Must be simplest.
Full White circle = SO white bundle outsold everything in the world.
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NPD Sales Results for October 2014 [Up3: All of Nintendo's 3DS million sellers]
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Must be simplest.
Full White circle = SO white bundle outsold everything in the world.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Thanks for the tidbit Harker =). Out of curiosity, was B2 the best selling Wii U game of the month?
opticalmace
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:lol
Mass Effect
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SwiftDeath
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Oh I know, I was just making a light-hearted jab at things
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I choose to believe that bayonetta 2s sales being in the same ballpark as wiiu hardware sales means that it was a system seller and everyone who bought a wiiu last month did so for bayonetta 2.
AntiFacebook
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Well, it was released 4 days before the month's end. It will probably be in the November list.
Goodacre0081
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channel starving? bold strategy i must say
Thunder Monkey
Banned
A malevolent John Harker enters the field!
Nope, the restock is for that SKU
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Yup. By like 30k.
Honestly I was expecting worse for b2 so while I'm not like, happy, I'm not that sad either haha.
Hopefully Smash is a rising tide that raises all ships. Mk8 alone did wonders
ethomaz
Banned
It will be impossible to be in November list.
Edit - You have at a lot of release that will sell over 200k easily.
Maybe they delayed shipments by a week or two to coincide with Black Friday. I fully expect this plain PS4 go on sale for $350 or less on Black Friday at some retailers.
Source:
The voice in my head
They just gave up after MS PR
Huge drop for Hyrule Warriors, dang.
travisbickle
Member
I'm surprised you're surprised that people are surprised!
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Would Hyrule Warriors be the second sku behind Bayonetta 2? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
All that's left at this point is GS, Amazon and Newegg. All other major BF Ads have been leaked.
IndoAssassin
Banned
is the difference between the two increasing or decreasing?
It has no chance at charting in November. At all. Too much competition.
You have to remember that those 4 days of sales included months of pre-orders.
shinra-bansho
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Core-oriented games are generally very front-loaded and there are a ton of big franchises releasing or stronger brands that will place simply due to the absolute numbers they do, despite also being front-loaded. It won't feature in November.
There may be the occasional exception that proves the rule, but the vast majority or plurality of these core titles' sales will come in the first week. I don't really know why the "only _ days tracking" thing persists, despite this often being explained.
Dominican Power
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What's the reason why the XB1 is lagging behind?
travisbickle
Member
Should MS have released a NPD PR statement by now? Or is yesterday's PR it?
gamergirly
Member
Go smash
Agreed. Basically you have the top 5 heavy hitters CoD, GTAV, Ac Unity, Smash and Halo MCC. Then you have DA, FC4, LBP3(assuming it charts) and all the games going on crazy sale during BF.
Nightengale
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Because it's less desirable than the PS4 in October.
I hope the reason Amazon is sold out of most Xbox One and PS4 units is because they're holding them back for some awesome BF sales.
When ps4 won oct npd, everyone rushed out to buy one, duh.
It has too many games. People buy PS4 instead because it has no games so they're not faced with that conundrum.
Its less popular thus less desirable then ps4.
Shadow_FFVI
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This is the postseason. Its going to be a hard fought battle till the end. I wouldn´t be surprised if either wins. Hoping Sony has a even more compelling bundle to announce, maybe with a year of plus included.
rokkerkory
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We're too bz landing on comets to play vidgames
Dominican Power
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What made it less popular?
Yeah, sales seemed to be pretty bad. For Germany I heard the number "4000" flying around at some point (excluding bundles), that were supposed to make up ~10% of worldwide sales.
Maybe November with that good feedback and cheaper Xbox Ones? We'll see.
Because consumers are buying what they think is the better product?
There was no major event in October that could have turned things in XBones favor. November is a different story though. Price cut + lots of new bundles = Adrenaline shot in time for holidays. PS4 will lose this month if it doesn't have some really good deals.
FinalStageBoss
Banned
Damn still no cream?
I'm critiquing what Insomniac thinks is appealing, or funny, or cool. A "gamer's game" to me, is not one that sacrifices immersion at the expense of a cheap joke or quip on pop culture. But I get it, they did a post-mortem on Fuse and decided to do a complete 180 on everything that so rightfully made that game a soulless, humorless work-for-hire. But there's such a thing as too much the other direction, and if constantly reminding the player that, "hey look at you! you're playin a video game that knows its a game!" is what Insomniac thinks the market wants, and that's what you want, then by all means. I think the obnoxious tone of the game is only part of the problem, the other part is it's not fully featured (i.e. compelling competitive multiplayer)
And no, I won't be picking up any more Insomniac games after Fuse till they hit bargain prices, if at all.
People like powerful consoles not good games.
In a perfect world Wii U should be 1st, XB1 2nd and PS4 3rd
Nightengale
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Reasons.
uh, maybe 1% of worldwide sales if those numbers were anywhere near true.
Velcro Fly
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I own all 10 of those million selling 3DS games
Dragonborn
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A terrible reveal, consistently bad PR, a multitude of 180s, a high initial price.
MS has done a lot to turn things around but much like the PS3 I feel it's too late to really change the image the X1 has cultivated for itself. Much like the 360, the PS4 is now the "it" console to own, and with 1 million+ more owners in NA, that's 1 million more people pushing their friends into the Ps4 ecosystem (we've also seen evidence of this in the massive growth of PS+ as of late).
Once you understand that price isn't the only issue MS faces, everything falls into place. People say, "Oh X1 will win Nov. because it's such a good deal", but that's bias speaking. I've owned an X1 for two weeks now and it's a good console, worth every penny I paid for it; however, I still think the PS4 is, objectively, a better deal even at $399.
If I was hunting for a next gen console this month, it'd be the console I'd pick even with the X1 significantly cheaper. With that said, I think MS has gone low enough that the price difference will have a good effect this Holiday season (in NA at least). It's going to be close.
As for now, I'm just baffled as to why the PS4 isn't in stock at Amazon.
Speak for yourself homey.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Ah, so MK8 and Hyrule dropped quite a bit then... hopefully DLC + holidays + Smash helps for MK8... That also means that Skylanders, despite being 3rd best selling SKU of the game on Wii U, was pretty low on everything except 360 & Wii? Is that typical?
orthodoxy1095
Banned
There's a long and sordid history that you can look into for that. Go look at what happened after its reveal.