Warm Machine
Member
I think it is hard to sell consoles when everyone knows that new consoles are coming end of the year. Also, price points are too high for what people are buying hardware wise.
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April 2013 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Xbox 360 Top Platform, NSMBU LTD, Lego 3DS, Luigi]
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Dave Meltzer
Banned
I didn't see that. Someone please link to the moment of joy and agony
If this is the case the industry is fucked because most publishers are doubling down on the strategy of creating only blockbuster titles in a very narrow genre range.
Warm Machine said:
At this point you have to figure the hardware market is approaching saturation. But the software sales are worrying. These consoles have install bases of like 80 million and the top sellers are selling 800k.
This isn't it. Completely different demographics buying consoles now vs the ones coming later this year.
Heart Attack
Member
Grats to Netherreal Studios. To be honest when the game was announced, I thought it had no chance at all at selling.
On console/software sales: I'm glad they are so low and consumers finally are responding against high prices. The Wii U is pretty much a dead console, nothing can save it now. 3DS XL needs a price drop in time for Pokemon X/Y. PS3/360 need to sell for $150 at the least.
On console/software sales: I'm glad they are so low and consumers finally are responding against high prices. The Wii U is pretty much a dead console, nothing can save it now. 3DS XL needs a price drop in time for Pokemon X/Y. PS3/360 need to sell for $150 at the least.
Magicpaint
Member
Depressing hardware.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I imagine Microsoft isn't disheartened by sales. They're making a profit off the 360 and certainly the Kinect. Ensuring a strong performance for Xbox Infinity is their priority. It's Sony and Nintendo that should be sweating: Vita, Wii U and 3DS are underperforming.
They were also the highest selling hardware. Doesn't matter how they chose to word it.
Last Hearth
Member
I just don't see HW fatigue as the explanation the huge drop in software sales. With all the existing 360 and PS3 in circulation, there should be a huge game buying consumer base. That they aren't buying the new releases tells me they don't see these new games as offering them any new experiences.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Five more minutes, let's just make up some hardware numbers and argue about them endlessly.
shinra-bansho
Member
Microsoft doesn't have a handheld platform. The markets they mainly sell in are progressively abandoning dedicated handhelds.
And it doesn't matter, they had the highest selling platform anyway.
creamsugar
Member
3DS < 360
WiiU and PS3?
Yeah. Every time I see something like that I have to think for a minute like 'huh?'.
Dagger
3Ds above 120k?
prag16
Banned
smh So much emotional investment in the failure of a corporation.
shinra-bansho
Member
A pie graph, perhaps, would be nice again. 
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
That is known cream! Now for some UNKNOWN!!
perhaps not in Pie riddles plz..
perhaps not in Pie riddles plz..
A pie graph, perhaps, would be nice again.
Yes, helps a lot.
Warm Machine
Member
True enough. However the notion that a machine will shortly be "discontinued" has negative sales effects.
Petrae
Member
That's a negative.
Aye, that's the Wii-U alright.
Hellsing321
Member
Not a chance in hell.
UberTag
Member
Clearly NOA needs to release some more colors.
Now that Iwata's running the place and not a puppet this should be an easy fix, right?
Or is Iwata now just a puppet too?
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Referring to grown men with executive titles and defined roles as puppets is pretty stupid, IMO. All of these men have some degree of ownership and influence here.
Duxxy3
Member
Well that confirms my theory that the 3DS is also in need of a price drop.
$129 or bust in the west.
crusadernm
Banned
Next gen 10 years confirmed.
You have the data again?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Mmmmhmmm
Various Artists
Banned
wow XBox being the highest at 130 seems really bad right?
Lagspike_exe
Member
Wii U numbers are scary. Nintendo needs to hit warp 10 before they cross the event horizon and they're approaching it quickly.
Baconsammy
Banned
Nintendo's got bigger problems than the Wii U now.
prag16
Banned
Indeed.
PS2 launched at $299 and dropped to $199 after a year and a half. From an article I found from that time, Sony had shipped around 30 million at that point. So...for under both $249 and $199: probably in the neighborhood of 130 million. PS2 dropped to $149 some time in 2004. So likely more than half of all sales occurred after that price point.
Petrae
Member
No; however, going by the accepted stat that 3DS is below 130K this month, it didn't sell over last year's number.
There are a lot of games coming out for it like SMT IV, Mario & Luigi, Yoshi's Island, and LTTP 2. However Pokemon is what will really drive sales, every kid and their mother will buy Pokemon.
Coldnoodle
Member
I am shook.
Not when Pokemon is right around the corner. Nintendo's probably banking on that saving the system. Many of my friends who don't own a 3DS are already groaning because they know once Gen 6 comes out they won't be able to resist the temptation and will probably be buying one.
What Wii U numbers?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Enjoying human agony doesn't mean I have an emotional investment. Lets be precise with our evaluation of my mind.