NPD Sales Results for October 2010 [Update 6: Rock Band 3]

LCfiner said:
Come on, Pachter.

Do Gaf a solid and get the rest of these numbers out there.

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!
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Needs to because I fear we're not getting them otherwise unless CS drops some hints or something. I was pretty surprised he did it last month though.
 
Great New Vegas numbers, and wow at RB3 at 15. It's not a bad game, although I'm saying this having skipped RB2. Plastic peripheral rhythm games must have achieved total global saturation.
 
AlphaTwo00 said:

THE FUCK?

No. Seriously.

2D = $15?

We live in a fucked up world these days.
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Join my regular rants about video game value perception. Metroid Other M was $60 and Shadow Complex was less than $20. Boxed SD game compared to Digital Download HD game.
 
Warm Machine said:
Join my regular rants about video game value perception. Metroid Other M was $50 and Shadow Complex was less than $20. Boxed SD game compared to Digital Download HD game.
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fixed.
 
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Warm Machine said:
Join my regular rants about video game value perception. Metroid Other M was $60 and Shadow Complex was less than $20. Boxed SD game compared to Digital Download HD game.
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WOAH.

Metroid Other M is now an SD game when running on 480p.

I'm backing the fuck out of here... :lol

May come back when more numbers come in, and less insanity is in the thread.
 
Fallout: New Vegas (360+PS3; CE+std) -- 1.01MM
Fable III (CE+std) -- 580K
Just Dance 2 -- 286K

Numbers are real, unable to comment further. And this is not a policy shift re: leaks, so don't get any ideas.
 
AlphaTwo00 said:
WOAH.

Metroid Other M is now an SD game when running on 480p.

I'm backing the fuck out of here... :lol

May come back when more numbers come in, and less insanity is in the thread.
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480p isn't SD..?


EviLore said:
Fallout: New Vegas (360+PS3; CE+std) -- 1.01MM
Fable III (CE+std) -- 580K
Just Dance 2 -- 286K

Numbers are real, unable to comment further. And this is not a policy shift re: leaks, so don't get any ideas.
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Very disappointing for Fable then. UK numbers were up on Fable 2, so I was expecting similar in US.
Force Unleashed 2 is way down on the first also.
 
AlphaTwo00 said:
WOAH.

Metroid Other M is now an SD game when running on 480p.

I'm backing the fuck out of here... :lol

May come back when more numbers come in, and less insanity is in the thread.
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1 = 1
 
Happy for New Vegas, of course. :D In a totally not-objective, it's my personal GOTY kind of way. Hope the sales keep on through the holidays.

theBishop said:
If Trine, Limbo, Braid, Shadow Complex, etc are fucked up, I don't want to be unfucked.
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Limbo's a nice $15 game, but let's wait for Retro's game to come out before you start declaring it a better value for your money, okay?

Sipowicz said:
how much was little big planet?
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too much!!!
 
If anyone does not like the Wii games then they dont need to buy it. simple as that.

For me i will buy the downloadables and the wii games as long as they entertain me.

user_nat said:
480p isn't SD..?
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its ED! :lol

Alex said:
I think the main issue is that Other M and Epic Yarn are woefully mediocre games.

Personally I enjoy seeing full retail editions of these old platformers still, though there is some truth to the fact that it can take a little more justification to sell them at that price when really, really good, equally well presented titles are coming down constantly off of Steam, XBL, etc.
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well i dont think games that scored above 8 on major gaming sites can be considered mediocre.

also dont forget that one of the best sellin games last year is a boxed 2d platformer

if they had released that for 15 dollars nintendo would have lost hundred millions of dollars.
 
Personally I enjoy seeing full retail editions of these old platformers still, though there is some truth to the fact that it can take a little more justification to sell them at that price when really, really good, equally well presented titles are coming down constantly off of Steam, XBL, etc.

