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[C4Lukins]

Congrats MS, now drop the price.

That is not how things work.

 

[Cat Party]

MW3 seems to have dropped a lot faster than Black Ops did.

I think you're right. Bigger launch, but since then, I believe it has slipped behind Black Ops. Did the series finally peak?

 

[Banjoman]

Before people go nuts saying no Kid Icarus in Top 10.

"Frazier also pointed out that Nintendo's new Kid Icarus actually did pretty well: "In a list of the top 10 SKUs for the month (as opposed to top titles as listed here), 3DS Kids Icarus: Uprising would have been among the top selling individual SKUs for the month of March."

Oh, I'm relieved.

 

[Kazerei]

edit: nm

 

[airmangataosenai]

First page is filled with plenty of stupid. Graces not charting doesn't make it a bomb. I seriously doubt Namco expected much better than 100k as the upper limit for this game, Symphonia was a huge hit for them and that only did around 120k.

 

[TheNatural]

Sony will be so forthcoming with Vita numbers, I'm sure.

 

[wrowa]

It's sad that even the OCR turd sold more than 6 times as many units as RE:R :/

 

[Gartooth]

ME3 more than 2 times ME2 debut month. Shit.

I'm going to guess here that sales-wise, ME3 will be more front-loaded than previous entries in the series, but at the same time won't have the legs to keep going long.

 

[Infinite Justice]

For you guys to mull over:

Skylanders is still killing it it seems.

 

[BurntPork]

For you guys to mull over:

So, 360>PS3>>3DS>Wii>Vita?

 

[Kagari]

Wow @ Mass Effect.

 

[Celine]

Only interested to see how much the Vita is bombing.

pretty much.

Prove me wrong PSV.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

“In a list of the top 10 SKU’s for the month (as opposed to top titles as listed here), 3DS Kids Icarus: Uprising would have been among the top selling individual SKU’s for the month of March.”

That's even better than the first statment about Kid Icarus. It must have performed better than Nintendo expected for a core Nintendo title.

 

[Adr1an]

My prediction wasn't too far off, i had the 360 at 350k

 

[Elginer]

Operation Raccoon City

Capcom had the last laugh LOL

 

[Oni Link 666]

Thats not exactly a surprise

No, it sure isn't.

 

[DefectiveReject]

Not been in one of these threads for a long time
But does
07. Mario Party 9 (Wii) Nintendo

Mean that would of been the biggest selling individual platform game?

I expect Sony PR guys will be working hard on that PR. I think they fired 10000 people today to distract from this news.....

 

[Mrbob]

ME3 more than 2 times ME2 debut month. Shit.

Released on one more platform and having more days to sell. Dragon Age 2 also sold more the first month too, but didn't sustain and fell behind the original Dragon Age in overall sales.

 

[dacuk]

First page is filled with plenty of stupid. Graces not charting doesn't make it a bomb. I seriously doubt Namco expected much better than 100k as the upper limit for this game, Symphonia was a huge hit for them and that only did around 120k.

And Symphonia had the marketing muscle of Nintendo behind it.

 

[schuelma]

I honestly have not been following the game at all-I assume Raccoon City was not well received?

 

[Surface of Me]

RE: ORC sold 582k units

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/04/12/mass-effect-3-leads-march-game-sales.aspx

Means jack shit if everyone that bought it returns it, see Brink for an example.

I'm not saying people are returning RC like they did Brink, but I wouldn't be calling it successful just yet.

 

[jvm]

More "info":

“Nearly two months after hitting the North American market, the PS Vita ecosystem continues to grow with impressive hardware, software, and peripherals sales among big-box retailers, smaller retail shops and digital. We are seeing strong digital downloads across the board, including full digital-only purchases and extremely high conversion rates for digital demos to full game purchases with titles such as Unit 13, which showcases PS Vita's unique 3G and shooter capabilities. We look forward to furthering the PS Vita momentum with upcoming blockbuster titles like Mortal Kombat and Resistance: Burning Skies, and apps including Skype.”
-- Dan Race, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at SCEA

 

[kuYuri]

Yep, called it. I remember in so many threads people said RE:ORC would bomba, LOL.

 

[WickedLaharl]

Crazy that raccoon city did that well. It dropped like a rock on the XBL charts.

Nobody wanted to deal with such a buggy POS excuse of MP gaming.

And it's looking like capcom has almost milked that fighting game tit dry.

 

[Kai Dracon]

ORC charting and moving those numbers means RE6 is going to sell like seventy trillion copies in October.

 

[OldJadedGamer]

Microsoft's second best March for 360 unit sales (after last year), right?

March 2012 = 371K
March 2011 = 433K
March 2010 = 338K
March 2009 = 330K
March 2008 = 262K
March 2007 = 199K

Can't find the 2006 number...

March 2006 = 262K

Do you see what happens when you fuck NG fans in the ass Tecmo? Do you see what happens?

Fixed

 

[linko9]

What? People are surprised about the sales of RE:ORC? That's an extremely high-profile franchise, and this is a game where you shoot stuff a lot on the internet. The combination of those two factors guaranteed that the game would be a hit. The percentage of gamers who base their purchases on reviews and whatnot isn't really that high.

 

[Instro]

Capcom are geniuses.

 

[TheOddOne]

More "info"

Every month this cryptic info

 

[Infinite Justice]

More "info":

As expected Sony said jack shit LOL

 

[schuelma]

More "info":

Umm...

 

[MatthewB92]

More "info":

If it's so great why not give us numbers ;(


Bleh.

 

[~Kinggi~]

Capcom are geniuses.

People want that sweet, broken zombie shootin action!

 

[Megadragon15]

More "info":

Ah, the doublespeak continues with the Vita.

 

[bigtroyjon]

Based on UK splits and the fact that the 360 version outsold the PS3 versions in mainland Europe Sony strongholds, I'm gonna make a wild guess that the 360 version of ME did 750K+

 

[alphaNoid]

360 on top again, but I'm curious to see how PSV charts

 

[Oni Link 666]

Resident Evil's advertising paid off well. They were running ads during The Walking Dead IIRC. That's definitely the right place to advertise that game.

 

[frankie_baby]

More "info":

Not even a hint for anything, fuck it must be bad

 

[Psychotext]

Oh Sony... you really do say it best when you say nothing at all.

 

[Seraphinianus]

the ps vita ecosystem

 

[Tashi]

Wow surprised by those RE numbers. Much higher than I thought.

 

[Elginer]

As expected Sony said jack shit LOL

Someone crack the Sony code for how many Vitas sold

 

[jman2050]

That is an amazing bit of PR from Sony.

 

[gkryhewy]

More "info":

Wow, that must have been a pretty epic crater.

 

[RukusProvider]

the ps vita ecosystem

+ momentum.

Without momentum, there is nothing.

 

[StevieP]

the ps vita ecosystem

Be nice - I'm sure they have less people working more hours in that department now. Eventually it's going to hit its stride.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

More "info":

Yep. Vita: stick a fork in it.

 

[jbug617]

Honestly waiting for the NG3 bomba before I buy it.

 

[Seda]

More "info":

amazing as usual

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Based on UK splits and the fact that the 360 version outsold the PS3 versions in mainland Europe Sony strongholds, I'm gonna make a wild guess that the 360 version of ME did 750K+

If Bioshock 2 is anything to go by (another series initially 360+PC only that got a PS3 port later on), that sounds about right.