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Dragona Akehi said:
Those are pretty much correct. They're rounded (up) inconsistently, is all.
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NPD Sales Results for April 2007
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Those are pretty much correct. They're rounded (up) inconsistently, is all.
Bungalow Bob
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NPD tracks sales, it does not track preorders.fernoca said:
Pokeylongo
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I think one possible issue with people thinking third parties won't do well on Wii is the gap between their sales and Nintendo's. That doesn't necessarily mean failure, though. There haven't been many big third party games yet (I would say only Red Steel and Sonic), but the sales have still been pretty big. About in line with what I would expect from these games this early in a system's life.
teruterubozu said:
Doesn't that put its total sales somewhere around 170k? It's not like Tiger Woods is a title that sells THAT many copies, especially on something over than PS2 with a 40+ million installed base. It'll probably have some fairly decent legs and make its way past 300k or so for the Wii version which I'd imagine they'd have to be pleased with.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
I think if MSFT wants maximum first month sales of Halo 3, they are going to need to drop the 360's price at least $50 ($100 would be smarter) in August or late July to spark a good amount of console sales early, drive some software revenue in that month/2 month period and then have Halo 3 come out in September, selling many consoles and many copies of the game.
the 360 sales are really lacking, not PS3 bad, but they could be as high as the Wii sales if they would do something about the price.
the 360 sales are really lacking, not PS3 bad, but they could be as high as the Wii sales if they would do something about the price.
Earthstrike
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AlteredBeast said:
That would be smart if Microsoft wanted to appeal to fanboys but they don't, they want to start showing some profit in the gaming division. Lowering your price right before a major high-demand game hits greatly reduces profit.
The reason for this is because with any price change there are two factors that affect the change in profit. A sales effect (the change in sales x price) and a price effect (the change in price times units).
Let x be the number of purchasers of Halo and a 360 console the day it is released. Let's also assume that each unit sold will be the 400$ bundle. profit in this case = 400x.
Now with a 50$ price drop there will be a new number of purchasers y.
profit in this case = 350y.
In order for your price drop to be a better decision for microsoft fiscally y must be about 14% larger than x. For a product that will be very price-inelastic, this seems relatively improbable.
RiskyChris
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Earthstrike said:
Too simple of an evaluation, but close. What if the 360 cost $350 to produce and put on shelves? $375? You want to compare profits gained off a product, not revenues (you mislabeled profits).
grandjedi6
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Deku said:
This statement was correct. He was trying to say that Trauma Center sold really well so Atlus is probably making more games for the Wii.
milanbaros
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:lol :lol I think the xbox was able to avoid the ****ed staus in the US. I think it was on the line which I reckon is about 3.4m a year.
Visualante
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I am not shocked, in retrospect. PS2 sales raised an eyebrow.
Rats deserting a sinking giant.
Rats deserting a sinking giant.
Pureauthor
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d[-_-]b said:Well I thought the graph represented the future for each console, thats why I added the Xbox under the line cause it got dominated by the PS2 like the GC.
I think it might be better if you added more qualifiers for each tier.
AniHawk said:
That's what I was going to say.
I've seen a few people mention how the sales of Tiger Woods Wii aren't that great. But people seem to be forgetting that the game came out 4 months earlier on basically every other platform. I really think that if they release it this year at the same time as the 360/PS3/PS2 versions, you'll see some strong sales. In fact, it might be the best selling version.
I really can't think of a 3rd party exclusive that has sold bad on the Wii so far. Except for SSX Blur, and even then, it had no advertising and isn't an all new game.
Visualante
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The EA marketing dept. would be retarded not to choose the Wii version as lead platform for their advert campaign.legend166 said:
They could probably get away with using the HD footage and the Wii controls with a small disclaimer. Though Ofcom did penalise some war game in the UK recently and games now have to have "not actual gameplay footage" if appropriate. Perhaps we will have "graphics on platforms may vary" for the big multiplatform releases.
test_account
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I just read that NDP numbers doesnt include Wal-Mart, is that true?
Eteric Rice
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test_account said:
Yes, and no, I think. Supposedly, they have an estimate on how much Wal-Mart usually sells, and that's added in.
I THINK...
test_account said:
Tracking doesn't include WM, but NPD account for it in their models by extrapolating what they think WM numbers might be. It does present the case where the numbers they publish could be very different from the actual sell through just because WM stores as a whole may sell certain products at a better or worse ratio than the rest of the market and NPD didn't know to account for it.
Pureauthor
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test_account said:
NDP doesn't include Wal-mart.
Then again, NDP doesn't include much of anything.
titiklabingapat
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Gamespot says that Atlus is working on a Shin Megami Tensai PS3 title. (http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/shinmegamitensei/index.html)
I think they might be kicking themselves right now seeing most of their titles are very niche, even in Japan. Couple that with the dead PS3 and the associated cost of developing for the system. Hopefully, it's just a PSN title, or they are thinking of porting it to the 360 at the very least.
The news is old though(Sept 2005), and nobody seems to know the status of the project so they could very well have changed plans/platforms or canceled it.
And why is everyone saying that Tiger Woods Wii did poorly??? 170k for a port-me-up is more than decent. It could easilly reach 400k WW since it seems to be quite popular in Europe, especially in the UK.
I think they might be kicking themselves right now seeing most of their titles are very niche, even in Japan. Couple that with the dead PS3 and the associated cost of developing for the system. Hopefully, it's just a PSN title, or they are thinking of porting it to the 360 at the very least.
The news is old though(Sept 2005), and nobody seems to know the status of the project so they could very well have changed plans/platforms or canceled it.
