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April 2013 NPD Sales Results [Up3: Xbox 360 Top Platform, NSMBU LTD, Lego 3DS, Luigi]

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Miles X

Member
metalslimer said:
At this point, Wii U may not even reach 5.5 million sold until the end of the year if that lol
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If it averages 40k from now to October (heck the summer is coming, it may go lower) then it'll be at around 470k going into the holidays. If it's flat yoy like 3DS was, it'll hit 1.5m for the year.

This is without any intervention from Nintendo, but even then I mean ...

US only obviously.
 
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metalslimer

Member
neptunes said:
Considering the vita base and the game's appeal, what were you expecting

I think it did pretty well when you take that into consideration.
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It did around what I would have expected. It sold well if you consider X,X, and X usually means a game didn;t sell well. I'm not saying it did terribly, but I wouldn't use the word good here.
 
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legend166

Member
So at what point will people be able to recognise that the industry just letting millions of new/casual gamers walk away between 2006 to now was a big mistake?
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
The spin here for Soul Sacrifice is puzzling. That's not a good number.
 
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SmokyDave

Member
Pie and Beans said:
Close to it. Thats how stores work after all, shit has a week at the front of the shelf, then comes next weeks releases. Videogame purchasers are frontloaded, and idle "whats that boxart" buyers weeks later arent much of a statistic worth considering at Vita's level.

Still, 33k for something without a lick of western advertising just selling to an ultra niche of users is about what to expect really.
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Dave Meltzer said:
For a game this niche? Yeah, I'd kinda imagine most people who are going to buy it before a price drop are gonna buy it first week. And if they don't the number who don't isn't going to be incredibly substantial.
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Eh, maybe. With a number as low as 33k though, even if 90% of the sales were week one, it still could've come out over 35k with a little more time. Not that it's really worth splitting hairs over.

Now, has the Wii-U sold more than SS, or less. I wait with baited breath!
 
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darkside31337

Tomodachi wa Mahou
Y2Kev said:
Wow, so, MH does 100K and SoulSac does 33k so now SoulSac is 30% as big as the biggest franchise in Japan! GREAT JOB SONY!!!!!
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MH was released on 2 platforms including 1 thats not dead and has a much larger fanbase built upon multiple games.

I really don't see how the two are comparable at all other than them being "similar" games (which isnt really all that true either)
 
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metalslimer

Member
legend166 said:
So at what point will people be able to recognise that the industry just letting millions of new/casual gamers walk away between 2006 to now was a big mistake?
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They didn't let them walk away. They went to iOS/Android/Facebook/etc. If anything Nintendo pretty much abandoning that audience on the Wii was the biggest mistake they've made in the last decade. They wanted to get in the core gaming dollars and have failed miserably.
 
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Relaxed Muscle

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Niche or not it was the biggest release on vita this month.

33k is quite low. This is not a NISA release. It has high production values for a portable game backed up with Sony marketing.
 
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magash

Member
legend166 said:
So at what point will people be able to recognise that the industry just letting millions of new/casual gamers walk away between 2006 to now was a big mistake?
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That is the main problem as far as I am concerned with hardware and software numbers today. The absolute stupidity of not even trying to put in effort on so called casual games is going to go down as the biggest mistake game publishers and makers have made through out the history of gaming.
 
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Spiegel

Member
Considering NGS2 sold like 2k, I was expecting worse for Soul Sacrifice.

I mean, it's still a bad number. But with these hardware sales anything >10k would surprise me.

Relaxed Muscle said:
Niche or not it was the biggest release on vita this month.

33k is quite low. This is not a NISA release. It has high production values for a portable game backed up with Sony marketing.
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What marketing.
 
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Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
darkside31337 said:
MH was released on 2 platforms including 1 thats not dead and has a much larger fanbase built upon multiple games.

I really don't see how the two are comparable at all other than them being "similar" games (which isnt really all that true either)
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Well I'm blown away
 
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DaBoss

Member
A Human Becoming said:
These are all true.

Didn't Etrian Odyssey 4 perform worse?
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Yes.

Plinko said:
The spin here for Soul Sacrifice is puzzling. That's not a good number.
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Well what would you expect for Soul Sacrifice? I sure as hell wouldn't expect anything above 50K. And 50K would be wishful thinking IMO.

These are essentially "facts", not "spinning":
  • Niche game
  • Hard to get into
  • Low userbase
  • New IP
  • No advertising(?)
  • Software sales are low in April in general
 
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metalslimer

Member
Relaxed Muscle said:
Niche or not it was the biggest release on vita this month.

33k is quite low. This is not a NISA release. It has high production values for a portable game backed up with Sony marketing.
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To be fair, what marketing? But really, can we expect Sony to keep releasing games with high production values if these are around the numbers they can expect?
 
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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
legend166 said:
So at what point will people be able to recognise that the industry just letting millions of new/casual gamers walk away between 2006 to now was a big mistake?
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This, also.

I wonder if Nintendo would be doing better if they had put out a more advanced Wiimote and continued to market to casuals instead of the tablet.

Like, a direct repeat of the Wii. Wii Sports U comes out at launch, etc.
 
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Baconsammy

Banned
SmokyDave said:
I think I saw between 1 and 1.5 mill earlier in the thread, but I might be totally wrong about that.
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Ah, well then I'm not too sure if 33k is that good, but then again it's a niche title. So maybe not bad once you factor in digital sales as well (if you Vita owners are like me, you prefer the digital versions).
 
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Linkhero1

Member
Plinko said:
This, also.

I wonder if Nintendo would be doing better if they had put out a more advanced Wiimote and continued to market to casuals instead of the tablet.

Like, a direct repeat of the Wii. Wii Sports U comes out at launch, etc.
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I'd think they'd be doing better if they hadn't ignored their userbase for 2 years.

creamsugar said:
The percentage in MS PR is include WiiU.

360>ps3>100k>50k>Wii>40k>WiiU>30k
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Nintendoomed!

:S
 
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