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NPD Sales Results For January 2011 [Up4: Analyst Data (Lots Of Games)]
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CrunchinJelly
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I wonder what numbers LBP2 could have done if they didn't give it away for free with every footlong.dralla said:
I thought Dead Space would be more in the 700K range with the hype and the reviews so that is a bit disappointing. I was also hoping Mass Effect 2 would make the top 10, but that was not such a surprise. This is a bit of a scary top 10 considering the types of games I enjoy.
MightyHedgehog
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Welp, looks like NPD killed Sales-Age.
Patriotsbball5460
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jvm said:
Anything at this rate would be nice
Sho_Nuff82
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Steel Diver will save our NPD threads guys, just you wait. Nintendo will be happy to share again once the 3ds is out.
Yay Dance Central, yay Dead Space, boo at Ubisoft cheesing its way into 4 top 10 entries.
Yay Dance Central, yay Dead Space, boo at Ubisoft cheesing its way into 4 top 10 entries.
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BowieZ said:
But unless it bombs, that won't be interesting either.
I'm going to only assume by Sony's horribly pathetic PR and Nintendo's silence that both of those systems bombed horribly.
You want me to assume otherwise, release your numbers. Otherwise, silence = bomb. Congratulations MS.
I wouldn't count on the 3DS cyclone. Pachter really screwed Nintendo over by egging them on with the price. The fact nobody can sell out their pre-orders is a terrible sign. 2 months out is going to get pretty ugly (unless they really restrict supply to generate some false demand).
You want me to assume otherwise, release your numbers. Otherwise, silence = bomb. Congratulations MS.
I wouldn't count on the 3DS cyclone. Pachter really screwed Nintendo over by egging them on with the price. The fact nobody can sell out their pre-orders is a terrible sign. 2 months out is going to get pretty ugly (unless they really restrict supply to generate some false demand).
NemesisPrime
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I don't envy the guy who has to write the Sony PR every month.
Opus Angelorum
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Sony have completely omitted hardware performance. That can't be a good sign.
seady said:
Should have never been priced as such as you could get the whole game plus all the major DLC for around ~$17 in December, which has me thinking the price of waiting these days is well worth it. Of course, that is only part of the problem. I imagine ME3 will play out much like Bioshock 2 as the base is on the 360. Though I do think EA tried to build it up here just not happening at that price.
I have the 360 LTD now at 25.77M.
seady said:
They wanted to make as much money as possible from the PS3 version, they knew the game was not going to sell well. I seriously doubt they or Sony thought it would do well, it's basically there for the biggie which is ME3. That game will be releasing on both on release date so that is what matters, ME3 on 360 will still heavily outsell the PS3 version but obviously nothing like what the PS3 sales of ME2 are compared to 360. The age of big 3rd party exclusives for both HD consoles is truly dead, the only shocker for me is GeOW not moving to PS3 but there is some contract of sorts between MS and Epic, why would Epic not want more sales?
Really great to see Epic Mickey drop like a rock, turd of a game and also did not like DKCR however that's just me, sister loved it so can understand and appreciate that game doing well.
BowieZ said:
Gonna be boring as fuck mate, everyone knows the 3DS will do well. The shitstorm will come when the NGP releases, success or failure that is when NPD will go back to its glory days. And of course bombas attract alot of attention, for example if Killzone 3 does not chart next month the thread will be good, the "Killzone 3 sold what it did in 5 days, it will chart next month" line will appear for sure.
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Jtyettis said:
Probably more so, considering how you can transfer ME and ME2 data to ME3.
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KingDizzi said:
Because Microsoft gives them great marketinjg as well, and then there are things like Micrsooft promoting UE3 as a de facto solution for Kinect development and so on. I'm sure they have their reasons for staying in that relationship.
Next gen, though, we'll see.
EDIT: Oops, DP.
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Rolf NB said:
UT3 was as well - in fact, it was a timed PS3 console exclusive. We're talking about Gears.
Karma said:
I believe that happened last month or perhaps just shy not sure.
As for Gears well this is what the Cliff said recently;
Obviously MS is paying top dollar to keep it that way. Though from all rumors told the original deal was for 2 games and Epic had it's choice after that so they too must be pleased either way. With it being the most anticipated game of the year at this point it's still going to make them a crap load of money on top of whatever MS is throwing in the bucket.
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1-D_FTW said:
Where is this news that no one can sell out there preorders? I've never heard of sellers "running out of preorders" ever, and I chalked this up to retailers taking as many preorders as they could at all times. If they take too many, then their preorders are just a list of people who get the systems each shipment.
Dabanton said:
I think what suprised me was that EA did NOTHING to promote it to the average gamer. No commercials, very few print ads, I don't recall seeing a lot of in store promotion for it. This was one of their biggest games last year, and instead of saying "HEY ITS ON PS3" it was more like, "well, uhhh, here's the pS3 version, buy it if you want."
My expectation due to that was somewhere around 100k-150k, the number 10 game did 195k? I suppose its possible. I was sure that there would be people here going "NO PS3 ME3, LULZ, SUPER BOMBA!!!!!" like it was realistic to expect it to do better.
Jtyettis said:
It probably did not cost MS too much simply due to the nature of GeOW, the sales are strong in EU but beastly in NA. Were it say COD where a very large portion of sales come from EU then it would be a much more costly deal for MS, PS3 software sales are no slouch in EU to say the least. PS3 not doing too hot in NA would have made the decision for Epic to stay exclusive much easier. Marketing for both GeOW games here in the UK were immense and expect no different for the third game, also saves Epic from the headache of selling a game because GeOW makes them monay but it's the engines which really keeps their pockets full.
truly101 said:
360 was bomba price within the first half of 2010, you can pick up the game for cheap so the PS3 version was never going to do well. It's gonna be the usual, ME3 will sell better on 360 than PS3 in NA, UK but the other way round in all other regions. Since NA is the region which really matters though in terms of ME games........
ME2 was promoted to hell and back on the PSN store at least. I suppose that's not reaching the entirety of the market, but still. If you're really into games and have a PS3, you'll have seen it at least once every week, for the past couple months. The ME2 icon is still on the first page of the new releases, second row of icons. And no DLC or anything for it was even released this week. BW must continue to give Sony something to keep it there.
NemesisPrime
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Yeah Epic is getting a lot out of this as well. Probably even insight (and even a say) in the next gen XBox products. I expect Epic to keep on producing a few exclusives for MS for a great many years.
I don't think MS is paying any cash TBH.
Megadragon15
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Yay!jvm said: