slavesnyder
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I thought the Tomahawk Fuze was just announced. Did it launch already?
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NPD Sales Results for April 2016 [Sony, MS, & Nintendo refuse to comment on hardware]
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M3D1C1N3 MAN
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refusing to comment now huH?
i'll give em till 8!
i'll give em till 8!
Japanmanx3
Member
Pokken would've been 10 individually. That's 3 for Ninty. Fantastic.
Beautiful Ninja
Member
There's no way Nintendo's even close on hardware.
My guess is Sony > MS > Nintendo, but all of them are down YoY. MS down more than Sony.
I have to imagine it will be the last one for a while given Madden in September and Battlefield/NBA/possibly others in October will deny this to Final Fantasy 15.
Maybe if publishers start running on fumes again.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Could GTA V fuck around and end up being the best selling game two gens in a row?
wonderful103
Member
Not very much. It's focus is definitely shooting. 3rd person action games already have a precedence for selling on ps4, so more 3rd person action games will be funded. TLOU sequel for example. Maybe even knack 2 if you're lucky! Lol
Platformers don't have a precedence for selling like hot cakes on that system thus far.
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
Yes
Nah it'd have to be
1) Dark Souls 3 PS4
2) Ratchet & Clank PS4
3) MLB The Show PS4
4) Quantum Break One
5) Star Fox Zero
Which would mean the XB1 version of Dark Souls 3 sold less than Star Fox Zero... Now thats what I call a WOW
DarkLordMalik
Member
/fixed
Never seen an ad for Quantum Break, remember seeing a Tomb Raider ad once and that was a terrible ad, blink and you miss what the hell it is. Halo ad was garbage too but saw that a few times. Titanfall was on all the time.
Did MS have the usual shit PR but they actually won and obviously can't send out that one now or did Nintendo win?
Did MS have the usual shit PR but they actually won and obviously can't send out that one now or did Nintendo win?
Welfare
Member
Madden will be in the August NPD.
On this note, the discounted price was a very good call for Ratchet.
Doesn't it still often do ~1 million the next month with August launches though, or am I misremembering?
Pies are fine, but without any number to use to guess the other, how are we supposed to taste it.
It was probably a slow month although it's peculiar that no one took the opportunity to simply say they won the month (without disclosing the declining numbers).
Cosmic Queso hinted at PS4 being best selling console for the month anyway.
I don't think we'll get more details until the pies are ready
probably. Overwatch is being released at the end of the month on 3 things instead of 1, but we'll see
I saw tons of ads for QB.
I'm guessing the next will be March 2017 with Zelda. Assuming it actually comes out then of course.
Also, the majority of Overwatch sales will probably be through Battle.net's client, i.e. digital. Not tracked on NPD charts.
Welfare
Member
Oh yeah, it does, but digital might change that.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Hell fucking yeah it did. The little furrball that could.
yes but it always sells insane even in the second month.
Look last year, it outsold Phantom Pain, even with FIVE weeks of sales.
Do you really think Final Fantasy in one week will do better?
SRTtoZ
Member
This GTA5 train is crazy. It NEVER STOPS.
Wow insane. This doesn't even count my copy since I bought it on PSN.
Wow insane. This doesn't even count my copy since I bought it on PSN.
Xbox One was on sale all month as well...So even if it sold the same amount and everything else stayed the same REV would still be down.
PS4 is cheaper too.
And last gen has all but evaporated...
And everyone thought NX would be at E3 until about 2 weeks ago..
So PS4 would have to be flat at the very least (as the most expensive unit bearing the most weight on REV) otherwise REV would be down even more.
So I predict that everything was down between 15% and 25% percent besides the PS4 which is + or - 10%. Vita TV being up doesn't matter becaue the price would wipe out any REV gains anyway.
CosmicQueso
Member
As recently as 2010, there were over 650 titles being released on disc. The last three years that number has settled to between 200-220 annually.
The physical console market isn't (in my opinion) being restrained by consumer demand. It's instead being restricted by the supply of products for that market to buy.
Dev costs have risen, risk profile of making packaged games has gone up. This has caused a sharp decline in the overall investment being made into bringing disc based games to market, and the number of companies that are willing to take that risk has been cut in more than half over the last 5+ years.
It's the biggest threat to the console market, and will continue to be so as the mobile/tablet market continues to grow and offer more appealing risk profiles, despite the more competitive environment and the smaller guarantee of returns.
You can make 25, 50, 100 bets on mobile for the price of 1 big console bet. Where are the odds better?
Good stuff. You should post more.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Can't be. I just looked outside my window and I don't see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding down from heaven to spread death and chaos.
Welfare
Member
So PS4 is #1? No one wants to talk hardware at all?
1.6m for Gears 4 beta is new info, right?
Is this supposed to mean something?
History of global engagement. Microsoft's PR team still at it in terms of creativity.
Lmao
Congrats on the well deserved success!
Maybe if you guys were to remake Fall of Man, ya might see the same results...just an idea
HAHAHAHAHA, what the hell? XD
With all due respect isn't it impossible for engagement to go down unless Xbox One sold negative numbers?
I thought I heard them earlier, but it turned out to just be next door's cat.
IIRC, the last time they did a $60 R&C was the first PS3 game. Most of them have been smaller scale games, but I'm pretty sure they've topped out at $40. They did the same thing for Sly 4, which was reported on having a series-best debut when it came out in addition to charting.
It's not a foolproof strategy (sorry, Puppeteer and Tearaway fans), but keeping to $40 for their family-friendly titles is a working strategy for them.
Oof. What's "Global Engagement" ? A new kind of MAU?
"Critically Acclaimed" QB? mmmh. Subjective I guess, but dubious claim (77 MC).
PS4 won then (or Ouya).
I own all 4 home consoles, and I have no idea why Ratchet & Clank sold so well. This game is a furbait nostalgia title to get the zootopia and ps2 crowd, doesn't even have open world. Why would sell better than Quantum Break? Time powers are crazy!! And the movie was garbage, but game still sells? Wut? :^/
I dunno why people are saying greatness awaits tbh...none of the titles have been that great except for Bloodborne but hopefully UC4 can prove me wrong, Naughty Doges better put out something good, I use my XB1 for multis and my PS4 has been collecting dust for months
Still at least MLB is a great game and Sony should make more stuff like taht and more stuff like quantum break, maybe they can get people to buy their console it would sell like bonkers even better than the Wii if they just put out some games for it!!! But still grats sony game still sells well gj :^)
I dunno why people are saying greatness awaits tbh...none of the titles have been that great except for Bloodborne but hopefully UC4 can prove me wrong, Naughty Doges better put out something good, I use my XB1 for multis and my PS4 has been collecting dust for months
Still at least MLB is a great game and Sony should make more stuff like taht and more stuff like quantum break, maybe they can get people to buy their console it would sell like bonkers even better than the Wii if they just put out some games for it!!! But still grats sony game still sells well gj :^)
Mass Effect
Member
Clearly. That or someone at the NPD can't count.
Spin it to win it.