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NPD September 2012 Sales Results [Up2: Madden, Fixed 3DS Minimum]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Fascinating, I wonder when NPD stops tracking the little portable that could.
By saved do you mean an increase over last month?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Wasn't LBP Vita out for less than a week?
I guess thats a good thing then.
We already knew there was an increase week to week compared to August (it was mentioned in the Gamespot article) so I guess sales had to be up?
Official release date was the 25th, but Sony had a soft street date and some chains released it earlier.
You were asking for Borderands launch figures, right?
Infinite Justice
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Gamespot has already said their was an increase week to week over last month for Vita (among other hardware) but creamsugar is just telling us what was responsible for that
I would bet money that Liam meant up 134%. I'm emailing him anyway, so I'll ask.
Up 134% would mean 615K in October 2009, and that would be 418K/113K/101K breakdown. Reasonable?
creamsugar
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PSP < 10K < 50K < PSV < Wii < 100K < DS < 150K < 200K < PS3 < 250K < 360
MasterSheen
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3DS and PS3 hardware number plz.
Edit: ^lol
Edit: ^lol
Infinite Justice
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interesting but where is the 3ds?
I guess you meant to put 3DS between 150K and 200K.
If COD Vita were a proper version of BLOPS2 it would probably end up as the best selling 3rd party handheld game of this generation.
creamsugar
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Sorry, 200k<ps3<3ds<250k
3DS outsold PS3? That's surprising.
Exterminieren
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Not bad for 3DS, then. Pretty nice rise.
Yeah, it would be below this time last year, but not catastrophically assuming that's notably closer to 250K than 200K.
I still think it's stuck in a rut overall, but in relativistic terms it could definitely be doing worse.
Not everyone can have powerhouse sales titles like Naruto Clash of Ninja 2 and Baiten Kaitos Origins.
Infinite Justice
Member
really? so why didn't Nintendo give numbers for it then.
I would imagine they don't want the headline "Bloomberg: Nintendo 3DS down year over year".
Investors casually looking at that probably wouldn't be pleased, and that's a concern these days: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=...n;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
Don't know how you did your math on the OP, but 3DS being over August in weekly average means it's over 213k (seeing it was over 170k in August).
Assuming it gets the various bundles that Europe does around the holidays it could do pretty well.
Obviously would have done better with something like Animal Crossing with a bundle but there you go. Nintendo seemingly has good hype for the Wii U in North America so they won't exactly be suffering.
Heck they might even pick up some 3DS sales on the back of a sold out Wii U.
I agree with your sentiment, but did we ever get official numbers that said it was over 170K in August, or were we still stuck with the sentiment of "higher weekly average than last month"?
Other way around.
A Human Becoming
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> not <.
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Sammy Samusu
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3DS > PS3 is surprising.
So what about Vita, maybe close to 65k?
So what about Vita, maybe close to 65k?
yankeehater
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Congrats Borderlands 2 well deserved sales for it.
I hope so. Great risks like that which turn out to be amazing games are worth rewarding.
TheNatural
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3DS feels like the N64 of Nintendo handhelds. 99% of the hay made is off Nintendo's own software, by any means necessary, even if the hardware numbers aren't tearing it up. I don't think the handheld market is dying, I just think the sector where companies think they can overprice $250 or even $170 handhelds is dead. This industry needs the return of the Game Boy brand, a no frills, no bullshit handheld with an analog stick, four face buttons 2-4 shoulder buttons, and one decent screen for about $99.
How fucking hard is that? Apparently too fucking hard.
How fucking hard is that? Apparently too fucking hard.
velvet_nitemare
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Is the 3DS increase due to NSMB and XL or is it due to a ramp up for the holiday season.
It's pretty damn good.
I'd imagine that if the DS was not on the shelves at all and everything else was the same the 3DS would probably gain at least 50k. The price points of the DSi to 3DS and the XL to the 3DSXL aren't enough to make everyone not jump in the pool for it.
xxbrothawizxx63
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NSMB2 sold 5% of total sales (about 5 weeks ago) in Japan and was never anywhere near to top of the charts week over week on the eshop.
In America, it's been number 1 since launch....
Doesn't give us any precise insight, but we can maybe guess that digital sales may be going much better in NA.
I'm amazed that the DS is still so strong for an ancient handheld. Those numbers are pretty high and the DS really hasn't had any new releases. Interested in how much Pokemon can push the hardware numbers, both DS and 3DS.
PS3 would have to be around that of the 360 to be considered decent, surely.