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NPD July 2012 Sales Results [Up3: 3DS Hardware Correction - 124K+]
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specialguy
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right, which if the 3m is correct (guessing it's higher now) is the equivalent of pulling 250,000 full priced $60 boxed games worth of revenue a month. a 250k boxed title would be ranking pretty high each of these last three months. Surely top 2-4.
Can we really blame people?
Games get cheap so fast these days, so unless you really feel a product is worth $60, it makes zero sense to buy it day one.
Chances are high there are at least 10-20 great and/or very popular games now available for $10-$30 out there that you haven't played, and they actually seem to be the ones that are charting right now.
Glorified G
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If the ps3 numbers are pretty bad I hope a 16gb version priced at $149 is a viable option.
alfredofroylan
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DS reached sturation point in Japan a long time ago, here in America the DS is still a cheap and easy gift for the kids.
Well my local Costco has basically gotten rid of the videogame section. They are only selling Xbox 360 Kinect bundles and nothing else, no games.
SniperHunter
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looks like Sony picked a good time to reduce price on a number of titles and launch various game collections.
metalslimer
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I can't blame them. I think Darksiders 2 and Sleeping Dogs will both be 20 dollars on Black Friday so I'm waiting. It's just that the industry can't sustain these games with people who do that. This also I think is playing a big part in what's wrong with the 3DS and moreso Vita.
What's the price for both 3DS and DS?
MasterSheen
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US is usually slower to adopt new systems than Japan.
price drop recently happened. nintendo's clearing out stock at this point. it'll be a non-issue by 2013, after pokemon bw2 (last hurrah for the ds) and nsmb2 (relaunch for 3ds) drop.
I have a feeling that Darksiders 2 will do OK; the first game is well liked and THQ has been doing a decent job of building hype for it (not like they have a choice right now!). Sleeping Dogs is a real wild card; with the whole True Crime origins not factoring into it outside of the hardcore, Squenix is really going to have to sell the setting and the hand-to-hand in order for it to stand a chance. For sandbox games in that same style, there's Rockstar's games and Assassin's Creed, then there's Saints Row, and then there's everything else. I think it should be safe to say that Squenix does not want to be in the last tier.
It is the summer so some tentpole games like NBA2K and COD are going to represented. I do think it looks bad. But if you look at the weekly charts in Japan, it's not any better in terms of new IP and a ton of sequels and similar genres. If you combined these sales numbers with digital, I think you'd see that it's not so bad here.
Oh, I totally agree. And we're not even considering digital on that front, where there are tons of excellent games for cheap.
bigtroyjon
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closer to 2 months than 3.
specialguy
Banned
I could see Darksiders 2 hitting the Borderlands "successful mid tier" niche, which is increasingly hard to hit.
Sleeping Dogs seems more likely to bomb.
All mid tiers struggle these days, for years now but it's getting worse.
even borderlands itself is arguably now triple a (hype-wise) with borderlands 2.
Sleeping Dogs seems more likely to bomb.
All mid tiers struggle these days, for years now but it's getting worse.
even borderlands itself is arguably now triple a (hype-wise) with borderlands 2.
alfredofroylan
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Blast Processing
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You guys remember the NPD threads back in 2007 and 2008? Those were a lot more fun.
Yep. I see moms all the time asking for a DS whenever I go to a store. They have no idea the 3DS exists... This is still probably a sizeable market, lol.
You Are Viewtiful
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Is spamming GIFs still bannable?
alfredofroylan
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They still got a profit for every DS unit sold.
shinra-bansho
Member
Too pessimistic in my predictions this month. 
Is the month/month increase with regard to the 3DS referring to weekly average or just absolute numbers?
Is the month/month increase with regard to the 3DS referring to weekly average or just absolute numbers?
Mr. B Natural
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The list means that software sales are abysmal. Those consistent sellers that don't usually make the top 10 are on there.
The emperor needs to head back inside and find some "new" clothes and fast.
The emperor needs to head back inside and find some "new" clothes and fast.
TheMissingLink
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I used to look forward to NPD day! Now I randomly remember when I see the thread pop up. Sad
metalslimer
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Mid tier I would say is 1-2 million. Borderlands is not mid tier.
Borderlands actually ended up at 6 million copies.
I suspect Borderlands 2 will be one of those titles that sucks up all the air from everything else.
Criminal Upper
Banned
Holy shit, Assassin's Creed out of nowhere.
Megadragon15
Member
Nice to see Nintendo handhelds doing better.
Take Two picked a great release date for it, no question about it. It should be a monster.
And they certainly need a monster right about now!
Kacho
Member
Yeah, without a doubt. Borderlands 2 will be a monster in the states.
Mr. B Natural
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Well, the gaming world is either starving to death and will devour anything AAA or the audience has actually diminished. BL2 will be a good barometer for that test.
bigtroyjon
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Probably won't even be #1 release month though, with Madden being in the September reporting period.
Fail? They're making tons of money out of it.
I see. Didn't know about the DS price drop. Sales make sense now.
Sure but it's killing their new system, I mean how short sighted you have to be to not figure this out.
Mr. B Natural
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And that would be extremely short sighted of them. Trust me, if they could somehow wish all of those DS sales over to 3ds, they would.
Edit: I got beat.
I don't feel the two statements are irreconcilable though.
In May 2010 Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy killed a lot of things. Here, Borderlands 2 would be the game killing things that aren't itself or Madden.
Wow.
Both versions of NCAA?
Still don't see how it's killing them, especially with the XL coming out this month along with NSMB2. Plus the 3DS went up this month.
alfredofroylan
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In the same way the PS2 was killing the PS3 in the early days? I think NOA'll discontinue the DS this year in America and by the next year they'll have a strong lineup to support the system here. Meanwhile the DS is easy money for the company.