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NPD Sales Results for November 2007
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CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I think we can all agree those 360 numbers are slightly disappointing. I wish we had an SKU breakdown.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
I am not saying that DMC4 will sell necessarily better on the PS3, but it is going to sell much closer to the 360's numbers than AC or COD4 did.
It is a Playstation franchise and many of those people who bought a PS3 as a natural progression from the PS2 will also end up buying that. For much of the 360's userbase, it might be their first foray into the series. Fortunately for the 360, their userbase buys a ****ton of software.
It is a Playstation franchise and many of those people who bought a PS3 as a natural progression from the PS2 will also end up buying that. For much of the 360's userbase, it might be their first foray into the series. Fortunately for the 360, their userbase buys a ****ton of software.
jordan0386
Member
:lol
Kestastrophe
Member
Please exclude me from that "all" you speak of. I think the 360 sold well, especially when compared to the Wii and PS3.cjelly said:
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
AlteredBeast said:
That's WHY it will sell quite a bit better.
Didn't each Devil May Cry iteration sell less than the previous one?
I'd wager many Xbox owners have been DYING to have this game. Hence why it will sell a fucktonne.
Mariah Carey
Member
Personally, I love the game because it is a nice way to relax after a long day. There is very little stress involved in the game, you don't even get punished for dying. I also love the level design in the game. I still find new areas in levels that I have gone through multiple times. It does not get a lot of love from hardcore gamers since it is two things that hardcore gamers hate: cute and star wars.Segata Sanshiro said:
It is a close second for my GOTY, people might say I have bad taste because for that, so be it.
artredis1980
Banned
Sony has had 2 Price Drops, from 599 all the way to 399, thats $200 dollars in a matter of a couple of months
Microft has had 1 price drop from 299 to 249, thats 50$ in the first 2 years, if Microsoft makes another 50$ price drop early next year ... Game over
Microft has had 1 price drop from 299 to 249, thats 50$ in the first 2 years, if Microsoft makes another 50$ price drop early next year ... Game over
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
itxaka said:Casual? For me it´s a new-gen version of Decathlete, but waggle-mashing instead of button mashing. I don´t see the casual in there, I don´t really see a 14 year old waggling to death on the 4x100 event
Now if I was into gay child pornography, I might be aroused by that statement.
it's never too early for december predictions
if you simply went by the december ~2x november rule of thumb, sales would look like this:
ps2 992k
ps3 932k
psp 1134k
360 1540k
wii 1962k
nds 3060k
but there are considerations to be made.
1) i contend that this december will not see that same scale due to the extended holiday period sales of november. there are essentially three shopping weeks before christmas instead of the usual four. for giggles, i'm still keeping my multiplier at 1.8, which would look like this:
ps2 892.8k
ps3 838.8k
psp 1020.6k
360 1386k
wii 1765.8k
nds 2754k
2) but even then, do you really think 360, for example, can keep up with that pace? that would absolutely shatter the xbox family record for a december. is it possible? how about wii and ds? can nintendo actually ship that many? also, it's not unprecedented for a system to perform about like expected in november and then take go on to relatively tank in december. relatively. for example, gamecube 2002. increased only ~32% from november to december that year. meanwhile, xbox and ps2 more than doubled.
eh.... not ready to predict yet, but those would be astonishingly high numbers for everyone at 2x, 1.8x, or even slightly lower.
if you simply went by the december ~2x november rule of thumb, sales would look like this:
ps2 992k
ps3 932k
psp 1134k
360 1540k
wii 1962k
nds 3060k
but there are considerations to be made.
1) i contend that this december will not see that same scale due to the extended holiday period sales of november. there are essentially three shopping weeks before christmas instead of the usual four. for giggles, i'm still keeping my multiplier at 1.8, which would look like this:
ps2 892.8k
ps3 838.8k
psp 1020.6k
360 1386k
wii 1765.8k
nds 2754k
2) but even then, do you really think 360, for example, can keep up with that pace? that would absolutely shatter the xbox family record for a december. is it possible? how about wii and ds? can nintendo actually ship that many? also, it's not unprecedented for a system to perform about like expected in november and then take go on to relatively tank in december. relatively. for example, gamecube 2002. increased only ~32% from november to december that year. meanwhile, xbox and ps2 more than doubled.
eh.... not ready to predict yet, but those would be astonishingly high numbers for everyone at 2x, 1.8x, or even slightly lower.
pooteeweet
Banned
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
pDawg said:
Yeah, my membership must have got lost in the mail :lol
Son of Godzilla
Banned
AD failed because it was unable to reduce it's operating costs to stay in line with the crowd it commanded and existed in a time when DVD sales weren't able to be depended on to prop up the cost.DevelopmentArrested said:
So yes, comparing Uncharted to AD is actually a pretty good example.
avatar299 said:
I don't want to derail the thread, but we'll probably never know how popular Arrested Development actually was. The Facebook popularity rating while I was in college was #2 right after Grey's Anatomy. That's pretty damn popular. The problem is that Neilson didn't measure college campuses at the time, so among the folks they did measure it did really poorly. I think they're doing a few colleges now, but nothing significant. Really their entire system is suspect in my opinion.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
lockload said::lol
Now we need a chart that shows how much profit is being made.
Adam Blade
WWKC
pooteeweet said:
should start looking for proxies pooteeweet
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Psychotext
Member
Some amusing posts in there... with hindsight of course.Adam Blade said:should start looking for proxies pooteeweet
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AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
cjelly said:
Went up 50% over last years numbers, Better than PS2's November numbers from 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004.
How were they disappointing, again? They are selling better than the best selling console of all-time almost ever sold in a November in the USA.
lockload said::lol
I like this chart, however Revenue != net profit. For example:
How much does Nintendo make on its hardware vs Microsoft & Sony?
How much is each company making off of software revenue (1st party, royalties, etc.)?
But, judging off of why this was posted (someone said 360 sales overall were dissapointing), yes Microsoft XBOX360 is a very healthy platform.
What this does tell me is:
Nintendo is making money hands over fist on Hardware + 1st Party Games + Accessories.
3rd Parties are making great money on XBOX 360. Microsoft is making a killing off of Halo 3 + Mass Effect and doing solid on hardware.
3rd Parties can make multiplatform SKU's and release the secondary SKU's (i.e. ports) on PS3 and still turn a good profit (because the userbase for the PS3 is a bit low for it to be the lead SKU at this point in time).
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Judging by this thread, Resistance 2.Speevy said:
HocusPocus
Member
Odysseus said:
Wii is supply constrained. It won't get that high, but could if it was available.
That wasn't the biggest problem. I remember at the time AD was on I "worked" at a relatively large torrent site, and as a result we had been in contact with some of the studios about their shows.Tiktaalik said:
Fox, at least then measured popularity more on DVD sales than the ratings with some shows, becuase of the reason you stated. The thing is, while Futurama and Family Guy were selling out dvds AD dvds kinda flopped. However their torrents never fell, unlike Family Guy torrents did. At times AD had more seeds with a weekly episode of the soprano's or Lost. The show had a fanbase, Fox knew it, but they couldn't tap it. They didn't buy DVD's and they didn't watch the show on television.
it's why Fox did so many things with the timeslot and the campaigns(Pamela Anderson gets an award or something like that) AD was just a victim of the market changing.
If you want to talk about this more, send me a PM.