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NPD Sales Results for February 2016 [Up1: Fire Emblem]

RexNovis

Banned
Who cares. get over it, if you dont like it skip over the post.
Like I said let them soak in their tears. They are idiots they deserve to be called out. Ill call them out everytime.

What possible reason is there for posts like these in a sales thread? THey contribute nothing other than shitting on people who arent even participants in the conversation. Its painfully petty and cringeworthy. Stop it.
 

Bronetta

Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
SFV landed not with a bang but with a whimper. Guessing Capcom won't even reach 1 million by the end of March.
 

Crackbone

Member
That PR from Microsoft...

And people are still in denial about the fact that they are clearly moving away from dedicated hardware.

I 100% agree.

It's only a matter of time. They've been telegraphing this for a month now and I would imagine it's only going to continue.

Quite frankly I don't think the upside is there for them to get into a dog fight to win the console game. I think the importance on winning the "living room" has long passed for them.
 
It's not possible that there are still people left who don't own Minecraft.

I own neither Minecraft or GTA V. I'm coming close to pulling the trigger on GTA V though, but I am a dumb stupid baby and will probably spend my money on SF V's season pass instead, so I can save my precious FM for Cocktail Dress Karin.
 

jfoul

Member
Wow PS4 over 400k in feb? Tim Dog is rolling in his grave right now.
Mooch must be having a heart attack and trying to make up an analogy on how playstation is winning is a bad thing. Two 40 year old virgins crying about video games.
LOL Those idiots

Who cares. get over it, if you dont like it skip over the post.
Like I said let them soak in their tears. They are idiots they deserve to be called out. Ill call them out everytime.

So vindictive.

So NPD thread.

Keep up the good work.

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What a month for Sony!

I'll say it again, Microsoft needs a price drop.

So the guesstimate for SFV with digital is 260ish K?


With digital 260k? Yikes

Amazing month for Sony as usual. This is a bad gen for Ms and Nintendo. Maybe a new box developer needs to join in on the fun. Can't let Sony be the only manufacturer if ms did back out
 

Megatron

Member
Street fighter v bomba. Guess Capcom is feeling pretty stupid about that deal now. When will these companies learn? Hopefully bullshit exclusives like this and tomb raider will come to an end.
 

cameron

Member
Reposting

PS4 = 405k or 406k !

XB1 = 248k or 249k

Wii U = 69k or 70k

Impressive month for the PS4.

Street Fighter V is super bomba.

Far Cry: Primal is super reverse bomba (not sure what the proper term for this is. I can only think in failures). At this point, Far Cry seems to be a bigger franchise than Assassin's Creed for Ubisoft in terms of sales (or Microsoft MAUs) of their recent games. Far Cry 4 kept selling all through last year and seems to have done better than Unity. And Primal looks like it's doing better than Syndicate.
 
Street fighter v bomba. Guess Capcom is feeling pretty stupid about that deal now. When will these companies learn? Hopefully bullshit exclusives like this and tomb raider will come to an end.

Street Fighter V didn't bomb because it didn't release on Xbox, it bombed because they sold a husk of a game with the promise that they'd make it a full game later.
 

onQ123

Member
I 100% agree.

It's only a matter of time. They've been telegraphing this for a month now and I would imagine it's only going to continue.

Quite frankly I don't think the upside is there for them to get into a dog fight to win the console game. I think the importance on winning the "living room" has long passed for them.

Nope that war is still on but now they will use Windows 10 devices like STBs & HDMI PC sticks to cover that ground.


Amazon , Google , Roku & Apple are able to take over the living room at prices like $39 while they are stuck trying to sell a $300 box to get in the living room so it's only make since for them to go the STB route & try to get a cheaper box hooked up to people's TVs that connect to their store front.
 
I'm really worried about Street Fighter 5 now. They really need to start pumping out that content now. The combat is great and we're getting free modes, but I hope they still support it with DLC in 2017.

Game should have been delayed till Summer. Focusing on the tournament scene might be the death of them.

Glad to see Fire Emblem do well though.
 
So Garden Warfare 2 didn't chart on NPD... or on PSN digital sales either?

I thought the first game was so well received- reviews seemed good... no negative press like Street Fighter. So what gives?
 

RexNovis

Banned
The Pokemon limited edition N3DS?

When Nintendo needs to prop up their numbers they just release a new version of the hardware to milk their shrinking fanbase again and again.

Was the LE Pokemon 3DS February? That's probably exactly what it was then. Pokemon aint no joke.

the two reasons i can think of is that fire emblem fates is at least a little bit of a system seller, and that there isn't any other dedicated handheld gaming system in the market.

