Ya, Wii U did 31k this time last year I think. As long as it still continues it's streak of being double YOY then(I know I am very much alone in this!) I think MK8 was a success for now. If it can continue that through the holidays(with help from Smash of course), then those will be some pretty decent sales(like 450k for Nov and 800k for Dec if doubled from last year iirc). Relatively speaking poor sales, but certainly not a dead system as it was declared by many last year.
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NPD Sales Results for August 2014 [Up4: PS4 #1, XB1 last week sales 2x last Jul week]
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Ya, Wii U did 31k this time last year I think. As long as it still continues it's streak of being double YOY then(I know I am very much alone in this!) I think MK8 was a success for now. If it can continue that through the holidays(with help from Smash of course), then those will be some pretty decent sales(like 450k for Nov and 800k for Dec if doubled from last year iirc). Relatively speaking poor sales, but certainly not a dead system as it was declared by many last year.
no bundle, I'm assuming?
opticalmace
Member
Pretty big lead on Madden.
ethomaz
Banned
Yeap... that is why I said every Xbone's SKU.
hodayathink
Member
If the rumors are true that the Mojang/Minecraft deal has been being negotiated for months now, there's no way that Mojang would have even been willing to negotiate a bundle deal with a Microsoft competitor.
Sammy Samusu
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the lashingssörine;129599516 said:
Aquamarine
Member
Edit: Is that my homework? I don't understand any of it
Yeah, I knew you were refering to the sales
I was referring to both.
Layton & Ace Attorney sales...are depressing...
I don't want to talk about them...or other games that underperform. :-(
I never said anything about software.
RespectThySole
Member
I agree with this. It will clearly provide a huge boost since it is a new color and a major game. However it's laughable to suggest this would happen when even Halo 3 couldn't achieve such a feat and that was an actual exclusive that couldn't be played on 3 other platforms. Not to mention that Halo 3 had a much better reception than Destiny did.
maabus1999
Member
Yeah...not really if you looked how poor the sales are for the SKUs it barely outsold.
Relaxed Muscle
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DangerMouse
Member
Man, with the drop from the first I guess a decent amount of people really did follow through with those being "done with their PS3s but would have bought on PS4" comments.
Please keep up the good work bringing them over Namco Bandai!
Yup
theprodigy
Member
....the Wii U did double last year's August total right?
Aquamarine
Member
No. :-(
It's hard to call it competition when they have no handheld but the point still stands they barely acknowledge it let alone try to push it.
shiiiiiiit
Can you tell Madden number and XOne bundle sales?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Ouch T_T
makingmusic476
Member
Imagine how Zesteria will do.
I really hope they pull a P5 and go cross-gen. Hell, Sony should be offering some cash for a port for the ps4's sake in Japan
i was a bit low on ps4 this month (by about 10k), and even lower on xbox one (by about 20k). xbox one's sales actually increased by a lot considering what august usually is and how the system's been doing recently. the ps4's sales went up slightly when they should have gone down slightly, so it seems that for now things are stable at around 47.5k-50k a week. this will be the last 'normal' month of the year for really any platform, as bundles and deal are coming in this month, and continuing into october.
3ds fell into the spot i expected (just using aqua's numbers). i guessed about 60k for the wii u, which brings it to the 15k a week it was doing earlier in the year while also continuing to do much better year over year (although 38k would be even more like what the system had been doing percentage wise year over year before mario kart 8 came out). this is also apparently very wrong, and i was wrong for saying it.
i guessed what i thought would be low for vita - 10k. fuck me, right.
so here's that ol' running tally. i will update the wii u one once we get wii u numbers for the month.
vita ytd 2014: ~ 149,000
vita jan-august 2013: 236,000
vita feb-august 2012: ~ 795,000 (launch was in february)
i get the strong impression that the impending lbp/tearaway bundle will be scea's last push for the system in the us. it should push the system past 200,000 for the year in the us and it will probably be completely off store shelves before the end of 2015.
3ds fell into the spot i expected (just using aqua's numbers). i guessed about 60k for the wii u, which brings it to the 15k a week it was doing earlier in the year while also continuing to do much better year over year (although 38k would be even more like what the system had been doing percentage wise year over year before mario kart 8 came out). this is also apparently very wrong, and i was wrong for saying it.
i guessed what i thought would be low for vita - 10k. fuck me, right.
so here's that ol' running tally. i will update the wii u one once we get wii u numbers for the month.
vita ytd 2014: ~ 149,000
vita jan-august 2013: 236,000
vita feb-august 2012: ~ 795,000 (launch was in february)
i get the strong impression that the impending lbp/tearaway bundle will be scea's last push for the system in the us. it should push the system past 200,000 for the year in the us and it will probably be completely off store shelves before the end of 2015.
gigantor21
Member
This is the most depressing guessing game ever.
creamsugar
Member
SW only, bundle is about 41k.
Sammy Samusu
Member
It would seem that the free game promotion played a big role in MK8 initial success.
In the future maybe we'll predict sales as "depressing"
:-(
Just a joke so don't take this negatively. I really appreciate your contribution to this forum
maabus1999
Member
So it barely beats, what, a 300K-400K total SKU? Then note that it is going to HEAVILY cannibalize the normal PS4 SKU, lets say 75%.
So 400k+ another 30-50K more. 450K would be a reasonable target.
Nightengale
Member
I expected a boring month (it is from a results standpoint), but GAF always spice up the discussions...
Guess we're in depression and despair mode though.
did it at least do 25% better year over year?
DangerMouse
Member
Yeah, I thought about that as well with Zestiria, a last gen game in the west in mid-late 2015...just waiting for an ouch. We really do move on to the new systems way faster than they do.
Same here, I hope so too. Yeah, they should.
Dlc attach rate is probably crap on Wii U.
But it was released on 29 Aug, couldn't be that bad.
Man Wii U less than 62K? Wonder how it will do this Holiday season.
shinra-bansho
Member
You're describing pushing sales to the realm of 60K (EDIT: perhaps not even that) and still, from memory, sub-Dreamcast levels, as a success and certainly not a dead system?
theprodigy
Member
with that avatar, if the first thing creamsugar leaks next month isn't Hyrule Warriors I will be disappointed
Cool. Still sold more hardware. You think the PS3 and 360 are going to sell a dozen million more units any time soon?
ramuh
Member
Ah, please don't depress me.. I would hate for them to ever pull the plug on localization.
450K sounds believable for PS4 this month.
How many WiiU games got DLC tho? like season pass, most of them dont have it or it come late