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NPD Sales Results for May 2013 [Up2: 360, 3DS Est, Software lowest since May 2000]
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A Human Becoming
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creamsugar posted a number.
Still an atrocity EOIV sold that paltry amount.
Game shits on a lot of games released this year ffs.
Aquamarine
Member
I've heard rumors that Fuse was somewhere in that ballpark. So I'm going to believe this.
Still incredibly sad. :-(
It's a middling game with a focus tested generic look. I'm just glad Insomniac has some stability with Microsoft because this gen has been all over the place for them.
shinra-bansho
Member
jvm has a good article that encapsulates the situation well:
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/1925...w_consoles_but_oldgen_surprisingly_viable.php
I think you're still being generous.
At 33K in the US and 25K in Japan in May. It's probably less than 100K/month.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Sony, MS, and Nintendo have had the "we're the only game in town" attitude for so long it has actually hurt the industry. No one has flinched on price because they had no competition besides each other. That has obviously changed. They can't be content with simply squeezing out small hardware profits at the expense of everyone else trying to sell software.
As long as it profitable I guess.
Bravely Default in us. I predict we will see some Nintendo published 3rd party games. Monster hunter 4 could be a possibility.
DarkLordMalik
Member
If i am not wrong Soul Sacrifice actually did better than EO4 or Soul Hackers on 3DS. I remember that Creamsugar had posted the numbers for these games.
It did better than those games but SS should have done a lot better than it ended up doing.
What does the linked post to do with Fuse?
because fuse sold about as much as etrian odyssey iv
games like that actually make a decent buck for smaller companies like atlus.
For a niche game available for just 5 days (February NPD), it isn't a bad number at all.
Napalm_Frank
Member
So FUSE sold around the same amount as Vita did huh?
We still don't know the winner.
We still don't know the winner.
Well, if we look at worldwide numbers (>200k in Japan, 43k in US, Europe?) it's certainly over 250k, probably 300k with digital sales. Doesn't sound too shabby and should definitely be profitable, even if they might have expected more.
The problem is that it was supposed to be Sony's big Vita game to help turn things around and compete with MH.
DarkLordMalik
Member
But it was too dark and gritty and certainly wasn't a monster hunter killer as they touted it. So it was a hard sell anyways. It was top downloaded game on the PSN charts so it did good enough for Sony, i guess.
But i will interested in the other big exclusives like Tearaway and Killzone: Mercenaries, which are more suited to the mainstream audiences.
Oh gosh I really want someone to bump that thread if only to get the GIFs/responses that will come afterwards.
I wonder if their R&D is efficient enough to have some kind of oculus rift like powered console ready for the next generation. Shikamaru Ninja would probably say no.
May 2013 period ended 1 June 2013.
FUSE launched on 28 May 2013. It had five days of sales.
seattle6418
Member
The market is almost always fair. Fuse is the most generic thing they could think. It´s like they are not even trying.
Who OK´d this?
Sometimes you see people crying over games not selling, but after you play them, you usually understand why it was such a bad seller. I remember feeling sorry for Playstation All Stars and them i played the game.
Bomba justified.
Same with Fuse, same with Grid 2. Who asked for Grid 2? What was the market for it? None!
With all this low sales period now, and we will have a bunch of games sent to die in the holidays. Beyond Two Sould, for instance, will be a great game and a huge bomba, should have been a 2012 title when Sony had nothing in first party, but instead is clogging up 4th quarter which is already full of blockbuster titles.
Who OK´d this?
Sometimes you see people crying over games not selling, but after you play them, you usually understand why it was such a bad seller. I remember feeling sorry for Playstation All Stars and them i played the game.
Bomba justified.
Same with Fuse, same with Grid 2. Who asked for Grid 2? What was the market for it? None!
With all this low sales period now, and we will have a bunch of games sent to die in the holidays. Beyond Two Sould, for instance, will be a great game and a huge bomba, should have been a 2012 title when Sony had nothing in first party, but instead is clogging up 4th quarter which is already full of blockbuster titles.
Frankfurter
Member
With the estimates we have (X360, 3DS ~115k each, everything else below, total HW sales probably below 500k?) does anybody have a guess when hardware sales were lower the last time? It's seems like these are incredibly bad numbers overall. May isn't exactly known as the best month for HW sales, no doubt, but still for example I just looked up May 2011 and it's like night and day. 360 and Wii combined were over 500k.
Refreshment.01
Member
Can someone be kind enough to share the sales aproximate for consoles. Thread is a bit big. That is of course if people managed to deduce something or if the generous insiders shared some aproximates.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
spindoctor
Member
Wait back up there for a second. A lot of people wanted Grid 2 to happen. The first game was really good but after that Codemasters got entrenched with the Dirt series and F1 games. What you can reasonably argue however is that no one asked for Grid 2 eventually turned out to be (significantly easier, lower focus on track racing, no cockpit mode etc.)
Also is it just me or have figures dried up in the last 2-3 months? Usually the OP would get updated 5-6 times with more information but it seems now that no one is talking about the numbers anymore.
CadetMahoney
Member
Do they post this in every NPD and if so can you calculate if the gap is widening over time?
Obviously handhelds aren't counted in the figure since they would mention 3DS having similar numbers.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/stock/meeting/130627qa/img/slide04_l.jpg
Using 114k for Xbox 360 as a basis:
3DS: 115k
PS3: 85k
Wii: 36k
Wii U: 34k
DS: 34k
Vita: 16k
PSP: 4k
Using 114k for Xbox 360 as a basis:
3DS: 115k
PS3: 85k
Wii: 36k
Wii U: 34k
DS: 34k
Vita: 16k
PSP: 4k
Agree on PS3 and PSV.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Dat PSP EU marketshare <3
Damn them for discontinuing PSPGO over here
But it doesn't play KH BBS...
airmangataosenai
Member
Probably the Saturn. Actually I remember seeing online that the Saturn did 1.2 million in it's first 8months so the Wii U is tracking almost equally to it now.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Yes it does :3
Gonna start a new game in fact soon on BBS FM. Just bought a PSP GO. Now just need to get Danganronpa too.
Fuckin Vita can't have patched games. Damn you Sorny! Then again if even vanilla BBS was available on PSN I would perhaps forgive them.
KillerTravis
Banned
Wait how can this be bad? This number of units sold in just 2 years is really good.
A Human Becoming
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Not since 2001:
PS2: 2010
Xbox: 2006
Gamecube: 2006
360: Not yet
PS3: Not yet
Wii: 2013
I guess they were comparing it with DS? How was the DS on its 2nd year?
Refreshment.01
Member
Are this legit? Well more or less i mean.
Vita 16K, almost dreamlike to see such a nice system get this sales even with some decent game released. Wii outselling Wii U. How much would i've liked to see Nintendo giving strong support to the system for 2 more years instead of dropping it post 2010. Wonder how that would have changed things.
Unless my eyes are deceiving me, PS Vita (and maybe even PSP) outsold the Wii U worldwide in May. That's nuts.
Refreshment.01
Member
PSP? Where are you getting the other numbers besides Japan that is? But it is a very interesting comaparison non the less.
NSMB U: 70% attach rate (770k)
Next highest game: 150k
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=68930271&highlight=#post68930271
Next highest game: 150k
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=68930271&highlight=#post68930271
timetokill
Banned
So, NSMBU is no system seller
On the contrary -- Considering the attach rate, I'd say NSMBU was a system seller, just not to as many people as Nintendo would've hoped. But the majority of people who bought the system bought it for that game, at least in part.