I've been a fan of Monolith since Xenogears. I loved Xenosaga (even if the story was far better than the gameplay). Xenoblade was amazing. I'm a huge JRPG fan in general, but Monolith is one of my favorite developers. Tales of, Persona, and Xeno are all great series.
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NPD Sales Results for April 2014 [Up2: XB1/360 hardware, PS4 #1/XB1 #2 best selling]
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I've been a fan of Monolith since Xenogears. I loved Xenosaga (even if the story was far better than the gameplay). Xenoblade was amazing. I'm a huge JRPG fan in general, but Monolith is one of my favorite developers. Tales of, Persona, and Xeno are all great series.
njean777
Member
The publishers will have to adjust or they will go out of business. I mean if From can make a game like Dark Souls (that looked really good for its time) and only sell 2 million and make a profit, I see no reason why most publishers cannot do this. Just seeing that Destiny is going to cost Activision 500million makes me sick. I still am excited for the game, but if the game is good, a moderate amount of marketing and word of mouth will get you sales. It doesn't need a monster marketing budget. Also the indie side is strong and flourishing on Ps and I would assume Xbox also on Steam. The industry will survive, but it may look very different by the end of this cycle. There is nothing wrong with a contraction as long as publisher's change and act accordingly.
Look who is as cheeky as always. Clearly 450 million!
leatherhat
Member
Nintendo plays an important role in the industry. Even sony has said that their family friendly games are important to getting people into video games. So nintendo failing, though hilarious, is actually quite bad.
LEGO Marvel Superheroes DS came out in February.
30 Hours for me. Got it last week.
EventHorizon
Member
I don't think it will contract, outside of the Wii casuals that is, but I do think it will consolidate. Fewer people will own multiple consoles because both the XB1 and the PS4 now require a subscription to get their full benefits, and the most popular games are multiplatform anyway. So while overall hardware might be down, the sales of cross platform games should be unaffected.
Although I do think the budgets for games are getting out of hand, and will probably require some correction. Oddly enough I think VR could help with this. In order to hit the required frame rate for VR games, their image quality will have to be reduced. That should lower the cost of asset creation which is the primary driver of game costs.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Nintendo releasing both Kirby and Mario Golf on the same day hurt as well. A company as large as Nintendo should have spaced out its schedule better. There wasn't a 3DS game released in April, they should have bumped Kirby or Mario Golf up a month to let both titles breath.
Phire Phox
Banned
Since NPD doesn't track digital sales, maybe the majority of sales for MG and Kirby were from the eShop. That's probably why it's so low.
MisterGrey3000
Member
Well, what do you expect?
Nintendo completely failed to fully serve them with compelling content in 2011 and 2012.
They tried half serving them along side the Xbox audience with WiiU, and that completely collapsed.
As for the other two guys, they don't seem to give a shit about anyone who isn't a 18-35 year old man.
Oh, so what in the world is it doing so high in the list? And the shift around in general of the consoles.
And why did Marvel leave the NPD for a few months and then come back? The movies I suppose.
I get what you're trying to say, but I'm not convinced there's any overlap whatsoever between the Wii Bowling audience that Nintendo captured and the ESPN Fantasy Football audience that Microsoft was targeting.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Why don't you give us a percentage break down plus it won't be miss by most pubs because they already starting to make mobile games or tie into them .
Majority as in over 50%....?
Ascenion
Member
At first I was thinking it might have just been a slow month but.....damn you know shit has hit the fan when your old console sells 62% of what your new one did, while at the same damn time your new console can't even sell 40% of what the old one did during the same time period. I wonder if Microsoft realizes how bad this news in conjunction with that not price drop, but basically a price drop they announced like 2 days ago looks.....
Phire Phox
Banned
That's not true for Microsoft. Zoo Tycoon appeals to younger games and Kinect Sports appeals to people of all ages and non-gamers. So does Xbox Fitness.
shinra-bansho
Member
I don't have access to data right now, but 45% drops in a Mar - April transition are not unprecedented from memory. It's not valid to compare monthly transition to year/year comps.
BananaSprinkles
Banned
The girl's name is Britney Haynes and the gif is from when she was on Big Brother.
Agree. In reality, this new gen is VERY early. There are millions of people who game on 360 and PS3 every day. It will take time for people to migrate to the new generation. In another 2 years is when most people will be on a XBO or PS4. And the year by year percentage increases were very healthy in sales, so it is not bad and will get better.
why the fuck are people buying 360s over the PS3 still?
- PS3 has been the only console offering free online player up til this point
- PS Plus has been bringing great games for a while
- PS3 double as a blu-ray player
- PS3 has a very impressive exclusive library that covers all genres
- PS3 is still being supported and developers are producing well-received games like Persona 5
GAF, I don't get it? I understand that Microsoft did well in branding the Xbox 360 and starting strong, but people really can't let go branding when it comes to consoles in the US?
