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NPD Sales Results for February 2014 [Up2: PS4/XB1/Wii U/360 Hardware, BD/Poke/DK]
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Principate
Saint Titanfall
Hopefully Europe gets Bravely Second (no thanks to UK). I think it did ok charts wise in Germany and France (though no where near as good as US).
CosmicQueso
Member
Lots of LinkedIn notices went out about updated profiles that's for sure.
Melchiah
Member
The European PS1/2 ads were certainly directed to young adults with their often questionable imagery, whereas to my recollection the Xbox ads were more directed to teens. I might remember the latter wrong though, as I only remember a couple of ads from them.
The first shipment did seem to be pretty small (outside of the CEs), but Nintendo replenished stock far more quickly than they did for FE:A.
Call of Duty, it's as simple and stupid as that. Also, I believe it's been on sale for $39.99 for a while now.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
That might be a good explanation.
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
Thankfully PS4 is region-free so the only issue would be w/ JRPGs or other text-heavy games, if you really have to play 'em and they don't get an official release this way.
Canis lupus
Member
We dont know the software numbers other than the rankings in the top 10.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Then I would rejoice. Though to be fair I only rejoice due to her being fictional of course.
Dragonborn
Member
He probably does. WW, it isn't even remotely close. NA will be the only region where MS won't be completely demolished (though they will still lag behind for the rest of this gen).
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Bravely because that game will stay at that goddamn price for at least a year if not several.
djblackice
Member
Very healthy numbers for next gen consoles. Good to see and can't wait until things really get ramped up with releases.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Good news. Will be interesting if titanfall has an effect next month.
Glad to see wiiu sales rising year over year.
Glad to see wiiu sales rising year over year.
Glorified G
Member
You can't say this so definitively either way. Sony isn't planning to send over 300K consoles for launch like they did last month. Sony is only selling what they had. The stock allotment will be different this month. How much so remains to be seen
If Infamous sales are close it won't be for that reason. Take a look at the top ten games sold in the OP. 6 of the 10 have PS4 sku's. Nobody cares or keeps count of what is exclusive or not outside of forums. If a consumer wants to spend $60 on a title it's because they want to play it, they're not concerned who is publishing it.
I don't know.. Nintendo software tends to sell over long periods of time... it doesn't have the call of duty "millions in the first day" but over the next 5 years (assuming wii U is still around) I'm sure it could hit 500k no problem.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Braverly Default's good sales numbers PROVES that if Square is willing to invest in the right people and make an effort to make an actual good JRPG the people will come back.
reptilescorpio
Member
Final Fantasy 13-3 cost a shitton more than BD to produce though, that will be the issue for Square. Return on investment is going to be a killer.
Apophis2036
Banned
That's a very good point, damn why didn't they release it at the start of a month instead
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The little fat plumber has already showed what kind of selling power he has once before on WiiU with 3D World, I see no reason why MK which is a much broader appealing franchise nowadays cannot do even better.
I didn't actually know that the hardware bump would be split between months like that so of course it makes achieving 300k hardware sales in a single month much harder but it should move 300k consoles over both NPD tracking periods which is much improved over the usual what 50k per month average the console currently has in America.
Of course a lot depends on how well Nintendo advertise MK8, which was why I was asking how the Tropical Freeze advertising was in America.
He's coming... prepare yourselves for when WiiU outsells XBone !
This thread is moving too fast but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone knew. Does anybody know if Sony is opening new places to manufacture these PS4's to meet demand. It seems to me sales will continue to be sub-500K until the fall at the very least for a reason. Sony knows the drought will continue after March's brief respite. There's no sense overstocking. Then again, maybe I'm reading the market all wrong. I'm no sales analyst/forecaster person guy thing. lol
Wow
It's America. Why do you think?
I would be shocked if the March numbers were not an improvement.
tfur
Member
I guess not now that they are so far behind, anyway the shipped number sounds better.
Bring on the Dragon Quest 3DS game onslaught. How about Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime 3? lol
CaptainABAB
Member
In the US, the 360 will.
GuessMyUserName
Member
Digital sales.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Which should be all profit at this point. It's bizarre that neither is $199 with an HDD and a game.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I'd say next month is up in the air.
I don't expect Titanfall to have a fraction of the selling power some seem to expect, but on a new console even something with limited appeal can sell well. Look at Red Steel for Wii. That game wasn't even a competent game, let alone good and it still sold over a million units.
