I don't think there was a real physical release in the US -- there was in the EU though. Anyway, it should have done really well digitally going by the data we do get (Farfire numbers and Steam concurrent players).
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NPD Sales Results for April 2014 [Up2: XB1/360 hardware, PS4 #1/XB1 #2 best selling]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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I'm actually frustrated with the direction FPS went. Something like Doom was exciting for letting me run around in a 3D space from a first person perspective, I'd live to have more games like Deus Ex, Ultima Underworld, Metroid Prime... but most of the time it's a linear campaign, the biggest exceptions being just about shooting loads and loads of enemies akin to a brawler. The former I can enjoy but isn't what I want, while the latter is outright boring (yet I enjoyed Musou for some reason... must be changing mission parameters and the fact it's really a ton of fodder getting in between you and a commander enemy.)
Still, if FPS won't expand (and annoyingly I think I've seen more cases of contraction) I'd definitely want some other genres to raise up.
I certainly can't. That's what pisses me off the most, they make up these numbers and pass them off as legit and actually contest people who say otherwise, then people keep sourcing them because they're all that they can find. Fuck them, if they were at least up front about GUESSING maybe it'd be dumb but ok, but they're just reprehensible.Don't forget about the disgusting deceit. Thousands of people look at this:
And they get deceived into thinking this is real sales.
I know way too much about the site and its methodology for my own good. And it's all a bunch of lies and nonsense. Those numbers you see there...they are pretty much gibberish.
Triggerhappytel
Member
"-Xbox One sold 447,000 games.
-Xbox 360 sold 2.2 million games.
-The Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined accounted for 53% of all software sales."
MS are lucky that the 360 is still selling well so they can bundle these statistics together to make them look good, because a quick calculation tells me that the Xbone is accounting for about 8.5% of total hardware sales, which does not seem good at all for a region they've previously dominated. This is what Sony used to do as well to hide poor sales of the Vita (not that I'm comparing sales of the Xbone to the Vita).
-Xbox 360 sold 2.2 million games.
-The Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined accounted for 53% of all software sales."
MS are lucky that the 360 is still selling well so they can bundle these statistics together to make them look good, because a quick calculation tells me that the Xbone is accounting for about 8.5% of total hardware sales, which does not seem good at all for a region they've previously dominated. This is what Sony used to do as well to hide poor sales of the Vita (not that I'm comparing sales of the Xbone to the Vita).
Aquamarine
Member
Well, Mario Golf: Advance Tour for GBA debuted at 38K.
And that was with a good 12 days of tracking.
Infinite Xero
Member
Didn't Pacher say that Chartz was a good source in a Pach-Attack episode?
17k in two days doesn't seem so bad after all.Well, Mario Golf: Advance Tour for GBA debuted at 38K.
And that was with a good 12 days of tracking.
SwiftDeath
Member
He said that they were a good source to look at old sales numbers, and strongly hinted that anything recent was BS. Why he didn't just come out and say it was BS is beyond me though
ArchedThunder
Banned
I assume this guy is reliable, so here is the answer for those infamous questions
Well... this was unexpected. Who could have thought that the game with so little content and so limited appeal [badly looking COD clone in space] would drop so fast...
He sad that they are fairly precise for OLD content [2+ years old], but that they are often mistaken for recent sales numbers which can sometimes fluctuate widely without warning.
DaSorcerer7
Member
~3.3k for the vita? yikes
This might hit way higher waves then we might think. If Titanfall the "gamechanger", with its generated hype and marketing millions dropped like that and couldnt even surpass an exclusive title on PS4, then 3rd parties might rethink moneyhats from Microsoft in the furture. Apparently the warchest has to come up with something different then gold.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Well, Mario Golf: Advance Tour for GBA debuted at 38K.
And that was with a good 12 days of tracking.
Oh wow, I really over estimated this series.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Well... this was unexpected. Who could have thought that the game with so little content and so limited appeal [badly looking COD clone in space] would drop so fast...
He sad that they are fairly precise for OLD content [2+ years old], but that they are often mistaken for recent sales numbers which can sometimes fluctuate widely without warning.
See bolded
interfreak
Member
When will we know the exact numbers for PS4 hardware?
*edit* I withdraw that question...
*edit* I withdraw that question...
