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NPD Sales Results for September 2014 [Up1: Smash/HW/MK8, Destiny stats, 3DS HW]

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You sir are a master of your craft
 
Shadow of Mordor did quite well! I hope the nemesis system catches on because that was the heart of the game. So good having enemies come back for me and speak specific dialog about past battles, etc as it was really engaging.
I've said it before but the Nemesis system will become the Hoard mode of this console generation.
 

Nerokis

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Very solid month all around, especially for Sony. Great to see.

As a sidebar, I think it's interesting to match the widespread celebration in this thread against the fairly negative-mixed reaction to Destiny's success in others. It's worth keeping in mind that a game being successful is typically good for the industry at large, and that regardless if a game is up your alley or not, it's typically shortsighted to wish for it to fail.
 
When the games library for both consoles is 95% identical, the ancillary features and aspects of the consoles are the differentiating factors. Power is the most important of these aspects and when the gap is as large as it is with PS4 and XB1, it has a huge influence on sales.

I respectfully disagree.
 
Not that surprising. Huge amount of sales for most games would be in 5 days after the launch. An entire month's sales or beyond really only matters when it comes to evergreen titles.

well, one would expect it to have good legs cause it is a regular Nintendo title....although I wonder if the Wii U version will clip its legs (probably not because its on the Wii U)
 

Bold One

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MS only solution is to bundle PS4 with X1 , I mean they already slashed prices, removed Kinect, bundled games for free with price cut.

Damn, all this in just 9 months !

Coming Black Friday we will have a $99 bundle with choose 5 games deal.

That might not be a bad idea
 

logikk

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When the games library for both consoles is 95% identical, the ancillary features and aspects of the consoles are the differentiating factors. Power is the most important of these aspects and when the gap is as large as it is with PS4 and XB1, it has a huge influence on sales.

Agreed, but this is really only important to hardcore gamers. Most people buying a console during the holiday season will get the console that has the games they like (basically Halo/SSO vs LBP3/?, can't think of any other PS4 first party games).

I feel like this holiday season is where a large chunk of the 360 owners will upgrade to XBone's finally. May not be enough to get them ahead of PS4 for a month, but should get some better console numbers at least.

And man how many people are there out there than can own PS4's. Are people starting to buy a backup or something...
 

Monster Zero

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Some game numbers all around, I love seeing positive % year over year, was a good month. Good time to be a multi console owner I tell you what
 

Mengy

wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I just find it a shame that consumers aren't buying the console that has superior content, online, OS and controller. Come holiday the gap in content will become more apparent which should move millions of units so I will just play the waiting game.

What...exactly are you waiting for? The X1 to sell more than the PS4?

What gap in content are you talking about, games?

Are you waiting for MS to patch a better GPU into the X1?





Are you going to be okay? :)
 

jcm

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So is this a good month for the Wii u? Seems better than last but still bad as MK8 is already dying, hyrule warriors flopped

That depends on just how low your expectations are. 18K per week and down slightly YOY is pretty fuckin' far from okay, but maybe that's good for the Wii U?
 

cackhyena

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Very solid month all around, especially for Sony. Great to see.

As a sidebar, I think it's interesting to match the widespread celebration in this thread against the fairly negative-mixed reaction to Destiny's success in others. It's worth keeping in mind that a game being successful is typically good for the industry at large, and that regardless if a game is up your alley or not, it's typically shortsighted to wish for it to fail.
Get this common sense the fuck outta here!

I fully expect a $299 by Christmas 2015. Maybe even E3.

Would be in line with other drops.
No way.
 

RexNovis

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I just find it a shame that consumers aren't buying the console that has superior content, online, OS and controller. Come holiday the gap in content will become more apparent which should move millions of units so I will just play the waiting game.

..... Dude step away from your keyboard and take a few deep breaths. Then think about what you just wrote and realize how ridiculous it is. Sometimes I wonder if people even think about what they say at all.
 
Destiny was moving PS4 hardware, you don't expect people to buy the bundle then buy the game again.

ya but Ps4 theoretically has twice the install base of xbone to begin with, so you'd think more people with with black Ps4s would also have interest in Destiny given the exclusive DLC and more time with the beta and alpha
 

allan-bh

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Destiny on "Xbone" sold more (in NA), because you could get it for free with a new Xbone purchase (and it counted for NPD).

We don't know Xbox One sales and Destiny XBO sales. It's possible that whitout free copy, XBO version still sold more (but maybe we never know for sure).

And I know, with bundle PS4 version is ahead.
 

Melchiah

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ya but Ps4 theoretically has twice the install base of xbone to begin with, so you'd think more people with with black Ps4s would also have interest in Destiny given the exclusive DLC and more time with the beta and alpha

The userbase isn't twice as big in the America, where the NPD figures originate from.
 
I think BruceLeeRoy always hint things in this threads.
The 30k must be something, maybe PS4-XBO difference.

Thats generally true but its not this time I assure you. Just harkens back to some old NPD days when people would come in asking for numbers without checking the OP and running off thinking all kinds of cataclysms were befalling the industry.
 
I would say that Sony charging for online play really harmed MS more than Sony. People are migrating to PS4 in droves, they are not willing to pay for two subscriptions. MS should remove the paywall from Xbl.
 

Duxxy3

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If the PS4 is at 550k, although it's not confirmed, that puts the X1 at 520k, assuming Bruce isn't just being sarcastic.

I doubt it's that high. I think that would be the biggest month of the year for XB1. They probably would have mentioned that.
 

Toki767

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ya but Ps4 theoretically has twice the install base of xbone to begin with, so you'd think more people with with black Ps4s would also have interest in Destiny given the exclusive DLC and more time with the beta and alpha

US only. There was only like a 700K gap between PS4 and Xbox One sales in the US before September. It's easy to think a lot of those people who owned a PS4 had no interest in Destiny.
 
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