We should close this thread 12 hours after numbers are released to contain the infection NPD seems to cause.
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"Although PC games sales are not included in these numbers, there were two that should be pointed out. Spore realized sales of 406K units and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning sold 274K which would put them both in the top 10 list of combined console, portable and pc games sales for the month."
I thought 360 would be over 400K. PS3 didn't do as bad as I thought. I was thinking 170K or less. But it held its own against the 360 price cut.
It Begins
Looks like LBP is the only thing that can save the PS3 at this point.
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Wait for VF5
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Wait until FFXIII VS.
We are hearing some pretty grim things concerning game sales outlook this season :'(
vesperia bombed harder than blue dragon.
Unique Controls Put Wii at No. 1 for September NPD; Nintendo DS at No. 2
Backed by a variety of unique interfaces, Nintendo’s Wii™ console topped the U.S. video game hardware sales charts with nearly 687,000 units sold in September, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. Nintendo DS™ was the No. 2 best-selling system, with nearly 537,000 sold.
Wii enjoyed the biggest monthly unit sales increase with 234,000 more units sold in September than August. Wii also saw a year-over-year increase of more than 37 percent over September 2007.
Four games made for Nintendo systems placed in the top 10 best-selling games of the month, including Wii Fit™ at No. 2 with nearly 518,000 sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 4 with more than 353,000 sold, Wii Play™ at No. 7 with nearly 243,000 sold and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Wii at No. 8 with more than 223,000 sold.
“The four Wii games in the top 10 all feature controls just not possible on other video game systems,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “The Wii Balance Board and Wii Wheel give players new ways to interact with their games, while the Wii Remote controller transforms into a pool cue, table tennis paddle or lightsaber. Consumers have truly responded to this variety of entertainment options.”
“The four Wii games in the top 10 all feature controls just not possible on other video game systems,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.
PS3 Sales Setting the Stage for a Solid Holiday Season; Total PlayStation Sales Up 20 Percent Year-Over-Year
PlayStation 3 Hardware Unit Sales Top 232,408
PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) again experienced consistent momentum in September 2008, with 232,408 hardware units sold according to The NPD Group, an increase of over 94% year-over-year and an increase of more than 25% over the previous month. Additionally, software sales for PS3 experienced year-over-year growth of 130% with 1.72 million units sold.
Software sales are expected to continue their upward projection in October as SCEA kicks off the holiday season with the highly anticipated launches of LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, and NBA ’09: The Inside.
PlayStation®Network remained a popular destination with newly added games and entertainment content such as WipEout HD, Linger in Shadows and PAIN: Amusement Park. There are currently more than 12 million registered accounts worldwide and over 240 million pieces of content have been downloaded worldwide.
PSP also experienced strong sales, with 238,056 hardware units sold.
Fueled by enthusiasm for the limited-edition LEGO Batman: The Videogame PlayStation®2(PS2) Pack, PS2 generated solid sales in September, with 173,527 hardware units sold, 20% growth from last month. An impressive 42.9 million PS2s have been sold in the U.S. as of September 2008.
Power of the PlayStation Portfolio
The PlayStation brand experienced strong sales across all three platforms, earning $379 million in September.
Year-to-date (Jan-Sept), the PlayStation brand has generated $4.03 billion in revenue, representing an increase of 20% year-over-year.
PlayStation total hardware revenue was $160.5 million in September, representing a year-to-year growth of 11%.
PlayStation total software revenue in September was $180 million, representing a year-to-year growth of 17%.
CEO Perspective
“We remain confident that our footing is solid as we enter the holiday season this year. Our new 80GB PS3 model has made its way to retail shelves and into consumers’ living rooms as the best value for both their gaming and entertainment needs. If the impressive pre-sale numbers and ratings for LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: Confrontation, and Resistance 2 are any indication, we anticipate hardware and software sales to continue to lift in October as we officially kick off the broadest and deepest software line-up this holiday, including LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: Confrontation, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and NBA ’09: The Inside.
- Jack Tretton, president and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment America
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i'm not sure the analogy with films works too well.
Fundamentally solid and engaging gameplay can be created at a relatively low cost, the game won't potentially be as polished or as deep/complicated as a large budget title, but you can make something addictive and popular. Peggle springs to mind and those popcap thingies.
... actually it does work doesn't it? lol. That's just a mirror of indie films - but i think games , for whatever reason, do better. I guess perhaps down to the larger price differential between those games and big name games.
i'm not sure the analogy with films works too well.