Well I'd say if the above poster was right about the LE POkemon 3DSs releasing in February thats probably exactly what caused it. Not sure I buy Fates as a big HW pusher and being the only game in town would have no reason to affect Feb more than any prior month.
 

Zackat

Member
Street fighter v bomba. Guess Capcom is feeling pretty stupid about that deal now. When will these companies learn? Hopefully bullshit exclusives like this and tomb raider will come to an end.

I really don't think xbox would have saved it. maybe gone up a rank or two I guess but still a bomb. The WoM was too bad. If they had released it at the end of this month it probably would have fared much better. Ah well, I just hope they double down and release content and updates like crazy. That's how you grow your base. Show it off at EVO and be proud of the product you have made.

I fear for them whimpering off into the night after year 1 though, with Sony not funding the advertising dollars needed to really push the game off the ground. If the tutorials are good and you could hook casuals in from watching that hype tournament, you are right back on track.
 
So Garden Warfare 2 didn't chart on NPD... or on PSN digital sales either?

I thought the first game was so well received- reviews seemed good... no negative press like Street Fighter. So what gives?

My personal theory is it might have hit a bit too soon. Flew under the radar it seems. They probably should have held off another year to build excitement a little bit
 

RexNovis

Banned
That PR from Microsoft...

And people are still in denial about the fact that they are clearly moving away from dedicated hardware.

Yep I already said as much earlier

Microsoft PR:

"We are truly grateful to our fans for choosing to play the greatest games lineup in Xbox history across Windows 10 devices,.” – Mike Nichols, Corporate Vice President, Xbox Marketing, Microsoft​

Whelp there seems to be no denying their shift away from dedicated HW anymore. Its even heavily indicated in their NPD PR..

and was then promptly informed how I was wrong so it appears there are still people who doubt it is happening.
 

Zalman

Member
I'm shocked @ Street Fighter. I guess the bad word of mouth had a big impact here.

Nice to see Fire Emblem doing well though. Hard to believe this series was about to die a couple of years back.
 

Ryng_tolu

Banned
I can't believe 5 minutes after i missed this thread Cream posted the pie... -_-

( Yes, i'm back )

Hey Cream, can you give us Far Cry numbers?
 

Kolx

Member
Good month for XOne but a great one for PS4. Can't wait for May to see the impact UN4 can have on PS4 sales.

Street fighter v bomba. Guess Capcom is feeling pretty stupid about that deal now. When will these companies learn? Hopefully bullshit exclusives like this and tomb raider will come to an end.

Except SF:V failing hard has nothing to do with the exclusivity. It was due to the fact that the game was not ready to be released and was met by a shitstorm.

If the game was also released on XOne then that wouldn't have made a big difference. Actually, if you think about how many copies they'd have sold on XOne and how much Sony paid them then it was actually a good deal.
 

harSon

Banned
I 100% agree.

It's only a matter of time. They've been telegraphing this for a month now and I would imagine it's only going to continue.

Quite frankly I don't think the upside is there for them to get into a dog fight to win the console game. I think the importance on winning the "living room" has long passed for them.

People are so off base with this notion that Microsoft is exiting console gaming. The Xbox One isn't even selling terribly. It's just being outpaced by a console that is putting up Wii like numbers. For example, the Xbox 360 sold 254,000 in February 2008. The Wii sold 432,000 that same month. Was the Xbox 360 viewed as anemic at that time, and potentially causing Microsoft to rethink its presence within console gaming?
 
People are so off base with this notion that Microsoft is exiting console gaming. The Xbox One isn't even selling terribly. It's just being outpaced by a console that is putting up Wii like numbers. For example, the Xbox 360 sold 254,000 in February 2008. The Wii sold 432,000 that same month. Was the Xbox 360 viewed as anemic at that time, and potentially causing Microsoft to rethink its presence within console gaming?

The Xbone isnt really doing all that poorly. I don't think they are exiting the hardware market, just changing their overall strategy for the Gaming Division considerably
 

Mpl90

Two copies sold? That's not a bomb guys, stop trolling!!!
Great contribution as always, cream, thanks :D

315,000 copies sold at retail for Fire Emblem: Fates at retail means slightly less than 85,000 copies/upgrades through eShop.
Project X Zone 2 with a major decrease compared to the first game. I fear Fire Emblem + the not-so-good reception of the first game really sucked out its potential. A shame, after all.
Street Fighter V just over 200,000 was sort-of-expected at this point, but it still is a major disappointment. Also, I don't get all the comments about this demonstrating the exclusivity deal was wrong; SFV had other, major problems that limited its potential. Holy hell Naruto and Far Cry Primal.

