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PS4 surpasses 6 million units sold as of March 2nd
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Both PS4 and Xbone are outselling Wii and PS2 if my memory serves me.
Wii had 3 years of sales in 18-25M range. We need to wait before we can compare Wii and PS4. Wii was a monster during its days.
This is very surprising considering Titanfall had always been way ahead and had an extra 10 days on sale. I still think TF will be the top seller overall for the month but this could be another sign why we haven't seen any ms pr.
titanfall also has a bundle. Hence why infamous can be ahead on disk alone but trust me its no ahead of TF. I see infamous being sold well though bu well see what legs both games have. Hell both could be very front loaded
DC1
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It's an illusion. TF had many pre-orders before March and a bundle for the late adopters. XB1 is a TF box at this point, the attach rate is going to be vvery high.
Ps4 is only sold in bundle with infamous here right now.
TF was in the top ten in Feb and Top 50 in Jan and it's in a bundle. Also, It's Amazon. See last months NPD vs February Amazon charts for reference as to why peeps need to stop looking so much into this.
Same.
Yea, I will be also surprised if PS4 will not fall below Wii line during the summer:
Not that it matters though, it still will be selling amazingly well.
. Just surprised how fast infamous shot up the charts. Didn't expect infamous to chart ahead of tf anywhere. I'm hoping that means the game is selling very well.Still over a thousand left.
First people were like
And now they're like
Anyway, that stock showed up yesterday, so I'm guessing it's gonna take some days to see it drop. If it drops at all.
The ACIV bundle is selling decently too. ISS is gone.
Yea, I will be also surprised if PS4 will not fall below Wii line during the summer:
Not that it matters though, it still will be selling amazingly well.
Xbone about to cross streams with Wii, but PS4 still going strong. Ridiculous generation far.
Have to factor in the TF bundles though. There was no bundle for infamous in the US.
anexanhume
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Yeah. There's also small effects from the collector's editions and we don't know how front-loaded the pre-orders were on TF.
LegendofDragoonLives
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incompetence of SCEA marketing is beyond imagination
anonymous_abc
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Is anyone seriously expecting SS to sell more than TF? I mean apart from GTA third person open world games do not tend to push anywhere close to the same numbers that cod-shooters do.
So even if SS only comes close that is quite an achievement.
So even if SS only comes close that is quite an achievement.
Its the first exclusive on a new console post launch. It also doubles as a pretty good game. Throw everything you thought you knew out of the window
Yeah it's even showing the $449 price at the Microsoft store. I think that all but verifies it.
The reason they don't want to announce it is that there's a well known consumer association between low quality and early price drops. From what's being shown in this article it looks like Microsoft is actually specifically telling retailers to keep the price cut on the down low. The XBone isn't even being mentioned in a number of companies weekly ad spreads. This is gonna be one interesting March NPD.
Dead Prince
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i'm expecting it to make #10 on the top 10
SwiftDeath
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I prefer burning my old textbooks thank you very much!
Wow I think its out of stock now till Apr 2. Have a feeling we will get a 7 million plus announcement in early April.
bigboss370
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I think sony is trying to push as much stock as they can in march not just to compete with MS, but more importantly to end their fiscal year/quarter on a good note.
Portugeezer
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Apparently March had big shipments, so the shipped numbers should be high at least. Wonder if they will stick to "sold through" after Microsoft last gave 3.9 million shipped figures. They're competing after all.
So incompetent they are selling every console they ship, and their most notable first party title had a 33% attach rate.
The list price at Amazon is still $499.
http://amzn.com/B00CMQTVUA
And also for the Titanfall Bundle:
http://amzn.com/B00IIHU44E
Aces&Eights
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I agree. E3 last year was pretty much the marketing for ps4. Why spend millions in advertising when you can't even keep your product on the shelf?
The marketing hype of TitanFall is wearing off.
SteveO1683
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Agreed. I don't see how a device that cost 150 dollars more can keep pace with one that was 150 less.
anexanhume
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As others have pointed out, it was more heavily pre-ordered and had its sales split between the physical release and the TF bundle (which sits in 10th, 4 spots back from the physical game).
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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S¡mon;105970307 said:
This seems to suggest that Titanfall was extremely frontloaded, at least on amazon.
serversurfer
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Any particular reason Titanfall's (pre-)sales would be any more or less front-loaded than inFamous'?
SwiftDeath
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Perhaps people bought an XB1 throughout the last couple of months for Titanfall whereas people have likely been buying PS4's "on hype" and thus will be looking for games to buy?
One possibility perhaps however unlikely. In essence a larger portion of individuals who wanted to buy Titanfall on XB1 already bought the XB1 whereas Infamous will be a good to great game for new adopters of PS4. Or maybe not
Mikey Jr.
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Titanfall sold well. Bank on that.
What I find more surprising is that for 2014 best sellers so far, Xbone only has TWO actual video games in that list for the top 100.
Titanfall at #6.
And Ghosts at #64.
Contrast that to the PS4.
11 games in the top 100.
Even ghosts, an Xbox associated game, is significantly higher on the PS4 list.
Found that interesting.
IAmRandom31
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Sold Well considering 9 months of straight hype about the game? It being the only big release on the console till probably this time 2015? Sold well condering it is on 2 other platforms?
What sort of number would mean " sold well " here? I would say anything under 5,000,000 copies would be a major failure for a game with this much hype behind it for so long. You literally heard about this game at every single show, and nearly every single interview. Anywhere you went on the internet, this game where there in ads. They even let every single PC/X1 owner play this game during BETA just to give people the experience and solidify the sale.
I dunno though, the silence makes me think the game may not of sold as well as expected ( less then 2,000,000 ). This game was expected to launch the X1 into #1 spot for a good amount of time. If it was only a blip in the 2014 radar, that would spell bad news for MS the rest of the year when they are so lax on exclusive software of any kind and the PS4 is so full of it.
SwiftDeath
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We don't know how TF will sell on the 360 although Gamestop's little quips do suggest XB1 sales are much greater.
I imagine the game didn't cost that that much to develop considering respawn is small and since MS likely footed most of the marketing bill, I don't think the expectations are going got be crazy for it
That would be lifetime numbers for it and maybe even high numbers considering the 360 is probably going to constitute a smaller amount at this point
I think maybe 3 million lifetime would be fine for it although I'm making that number based on nothing
Mikey Jr.
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I think it sold well considering the platforms it was on.
It obviously didn't do GTA V numbers.
And lets ignore the marketing and all that. Just based on the video game. I think it sold well. 1M-1.5M would be "sold well".
SolidSnakex
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Being front-loaded really isn't a bad thing. I think most successful game are front-loaded. The amount of games that really have serious legs each year are pretty rare. Those games are usually split between titles that sneak up on people (like Goldeneye and GTA3) and the mega franchises (Call of Duty and GTA).
Melchiah
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So, which of the platforms was it, that had no games?
Both platforms have a lot of great games.
Melchiah
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Agreed, depending on everyone's personal taste. That was more a jab towards those who claimed the PS4 had none, yet people are clearly buying a lot of games for it.
Omnistalgic
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7 million ps4 soon...but time for Sony to excite the core again with updates and future releases...
TF will do great numbers I believe, Infamous will be behind it but perhaps not by so much. Would be surprised if ps4 outsells x1 in the us for march. Ms went hard on the deals
TF will do great numbers I believe, Infamous will be behind it but perhaps not by so much. Would be surprised if ps4 outsells x1 in the us for march. Ms went hard on the deals
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