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NPD May 2012 Sales Results [Up4: Max Payne 3, Dragon's Dogma, Ghost Recon]

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GrandHarrier

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coldfoot said:
Low US sales helps the PS3 catch up to 360 since it's stronger in Europe (except for UK), and everywhere else. I think PS3 JP sales are about %50 of PS3 US sales this month, which is remarkable for such a small market.
As a console generation drags on, US market will go down first, followed by Europe, and then the rest of the world. These are the times for the PS3 to catch up worldwide.
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The whole market is crashing but hey, as a fanboy, as least my preferred choice of consoles might be less in 3rd place? Yay? lol.

Interesting to see what the response to this is going to be from Sony and MS. Both are typically proactive about trying to stimulate the market.
 
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U2NUMB

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Hardware numbers are horrible of course... one nugget of huh? Is that BF3 charted again after all these months.
 
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Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Petrae said:
No. No they are not. It's going to take GTA V-- and maybe a bit of luck now-- for the Rockstar label to come close to FY2013 projections as laid out by Take-Two.
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Their projection was already crazy just assuming it was Max Payne by itself.
 
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Last Hearth

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I think we're at the point in the console generation where every game is a "been there, done that".

Honestly nothing looks all that attractive to them because they all feel like another iteration of a game I've already played.
 
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ViewtifulJC

Banned
GarthVaderUK said:
So we're looking at something like this:

360: 160K
PS3: 124K
3DS: 113.5K
Wii: 71K
Vita: >50K, <71K

Edit: Vita added.
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Bruno MB

Bruno MB

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I remember that Take-Two Interactive revealed in its FY 2012 financial report that Max Payne 3 had shipped 3 million units worldwide.
 
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Traumahound

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These terrible software sales have to be terrifying for companies working on huge budget AAA games right now, especially the new IPs. Even if they turn out great, these expensive late gen games (Last of Us, Beyond, Dishonored) don't like guaranteed sales successes.
 
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Kusagari

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Phonomezer said:
Lack of marketing completely let the game down. It had potential to be 2012's sleeper hit ala Dead Island in 2011.
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No it didn't. There's a reason Dead Island was a sleeper hit, and it's the exact thing that caused Dragon's Dogma to be doomed by its absence.
 
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jetjevons

Bish loves my games!
Traumahound said:
These terrible software sales have to be terrifying for companies working on huge budget AAA games right now, especially the new IPs. Even if they turn out great, these expensive late gen games (Last of Us, Beyond, Dishonored) don't like guaranteed sales successes.
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Who wants to spend $60 day one when a day later gamestop has it cheaper used, a week later you get it from gamefly and a month later it drops to $40 bucks.
 
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Gartooth

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I can already tell that (aside from the NSMB2 release in August) this is going to be a bad summer for videogames. Fall can't come soon enough.
 
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Pooya

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3m shipped doesn't mean much, specially for Rockstar games which are generally quite a bit more expensive. LA Noire shipped 4m, look what happened. Max Payne 3 was in development for a long time and they had multiple R* studios working on it, missed opportunity to work on something else, like getting GTAV out sooner.
 
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MikeE21286

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Hero said:
Another awful, awful, awful month. Nintendo could steal next gen with this holiday season alone if they were competent but after that E3 conference I'm not so sure of that.

Price cuts won't really help all that much either. This gen has gone on too long and has gotten way too stagnant. Next year's numbers are probably going to be even worse than this.
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I don't think Nintendo did enough to endear/convince the people who would normally spend $300, and buy launch hardware, that they need one.
 
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Aselith

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Stumpokapow said:
Those are shipments.
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Ah. Weeeell. I'll be over here then when the numbers come out. If it did more than 1 million, it did pretty well.

Petrae said:
It didn't even come close to L.A. Noire numbers from May 2011 here in the US, so it must have been gangbusters everywhere else. Or we're playing the shipped vs. sold game again, which is misleading and tiresome.
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We don't have actual numbers so how do you know? LA Noire did 899k in May. That's probably reasonably close to what MP did.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=433830
 
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Pranay

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Petrae said:
No. No they are not. It's going to take GTA V-- and maybe a bit of luck now-- for the Rockstar label to come close to FY2013 projections as laid out by Take-Two.
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Did mp3 sold less then RE orc first month ?

AdventureRacing said:
The UK market has also been performing terribly, is there any reason to believe that Europe is actually doing much better overall than the US?

Also the PS3 still has a few million units to go and if sales stall WW that won't make it easy to make up a gap like that.
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Some games do well in Europe and most of them are generally ps3. so you never know.

3ds is selling 60k to 100 every week in japan while in america in one month
 
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LuchaShaq

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Do people forget how fez minecraft and trials sold like four million combined in may?

I'm sure a lot of people like me bought 2 or three of those and avoided non diablo full priced games.
 
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Phonomezer

Banned
outunderthestars said:
Why does ever game failure always get chalked up to marketing? The game seem to get mediocre reviews and never seemed to generate much buzz, even among the hardcore.
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Dead Island didn't exactly set a fire under the asses of the gaming media either; nobody expected it to do well, but marketing did have a big hand in people taking notice of the game due to the infamous trailer.

In comparison, it's as if Capcom didn't even try. I still haven't seen any advertising for Dragon's Dogma, print or otherwise.

Then there's a whole other angle where DI caught on due to word of mouth because it had *gasp* 4-player co-op. Just as DD should've.
 
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Pranay

Member
LuchaShaq said:
Do people forget how fez minecraft and trials sold like four million combined in may?

I'm sure a lot of people like me bought 2 or three of those and avoided non diablo full priced games.
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sshhh
console gaming is dead bro#

Those are WW sales but are good none the less
 
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shinra-bansho

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AdventureRacing said:
2014 is starting to look like a long way away if that's when sony or MS plan to release their next console. I don't think either can afford to wait that long and if they do it will cost them dearly next gen.

The UK market has also been performing terribly, is there any reason to believe that Europe is actually doing much better overall than the US?
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Hmm. Can look at Nintendo's IR charts at least for the first 3 months of the year.

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Overlayed 2011/10 with 2012 - too many lines, hard to read - but doesn't seem as down % wise as the US.
 
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lunchwithyuzo

Banned
Kusagari said:
No it didn't. There's a reason Dead Island was a sleeper hit, and it's the exact thing that caused Dragon's Dogma to be doomed by its absence.
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Again, Dragon's Dogma was advertised. I've seen this ad (or variations) at least a dozen times and I don't even watch much television these days. They even got the 360 RE6 demo in there.
 
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Striek

Member
velvet_nitemare said:
What happened to that? Swept under the rug?
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Pretty much.

I think given the success of the Wiimote, the balance board, guitar hero etc. Nintendo thought up a new idea for an accessory first, but then couldn't quite think of the gameplay design to go with it and release a product. It might make a comeback one day.
 
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