Fundamentally solid and engaging gameplay can be created at a relatively low cost, the game won't potentially be as polished or as deep/complicated as a large budget title, but you can make something addictive and popular. Peggle springs to mind and those popcap thingies.
... actually it does work doesn't it? lol. That's just a mirror of indie films - but i think games , for whatever reason, do better. I guess perhaps down to the larger price differential between those games and big name games.
I think the 360 price drop was meant to make it stop selling 200k a month. We will see what happens from now on.
but what do they need to do now? (that they haven't yet done?)
i mean MS is the only company that, other than making a crappy RRoDying hardware, made all the right choices/decisions:
- price
- hardware easy to develop games for (very close to PC)
- first party titles... and gears (soon to be a flagship title, dethroning halo imo)
- online
- Arcade
- OS
- swaying Japanese devs and even securing exclusives
i mean if i were them i'd be out of ideas, poor guys :(
I do think you're going to see a lot more 40-50 dollar games starting in January, and quicker price drops, but really that isn't going to sustain anyone in the long run. i do think that companies that have an aggressive budget (Wii) lineup coupled with downloadable titles are going to do a lot better, but I expect a pretty big implosion of the companies heavily invested in next-gen (especially EA).
I do think you're going to see a lot more 40-50 dollar games starting in January, and quicker price drops, but really that isn't going to sustain anyone in the long run. i do think that companies that have an aggressive budget (Wii) lineup coupled with downloadable titles are going to do a lot better, but I expect a pretty big implosion of the companies heavily invested in next-gen (especially EA).
Oh and just look at the relase list for the next month....it IS crazy.
Publishers need to stop cramming so much shit into such a small window.
Next three weeks:
Fable 2
Far Cry 2
Resistance 2
Mirrors Edge
And the several million people who don't buy games at all during that time wouldn't buy them.Oh and just look at the relase list for the next month....it IS crazy.
Publishers need to stop cramming so much shit into such a small window.
Next three weeks:
Fable 2
Far Cry 2
Resistance 2
Mirrors Edge
I would have bought every single one of these games had they been spaced throught the usual Jan-April drought, now I'm not buying any
And the several million people who don't buy games at all during that time wouldn't buy them.Oh and just look at the relase list for the next month....it IS crazy.
Publishers need to stop cramming so much shit into such a small window.
Next three weeks:
Fable 2
Far Cry 2
Resistance 2
Mirrors Edge
I would have bought every single one of these games had they been spaced throught the usual Jan-April drought, now I'm not buying any
quiet, you with your facts and maths and industry experience
And the several million people who don't buy games at all during that time wouldn't buy them.Oh and just look at the relase list for the next month....it IS crazy.
Publishers need to stop cramming so much shit into such a small window.
Next three weeks:
Fable 2
Far Cry 2
Resistance 2
Mirrors Edge
I would have bought every single one of these games had they been spaced throught the usual Jan-April drought, now I'm not buying any
quiet, you with your facts and maths and industry experience
should i not express my opinion at all, then?
i mean, you guys are in there, so you must know eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvverything
while i only, you know, buy the fucking games you make
jesus
EA made their bed with RB2 and now they lie in it. Should have been DLC. And it's 10 months after RB1. Wtffles??? it sold fine.
You can't get your base used to logging on every week for DLC and then put out a disk. That just seems so counterproductive to me.
EA made their bed with RB2 and now they lie in it. Should have been DLC. And it's 10 months after RB1. Wtffles??? it sold fine.
You can't get your base used to logging on every week for DLC and then put out a disk. That just seems so counterproductive to me.
It should have been DLC and a patch, but Harmonix was obviously trying to take some wind out of Guitar Hero World Tour's upcoming sales.EA made their bed with RB2 and now they lie in it. Should have been DLC. And it's 10 months after RB1. Wtffles??? it sold fine.
You can't get your base used to logging on every week for DLC and then put out a disk. That just seems so counterproductive to me.
Yeah, I was joking ;)
I read enough articles saying that it should be DLC to know I don't care what it is.
EA made their bed with RB2 and now they lie in it. Should have been DLC. And it's 10 months after RB1. Wtffles??? it sold fine.
You can't get your base used to logging on every week for DLC and then put out a disk. That just seems so counterproductive to me.
Yeah, I was joking ;)
I read enough articles saying that it should be DLC to know I don't care what it is.
you don't think all the early buzz about the movie will help PoP?
you can only export once with AC/DC, there's a code in the case, so if your HDD shits the bed you're screwed
Was prince of persia ever a big seller? I thought sot bombed and forced WW to go emo, and I bought Two Thrones at launch and it was half price like two months later.
