hydrophilic attack
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so you're saying she's a zombie
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NPD Sales Results for December 2014 [Up2: Nintendo Sales Notes]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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so you're saying she's a zombie
Scooter155
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I saw the NA Smash numbers were roughly 1.3 mill and Amiibos were "almost twice that", has there been any more detail? Are those NA Amiibo numbers or worldwide? Also, are Smash's worldwide sales really nearing 6 million? Holy crap. Oh, is that counting 3DS and Wii U?
CosmicQueso
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Hot damn you might owe me a new keyboard thanks to me spitting out my drink all over it.
What's the PS3 LTD in NA?
lightning2k3
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I've always pictured them more as peons or serfs, just toiling away adjusting powerpoint slides to the whims of their Directors and MDs. But i digress.
Are you quoting factual numbers or ones you gathered on your own? Part of me thinks it was last month (Nov NPD) 360 overtook Wii but then it was announced this month too, either way that gap is far too big for it to have just happened given 360 only sold 300k~
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
RPJ. She'll be back next NPD.Where's, Lisa? Your name went perfectly with the picture.
26.339mil
Gathered on my own. I don't have access to NPD numbers, just what's posted here and other public data. I believe cream confirmed 360 passed Wii in October. Maybe Aqua, John Harker or Cosmic can answer that.
According to someone with access to the data, it happened in October. According to leaked numbers, it happened in November. Microsoft just announced this month that it happened "in 2014," though.
Welfare
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How often would NPD adjust old numbers?
Whenever they feel like it. :lol I'm sure a big adjustment happened when they got access to real historical Wal-Mart data a while back (has it been 2 years?). Past that, not sure what would happen to make an adjustment necessary. They "restated" November results a bit after last NPD, so maybe that was just more adjusting?
A Human Becoming
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I adjusted my numbers using past milestones/LTD figures provided. I ended up having the 360 barely pass the Wii in October by <20k.
Probably depends on how the GameCreate June 2014 LTD affected the running total. 360 only sold ~60-70K in October, so with a LTD in June to the nearest 100K, there's enough rounding difference to cover that spread.
Suffice it to say, 360 has sold more in the U.S. than Wii by this point.Amiibo was ~2.5 m in NA.
And the poster you quoted said Smash has done 6 million combined between Japan and US.
A Human Becoming
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It definitely did. That was the last public LTD I had. I put the 360 down at 69k for October and the Wii at 14k, so figuring the difference then had to be between 55k and 0, I went from there without adding or subtracting more than 5k from any particular month.Probably depends on how the GameCreate June 2014 LTD affected the running total. 360 only sold ~60-70K in October, so with a LTD in June to the nearest 100K, there's enough rounding difference to cover that spread.
Right now I'm trying to adjust my numbers to match cream's pie for current generation market percentages. My Wii U is .05% too high and Xbone .06% too low.
spatenfloot
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Several retailers had the Borderlands bundle discounted by $30.
Aquamarine
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shoehorned wii u amiibo game - 613k
low digital
sometimes we come across that phenomenon
not every title has large digital margins
low digital
sometimes we come across that phenomenon
not every title has large digital margins
Scooter155
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2.5 million Amiibos in NA... how are they selling in other regions? That's kind of insane... at at least 13 bucks a pop? Way to go Nintendo.
you'll need to be more specific
King Cobra
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Happy to hear that console gaming is still pulling record numbers. Happy to see the Wii U is doing better. Hopefully it means more games for us.
shinra-bansho
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Last gen angles were revised in original post. I get 360 as flat and Wii at like 30 or so K.
I did another measure of the current gen. Using given base gave 1.3 and 579.
NB I could measure these pie chart like 50 times and get like 50 marginally different sets of angles. They're small images and imageJ relies on my hand and eye to delineate the segments.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to do their own measuring.
I did another measure of the current gen. Using given base gave 1.3 and 579.
NB I could measure these pie chart like 50 times and get like 50 marginally different sets of angles. They're small images and imageJ relies on my hand and eye to delineate the segments.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to do their own measuring.
Is she referring to Smash Bros. for December, I suppose?
Also, Aquamarine, quoting my request earlier from the thread
Also, Aquamarine, quoting my request earlier from the thread
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
370k LTD.
RespectThySole
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Forza 5?
Aquamarine
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don't make me smash it out of u
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
spatenfloot
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Nah, she is probably an investment bank's analysis algorithm that became sentient and now lives in the Internet.
Aquamarine
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FF Seraphim
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Is that WW numbers or just NPD? I hope it is doing well I want another one!
Aquamarine
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we're in an npd thread....all numbers are npd-only unless otherwise specified
ZSaberLink
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So I kept hearing about figure sales for Skylanders & Disney Infinity, but I'm kind of curious about the actual software sales. In theory, in order to play with the new set of figures, you needed the new game right? (I realize Skylanders is on Android now, so maybe that's where folks are buying that now...).
