MastaKilla
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Glad to see horizon going well! Very much deserved
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NPD Sales Results For March 2017 [Up2: Year to date charts, platform specific charts]
I dont understand when Horizon Zero Dawn sales (sell-through) Exceed 2.6 Million (2 weeks)
Like some people refuse to admit it goings to be the next hit....
Damn, the world consist of only 4 countries huh.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
WW digital sales must have been amazing then.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
You do realise that means the wildlands would have sold almost 2 million if not more this month if your ranking is correct
My Nier Automa dream lifetime sales goal prediction is 2m or 2.5m i hope it makes it someday
But it already nearing 1m with all those other big games here is pretty nice.
Radical Edward
Member
YaaaayNieR:Automata charted 9th
gundamkyoukai
Member
You do know that PS4 is sold in over 100 countries right .
The same goes for it's games.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
NieR:Automata charted 9th
Perfect.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Absolutely. It's not even debatable.
Stop. No need to keep digging.
Yeah, I know. I think it's possible, the game has been monstering all the weekly charts (european, digital). It practically hasn't budged from number 1 since it's debut. Like I said though, pure speculation, I could be entirely off base.
Also, unrelated but if anyone else see that quote and sees the glaring error, I already edited my edit. my revised speculative ranking is:
1. Wildlands PS4
2. Wildlands XBO
3. Zelda NSW
4. Horizon Zero Dawn PS4
5. Mass Effect PS4
6. Mass Effect XBO
7. Zelda Wii U
8. MLB PS4
Keep digging that hole
Toni
Member
Its Sony's next big franchise.
They could even make the sequel capitalize on trends and make it have an online RPG robo-dino hunting game with friends, for example.
The potential is everywhere with Horizon. Guerilla is sitting on a pile of gold.
Nier and Horizon doing some great biz. Good to see, they're both really excellent games.
Mass Effect doing better than it deserved apparently too.
It's painful how hard you're trying, as ever.
You have to keep in mind there was some hardcore emotional investment in seeing Horizon fail from the moment it was announced... if for no other reason than to preserve the narrative about what a shit developer Guerilla are.
The denial is going to be especially rampant on this one for a while I think.
Mass Effect doing better than it deserved apparently too.
It's painful how hard you're trying, as ever.
You have to keep in mind there was some hardcore emotional investment in seeing Horizon fail from the moment it was announced... if for no other reason than to preserve the narrative about what a shit developer Guerilla are.
The denial is going to be especially rampant on this one for a while I think.
What's the end game here? Are you saying that Sony lied in their press release?
LastMinuteHero
Member
People really post some dumb shit just for console wars huh?
Leona Lewis
Banned
NieR doing so well considering its marketing budget consisted solely of a T-shirt ad.
Game has also had a long tail in Japan and on Steam at full price. Must be profitable as hell at this point.
Game has also had a long tail in Japan and on Steam at full price. Must be profitable as hell at this point.
MHWilliams
Member
PS4.
I mean, to be fair, do you believe the Xbox One is a success or not? Many believe that the system falling far behind PS4 means it's not a success and you would not really be able to gather that trajectory from debut sales.
This is what people mean when they say "don't read too much into early sales".
Not really, Microsoft offered a benchmark of 909,132 systems sold from Nov 22 until the end of the month. I assume NPD's numbers are below that. Meaning the XB1, Switch and PS4 were marginally close to each other in debut months. In fact, the system's were record-setting for their respective platform holders.
The biggest difference is release month. Those were in November 2013. Of course, the Game Boy Advance comparison is apt, as that system went on sale in the US in June 2011.
99 percent sure they don't. If the Switch is getting a GTA, it'll be a bespoke Switch-only version like Chinatown Wars.
It's not really a sales issue. They're making money bags based purely on GTA Online. It's the amount of effort and R&D needed to port the system to an early platform. Also GTAV is far larger than the biggest Switch cart size.
Toni
Member
Oh wait, you're actually serious. 😂
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Yes please. I normally say no to adding MP to games, but Horizon is perfect for it. 4 player co-op horde mode and hunting against increasingly dangerous machines. If well executed and deep it would print money.
That would be awesome MH with awesome graphic.
You mean on gaf. Causal American (and Canadians) love it. I don't know how it does in the Latin America, and Japan probably doesn't care for it.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Weird that Halo Wars 2 is above Overwatch on the X1 YTD list, when last month Overwatch charted above it on the X1 list.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Fixed that for you.