And why is everyone saying that Tiger Woods Wii did poorly??? 170k for a port-me-up is more than decent. It could easilly reach 400k WW since it seems to be quite popular in Europe, especially in the UK.
test_account
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Ok, so NPD estimate Wal-Mart sales so overall numbers can in reality be quite different? If so, i wonder how good they estimate the WM numbers and what they base them on.
titiklabingapat
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They estimate on everything. They don't go to every store at the point of sale to count each and every single units sold. They use a small but statistically significant sample and extrapolate from that.test_account said:
Media Create does it. Famitsu does it. Chart Track does it. In fact, every single tracking firm does it. And companies, including Nintendo, Microsoft, and probably most third parties pay good money for that data.
That's how I understand it anyway.
milanbaros
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titiklabingapat said:
I always assumed Nintendo and Microsoft wouldn't pay for it because they know how much money they received from selling their consoles to stores and selling software. I thought it was more for 3rd parties because they want to know how well particular games sell on a platform and how big a userbase a particular platform has. Nintendo doesn't need to know because they have that info already.
Wait...just thought, Nintendo might want to know how well other platforms are doing.
titiklabingapat
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milanbaros said:
I reckon they probably get more data than what we get. Probably the sale of every game, trends in software and accessory sales and other details and analysis.
Though I must admit, I really wasn't sure if Nintendo or Microsoft buys the data.
leroy hacker
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That PS3 SMT title has never been mentioned in public by Atlus themselves. It is only known from a list of upcoming games distributed by Sony at TGS 2005, very similar to the situation of how Devil May Cry PSP was announced.
Given how busy Atlus R&D1 was last year, releasing three console games, I doubt they were far into PS3 development by the time the market started to change. At that point they had probably just been doing hardware experiments at most.
As one of the few people in the world who liked Maken X my dream is that they're doing a first person action/adventure Wii game, but I would still buy a PS3 SMT4 on the day of release.
Given how busy Atlus R&D1 was last year, releasing three console games, I doubt they were far into PS3 development by the time the market started to change. At that point they had probably just been doing hardware experiments at most.
As one of the few people in the world who liked Maken X my dream is that they're doing a first person action/adventure Wii game, but I would still buy a PS3 SMT4 on the day of release.
Even though I probably wouldn't own a PS3 until a while afterwards.
Visualante
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freakin' LOL'd at Chibicyclist ban.
If only Petition.online wasn't ban hammered too.
j/k
If only Petition.online wasn't ban hammered too.
j/k
Holy cow reactions everywhere.
Wii: Wow. I am truly surprised Nintendo was able to ship that many systems. That's pretty amazing, because there's was so little buzz of this happening. It's like everyone bought a ton, but all kept it on the DL.
360: Seems like it was hurt quite a bit by the Elite in the begining of the month, and then they didn't ship enouh during the last week, to make up the difference. Dissapointed, but I guess this means a lot of Elite sales should show up on the May NPD. Or like some have hinted, MS may have just raised the price of the 360 and everyone now will only buy an Elite. I hope that's not the case for their sake.
PS3: Not surprised, but as has been stated in Japan, dipping below that psychological barrier of 100k in the US is just like dipping below 10k in Japan it has to be pretty disconcerning to Sony. I won't say there's no way to spin this, because Sony has proven me wrong the last time I said that. They'll find some way.
Wii: Wow. I am truly surprised Nintendo was able to ship that many systems. That's pretty amazing, because there's was so little buzz of this happening. It's like everyone bought a ton, but all kept it on the DL.
360: Seems like it was hurt quite a bit by the Elite in the begining of the month, and then they didn't ship enouh during the last week, to make up the difference. Dissapointed, but I guess this means a lot of Elite sales should show up on the May NPD. Or like some have hinted, MS may have just raised the price of the 360 and everyone now will only buy an Elite. I hope that's not the case for their sake.
PS3: Not surprised, but as has been stated in Japan, dipping below that psychological barrier of 100k in the US is just like dipping below 10k in Japan it has to be pretty disconcerning to Sony. I won't say there's no way to spin this, because Sony has proven me wrong the last time I said that. They'll find some way.
Pureauthor
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jimbo said:
Nope. Their PR was completely rote and by-the-numbers. It didn't even warrant its own thread on NeoGAF.
sonycowboy
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titiklabingapat said:
You understand it very wrong. NPD gets data from 60-65% of retailers in the industry (Wal-Mart being the big holdout, although up until 2002 they were in NPD). They get complete exports from the retailers POS systems and allows for them to extrapolate the remaining 35-40% of retailers.
Media Create has a much higher percentage as does Charttrack (both over 90%, iirc)
speculawyer
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AlteredBeast said:
They want maximum profits, not maximum sales.
speculawyer
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sonycowboy said:
Does NPD get any info from online retailers like Amazon & ebgames.com?
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Saint Gregory said:
I believe it, I have a friend who is into gaming and just got a DS.
She wants a Wii but says it is too expensive. I asked her what is a good price. She responded "I think $150 is reasonable but anything above that is too expensive."
Flakster99
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jimbo said:
Easy there chief. New members and all that, don't need to be a prick about it.
FirstInHell
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datruth29 said:
Walmart can pretty much do whatever they want.
Good thing you got a 360.sprocket said:
Seriously, I feel sorry for sony. I blame their current situation on poor people. They should be working two jobs to purchase a PS3. If they can't work two jobs they should live on a budget until they are able to get one. They could go on a cup of noodles diet, go without electric, or just steal the internet for their neighboors.