Miles Quaritch
Member
Terrible month for MS and the X1. How did the PS4 do in comparison? I see it's the best selling, but that's a pretty useless fact without the numbers...
199K from the above quote.
Chartz makes money off of their website, and they run a consulting business for their video games numbers. That's why I think it's concerning that a website like this exists. There's actually people foolish enough to pay them real money for their fake numbers.
80k more and with ms announcing a price drop things are gonna get a lot worse before there is a possibility of it getting better.
Ms in deep shit.
If Sony gave a free copy of InFamous with every console .you get my point.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Holy shit, PS4 selling almost double can't make happy reading for MS. The price cut can't come soon enough, but I'm not sure it will stimulate demand as much as MS and others hope it will, especially with it being worse value than the TF bundle that was recently on sale almost everywhere at a reduced price.
And those Vita numbers. Good grief. Smokydave is surely weeping hysterically into his morning coffee.
interfreak
Member
PS4: ~199k
XB1: 115k
Holy crap, the PS4 outsold the XB1 by nearly 2:1! :O
XB1: 115k
Holy crap, the PS4 outsold the XB1 by nearly 2:1! :O
He sure does say lots of crazy shit
Miles Quaritch
Member
I didn't notice the post until I hit submit. Silly me. Good that we got some numbers though, I hate it when companies claim to be the best selling but then don't release numbers.
Well... this was unexpected. Who could have thought that the game with so little content and so limited appeal [badly looking COD clone in space] would drop so fast...
He sad that they are fairly precise for OLD content [2+ years old], but that they are often mistaken for recent sales numbers which can sometimes fluctuate widely without warning.
Infamous lacks content as well and also dropped quite a bit.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The price cut happening in June 9th aka conference day is a dead giveaway but this confirms it.
Unknown One
Member
May is going to be a bloodbath for Xbone that's for sure. Sub 100k incoming.
Trent Strong
Banned
199K doesn't seem very good either though. I guess there weren't any big games out for the PS4 last month.
googleplex
Member
Yep, I bought mine digitally also
Infinite Xero
Member
Wow, Vita sales under 5k. I'm hoping that's because people were waiting for the Vita Slim.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
See the issue is their numbers are so close, Considering Titanfall is still pretty much the XB1 system seller whereas infamous certainly is not (it's one of many popular games on the PS4) there's a high chance some of those ones would have picked up the game anyway.
So it very likely would have outsold it either way. If Infamous was bundled for free it probably would have outsold it based on sales of the PS4.
But as you can see XB1 is selling quite badly.
hodayathink
Member
Digital is still only consistently 10-20% of game sales, and tends to stay in that percentage for the vast majority of games. So maybe the sales are 90-100K this month, that doesn't really change anything, and probably doesn't change the order of anything except maybe comparing sales to games from more than about 2-3 years ago.
In other words, just add 10% more sales to get your lower bound and 20% to get your upper and call it a day.
May is gonna be a cracker.
No one is gonna buy an xbone with the price drop imminent.
Watch dogs is being advertised as a ps4 game.
Gonna be brutal
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
That much is guaranteed.
Isn't in line with the other games: 8 or so hours for main campaign, 20+ hours if you do all the side missions, find the shard blasts etc.
michaelius
Banned
Me and probably lot of other people probably assumed race will be much closer in USA
Considering the price they were still charging for a new vita 1000, it's not surprising that some people would shun the more expensive console for the upgraded model for $200 with 8GB memory and a full AAA port.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Heard people murmuring about it being hard to locate on shelves due to the new Slim Vita release in May. Could be the reason for such bomba level of sales. Not that i expect any magical improvement in May.
Price cut for what?
200k is ok if you consider that its still not hugely available in a slow month like April. And its nearly 100% more than xbone sold in the same month. I call that pretty impressive and surprising.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Less than 100% more than the XB1 numbers isn't exactly something to brag about when XB1 numbers are shit. It's like bragging about beating the wii u.
I did everything bar play it twice, and I was under 12 hours easily. It's like a 4 to 5 hour game I bet, if you don't do the side stuff. Very light on content. Especially considering your just doing the same thing over and over again, in the side quest stuff
It's perfectly in line with what X360 has historically sold in April. Aquamarine's X360 history post
May with Watch Dogs should see an increase again for PS4.