Also your last point might just be surprising for some considering one or two posts in this thread
Hero of Legend
Member
Yep, and people wonder why Sega went with the exclusivity deal back in 2013.
Hell some people hate the possibility that Switch might be the only version to get a retail release of Sonic Mania going by retailer listings a couple of months ago. It's the legit best thing Sega can possibly do for the game. It'll be a HUGE seller on Switch, especially at retail.
Liabe Brave
Member
As explained, Kinect doesn't hit (launch-aligned) until next year...so it'll be a while before Xbox One LTD sales fall behind. But month-to-month, we can see the process starting already. The Xbox One launch-aligned lead over Xbox 360 is about 1.5m right now. This is the smallest it's been since 2015, and it includes a 1.2m advantage from the launch holiday. In other words, in all of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Xbox One has only sold 300k more consoles than Xbox 360...and they've lost almost 500k in ground during the last three months alone.
The gap will go back up this fall/winter due to Scorpio's release, but after that it's liable to be all downhill, increasingly rapidly.
This is not true. Both Xbox One and PS4 have sold more in nearly every subsequent holiday than in their launch holidays. (The sole exception is PS4 2014, which was about 95k less than 2013.) Comparing full years, they both sold more in 2015 and 2016 than in 2014.
You calculated this incorrectly. A 30% digital share does not mean the digital number is 30% of the physical sales, it means the physical sales were 70% of the whole. That puts the correct total estimate at ~926k, not ~842k.
But in addition, we don't know that Horizon sold exactly 648k, just that it sold more than twice Killzone 2. The number is less likely to be just barely more than to range upward some distance. For every 10k higher physical actually was, the total will be 14.3k higher (so e.g. if Horizon is 2.1x instead of 2x KZ2, then its total would be over a million). A plausible highest physical number is 778k, which at 30% digital share would be 1.111m.
So it might not change rankings anyway, but the unit result could be a lot better than you said. (Your estimate would better serve as a plausible floor, rather than ceiling.)
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Annual titles whether sports or COD rarely get much love on here. MLB continues to chart every single year and I would not be surprised if this was one of its higher debuts.
That's because baseball is just cricket for the ADD crowd.
DON'T buy bomberman....
JuanLatino
Member
im not really sure, if those people that downplay the numbers of Horizon, know much about video games sales, especially exlusives
by your metric TLOU and Uncharted didnt sell well
by your metric TLOU and Uncharted didnt sell well
SafeinSound
Member
Is there a reason wildlands is selling so well? Everything I've seen from the game makes it look awful. And reviews weren't that great for it either. Not trying to tear it apart or anything. Just genuinely shocked it's doing so well.
Welfare
Member
Microsoft digital data is in the Xbox One only chart if I understood things correctly.
King Gilga
Member
If baseball is for the ADD crowd how god damn boring is cricket.
I fell asleep at the only baseball game I've been to.
You forgot, digital doesn't count either. Lol
Horizon is doing fine WW guys.
MLB is pretty impressive too. Consistent money maker for Sony.
ethomaz
Banned
1.14m.
Being over 1m at day one and after it barely received new shipment until December.
cyber_ninja
Member
So by your logic the world consists of just 4 countries. Good job Sherlock.
Toni
Member
Couldnt agree more. Guerilla is well verse in multiplayer and I've no doubt in my mind they can pull off large scale, open world multiplayer.
Full MMO, MMO-lite, online co-op, massive online co-op, etc.
After the witchcraft that was Horizon, Guerilla can pull off anything.
How do you figure Wildlands Xbox is above Zelda given ?
I don't know if we have numbers for the other tom clancy launches?
A some what well established dudebro franchise sells like a some what well established duebro franchise. There is nothing more to it. We talk about this every sales thread, but gaffers expectations are warped by the insular community composed of mostly hardcore gamers who, unlike most consumers, at least try all kinds of games and gaming genres.
A game of Cricket in its finest form lasts five days
OT:
And it is glorious. All this fast food cricket doesn't even come close to the twists and the turns and the tension of a proper Test Cricket game.
And it is glorious. All this fast food cricket doesn't even come close to the twists and the turns and the tension of a proper Test Cricket game.
frankie_baby
Member
Try the media create thread
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
Lol you guys are so salty wtf...
I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.
Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time
I am not an expert but i believe those countries together represent at least 2/3 of the entire market.
Now looking again at Sonys PR, they said 2.6m sold not 3m.. that's my bad, i really think those numbers might be possible with a very high digital sales ratio. Anyways, the game was front-loaded af so we won't be discussing it for much more time