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Alright so that's not terrible. At least not as a standalone number, but when you take into account future prospects and upcoming releases, that's not the hottest of momentums. Expected I guess.
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NPD Sales Results for February 2013 [Up5: Dead Space 3, Crysis 3, Official PS3/WiiU]
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Kenny Blankenship
Neo Member
hope ni no kuni did over 100,000
Magicpaint
Member
CoD is a true system seller for Vita.
I agree. Nintendo should have solid release dates for games that are not finished.
UberTag
Member
I see 4 third-party WiiU games in the NPD charts this month.
If I'm Iwata I think all is hunky-dory.
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Deleted member 13876
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Several continents on this globe would beg to differ.
Man-is-Obsolete
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The rise of digital sales is rendering NPD nearly useless. If you just followed npd you would think game sales are down quite a bit compared to last year. However, there are more retail releases offered digitally and popularity of digital only titles is at an all time high. If you factored in minecraft sales alone that would make up a large part of that decline. Then we have games like sly cooper and fire emblem both releasing this month digitally as well. We know Fire Emblem did well digitally and I'd venture to guess that Sly did good numbers digitally as well, PSN % seems to be around the 15-20% mark for most titles.
Long story short I think the games industry is a lot healthier than the NPD leads us to believe.
Long story short I think the games industry is a lot healthier than the NPD leads us to believe.
looks like it was Dead Dead Dead, just like in japan. that ship is chilling next to the Titanic now. Nintendo let too many years pass between the original games and this one.
Wii U shipments for the Americas until Dec. 31, 2012: 1.32 million
Wii U sold to consumers in the US until Mar. 2, 2013: 1.01 million.
Let's add +20% to cover for Canada, Mexico, Brazil etc.: 1.21 million
Wii U in stock: 110k.
I think Nintendo will be able to clear its launch shipment by the end of March.
(Situation in Japan is similar: 830k shipped last year, 820k sold by March 10th)
Wii U sold to consumers in the US until Mar. 2, 2013: 1.01 million.
Let's add +20% to cover for Canada, Mexico, Brazil etc.: 1.21 million
Wii U in stock: 110k.
I think Nintendo will be able to clear its launch shipment by the end of March.
(Situation in Japan is similar: 830k shipped last year, 820k sold by March 10th)
specialguy
Banned
he has npd numbers so i'm gonna pay attention lol.
looks like he's not really directly giving them out anymore like last month though.
It could be that January really did have a lot of returns and sales have remained relatively constant or even decreased, depending on how much stock you want to put in that theory.
Well generally old consoles do sell new consoles for a while. These numbers are bad regardless.
Yikes, talk about rough numbers. I know that both of them released towards the tail end of February and that EO4 is quite a niche title, but ouch.
What I get from this is that Black Ops: Declassified is the hero PS Vita deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
KillerTravis
Banned
You know there have been 3 other games that came right?
velvet_nitemare
Member
I think he means it's a good figure to use as an estimate. IIRC he has access to UK sales figures, dunno if he has to NPD numbers as well.
Steve Youngblood
Member
Yeah, I'm slightly perplexed as to whether or not he means "good" as in "accurate," or "good" as in "respectable for Nintendo." Because the latter? I... don't get it.
Not to mention that IOS/mobile had taken that market since Nintendo sat on their asses.
Aquamarine
Member
According to Mr. Dent, 3DS hardware was down YOY >10%. (I think that's what he meant by "correct by double figures" when asked if 3DS sales were down YOY)
Considering 3DS's Feb. 2012 was at 262k, that would put the 3DS sales at <235.8k.
Considering 3DS's Feb. 2012 was at 262k, that would put the 3DS sales at <235.8k.
Cornbread78
Member
wow, go Sly. Hopefully we get some Ps3-VITA numbers, lol
I think so. ~60% Jan->Feb increase (weekly) vs. 55% last year. Its still disturbingly far down year over year though.
Gonzo The Great
Banned
It was released on February 26th, and February is the shortest month of the year. What the hell did you expect, 100k? Stop jumping to conclusions. This also applies to the people who mentioned Tomb Raider, which wasn't even released last month. Talk about embarrassing.
We don't know if Kid Icarus Uprising did 1 million.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Wonder if Ni No Kuni did anything in its second month.
For however dreadful a game CoD Vita, Sony made the goddam right call on shitting that bastard out. Almost half of all Vita sales, cripes.
For however dreadful a game CoD Vita, Sony made the goddam right call on shitting that bastard out. Almost half of all Vita sales, cripes.
UberTag
Member
You're probably right.
And I purchased Fire Emblem: Awakening, Etrian Odyssey IV and Sly Cooper VITA all digitally this month.
shinra-bansho
Member
Just because he can read and then leak the numbers in front of him doesn't make him less of an idiot.
creamsugar
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Wii U ~ 66k, ZombiU bundle ~ 11%
Pachterballs
Banned
Creamsugar. <3
HE'S HERE
And EO4 was released at the end of February, no? It will probably do better this month I hope...
I wonder how much EO3 sold? 15k for a game that released on the 26th may not be too bad for such a niche series.
NGS2P was released on the same day as EO4 but that's still kinda crazy.
Ninja Scooter
Member
No I know that, I'm saying what is happening that will cause a sales spike? Until there is a big game out, a big game with MAINSTREAM (that's not MonHun and probably not even Lego) appeal, the numbers will probably stay at this level. There's no launch killer app to drive word of mouth. The system might as well not exist to a majority of consumers.
GhostOfLawlight
Banned
PSV ninja game? Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus? From a multi-million seller to barely outselling a port of a port that was on the market for 3 days.
It seems that non of the games that were cherished by non-regular gamers last gen are not sticking anymore.
there, at last.
Aquamarine
Member
There we go. It's confirmed. <3
Game & Wario is coming out at the end of the month in Japan, so that's clearly finished.
Boom.
velvet_nitemare
Member
They're not making their revised projection of 4 million by April 1st are they?
Magicpaint
Member
Well that's settled.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Kevin "worse than VirtualBoy" Dent lives on.
sacrificengineer
Member
So, PS3 is up from 201K - that's good! 
Glad to see Sly here. Impressive result, even if there is a rather slow month.
DS3 and C3 are doing rather well, I suppose. Those rumors about DS3 flopping don't have any real ground now.
MGR is doing alright at very least (especially considering WW sales), I think. You can always wish a good game to sell more, actually. Maybe some people expected it to set the whole world on fire just because of the Metal Gear brand. But MGR is obviously different from MGS and it doesn't mean this game is unsuccessful, but it do mean that not the whole Metal Gear fanbase is interested in it though.
And market fatigue from current-gen is clearly visible, anyway. PS Vita and Wii U is not what the market wants. Market wants a real step up from PS3 and 360, everything else is mobile/social territory now.
Glad to see Sly here. Impressive result, even if there is a rather slow month.
DS3 and C3 are doing rather well, I suppose. Those rumors about DS3 flopping don't have any real ground now.
MGR is doing alright at very least (especially considering WW sales), I think. You can always wish a good game to sell more, actually. Maybe some people expected it to set the whole world on fire just because of the Metal Gear brand. But MGR is obviously different from MGS and it doesn't mean this game is unsuccessful, but it do mean that not the whole Metal Gear fanbase is interested in it though.
And market fatigue from current-gen is clearly visible, anyway. PS Vita and Wii U is not what the market wants. Market wants a real step up from PS3 and 360, everything else is mobile/social territory now.
shinra-bansho
Member
Well, Brain Age is officially dead.
So there's a good chance that eShop sales could be greater than retail sales. Don't know whether to be happy or sad at that. :lol