waitwhat42
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God these numbers are depressing, Little Big Planet is dead, and I can't imagine EA letting Bioware make another Dragon Age.
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NPD Sales Results for November 2014 [Up3: NPD Data Error, AC:U #5]
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God these numbers are depressing, Little Big Planet is dead, and I can't imagine EA letting Bioware make another Dragon Age.
That's decent.
yeah......You really have no idea what you're talking about lol. I'm sure they're happy with their performance without having to drop the price.
OT but is it worth getting if I hated the first game for floaty physics? I kinda want to support that kinda game.
I'm sure you're providing this strategy/advice after closely examining their books and understanding projections, correct?
travisbickle
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Quote myself from the other thread yesterday.
Comprehensive win for MS, and ticks all the boxes for their strategy. Like I said originally this makes it look like people were specifically choosing One over the other.
Shame I put in a small win for Sony as my prediction this month because I thought MS's plan had failed.
That's not too bad for a BioWare opening historically. This was an expensive game though.
EA and Bioware don't. Price for past sins.
Not bad. It sold better than Origins. With the strong word of mouth the game is receiving, I'm sure it'll have legs. The game deserves to do great!
Without the PC digital and console digital sales, that's not bad. Only NA sales, right?
Its so sad some people are more interested in seeing companies suffer than good games do well.
Welfare
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No Playstation Sanic. It probably did better as well
DA:I did ok I guess.
How the hell did you catch that?
Relaxed Muscle
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Syphon Filter
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It doesn't mean it did bad, remember Nov has many million sellers usually.
Rekkapryde
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Probably. All it took was Microsoft flipping the switch and they cut the lead in the US by almost half.
It also doesn't help that Sony's bone headed decision on making the 20th aniversary bundle extremely limited, and sticking with the $400 price point for Black Friday and the holidays.
This part is probably a stupid thing to put a thought on but I bet That Final Fantasy 7 remake troll at PS Experience killed a lot of hype for the PS4 for December and early 2015. Of course I'm likely wrong but I got this feeling in my gut...
Cow Goes Moo
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I was more or less kidding lol, still a horrible time for it to come out amongst everything else
Lot of moving parts between now and then. MS might drop the cuts, although it is unlikely, or Sony might make a move to counter, which seems also kind of unlikely given how broke they are these days. Based on this though, MS probably could close the gap by then if they want to put enough cash into it.
IAmRandom31
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Augh
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Deleted member 80556
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The one game with Hugh Laurie and people don't play it. SMH.
SargerusBR
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loaf of bread
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Not really aside from the ones you mentioned every other one has sold over a million, even Knack
Naughty_Doge
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Ouch those LBP3 numbers.
At least Dragon Age doesn't seem so bad if it's between 500k and 600k.
At least Dragon Age doesn't seem so bad if it's between 500k and 600k.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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Fucking Roy. Does he ever stop his stupid flipping shit?
Welfare
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1240k and 840k actually.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Creamsugar whats up with sonic doom?
bananafactory
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Driveclub sold quite well actually.
3rdamention
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So lead December by 400k as well, then lead all next year, and be caught up next holiday? That would be something, I guess.
Not surprising at all that LBP3 struggled. So many factors were leading up to this result.
1. Releasing near Black Friday at $59.99 when people were looking for deals.
2. Obviously stacked holiday lineup (COD, Far Cry, Dragon Age, etc.)
3. Being bundled with the Family Pack.
It'll be fine though. Little Big Planet typically has long legs.
1. Releasing near Black Friday at $59.99 when people were looking for deals.
2. Obviously stacked holiday lineup (COD, Far Cry, Dragon Age, etc.)
3. Being bundled with the Family Pack.
It'll be fine though. Little Big Planet typically has long legs.
For all the talk of software decline, why aren't people taking DD into more consideration? Perhaps the migration is bigger than we think, especially for games available on PC.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the platform with likely the least popular digital distribution platform in Nintendo is the one that is topping the software retail charts despite the lower userbase.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the platform with likely the least popular digital distribution platform in Nintendo is the one that is topping the software retail charts despite the lower userbase.
theprodigy
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that's because it's 1240k and 840k
Don't worry, I don't. Feel better?
If you HATED the first game (or second game), you're still unlikely to really dig LittleBigPlanet 3. hate is such a strong word, so I would think it's not enough to convince someone who hated LBP1 to like LBP3.
It does significantly improve the physics and the other sacks drastically add to the potential gameplay options, from both a story mode and create mode perspective.
But there's still a bit of jankiness to it, because it's still a physics based game that requires you to manipulate the world around you, and so it's the best possible function for a game that has slightly different goals than, say, a pure Mario platformer.
It's as good as the formula is likely to get I'd say.
Source?
They should seriously make a $299 SKU with just the bare console.
And a White $399 SKU a 1 TB HDD with the Last of Us / InFamous bundle or Little Big Planet 3 / Knack bundle.
Leverage that first paaaaaaaaaarty.
El-Pistolero
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This is a significant victory for MS. I wonder how December results are going to look like...
It also seems that the first two weeks of November (Correct me if I'm wrong) are what sealed the deal. I have never seen a company be so much aggressive with the bundles and price cuts, but they are in a position to take the hit, financially...
The American market will be interesting to follow from now on.
It also seems that the first two weeks of November (Correct me if I'm wrong) are what sealed the deal. I have never seen a company be so much aggressive with the bundles and price cuts, but they are in a position to take the hit, financially...
The American market will be interesting to follow from now on.
A bit of a stretch. A lot of people think the XB1 still can't play used games, Kinect is watching etc. Not to mention the technical performance of nearly all games being better on PS4. Oh, and XB1 has nearly no games planned for 2015 while the PS4 is starting strong with Bloodborne.
Dude we get it. Don't worry Sony and the PS4 are fine.
Muppet of a Man
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I blame the dudebros...these companies are just giving them what they want, which is the same lowest-common-denominator repackaged game year after year.
It's this industry's version of pop music tripe and summer blockbuster movies with big explosions but no substance.
Duxxy3
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They already gave their response. Free choice of game with the purchase of a system.
Why do anymore than that?
John Bender
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Oh, and btw:
(2nd November 2014)
(2nd November 2014)
(he meant PS4)
PeakPointMatrix
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Lol, you don't know how a business works do you?
Sony totally should have sold the PS4 for $99 last month. Imagine how many units they would have sold! That's the only thing that's important, right?
And it will do just fine now that the weather patch is out and people are learning about the online working properly. And when PS+ version finally comes out lots more will upgrade
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