Was prince of persia ever a big seller? I thought sot bombed and forced WW to go emo, and I bought Two Thrones at launch and it was half price like two months later.
I dunno about bomb, per se. But I believe it sold under Ubi's expectations. Ubi said WW sold 1.8 million in its first month, but then again, they were using Sonyspeak, and I don't have NPD numbers for that, so who knows.
you can only export once with AC/DC, there's a code in the case, so if your HDD shits the bed you're screwed
Doubtful. If it's like RB1's export system then the redemption code flags your gamertag with a key that allows you to export as many times as you want to.
It'll have to be 1-star Walmart.com reviews since it's exclusive there. :Pyou can only export once with AC/DC, there's a code in the case, so if your HDD shits the bed you're screwed
Doubtful. If it's like RB1's export system then the redemption code flags your gamertag with a key that allows you to export as many times as you want to.
If it's not like that, then the righteous indignation of a million nerds will be upon EA such that it'll make SecuROM look like a happy memory. The 1-star Amazon reviews will be coming so fast and furious, it'll make their heads spin. :maf
If 360 doesn't push close to 400k at least i will call bomba on the price drop.
If Ps3 doesn't pass the 200k mark i will call bomba on PS3.
Let's get the party rolling.
Meh all around.
360 did solid, even thought i was expecting a bit closer to 400k
Maybe now they'll start making real games on the Wii?
If 360 doesn't push close to 400k at least i will call bomba on the price drop.
If Ps3 doesn't pass the 200k mark i will call bomba on PS3.
Let's get the party rolling.
OK, waiting for it.Meh all around.
360 did solid, even thought i was expecting a bit closer to 400k
:o
Come on now! Call it like it is! ;)
360's price drop bombed. It's going to settle in around 200K a month fairly quickly once the holiday rush is over. HD consoles am fail.
Er, to be fair, they're actually not doing all too bad in historical context, at least compared to last gen. 360 + PS3 are doing better than Xbox + GameCube. But enough of historical fairness.
Public :piss 360 PS3 :piss2
you don't think all the early buzz about the movie will help PoP?Not really. Missing the end of November is bad, in terms of sales and word of mouth. Why they didn't push it off is baffling.
Maybe now they'll start making real games on the Wii?
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It is going to be hilarious watching dirty nthings convince themselves Wii Music is a quality product.
It is already happening.
QuoteI will enjoy it too when I get a ton of 30 dollar games in January.
i was stunned to discover $30 is roughly the price of an X360 in HK - i tried to not buy shit, but i failed.
Also - how/why is PES 2009 out already on the PS3 out here? it's not due out for another month right?!
Since this is a sales thread
Latest M-Create data
DS Lite 31,914
PSP 23,901
Wii 22,877
Xbox 360 7,763
PS2 6,982
PS3 5,734
:lol
now sure, the 360 has outsold the PS3 for five weeks on a row.
but is in it sad that people are pretty proud of the 7k units sold?
xbox is doing horrible in Japan, PS3 on the other hand is performing more horribly (for shame, sony)
i think both side should stfu unless their preferred console has sold 10k - 20k per week or more. (like when IU and ToV debuted)
Doesnt sporks look at his own videos and see how sad he is? Jesus
Direct quote from sporsk's video: "Jazz theory in motion...........it's like magic"It is going to be hilarious watching dirty nthings convince themselves Wii Music is a quality product.
It is already happening.
I'm guessing you haven't been reading the Wii Music threads at GAF then. Nintards have convinced themselves that it is a "real music game" and has "good music" and is truly something revolutionary. :rofl
This month is usually a harbinger for the rest of the year. Which means the 360 is going to bury the PS3 by about 500-800k units and the Wii will just be off the charts. It's sales will only be limited by how many they can make.
christian wrestling fans? :lol
i don't understand why people keep saying that? i'm not gonna say it'll jump start the PS3's sales, but what's stopping it from getting sold to 30% of the PS3's user base? it's getting the exposure more than any other title... IMO :P
and... IMO this game has "long legs" stickered all over it.
/lbpfag
It seems like the HD consoles have tapped their major hardcore market out, and the people who would be buying these consoles after that market tapped out, buy the Wii.
Spore more like BOMB am I right?
:violin PC gaming :violin
:piss World of Warcrack :piss2
You have to be kidding.
The biggest EA release since like ever. The next WILL WRIGHT game. And it can't do 1M in the US?
smh @ PC distinguished effete fellows
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I meant the shitty joke you made. You actually thought it was good?
Ah ok... I'm in a silly mood right now so excuse moi lame jokes.