- PS3 has been the only console offering free online player up til this point
- PS Plus has been bringing great games for a while
- PS3 double as a blu-ray player
- PS3 has a very impressive exclusive library that covers all genres
- PS3 is still being supported and developers are producing well-received games like Persona 5
GAF, I don't get it? I understand that Microsoft did well in branding the Xbox 360 and starting strong, but people really can't let go branding when it comes to consoles in the US?
I wasn't either, Microsoft was willing to risk a lot on creating or capturing that audience though.
for the sake of argument, 40% of all wii sales came from nintendo games (what i was able to count was up to 356m, so raw numbers might be anywhere from 360-375m with everything taken into account). just dance, as popular as it was, might have sold about 15-25m on the machine as a franchise. that leaves a very hefty 500m units of software. the potential to sell 500m units of software won't be missed?
hodayathink
Member
Kinect was the bet they took on that audience, not TV/NFL.
For me, what got me hooked to Xenoblade was how it took all the best parts
of FF12 (personal fav.) and ran with it. Coupled with the art design, music and
environments, this game is one of the greatest JRPG ever made.
Monolith have won me over.
You will spend so many more, the amount of content is insane.
This is why Sony's indie push is crucial. They offer the games/genres for the various
demographics that the AAA publishers won't invest in.
leatherhat
Member
Being significantly cheaper helps quite a bit. People buying these consoles now are just looking for a cheap deal.
July 28 - Aug. 2, 2003 MARIO GOLF: TOADSTOOL TOUR GCN Nintendo 60,684
June 22 - July 3, 2004 MARIO GOLF: ADVANCE TOUR GBA Nintendo Didn't chart in top 20.
May 2 - May 3, 2014 Mario Golf: World Tour 3DS Nintendo ~17,000
I will say it did fairly decent.
For LTD's as of 2005:
MG:TT had a LTD > 700k
MG:AT had a LTD ~ 300k
iamvin22
Industry Verified
ArchedThunder
Banned
So is the 199k PS4 number accurate?
SwiftDeath
Member
Sadly I don't remember, it's been a couple of years it's been on my computer Donny
Google Image Reverse Search suggests Season 15 of Big Brother
https://www.google.com/search?tbs=s...XYz3Ecfz-D_1DdVkZzr2Tid4YOqaIjMSjZ5ghWzszrTIg
Britney Haynes apparently
http://whatgifsisee.tumblr.com/post/23308023939/britney-haynes-gifs
Oh wow.
I actually laughed a little. I'm at least thankful that I got three more games to get on it.
This as well.
The cheapest 360 model is $199, the cheapest PS3 model/bundle is $260 or $270. Visiting Bestbuy and Gamestop websites all I see is the PS3 Last of Us bundle.
MisterGrey3000
Member
All these games tell me is MS basically tried to be a jack of all trades(master of none) like Nintendo with the WiiU and it backfired on them. You've got to be fully dedicated to an audience if you want to succeed nowadays.
It's from one of the Big Brother shows. Don't know which one though.
The true first party Nintendo fans are as numerous as the number of Gamecubes sold, not the number of Wii's sold. The Wii was a bowling and waggle anomaly in the overall scheme of marketshare.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
The Cell processor kinda fucks Sony on trying to drop PS3 price. Just like the start of the generation, MS is in the driver's seat as far as pricing for that hardware with Sony unable to compete.
thing I hate about Ani bringing the smackdown in NPD threads is it gets ignored sometimes.
gundamkyoukai
Member
For some pubs they will just get some of them back by making games for mobile if that is where there gone.
The industry going merge into one sooner or later just matter of fast tech and the internet advance.
*nods head thoughtfully*
Sadly I don't remember, it's been a couple of years it's been on my computer Donny
Okay. Looked like an interesting story.
Thanks!
MrCunningham
Member
It's a good time to be Travelers Tales.
astrogamer
Member
You have to realize who's buying the 360s. They aren't particularly into more niche genres like RPGs. Blu-ray players are already cheaper and aren't as necessary with Netflix and Hulu. Lots of them are in for CoD, Minecraft or maybe Skylanders and are probably in their preteens or teen years. Those games have 360 as their lead HD platform. PS3 appeals to a more mature audience who has likely already got one. And most casual people don't care for PS Plus since they don't play too many games in general
If this was true, Nintendo would have released a press release pimping it like they did with Bravely Default. (Which charted, and Nintendo pimped it as the highest selling new SKU in February).
and this contributes to the console market how exactly?
Randolph Freelander
Member
On 360 > PS3, can we not just go with the stand-in reason used for years? The 360s are replacement units!
Whether or not it's true is not really relevant.
Whether or not it's true is not really relevant.