I don't think that says much about the genre or style, LBP (although, I think it's a piss poor platformer) really pushed something with effort and feature set. I think the main issue is that Other M and Epic Yarn are woefully mediocre games.
 
EviLore said:
Fallout: New Vegas (360+PS3; CE+std) -- 1.01MM
Fable III (CE+std) -- 580K
Just Dance 2 -- 286K

Numbers are real, unable to comment further. And this is not a policy shift re: leaks, so don't get any ideas.
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Ok, at least Fable 3 will make a profit. However, this should be the end of the franchise.
 
Alex said:
I think the main issue is that Other M and Epic Yarn are woefully mediocre games.

Personally I enjoy seeing full retail editions of these types of games still, though there is some truth to the fact that it can take a little more justification to sell them at that price when really, really good, equally well presented titles are coming down constantly off of Steam, XBL, etc.
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False.

What it attempts to do, it does very, very well. Now maybe that isn't something that appeals to you (for one thing, it's obviously skewing for an even younger audience), but that doesn't make it bad at what it does.
 
Best I got for now:
“Fable III” (580,000 units) launched as the #2 game in October, while “Halo: Reach” (315,000 units) continued strong sales in its first full month on the market. (Source: NPD Group, October 2010)
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godhandiscen said:
Ok, at least Fable 3 will make a profit. However, this should be the end of the franchise.
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Gross overstatement so I'll repeat myself;

About 5 days of sales versus 12 for Fable 2 first month. It was number one for Fable 2 in the non-combined SKU NPD. So it maybe tracking relatively about the same at 4 in the combined.
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Which at that rate would be about the same. 580k 5 days versus 790k for 12. Though I do think there will be a nice break for the next one.
 
AlphaTwo00 said:
WOAH.

Metroid Other M is now an SD game when running on 480p.

I'm backing the fuck out of here... :lol

May come back when more numbers come in, and less insanity is in the thread.
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lol, yeah maybe you should back out of here.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
Oh sweet

We're arguing about video game value

All games that I don't personally like should be a dollar
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I personally believe that Shadow Complex was probably worth more than $20. I would have paid $40 for it. If playtime = value, Geo Wars 2 would have been worth at least $200 to me.

It is when the price expectation for DD games hits the $5 and below zone I get really concerned with peoples concept of value. 5 games of Daytona USA (which would be 15 minutes of play) is $5 in the arcade.
 
godhandiscen said:
Ok, at least Fable 3 will make a profit. However, this should be the end of the franchise.
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I hope it's not the end of the franchise, but i also hope the next game doesn't suck.
 
Damn I did not even realize today was NPD day, GAF was bad enough arguing over sales when we had concrete numbers and now all we have is tidbits and conjecture so the sales conversation is just abysmal.
 
godhandiscen said:
Ok, at least Fable 3 will make a profit. However, this should be the end of the franchise.
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O_O

580,000 sold in it's first month and it's the end of the franchise? What is Lionhead going to make to bring home the bacon, Milo?
 
Jtyettis said:
Gross overstatement so I'll repeat myself;



Which at that rate would be about the same. 580k 5 days versus 790k for 12. Though I do think there will be a nice break for the next one.
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Interesting. I still think they should give Fable a rest or set the next one in the future.

SimpleDesign said:
O_O

580,000 sold in it's first month and it's the end of the franchise? What is Lionhead going to make to bring home the bacon, Milo?
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I have nothing against Fable, it's just that I wish it made a radical change for the future games.
 
CadetMahoney said:
Guess gameinformer thinks it's time to break out the champagne and sing happy days are here again at Sony.
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This is not gameinformaer. This Anita lady in NPD always looks for a silver lining in Sony’s numbers.
 
While the PS3 overall did not experience an increase from September to October, the PS3 bundle with Move experienced a 15 percent increase over September 2010.
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God I hate this new NPD. What an utterly meaningless stat in the grand scheme of things.
 
How great that one of the buggiest games ever released sells 1 million copies. Great message to developers and publishers out there.
 
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