Sir Garbageman
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I suspect both TTT2 and DOA5 might end up doing poorly. Just over saturation of fighting games at a certain point.
I'm calling 2+ million in the first month for Borderlands 2.
Dishonored should be able to break 500,000, but I'm not sure how well it can/will do beyond that.
WiiU is going to bomb.
Yeah and I'm pretty sure the 10 hour leak of the game helped it a lot too. It was near unanimous praise.
You forgot Dark Souls PC, which is going to bomb incredibly hard.
that's only 360 sales, adding PS3 sales should put that well above 200 easily.I'd be really surprised if it sold worse than that. Sub 170k That would be an epic bomb.
Relatively to the Wii, yeah, but generally speaking it will do decently, probably Xbox 360 launch numbers. I'm sure many will cry doomed when they see that it's not selling like the Wii, but at the end it'll not represent loses to Nintendo.
Borderlands 2 is going to be a fucking massive hit. Mark these words. Easily a million, first week. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a million~ per platform first week.
See Nintendo is slick. They kept the Wii name. Those same folks regardless of how easy it is will buy it regardless they see it as another Wii. Wii Fit is not easy to show how to play either but that didnt stop it from selling. It honestly just now "clicked" to me as why Nintendo kept the Wii name.I don't think they can have a repeat of the Wii launch. The motion control and Wii Sports along with it's price help sell itself. As much as Nintendo wants to push NintendoLand as the Wii Sports of Wii U it simply isn't. You don't "get it" as soon as you watch video of it or see it played. It's not like you couldn't explain it better though. Nintendo just sucks at advertising it's products and I really think a big part of the Wii's success was luck that Wii Sports (and then Wii Fit ) was so easy to demonstrate. Showing off Nintendoland, Pikmin 3 or even NSMBU (if you want to focus on why the controller makes it different) requires a nice bit of filming to show people playing together, focusing on each player and what they're doing and what the person with the controller is doing. It will be boring and somewhat long but that's the only way they're going to sell this I think in ads. If Nintendo is willing to do that is the question. If they are they might have a repeat of the Wii. Otherwise it will be a success just not Wii 2006 success.
See Nintendo is slick. They kept the Wii name. Those same folks regardless of how easy it is will buy it regardless they see it as another Wii. Wii Fit is not easy to show how to play either but that didnt stop it from selling. It honestly just now "clicked" to me as why Nintendo kept the Wii name.
The funny part is, if some of these games are so easy to tell if they will flop or not, how did they get green-lit in the first place?
My prediction: Mists of Pandaria will sell worse than any previous WoW expansion.
Pandas, lolololooloh mighty sage tell us more? .
I would.
Pandas, lolololool
MoP will sell a lot. And it will become a great fucking game.
Well, Dark Souls will certainly be an "NPD bomb" since 0 copies will be tracked on NPD
Yup, it sure is pissing me off.anyone still bitching about pandas has not bothered to read/look at anything related to the beta or expansion
you think persona 4 in AMERICA is going to out sell cod and AC3 liberation? lmfaoAnything released on Vita other than Persona 4: Bomb.
Yup, it sure is pissing me off.
Darksiders II (August 14) - surprise semi-bomb, meaning it'll chart in the top 10 and give this perception that it sold well but the numbers will be like 200-250k across all platforms. Sort of like a Deus Ex HR type of semi-bomb which I believe sold around 200-300k its first month.
Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (October 23) - big bomb, will probably be #8 or 9 on the individual sku top 10 for npd. I'd say around 100k
ZombiU (November?) - assuming this isn't in a bundle I think it could be a small bomb, meaning it'll put up around 125 -150k
you think persona 4 in AMERICA is going to out sell cod and AC3 liberation? lmfao
No, I meant that people who are still complaining about pandas in MoP are frustrating the crap out of me.how can you NOT like pandas dude?
Oooh ok, sorry misread your post.No, I meant that people who are still complaining about pandas in MoP are frustrating the crap out of me.
Earlier this year someone made a thread with predictions on NPD bombs and hits for the first half of the year and I thought it was really neat and to-the-point so I wanna make one for the next 5 months, Aug-Dec. Please post yours. I'm missing a lot of games like The Last Story cause I don't anything about them. Also not listing obvious mega hits like CoD, AC, MoH, and so on.
Here's a list of upcoming games to use: http://www.ign.com/games/upcoming?filter=latest
Darksiders II (August 14) - Bomb.
Sleeping Dogs (August 14) - Bomb.
Transformers Fall of Cybertron (August 21) - Bomb.
Guild Wars 2 (August 28) - Semi-hit. Will carve its own base in the MMO market.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (September 11) - Bombish, but better than T6.
Borderlands 2 (September 18) - Hit.
Dead or Alive 5 (September 25) - Bomb.
Dishonored (October 9) - Bomb.(I don't even know wtf this is)
X-COM Enemy Unknown (October 9) - Bomb.
007 Legends (October 16) - Bomb.
Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (October 23) - I see it doing alright. Still bombish territory.
Hitman Absolution (November 20) - Solid numbers akin to Ghost Recon Future Soldier sales.
Far Cry 3 (December 4) - Bomb.
ZombiU (November?) - Bomb.
you are absolutely fooling yourself if you think a Japanese rpg in America is going to out sell ac3 liberation or cod black ops declassified. both of these will sell over a million. persona 4 vita won't even sell 100k in the us. will atlus even have commercials? I highly doubt it.Those Vita versions are likely to bomb. BO2 and AC3 are being released at the same time. Spin offs on portables don't do well in the shadow of their bigger siblings. One can't point to the 3DS because Nintendo puts actual "new entries" onto their portables as far back as the GameBoy or have separate series running on handhelds in parallel to the console (they aren't looked at as cheap spin-offs). I honestly see Persona 4 or another Vita game that isn't a spin off doing better then those.
how much do you guys think wonderbook will sell? lmfao
Dishonored will be a hit, maybe around 1million copies sold.