About hardware...IIRC, the past few years have seen February becoming a bigger month in the overall picture, with bigger MOM increases from January compared to early 2010s. I just wanted to know if such a trend is real or if it's my memory being slightly fuzzy at the moment.

EDIT: creamsugar, updates on Xenoblade Chronicles X and Bayonetta 2s re-release, please :D
 

GHG

Gold Member
Now Sony look stupid for buying SFV exclusivity. Mega bomba for a big franchise.

Considering PS4 sales are up YOY the same month SFV dropped I don't see how anyone can say that they are the ones who look stupid from this deal.
 

Sjefen

Member
Sony in full control this gen it seems. I think their will be a even bigger increase in sales the next months due to U4/PSVR and recent MS announcements.
 
I don't know how Street Fighter V all of the sudden became the poster child for everything that's wrong with the games industry. I've seen so much crazy hate being projected onto it the last couple weeks.

If playing online isn't your thing... that's fine. For people to claim they were scammed by Capcom though... it sounds so ridiculous. They did so much press in the months leading up to launch... but apparently people didn't care to pay attention to any of it.
 

harSon

Banned
Great contribution as always, cream, thanks :D

315,000 copies sold at retail for Fire Emblem: Fates at retail means slightly less than 85,000 copies/upgrades through eShop.
Project X Zone 2 with a major decrease compared to the first game. I fear Fire Emblem + the not-so-good reception of the first game really sucked out its potential. A shame, after all.
Street Fighter V just over 200,000 was sort-of-expected at this point, but it still is a major disappointment. Also, I don't get all the comments about this demonstrating the exclusivity deal was wrong; SFV had other, major problems that limited its potential. Holy hell Naruto and Far Cry Primal.

About hardware...IIRC, the past few years have seen February becoming a bigger month in the overall picture, with bigger MOM increases from January compared to early 2010s. I just wanted to know if such a trend is real or if it's my memory being slightly fuzzy at the moment.

EDIT: creamsugar, updates on Xenoblade Chronicles X and Bayonetta 2s re-release, please :D

Most of the February's in the early to mid portions of last generation shat all over the numbers we're seeing right now.
 
Sony in full control this gen it seems. I think their will be a even bigger increase in sales the next months due to U4/PSVR and recent MS announcements.

I hope R&C makes some kind of dent, too, because the latest gameplay footage was gorgeous. Previews have also been overwhelmingly positive.
 

onQ123

Member
Now Sony look stupid for buying SFV exclusivity. Mega bomba for a big franchise.

No they don't they are not hurting from SFV not setting the world on fire & I'm sure that a small part of the 400K this month is from Street Fighter players picking up the PS4 for the 1st time.



Some times Street Fighter games sell well & sometimes they don't SFII & SFIV just happen to be the times that they sold well & SFV might be one of the times that it don't.
 
Great contribution as always, cream, thanks :D

315,000 copies sold at retail for Fire Emblem: Fates at retail means slightly less than 85,000 copies/upgrades through eShop.
Project X Zone 2 with a major decrease compared to the first game. I fear Fire Emblem + the not-so-good reception of the first game really sucked out its potential. A shame, after all.
Street Fighter V just over 200,000 was sort-of-expected at this point, but it still is a major disappointment. Also, I don't get all the comments about this demonstrating the exclusivity deal was wrong; SFV had other, major problems that limited its potential. Holy hell Naruto and Far Cry Primal.

About hardware...IIRC, the past few years have seen February becoming a bigger month in the overall picture, with bigger MOM increases from January compared to early 2010s. I just wanted to know if such a trend is real or if it's my memory being slightly fuzzy at the moment.

EDIT: creamsugar, updates on Xenoblade Chronicles X and Bayonetta 2s re-release, please :D

This is a non-issue in Western markets because the game had amazing legs over here and if reception would have been not-so-good, it had stopped selling well before.
 
SFV is dope. Gameplay is so fun. I redboxed it though and will pick it up for cheap when all the content is out in June. I'd guess a lot of others will do the same.
 

Bastables

Member
The Xbone isnt really doing all that poorly. I don't think they are exiting the hardware market, just changing their overall strategy for the Gaming Division considerably
Do you remember during the 360 "era" of MS:
Declining to state unit sales?
Shutting down first party studios?
Talking about Xbox gaming on Windows 7 and xp?
You're right that the overall strategy is changing, because their initial strategies have completely failed/done poorly.
 
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