I expect Titanfall to be in another league as a game, but still limited in appeal. I don't expect the series to be a huge seller overall. If they're lucky it might sell to the Halo crowd, but I really doubt it comes close to the CoD crowd... ever.
I don't expect Titanfall to have a fraction of the selling power some seem to expect, but on a new console even something with limited appeal can sell well. Look at Red Steel for Wii. That game wasn't even a competent game, let alone good and it still sold over a million units.
I expect Titanfall to be in another league as a game, but still limited in appeal. I don't expect the series to be a huge seller overall. If they're lucky it might sell to the Halo crowd, but I really doubt it comes close to the CoD crowd... ever.
CosmicQueso
Member
The one metric that correlates most closely with the recent annual declines in packaged software sales is new release count.
Half the games were released in 2013 than were released in 2009.
As release count dwindles, sates per release generally creeps up. You get declines because the release count decrease is not offset by average sales increase.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Glorified G
Member
The little fat plumber has already showed what kind of selling power he has once before on WiiU with 3D World, I see no reason why MK which is a much broader appealing franchise nowadays cannot do even better.
I didn't actually know that the hardware bump would be split between months like that so of course it makes achieving 300k hardware sales in a single month much harder but it should move 300k consoles over both NPD tracking periods which is much improved over the usual what 50k per month average the console currently has in America.
Of course a lot depends on how well Nintendo advertise MK8, which was why I was asking how the Tropical Freeze advertising was in America.
He's coming... prepare yourselves for when WiiU outsells XBone !
I remember you saying the Wii U would have 10 or 20 million consoles sold by the time PS4 and XB1 and would be the reason why third parties would be forced to support.
I'm pretty sure it was you because I don't think anyone else was crazy enough to make that prediction
Yeah the PS4 was not instock form what we seen most of Feb yet it sold almost 300k.
This time we seen more consistent restocking.
Goodacre0081
Member
there are just some mysteries man isn't meant to know
Huh? Did you read the listing?
I just bought battlefield 4.....
Melchiah
Member
What's that supposed to mean; the PS4 has no games?
I could see both eclipsing 400k. I think the TF bundle will put XB1 over that number. With PS4, it comes down to supply. But predicting the NPD numbers is proving to be anything but easy.
TheRealTalker
Banned
People are celebrating Bravely Default sales beating Lighting Returns, believing that SE will change in positive way by this news.....
[News passes the SE thinking filter]
SE: "What a portable game was more successful?"
"This must mean portable is the future.... How can we capitalize on this?"
"I know!" "We go for an even bigger portable market.... MOBILE!"
[News passes the SE thinking filter]
SE: "What a portable game was more successful?"
"This must mean portable is the future.... How can we capitalize on this?"
"I know!" "We go for an even bigger portable market.... MOBILE!"
I see, thanks.
I think a large part of the reason is due to the digital storefront, and I'm not talking about digital sales for retail titles, I'm talking about games only available through the digital sales front.
Until NPD covers this portion, I don't think it would be accurate to talk about software sales being down YoY.
FAKE EDIT: Wait, you aren't even talking about that lol. Sorry.
Though I did want to post something about software sales being down YoY.
TheClimaxan
Member
Ok. That's awesome. So we've established people buy systems for games. I bought an X1 for Killer Instinct and future Halo games. Same difference.
But that still doesn't address my question of why shouldn't MS hype a 3rd party game they think will sell systems? And on top of that, why do people have such a problem with it?
Dragonborn
Member
PS4 being bigger depends solely on how many units send. They'll sell as many as they provide.
For the X1, it should definitely be better with Titanfall in full effect (I'd say, 350k is doable).
COD man...i just cannot believe how popular this franchise has become. I had my nephew come visit me from Twin Cities here in Chicago and the boy is only 9 years old asking me if i had any COD games because i was trying to get him to play Rayman Legends lol but the boy refused..he was so adamant to play COD Ghosts or any of the earlier games ...It's amazing how much of a grip this game has on kids , nevermind adults.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
*cough*
That was me...
I thought NSMB had the pull to take WiiU to 20 million units by the time PS4/XBO launched, even if I couldn't see the appeal of the system. By its first January I was rewriting my expectations and by the end of its first year I'd thrown them out completely.
I went from thinking the system would sell 60-80 million units in six years to 20 million over six to my current stance of "It will be lucky to sell 15 million units in six years.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Maybe the digital sales pushed it over?