@Aqua, when mentioning Smash Wii U sales as impressive, you said "you wish third party sales were good on Wii U". Have things gotten that bad for Just Dance, Skylanders, Lego & Disney on Wii U? Like gotten worse this year? B/c it doesn't seem like they're doing much better on PS4/XB1 (360/Wii to save them all?).
@Aqua, when mentioning Smash Wii U sales as impressive, you said "you wish third party sales were good on Wii U". Have things gotten that bad for Just Dance, Skylanders, Lego & Disney on Wii U? Like gotten worse this year? B/c it doesn't seem like they're doing much better on PS4/XB1 (360/Wii to save them all?).
Welfare
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Hmm, if you take JPMorgan Chase, remove every letter but the s, n, and e, then add the letters k, y, and t, you get Skynet.
Interesting
A Human Becoming
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Worth noting the 3DS only sold ~2.57mil in 2014, a million+ drop from the previous year. Unless New 3DS revitalizes the market, 3DS looks to be on a final decline.
Systems have bumped back from a YoY drop: Xbox did so in 2004, PSP in 2007 and even the 3DS in 2013. I'm not confident it can do it again.
Systems have bumped back from a YoY drop: Xbox did so in 2004, PSP in 2007 and even the 3DS in 2013. I'm not confident it can do it again.
shinra-bansho
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Various figures for 2013 games in this NYT piece.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/1...it-finds-success-with-infinity.html?referrer=
Infinity 3M starter packs WW.
Dec 13 Infinity 551k and SWAP 597k NPD.
Dunno if there are 2014 figures or updated numbers.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/1...it-finds-success-with-infinity.html?referrer=
Infinity 3M starter packs WW.
Dec 13 Infinity 551k and SWAP 597k NPD.
Dunno if there are 2014 figures or updated numbers.
Aquamarine
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skylanders:
-22% yoy dec
-20% yoy ltd
similar $ comps
disney infinity:
+18% yoy dec ($ lower relative %, still +)
-15% yoy ltd
A Human Becoming
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1.3m
I wonder why Kevin Dent said 1.29m
CosmicQueso
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Two explanations:
1) He doesn't know how rounding works on digits in the thousandths
2) NPD is seeding slightly different data in feeds to uncover leaks
Flip of a coin on which it is.
EDIT: Pretty sure it's the former
So is it safe to say the combined efforts of Marvel and Disney barely had any effect compared to just Disney?
This can't be good numbers for the boys upstairs. Hopefully Star Wars/3.0 pushes this to at least 30% next year.
Aquamarine
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even though wii u software grew in dec 2014, overall software is still quite weak relative to ps4 and xb1.
take out 1st-party software and you don't have much there.
but what is there is focused around the types of titles you mentioned.
it's just....blah.
good enough for the companies it benefits to greenlight more titles, but bad enough to keep other potential retail developers far away.
it's a weird situation. i'll have to go into more detail about it sometime.
Well, judging by his behavior on twitter, probably it is.
what do you think the chances are a company brings over something like rodea the sky soldier?
ZSaberLink
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Would love to hear your thoughts on it some time =). Also good to hear that we're likely to continue getting those titles at least for next year. You think we might see some more kid-oriented titles from third parties at least to grace the Wii U then? Like the equivalent of a console Frozen game or something?
Hm interesting. Well at least in the US, I feel the Wii U has started to turn into a "1st party titles can sell on Wii U" this year compared to the "nothing sells on Wii U" prior to Mario Kart 8. Seeing how Hyrule Warriors did pretty well so far, whereas an actual Dynasty Warriors game likely would have bombed, maybe Nintendo will continue these types of crossovers with Nintendo IPs and third party franchises. If those could continue to be successful, it might make the audience more prone to just buying the third party franchises w/o the Nintendo IP on Nintendo consoles. I assume that's a secondary reason of doing this, in addition to just bringing in some diversity on the platform. I assume that's we're getting things like P&D: Mario Edition, etc.
Thanks to the eShop I'd say it's a lot easier in all honesty. While I have no idea about an actual retail release, I feel like it's so much easier to release titles like Fatal Frame that may not sell well, but may diversify the library, by taking out the risk of retail. It allows us to keep getting the Ace Attorney games here for example.
Yes, I meant 3DS and Wii U versions. They're still (almost) the same game!
You were a little concerned about Destiny sales after huge october drop. The game had a good holiday after all?
And about Watch Dogs, LTD is much lower than Destiny?
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Well I don't know the exact #s for the other Warriors games, but Tecmo-Koei was already impressed with Hyrule's launch #s (exceeded expectations), so I assume it's on the higher side at the very least.
Significantly better afaik. I don't believe a Warriors game has sold near 400k in the US since PS2, and that's lifetime sales.
Aquamarine
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i've had a change of heart towards destiny
roughly 1 million for its first december is great for a new ip like this...way above my personal expectations for the title
the "destiny won't have legs because it's a bad game" criticism is overblown, in my opinion
sörine;147836828 said:
to give you a random example of historical sales:
dynasty warriors 3 for ps2 sold 207k in its first 4 months
dynasty warriors 4 for ps2 sold 274k in its first 4 months