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[Chobel]

Welcome back Chobel, just before the NPD.

Thanks man!

 

[Welfare]

Perfect first post back Chobel. Anything else would not have been high profile.

 

[Ryng_tolu]

4 hours to go.

 

[SnowFlakeCake]

No matter what UC4 does, Naughty Dog can't say shit about the games advertising budget. The game is near enough a month away and I see adverts every 5 minutes, that's a push and a half.

 

[slavesnyder]

I know it's Aaron's job but, he's more annoying than all the other PR guys COMBINED....wow

Bend it like Greenberg.

 

[AmyS]

Oh boy, totally forgot it's NPD day.

~3 hours.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

Nice, looking forward to results later.

 

[allan-bh]

I think people are overestimating sales of The Division.

 

[Ryng_tolu]

I think people are overestimating sales of The Division.

I admin my 2.5 million prediction seem high. I just wanna be optimist.

But i see +2m very easy imo. What do you expect?

 

[allan-bh]

I admin my 2.5 million prediction seem high. I just wanna be optimist.

But i see +2m very easy imo. What do you expect?

I will be bold here.

Less than 2 million.

 

[Ryng_tolu]

I will be bold here.

Less than 2 million.

Well Destiny sold almost 3 million in the launch month, and we know worldwide The Division did better first week... and looks like it showed better legs too in countries like UK and Japan.

The only problem are digital sales which are pretty big. :-/

 

[sense]

yea i am thinking less than 2 million for division as well considering digital plays a bigger role nowadays especially with a game like this, maybe the xb1 bundles might put it over but i am thinking less than 2 million

 

[allan-bh]

Well Destiny sold almost 3 million in the launch month, and we know worldwide The Division did better first week... and looks like it showed better legs too in countries like UK and Japan.

The only problem are digital sales which are pretty big. :-/

Judging by UK I can't see The Division selling more than 2 million on NPD.

 

[CoG]

I've not looked at Amazon in a long time but it appears there's not an Xbox One in the hourly top 100, despite the "temporary price reduction."

For March, PS4 was #22 and Xbox down at #63.

 

[Obliterator]

One thing to keep in mind for people's Division predictions is the game did huge numbers on PC. Destiny did 0

 

[Ryng_tolu]

Judging by UK I can't see The Division selling more than 2 million on NPD.

It's at 430,000 in UK in March. For sell 2 million in March NPD need to sell 4.65 times better.

I think is likely. This game is very attractive for the US market.

 

[Ricky_R]

Anyone remember this?

Uncharted being outsold by Halo shouldn't be a big deal...but the opposite? Hooo boy~

Greenberg's ego took the biggest hit this gen.

 

[allan-bh]

It's at 430,000 in UK in March. For sell 2 million in March NPD need to sell 4.65 times better.

I think is likely. This game is very attractive for the US market.

It's doing worse than Watch Dogs in UK.

Even with US being more favourable for The Division, 2 million+ seems too high.

 

[Ryng_tolu]

It's doing worse than Watch Dogs in UK.

Even with US being more favourable for The Division, 2 million+ seems too high.

It's a good news that is doing worse than Watch Dogs in UK. This mean it has more marketshare in the rest of world. Remember, worldwide, The Division > Watch Dogs is a fact.

Watch Dogs in UK also sold only -7% less than Destiny first week, while first month it sold -38% less than Destiny in USA. ( or even less, since we talk about 4weeks of Destiny VS 6weeks of The Division)

Anyway we will see soon. :O

 

[Mpl90]

Soo, we're less than 2 hours before the numbers are officially released. IIRC, this means NPD subscribers should have the sales data right now.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Soo, we're less than 2 hours before the numbers are officially released. IIRC, this means NPD subscribers should have the sales data right now.

Nope.

 

[Nirolak]

Soo, we're less than 2 hours before the numbers are officially released. IIRC, this means NPD subscribers should have the sales data right now.

They generally come 30-90 minutes early depending on how timely NPD is being IIRC.

 

[Mpl90]

Nope.

Oh, ok. I got confused then, my bad.

Still, less than two hours to go!

 

[Theorry]

Xbox Wire is posting this.

Last week, on April 5, 2016, we were proud to announce that Quantum Break had launched worldwide to critical acclaim. Today, we are excited to share that Quantum Break was the #1 best-selling Xbox game around the world last week, and is now officially the biggest-selling new Microsoft Studios published IP this generation. In addition, last week Quantum Break was the #1 most played new game on Xbox, worldwide.

http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Ryng_tolu]

Oh god, here we go...

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

When their competition for that title is Ryse and Sunset Overdrive, it fucking better be.

 

[Rymuth]

At least mention how many hours of playtime Quantum Break netted...

