Worldwide sales stood at 1.08 million as of June 30.Pachterballs said:apparently not a million?
june: 283k
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NPD August 2011 Sales Results [Update 4: OoT 3D]
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...pramath said:
The point is that this is the 3DS 'relaunch' so to speak. And OOT is currently the most popular title for the system. So if they sold 235k 3DS's and 84k Zelda's, what did the other 100k+ new 3DS owners buy? There's not much else out there and if they hunted for some Ubisoft bargains the 3DS will get the same 'shrug' response as it got when the first adaptors bought it.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Obviously everyone is playing Face Raiders.[Nintex] said:
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
This is NeoGAF =P.jman2050 said:
Well, a few stores were doing deals with said Ubisoft games.[Nintex] said:
(Buy a 3DS get one of those free)While others reduced prices of the games for a week (Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Dead or Alive, etc.). [SSFIV did under 95k at launch and was the top selling 3DS game to under 400k hardware; so there might be some interest still out there]
Pilotwings, Nintendogs+cats are games that hasn't been in any of the NPDs; yet doubt the games are bombing that badly too.
Guess we'll see next month with September's NPD. New color, over a month of the new price and Star Fox released along the new color.
Pachterballs
Banned
Kusagari said:
resistance 2 was a terrible game and depending on how turned off people are by it; it might be a bomb. Visually r3 looks quite good but personally due to R2...; its a bargain bin wonder for me. I'm going to wait.
The Antitype
Banned
COD has clearly become 'that game' people buy with their new console.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
for a lot of people it's one of the only games they ever get. Mainstream people I mean.The Antitype said:
OldJadedGamer said:
Exactly. I was among those saying it was a worthless move. 50 bucks wasn't going to move the sales barometer a whole lot and was only going to reduce their revenue by 50 dollars on the people who were already pegged to purchase one. Should have stayed where there were or gone 100 dollars. Dumb move.
Karma said:
Probably not in America, but it can. In Australia, as of last May, 1 in 6 PS3's sold were from the Bravia give away deal.
"Sony has announced that Australian PS3 sales stand at 850,000 units...also confirming that 150,000 of the PS3 sales came from consoles given away with Sony Bravia TV deals."
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/australia-ps3-hits-850000-sales-pspgo-under-25000
No, but if number 9 is 84k, you can imagine that everything below 10 is lower than 50k. Remember that all game sales have taken a beating these past few months. 250k for number 1 is just a really really bad month.jman2050 said:
The new color will be interesting to watch, Star Fox? That's a certain bomb.fernoca said:
Opus Angelorum
Member
I agree.
If the drop wasn't going to be $100 they should not have moved at all and waited until the holidays.
If the drop wasn't going to be $100 they should not have moved at all and waited until the holidays.
It is at least safe to say that is precisely the case when it comes to shooters. It seems like all of shooters released in that March logjam went down in price relatively fast. Same for subsequent releases. At this point people feel like the map packs are a safer purchase than another $60 game. Battlefield 3 is really screwed when it comes to head to head sales against MW3, even if it ends up being much better. Should be a good boost over BC2 though which didn't even do one million on 360 in its first month.-Pyromaniac- said:
Anyway, does anyone know what BioShock's second month sales were like? Very similar position to Deus Ex - late August release, just before some more heavily marketed games were coming out (particularly Halo 3). I think it sold something like 430K just on Xbox 360 (and no Walmart being counted) so I'm wondering if DX really does have a shot at improving its sales next month.
It guess it is inevitable that Madden will top September since the other big games are platform exclusive. zzzz.
1-D_FTW said:
I don't think it was supposed to move the barometer a ton. Their forecast this FY is flat. It seems to have goosed sales a bit in the US and Japan, anyway. They clearly have no stomach for the losses that would come from $200. So the question is, does the marginal increase in users at $250 outweigh the $50 lost revenue?
We don't have the data to reach a particularly informed conclusion, but $50 is probably somewhere around 4 games/accessories. The longer someone owns a console, the more they spend on games/accessories. In other words, there's value to Sony in selling you a machine today, rather than a machine for the same price next year.
The Antitype
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-Pyromaniac- said:
Oh for sure. There are tons of people that will buy a console just for that game.
But there are also people who feel like 'hey, an Xbox 360 is pretty cheap now, maybe I'll buy one. What game should I get with it? Well, Black Ops of course!'
Concept17 said:
And yet it will still outsell the PS3 in hardware and software, simply because it's identified as the 'online' or 'shooter' console.
I'm buying all my multiplatform games on Xbow 360, simply because it's what most of my friends play on.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
OoT's sales are very good. It has maintained a roughly 40% attach rate with hardware since its launch.
Very few games have ever managed that kind of feat (not even Halo 3 managed to get more than a 30% attach rate when it came out)
Very few games have ever managed that kind of feat (not even Halo 3 managed to get more than a 30% attach rate when it came out)
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Concept17 said:
Mainstream consumers guide sales at this point... not us. These companies are going to push what sells and if games that you feel are "yuck" brings them more sales then that is what they are going to do.
Kasumi1970
my name is Ted
I have not seen any commercial from Sony talking about the new PS3 price on TV. Maybe a lot everyday people in the US dont know about the price. I think only the internet people knows about it.
Ken Masters
Banned
Concept17 said:
Same, besides Gears 3 coming out I'm not sure why I even still have my 360. Haven't turned it on in months
Pachterballs
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Ken Masters said:
dance central stills gets playtime.
can't wait for gears 3.
and afterwards... dance central 2.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Kasumi1970 said:
What is weird is that in the Best Buy weekly ad this week they are advertising the new low price of the Move bundle at $350 and not the $250 model but it does say "new low price".
Ken Masters said:
It's not connected to the internet? Wow, you've missed out on some really good XBLA games.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
With the userbase as small as the 3DS's did you really expect it to do much more?[Nintex] said:
OldJadedGamer
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Massa said:
Oh, I didn't know every XBLA game was now matched day and date on PC. That's good for PC users. Nevermind my comment then.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
pramath said:
Shipments, worldwide.
This thread is sales, US.
OldJadedGamer said:
And apparently, X360 doesn't play 3rd party games either. :lol
At this point in the generation, I doubt exclusives drive that much in hardware sales. Chances are that if you care about Sony/MS/Nintendo exclusives, then you already own the console(s). What's left are the mainstream gamers who are going to be more than happy with CoD/BF, Batman, ASsCreed, Madden/NBA 2k.... or whatever quality 3rd party games that are coming out.
Jadedx said:
Both are equal to me since I already have Gears 3 and Uncharted 3 paid off. But I'm interested in more 3rd party games than 1st party
Infinite Justice
Member
Stumpokapow said:
I find it kinda funny that the article used as reference is from a site he/she writes on though there was an original link i.e Eurogamer in the article.
Both systems have something interesting for next month plus multiplatform stuff.
Duane Cunningham
Member
[Nintex] said:
Anecdotally speaking, I bought it on day 1 of the price drop, and have yet to buy any 3DS games. I was in the middle of Pokemon Black anyway, so I'm just finishing that for now, and playing a few things from the eshop. I'm thinking about grabbing Starfox later today. If not, I plan to get it at some point for sure, as well as Zelda and Pilotwings.
LowerLevel
Member
Massa said:
Shadow Complex is on PC finally? Cool!