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

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AniHawk

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NateDrake said:
I wonder how much the X360 is negatively impacting the X1 at this point - in terms of hardware and software sales. Software is still strong for the X360 and hardware sales are still decent. The PS3 dropped off a cliff in the US following the PS4 launch.
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ps3 is annoying for the people still left on it. it's basically been a real shithole. the 360 is behaving more like the ps2 did but at a very reduced state. i'm sure microsoft is happy to have a system around like that, but they're not thrilled about having a system around like the xbox one. they're probably working with the assumption that most of those people can transition to the xbox one in time, as long as a decent amount have xbox live accounts.
 
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speculawyer said:
I can't believe a game with such mediocre reviews is the best-selling game of the year.

Bobby needs to give his marketing team a raise . . . they were able to sell mediocre to a HUGE audience.
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I've played and enjoyed so many games with "mediocre" reviews that I stopped giving any attention to reviews/Metacritic a long time ago.

For the record I did not enjoy Destiny at all.
 
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Stripper13

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speculawyer said:
I can't believe a game with such mediocre reviews is the best-selling game of the year.

Bobby needs to give his marketing team a raise . . . they were able to sell mediocre to a HUGE audience.
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These sort of posts confuse me. What is the point exactly?
Are you trying to say that metacritic/reviews should have an effect on sales?
Are you trying to drive home that you didn't enjoy the game personally?
 
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Infinite Xero said:
So there are more Xbox gamers playing Destiny than PS owners in America. PS3 has been pretty weak post-PS4 launch with cross-platform games. I seems that one MS executive was right when he said PS3 owners are looking to upgrade to next-gen (PS4) while 360 owners are happy with keeping their 360 and not upgrading yet.
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Yes those 360 owners haven't bought a ps4 yet it seems.
 
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Verendus said:
Because they're still just a bunch of old games.
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Right, Bungie's greatest hits in one $60 package. And why are old games bad exactly? Halo PvP is superior to just about every other last gen console FPS PvP with their bullshit "fill experience bar to unlock more abilities, removing skill as the requirement of victory and allowing "time served" as a possible advantage to the player". And sorry, the bulk of Halo greatness is PvP and NONE of the old games individually were able to package all of the PvP greatness into a singular lobby of tons of choices. You had to choose individual games and search for games that way. Now it's all together. So not exactly "old" when you think about it.

I'm saying all this as a guy who doesn't even own an XBO. It's foolish to dismiss a package that actually holds more value than the Half-Life 2 Orange Box from last gen.
 
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Stripper13

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BigDug13 said:
If most of those fans buy MCC, I just don't see how they will stick with Destiny. What exactly makes Destiny superior in any way to Halo 1-4 in a singular package with a singular bulk PvP setup of all map and game-type choices? I don't care if you've played those games before on Xbox and 360 at 480p/30 or 720p/30, you've never done it all in one single package of 1080p/60 with all multiplayer map choices available. I just don't see how a singular Bungie developed game competes with a package providing 3 Bungie developed games in one.
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Old games vs new games.
 
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Tegernako

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Dragonborn said:
What do you mean? Are you referring to Madden, because even with Bundles, the PS4 version of that still sold more.
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No I'm not bloody talking about that. Read my post. I said Xbox exclusives and bundles. Is Madden an Xbox exclusive?

Titanfall has sold like what, 2 million+ last we checked? Well, people kept here and in other places kept saying that meant the game was a failure even though it didn't account for digital sales, bundled Xbox's, or any copies/digital sales outside of America.

I just find it hypocritical that people are rushing to point out that the PS4 "had bundles and digital" and so forth but were willing to ignore that point when it was the Xbox in question.
 
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CLEEK

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NateDrake said:
I wonder how much the X360 is negatively impacting the X1 at this point - in terms of hardware and software sales. Software is still strong for the X360 and hardware sales are still decent. The PS3 dropped off a cliff in the US following the PS4 launch.
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Yusuf Mehdi said:
People have been more satisfied with the Xbox 360 than the PS3, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short-term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360
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lol

Sony stated in August that 33% of PS4 owners came from the 360.

The only thing hampering the XB1 is the XB1.
 
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Verendus

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BigDug13 said:
Right, Bungie's greatest hits in one $60 package. And why are old games bad exactly? Halo PvP is superior to just about every other last gen console FPS PvP with their bullshit "fill experience bar to unlock more abilities, removing skill as the requirement of victory and allowing "time served" as a possible advantage to the player". And sorry, the bulk of Halo greatness is PvP and NONE of the old games individually were able to package all of the PvP greatness into a singular lobby of tons of choices. You had to choose individual games and search for games that way. Now it's all together. So not exactly "old" when you think about it.

I'm saying all this as a guy who doesn't even own an XBO. It's foolish to dismiss a package that actually holds more value than the Half-Life 2 Orange Box from last gen.
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People always want the hot new thing.

I'm not dismissing the MCC. I think it'll do very well. I don't think it's going to hurt the playerbase of Destiny on Xbox One.
 
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Chamber

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logikk said:
You may be underestimating how much people love Halo. There is a whole generation of people who didn't play Halo 1 or Halo 2, and a ton of people who will get an XBone just to play Halo 2 multiplayer alone. It's a little different than TLoU, which was like 1 year old at the time.

Don't know if it will push the XBone ahead of the PS4 for Nov, but it is definitively going to sell some systems.
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Halo is still a big IP but this is an HD port collection, not Halo 5. I'm expecting similar numbers to Combat Evolved Anniversary which did around ~2 million if I'm not mistaken. That's still a big number for a userbase of around 6 million but it's not going to set the world on fire in the same month as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and Destiny which should still be selling just fine come November.
 
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