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NPD Sales Results for September 2015 [Up2: Nintendo Numbers]

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gundamkyoukai

Member
Plinko said:
40% higher hardware and yet software continues to lag behind last gen.

Am I wrong, or is that a bad trend?
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You can't get a full picture of software sales because NPD does not have DD info .
For eg Sony said this was there biggest month ever for the playstation store most likely because of TTK but we have no info on numbers .
 
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Nirolak

Mrgrgr
In case people haven't been paying attention the last few years, Forza doesn't sell very well in the US, nor do traditional driving games in general anymore.

I'm not really expecting that trend to change much overall and it's an annual series, so likely to get hit first.
 
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Kill3r7

Member
Conduit said:
So, Xbone is not over 284k and PS4 not over....what, 550k? So, Madden sold better on PS4, Destiny better on Xbone. What a trade. Anyway, where is Forza 6?
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Welcome to the US where we rarely give a shit about racing games. Hopefully GT7 saves the genre.
 
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Rain City Gamer

Member
hydrophilic attack said:
So if XBO one was up yoy, and console hardware was considerably down yoy, I guess the PS4 must be down quite a bit?
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Destiny launched last September so it was more of a product of a one-time spike in sales than PS4 being down.

Also I think it is time we start getting numbers for Digital as well. These physical only / non bundle numbers get more worthless by the month.
 
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roninwarrior92

Banned
Mory Dunz said:
At this point (of install bases), shouldn't the PS4 and Xbox1 versions of Disney and similar games outsell the Wii U version?


not praising the wii u or anything (lol), it was just the only surprising thing to me on the charts so far.
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i don't think kids have made the leap yet in droves for that to be the case. Majority of parents/grandparents went to WiiU as a follow up this gen. That will surely change this holiday and next. majority of PS4/XB1 is still *us*
 
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Red Blaster

Member
this year's nba finals had the highest tv ratings since michael jordan retired from the bulls

peeps are thirsty for their bball no matter how hard spike lee fucks with career mode
 
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Ryng_tolu

Banned
Why people are surprised Forza didn't chart? Was out of TOP TEN last year, is out of TOP TEN this year... Anyway, we need to know the numbers.
 
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Mory Dunz

Member
Bear Force One said:
Depends on how many kids are buying on them compared to the WiiU.
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What is the Wii U audience anyway? We always hear it's Nintendo hardcore considering it's like 10 million lol....but then there has to be a sizeable amount of kids if it's Disney is charting second. Or maybe the systems behind it are just low.

Obliterator said:
Both PS4 and Xbone do a pretty damn poor job of moving family friendly software tbh
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Yeah, I'm not sure how that needs to change, but I think it should. The casual and toys-to-life market is big. In 2013, the PS4 and XB1 not getting a large portion of thosesales was fine since kids weren't adopting early., but one of those two systems should start overtaking the 360 as the that console. It's been a couple of years now.
 
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Boke1879

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2k16 is definitely one of the better entries in the franchise. Good on them. I wonder if the early release in any way helped spur these sales?
 
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roninwarrior92

Banned
Asd202 said:
Nah May too soon also they won't skip E3. The game never had proper showing there.
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release update is march though. don't think anybody wants them at another e3. unless they pull a batman and release the week after, which i doubt. IMO they will shoot it out ASAP after that release event in march
 
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KillerMan91

Member
Elios83 said:
Forza 6 didn't even chart (and had 3 weeks of tracking presence).
It has never been a huge seller but this debut seems pretty disappointing.
Franchise fatigue?
Sony is right when they said that the market for racing games is going the way of the dodo? :p
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Well in US yes. Not in PAL areas though. Driveclub managed to ship 2 million units globally despite selling jack shit in US. Bad news for Forza is that Xbox One is kinda dead in markets where racing games are still popular.
 
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curb

Banned
Rocky said:
It's really weird because Disney themselves were only pushing the PS4 version on the commercials they aired on their Disney XD channels. The commercials only showed PS4 logo and didn't mention any other version.
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Well, I think they did have a co-marketing type deal.
 
mocolostrocolos

mocolostrocolos

Member
NateDrake said:
Not really when you look at how poor the PS3 was doing in the US during that time frame. PS3 didn't really start to turnaround until 2009. X360 had supply issues for a decent portion of its first year.
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Still, two consoles of the most selling generarion are being outsold by 40% on the same time with their next iteration, and with a weaker line-up, imho.
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Boke1879 said:
TKK definitely has high digital numbers and I'd love to see how much MGSV sold on Steam.
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Per Steamspy: ~750k as of today.

So it's done in 6 weeks on PC alone what MGS4 did on the PS3 in its first month. PC/Steam is a huge factor that wasn't present during MGS4's release.
 
Mikey Jr.

Mikey Jr.

Member
PS4 killin it as usual.

But kind of expected this month tbh. October is going to be a real treat.

Also, biggest PSN month in Sony history? People just downloading Destiny I'm assuming?
 
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roninwarrior92

Banned
Katana_Strikes said:
Sony still should have released that MGS bundle in the US. That was a really bizarre decision.
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as much as we love it, Destiny market power is 100x that of MGSV. they had to pick a bundle. they marketed that thing for the whole month. couldnt do that with MGS bundle taking up first 2 weeks of the month
 
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nib95

Banned
Nirolak said:
In case people haven't been paying attention the last few years, Forza doesn't sell very well in the US, nor do traditional driving games in general anymore.

I'm not really expecting that trend to change much overall and it's an annual series, so likely to get hit first.
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I know this is a question that will be very difficult to answer, but what exactly is the reason for this? Is racing or car culture just not as popular in the states, or something else?

Also, is this not the first time a Forza Motorsport game hasn't charted?
 
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