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Lol! Good, I guess? Why is MS PR so obsessed with these granular and vague metrics?

 

[allan-bh]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

They know that another bad NPD is coming.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Xbox Wire is posting this.

http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hmmm... why did they go from using the term "best-selling" in one line to "biggest-selling" in the next? That is not a term change that is meaningless. They're choosing those particular words for reasons.

EDIT: I tried using the "TRANSLATE WITH BING" button at the top... no dice.

 

[Kysen]

Preemptive damage control?

 

[Mpl90]

Hmmm... why did they go from "best-selling" to "biggest-selling". That is not a term change that is meaningless. They're choosing those particular words for reasons.

Maybe it's the one that generated the most revenue due to digital sales? Just guessing randomly here.

 

[Boke1879]

Preemptive damage control?

Yep. Gotta agree with Cosmic. Why go from "best" to "biggest" selling?

 

[Mass Effect]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

iwannaseethereceipts.gif

after that last PR release, I doubt this statement is as straight-forward as it seems.

 

[joecanada]

When their competition for that title is Ryse and Sunset Overdrive, it fucking better be.

lol I always like to check out the reviews that they "choose to use" for these articles or boxcovers like GOTY covers... obviously I recognize most of these but it's never a set list of big reviewers for obvious reasons.....

 

[Gurish]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

They already posted this pretty useless PR.

I really hope the game did well though, MS somehow makes it seems worse instead of encouraging it did well.

And I know MC is tougher this gen, but 77 is still not a critical acclaim title, it's OK (last gen it was a disaster) but not something to take proud of too much.

 

[Kysen]

A lot of "new" qualifiers as well. What else came out on X1 last week?

 

[harrisk954]

Xbox Wire is posting this.



http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/14/39364/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Aaron Greenberg... of course.

 

[mejin]

I wonder what will they say next month.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Maybe it's the one that generated the most revenue due to digital sales? Just guessing randomly here.

I could see that. But still the competition is literally SO and RYSE. That is not lofty competition for a game launching with next to no competition and being promoted for 3 years.

 

[Theorry]

Maybe it's the one that generated the most revenue due to digital sales? Just guessing randomly here.

Imo i think it did pretty good as a digital game. Not beating disc offcourse but better then usual because of the bonusses.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Imo i think it did pretty good as a digital game. Not beating disc offcourse but better then usual because of the bonusses.

Would agree with that... but best-selling to biggest-selling?

So best-selling last week... sounds like total units sold last week (who knows if they included the Windows 10 code activations in that mix?)

Biggest-selling published IP this gen... is there some low price MS Studio game that was published this gen, where units could have been really high with low average selling price? And that QB may have sold fewer units but generated more revenues because of the higher price? All I can think of on this one. =/

 

[Darth Smurf X]

You all know what time it is!

 

[Chobel]

In addition, last week Quantum Break was the #1 most played new game on Xbox, worldwide.

This tells us almost nothing, no? I mean how many new games released last week on XBO?

 

[Welfare]

Would agree with that... but best-selling to biggest-selling?

So best-selling last week... sounds like total units sold last week (who knows if they included the Windows 10 code activations in that mix?)

Biggest-selling published IP this gen... is there some low price MS Studio game that was published this gen, where units could have been really high with low average selling price? And that QB may have sold fewer units but generated more revenues because of the higher price? All I can think of on this one. =/

Ori is MS published and sold for $20, but I don't know if that would count.

 

[blakep267]

Would agree with that... but best-selling to biggest-selling?

So best-selling last week... sounds like total units sold last week (who knows if they included the Windows 10 code activations in that mix?)

Biggest-selling published IP this gen... is there some low price MS Studio game that was published this gen, where units could have been really high with low average selling price? And that QB may have sold fewer units but generated more revenues because of the higher price? All I can think of on this one. =/

Maybe Ori. It was $20 and seems to fit what your saying

But I've heard people say that Ryse sold really well at launch so I'm suprised to see QB sell more

 

[Chris1]

Would agree with that... but best-selling to biggest-selling?

So best-selling last week... sounds like total units sold last week (who knows if they included the Windows 10 code activations in that mix?)

Biggest-selling published IP this gen... is there some low price MS Studio game that was published this gen, where units could have been really high with low average selling price? And that QB may have sold fewer units but generated more revenues because of the higher price? All I can think of on this one. =/

Ori? It has 600k owners on steam alone

 

[Boke1879]

I mean the fact they are talking about QB just shows they have nothing positive to say about March. Now I'm interested to see how it all played out.

Maybe Division sold more on PS4 as a result.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Okay, moving Ori to working theory here. I think y'all may have cracked the code.

 

[dano1]

Everyone, please keep in mind that the rumors of the PS4K signify the death of consoles.

Is this Michael Pachter?