Seven Force
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The MoM edition was considered a separate SKU? I just assumed it was considered part of the regular one.
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NPD August 2012 Sales Results [Up3: Sleeping Dogs]
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bigtroyjon
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No, in fact talking about launch months, AC1>AC2>Revelations>Brotherhood.
Just seems hard for me to believe that AC3 could more than double the launch month sales of any other game but I did think the commercial that was played during the NFL game last night was done really well.
Im curious do we have numbers on how much they raised the dev budget other than hearsay? I know every one of their games has an insane # of studios working on it.
They said it had double the resources of Revelations and was by far their largest project ever.
They also have a team of 600 at Montreal alone, whereas AC2 had a peak team size of 450.
But yeah, since we lack a baseline, it's hard to guess what the total budget is.
Come on. You can't use the fact that it has no retail games out as a way of dismissing the possibility that the system's a lost cause sales-wise. That's counter-intuitive.
And the argument isn't that the Vita's dead because of one month's data... it's that the Vita's dead because of many months of sales data.
creamsugar
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Distance Mark of Mastery Edition
Sorry it's not a bundle, seems like a limited edition.
Sorry it's not a bundle, seems like a limited edition.
I missed it, but not surprised one bit. Between the positive buzz and the setting being the American Revolution, they've got marketing gold on their hands. And I suspect the airwaves are going to be bombarded come launch. Put me in the camp that thinks it'll finish 2nd behind Blops. Just way too much buzz and with it being multi-platform, I think it beats a system exclusive for 2nd place.
HocusPocus
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Well I think this is the last Darksiders. THose number don't warrent more investment. Probably a good move based on what I played on both games. Decent games, but nothing that special.
Is the KH3D total (both regular and MoM) >200k?
So does that mean Nintendo has gone back to reporting individual SKU numbers instead of combining everything with the kitchen sink to prop up their poor numbers? That'd be good, if so.
Metroid Hunter
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Lke 1.3 Million according to NPD.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
In case he doesn't answer, 3DS XL was reported at 78k I believe.
Surely the red and black XL sold at least 20k of those units, and the special edition DDD is above that, so it seems likely.
Haunted
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Reading this makes me question the need for NPD at all, if it's like this. Half of the picture shown. Obviously having 50% of the numbers is better than having none, but I think the deadline where incompleteness crosses into irrelevancy is fast approaching.
Here's hoping that leads to a competitor being able to provide more complete numbers in the future, or NPD changing their methodology to reflect the actual market place.
All that said, 20% down yoy doesn't sound great, Microsoft and Sony are paying for their drawn out cycle and others are sweeping in to benefit. Next generation retail console presence will have an uphill battle - I expect a ton of money just pumped into the hype machine to keep them relevant against all odds and market trends (towards PC and mobile gaming).
I think AC3 is primed to do much better than the AC2 spin-offs or even AC2 itself.
The setting is really resonating with people and the fact that's numbered might bring back some of the people who sat out the last two games.
creamsugar
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It being an election year, i wonder if there is any 'America' play they can milk out of this.
BassForever
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Less then 10k a week :| wow
Well that's a little better
Vita below 40k... mother of..
Last Hearth
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I think the key word here you're missing is "new", they are tracking new transactions, so all the used games sales, and used consoles sales, out of Gamestop, is not tracked. And that used sale is part of the "all the money spent on gaming". NPD is capturing a lot more than just 50% of the total retail numbers.
Vita under 40K in its 7th month in the U.S. Wow. Maybe it'll get to 1 million after November's numbers ...
Still a worse debut than BBS, but not as bad as originally thought. Square Enix still needs to bring a console game to the table soon.
ShockingAlberto
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For what they intended as a relaunch in America, Nintendo sure didn't push the 3DSXL much.
Duxxy3
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holy shit.
WrenchNinja
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Its cause BbS is a superior game in about every way.
i think it was just at the end of the nsmb2 commercial for whatever reason.
they really are gamecubing this thing.
BBS capped out at over 430K, so if 3D can have legs... i
OldJadedGamer
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We'll see. There has never been a mainstream Halo not made by Bungie. It will be big of course but I'm guessing ODST big and not Reach big. My group of friends and I have Co-Op'd Legendary through all the Halos but no one is interested in 4. It will be the first ever Halo I don't buy.
COD started doing different devs starting with COD3. This is the first ever numbered Halo game not by the original developer.
Individual SKUs.
Both sold better than any single version of Darksiders II.
Haunted
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They're capturing (well, estimating) it, but it's not represented in the monthly numbers we get.
I get that the rest of the consumer spend estimates are part of their quarterly report, but we never get to see or talk about these numbers here on GAF - so the irrelevancy comment is still valid in terms of GAF threads.
I think.
multiplatform
Nintendo is ranking the games by individual platform. NPD is combining platforms, which makes DSII a higher total.
While that might be true in the long-run, I don't think comparative quality's a factor for initial sales.
KH's in spin-off hell, divided amongst multiple systems and a increasingly-frustrated fanbase.
Darksiders in the NPD chart is a sum of 3 SKUS, each individually lower than NSMB2 and KHDDD
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
grimshawish
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Nintendo is talking sales on a single platform. Darksiders II is no.1 with all added together.
Meccanical
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Did someone make a Xemnas joke.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Darksiders 2 also had digital sales.
They're not. Nintendo's PR was just for NPD numbers. On the download side, they really haven't put out download cards anywhere. I've seen a few online, but in-store, I haven't seen a single one. Hopefully that changes by the time Brain Training 3D comes out.