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NPD Sales Results for September 2007
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GarthVaderUK said:
It's been what...three weeks since Halo launched? You still can't buy a copy of the game or a 360 console here unless you happen to show up as soon as the store opens. They don't even have a slot reserved for it in the display anymore, just one of the Legendary helmets in the bottom of the case with a "Halo 3 sold out" sign.
Chrange said:
One of the local Wal-marts here has had over 100 copies sitting in the halo3 display case since launch (they had over 500 for launch, plus the legendary helmets which quickly sold out). Stock for halo3 has been present just about everywhere here, though retailers here stocked up more heavily than most places would, because there are four colleges in this town of 50 thousand people.
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Kodiak said:
I don't think a lot of western companies take that into account due to the fact that the Wii has pretty much become the defacto console in Japan. Sony doesn't have the overwhelming support of the Japanese market this generation, not to mention that their games don't really sell well in Japan anyways. if I'm in their war room looking at this, it is basically Europe and America where you will get 95% of your sales. That is what you focus on.
BrokenSymmetry
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gcfan2k5 said:
According to this press release, Fable has sold more than 2 million worldwide. It sold 600,000 in the US in its month of release (september 2004). By all accounts, it was a huge success on Xbox.
BrokenSymmetry said:
it sold ~2.5 million worldwide, and was the fourth best selling game on the xbox next to halo, halo2 and splinter cell.... however, it was hyped as the best RPG of all time, and the push for it was unbelievable at the time for an RPG game, it was expected to do much better than it actually did. And besides that, it was a letdown compared to what molyneaux promised of the game, and thats why i am being cautious with fable2.
Halo's shaping up to be the third-best selling game of the year.Smokey Bones said:
Burning Crusade sold about the same as Halo first day. Maybe more, in fact...
But it slowed much more quickly... Still, given that it was launched in January and sold 3.1 million in its first month, it probably will have sold a few more units before the end of the year.
Pokemon's the only other big one and will probably outsell them both.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I don't know why people keep expecting Metroid to be some sort of big seller. It exists in its own little world, and nothing will change that, not even the Wii's success. It's not on the same pace the original Prime was on, but both Prime and Echoes had the huge benefit of a Christmas lift in their second months. So I do think Corruption will be a bit more of a slow burner in comparison. This is the first of the trilogy that has been released in August.
Awesome for the 360 though. I said I wouldn't be surprised if it managed to hit 500k, although I would've assumed sales that were a bit lower.
Awesome for the 360 though. I said I wouldn't be surprised if it managed to hit 500k, although I would've assumed sales that were a bit lower.
Secks4Food
Member
Wow my predictions were off with a capital "O".
Crazy shit, you go MS!
Crazy shit, you go MS!
laceystorm
Member
Congrats to MS and hardcore gamers for overtaking the alpha mom's Wii fad.
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Kodiak said:
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Elfforkusu
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Don't count Mario Galaxy out just yet.Slavik81 said:
WHOAguitarninja
Member
No...it has sold more units than it had last month...ie:right now more people have ps3's than had ps3's last month.Frillen said:
DUH!
lol
TheGreatDave
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laceystorm said:
Thanks.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Microsoft and Nintendo market in America.sp0rsk said:
The events and sales of the 360 and Wii will continue, maybe not at the same paces they did this month, but the market is open and willing for two leader consoles. This time we get that.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I'm not gonna pretend that the marketing for MP3 was exceptional, but people put way too much focus on it. Just because a game doesn't sell as well as fans hope doesn't mean it was poorly marketed, and just because a game sells great doesn't mean that it's because of marketing. Nintendo spent money on a decent Echoes ad campaign, and at the end of the day it probably wasn't worth the effort, as it sold half as much as Prime. Metroid has its own fanbase who buy the game, and I don't think focusing beyond that is really all that productive for Nintendo. Corruption had an ad campaign, it wasn't all that great, but I don't think it really cost Nintendo many sales at all.rakka said:
MisterHero
Super Member
Nintendo Power always has the exclusives on Metroid Prime 3 and other games in general. It will be the same for Smash in the next issue.Grecco said:
I heard somewhere that Hunters and Prime 3 are the fastest-selling Metroid games thus far. It's not enough time for Prime 3 to compare to other Metroids but the NPD before this one set the pace. Metroid is slowly gaining popularity. Bummer for it not being much faster.
Maybe Metroid V on DS will do better...