So... bundles aren't tracked in the Top 10, so H5 is still 1st without bundles, but the 935k was with bundles?this is all to crazy
man..
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Emedan
Member
It's plural and genitive(?)
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Not true at all.
MisterR
Member
If even leeh has given up on digital spin, then all hope is lost.
I thought he was in the beginning from his first post lool. Still if NPD_George is from NPD what is the incentive to give gaf numbers here? Is this real life anymore??
None of this true.
Selling 275k in a price drop month is never a win.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Fox and Ubisoft must feel real good now about that expensive asscreed movie they just started filming on.
MisterR
Member
Almost every line of this statement is incorrect. Impressive.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Maybe publishers wills start to realise that October/November releases aren't going to provide the honeypot they all want.
Halo 5 and Ass Creed releasing near COD, Fallout, Battlefront and Tomb Raider was a mistake.
Space out your releases to when there are slim pickings......
Halo 5 and Ass Creed releasing near COD, Fallout, Battlefront and Tomb Raider was a mistake.
Space out your releases to when there are slim pickings......
gundamkyoukai
Member
The hardware numbers are in line with other Octs .
Of course the PS4 price drop happen and it seem to have no effect .
But you can also say Sony put there cards in the Nov basket , next month NPD will tell .
Japanmanx3
Member
Pages 57-59 is one of the greatest reveals on gaming side.
"It was me The Neo Gaf. It was me ask along!"
Nirolak should update op and link to post.
And that ZhugeEX confirm. My man George got 2 in his corner now.
"It was me The Neo Gaf. It was me ask along!"
Nirolak should update op and link to post.
And that ZhugeEX confirm. My man George got 2 in his corner now.
Bits N Pieces
Member
I have no issues with sales threads hence the reason I'm in here posting in one and I'm up for discussing the impact these sales in both hardware for the PS4 and software sales of Halo 5 and what they could mean for the industry as a whole. I just don't seem to be able to discuss these particular aspects of this months NPD.
Maybe its cause the thread is moving so fast and all I seem to see are funny gifs and memes and people posting doom and gloom without much actual insight or thought.
Maybe ill revisit the thread in a day or two, once everyone has calmed down and we can have a proper discussion without the need for point scoring or console war witty remarks.
Keep trying, every one of your posts in this thread looks like damage control for Microsoft. First off, the XB1 actually has a larger install base than the 360 when their respective non-remastered Halo's launched. Also, not a Sony first party game that sells as good as Halo? Sure...
Halo discussion already happened in a thread made with UK numbers.
It's too late, the film should have released in 2012 when the franchise was peaking. Same thing with the Warcraft & Hitman movies.
It is when the competition launches the biggest exclusive they have and only wins by 25k units.
Yep. And not just Halo. If anybody needed more proof that Xbox as a device agnostic platform is coming, this is it.
Only official numbers get updated in the OP. Don't want to draw too much attention to anyone leaking numbers.
Sangetsu-II
Member
At least Sony still profiting from each console sold at that price unlike MS last year, no?
Weak win, I'll say though.
And lots of stuff got delayed too. So yeah I don't know.
People want more games, people want less games.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Well, Sony already realised this and other publishers seem to have to looking at the releases early next year.
The under-performance of their competition is not an excuse for those abysmal numbers.
Thebeardofknowledge
Banned
28k gap and a halo flop ? PS4 still won
The Artisan
Member
halo 3 came out two years after 360 launch, same can be said about halo 5 and xbone. And if I'm not mistaken, the xbone has still been outpacing the 360's sales growth, so it's install base should be bigger than the 360's in this same point in time.
igordennis
Member
I see a lot of discussion and very few images and memes and one liners.
DarkLordMalik
Member
You honestly think they will shift the whole franchise to PC and lose millions of potential sales and also the savior of Xbox hardware? Nope, they won't.
I think Microsoft will be more critical of the next Halo now, and if it doesn't manage to show growth, then we can think of extreme scenarios like the one you mentioned. Launching day and date with PC won't help the series much, if at all. Halo 5 story ends on a cliffhanger and it is not like the series is available on PC unlike the Xbox One.
Yes and the consensus was "but digital and US sales will be better" which this disproves.
Besides that was only Halo. Unless I missed an Assassins Creed thread somewhere.
Japanmanx3
Member
Consumers holding out for Black Friday is the excuse, and it deflated both consoles sales.
Maybe you're focusing too much on the posts that bother you? I mean, there's been enough sensitive posts about the topic at hand. I would argue that there's been an overwhelming non-trollish response to these results, compared to other threads.
Chezzymann
Member
Guys we need more and more GAFers to try and get jobs at NPD so that when more people are silenced by the NPD ninjas we have more GAFers to take their place. Soon the entire company will be run by GAF
Yeah, I think diverting the resources of 343i into a new IP would be a better business decision.
The Artisan
Member
no you're not. I feel the same way.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Context is important here.
This is the lowest price drop Sony has ever done after the longest period of time .
It also before Nov which is normally full of deals and Sony has had Nov deals up for months now .
Down YOY with price cut having no real impact. Not really.
I'd like to know what Uncharted numbers are. George? Add to missed expectations for October
I think retailers have made a big mistake making Black Friday and holiday sales such a big focus. Now instead of sales and deals being better spread throughout the year, presumably they're more lopsided mostly towards the last few months of the year instead, at least the its respect to consumer buying habits.
MisterR
Member
Those numbers are typical of October numbers and a $50 price drop isn't going to change that much when people know the crazy deals and bundles are coming in November. Now if November numbers are bad, then we may have signs of a problem.
They will merge Xbox into Windows in the next years and start to publish the games on PC aswell.
Not sure it will happen with the next Halo or later but i think the next Xbox (if there is one) will be normal PC with Xbox big picture mode.
The context will be here next month (The PS4 needs to sell at least 1.3m+ in November), but that doesn't mean those numbers aren't terrible.
DarthWalden
Banned
Not such a bug exclusive anymore...
TBF game vendors (especially hardware holders) also contributed to that.
Instead of bolding one part of the sentence, read the whole thing. I said maybe it did better in EU than people expected (not better than NA of course).
I don't know man. We don't have production / marketing costs, but Halo will still make them money. They just need to dial their projections down.
Katana_Strikes
Member
You should have stopped there. The rest of your post was false.