predictions!!! lol.
Well, Persona 5 takes a couple of hours to jump into the good stuff, and it's a ~100 hour long rpg that requires a lot of time management to get the full experience. Not port begging here, but i wonder how it would have fared if it was a PS4/Switch release instead of the PS3. P4G felt just right on the vita, portability would have helped such a time consuming game imo.
GTAV really needs to die. It's not healthy for the industry for one game to be hogging revenue for 4+ years.
Smaller games like Prey have enough trouble competing in the AAA market and then you have GTA indefinitely demanding 10% or whatever of all software business. It just need to end.
Those platforms combined have a lower userbase than PS4, and the Switch version alone is outselling Horizon anyway. Dumb excuse.
Was at like $5.
Why are people talking like P5 did bad all of a sudden?
Being one of May's two or three major releases and and debuting at 5 isn't exactly good. .
Absolutely. It's performance has been so great it basically was a proof of concept for Ubisoft to feel confident in heavily pursuing their online centric / games as a service model
Exactly.P5 falling off the charts makes sense for a lot of reasons, one of which being that people aren't talking about it the same way they did P4; if anything, that same type of very positive word of mouth is focusing on Nier instead. And it shows in Nier's sales.
Didn't it already outsell the living crap out of previous Persona games? While the legs aren't there, they can still hold onto the fact that they still sold more from a pure units standpoint already.
Why are people talking like P5 did bad all of a sudden?
It'll be temp price drop/sales vs. improved stock this month, so take your bets!
Are some of you 12?
And coming in right under a game that's two months older sure isn't a good look, even if it is Zelda.
Okay, guys, we did it. Everyone with a video game console now owns GTAV.
If a company doesnt have a risk plan on place for other companies "taking" their materials then they are incompetent. Did Nintendo not think that anyone else could possible use the same materials? I never said they had to buy all 18 million units of materials either.No one is saying that their contract just covers enough for 10m units, but no company is going to have a contract for 18m units of components when their estimate is 10m units.
Companies gradually increase their order of components they don't plan on being road blocked by higher bids from almost every electronic manufacturer.
That's because at this point in last generation, the Wii had eaten the PS360's lunch and was 50% of the market. PS4bone would need to be around 90% up on PS360 to make up for the Wii to Wii U fall at this point. PS360 also pivoted at about this point to the Wii audience with Kinect/Move, the former giving MS a near re-launch and PS360 ended up having very backloaded sales and a prolonged generation to get to their totals.So glad to hear that PS4/XB1 is doing better than PS3/360 by a solid 29%.
Thats awesome to hear. Add switch to that and we should have a very healthy generation, for hardware sales atleast.
I expect Switch to be up from May in June but it probably won't be a huge jump.
It looks like PS4 outsold it by a decent amount in May and June will have the $249 Gold PS4.
PS4 should take the month I think
Why are people talking like P5 did bad all of a sudden?
***NPD also points out that the Xbox One and PS4 are both still collectively outperforming their predecessors, up 29% percent over the Xbox 360 and PS3.***
The videogame industry and everyone is winning...just some winning more then others! Good positive news for everyone.
Do you know if Injustice a strong performer? I know it should be past the last one just based on Mario Kart's last month sales, but I have no real basis for if it would be all the way up in the good range yet.
I doubt a game like gtav would effect preys sells, it was gonna bomb regardless thanks in part to bethesdas review policyGTAV really needs to die. It's not healthy for the industry for one game to be hogging revenue for 4+ years.
Smaller games like Prey have enough trouble competing in the AAA market and then you have GTA indefinitely demanding 10% or whatever of all software business. It just need to end.
Those platforms combined have a lower userbase than PS4, and the Switch version alone is outselling Horizon anyway. Dumb excuse.
I know, right?
Yea gotta agree with you on this.Do you honestly think that companies make a product without contracts in place for the materials? Nintendo only had materials set aside for their 10 million forecast with no backup. That's THEIR problem. It's not apples problem. It's not something that is "out of their hands".
Persona 5 has been a massive sales success, with a launch month many multiples higher than any previous release in the franchise.
Why are the PC numbers down so much? Was there a major release this time last year? Was a last month a massive slide too? Seems weird considering what a diverse platform it is.
The strong start Imo, was a product of P4 love. Legs are a good indication of fan reaction.
Compared to a cross-gen title with 5 or so SKUs representing it?
Jrpg and legs? No
Not even big names like Final Fantasy has good legs. Persona 5 had an amazing first month for the series standard, that's good enough.
The game did worse than Fates if that's what your asking.
Got a number on that, and how exactly is it an excuse? The simple fact is HZD is the only single platform title in the YTD Top 10, and the warrior bait expressed in at least 2 posts in this thread should be contextualised (IIRC WiiU sales in the launch month were about 1/3 of total unit sales).
If a company doesnt have a risk plan on place for other companies "taking" their materials then they are incompetent. Did Nintendo not think that anyone else could possible use the same materials? I never said they had to buy all 18 million units of materials either.
However, the one thing that confuses me is how they are even tracking PC releases, considering digital sales info aren't given out by many companies. Doom/Overwatch were huge in 2016 May, but don't Blizzard and Bethesda not give out digital sales info?
Pokemon?
Persona 5 has been a massive sales success, with a launch month many multiples higher than any previous release in the franchise.
Exactly.
I don't understand the good word of mouth for Nier though. Game is pretty average but I guess people are curious about it. I bought it out if curiosity!
This is me saying "depends if you..." again, but depends if you consider injustice 1 a "strong performer." Seems they launched on par but with a stronger revenue strategy-higher priced SKU drove rev