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NPD Sales Results for February 2014 [Up2: PS4/XB1/Wii U/360 Hardware, BD/Poke/DK]
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Somewhere in a urinal stall at Konami's headquarters, Koji Igarashi's ears perk up.
theprodigy
Member
the denial is strong in the other thread, we've got people doubting Aquamarine too :lol
Its doing even worst in the PAL charts.
Boomstick (Coffee Crazy)
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I'd say its entirely Titanfall to be honest. In the same way I think that Sony has gotten many early buyers with their marketing of future exclusives (Metal Gear, etc.), Microsoft likely is seeing a massive increase in their sales because of all the hype surrounding titanfall. I mean, the hype around titanfall has been absolutely insane. Its like everywhere I went in early 2014 had some ads about titanfall and how amazing it was going to be. That probably significantly boosted some early purchases in the prior month to its release. The fact that Sony had significant supply constraints on the PS4 likely helped Microsoft as well.
shinra-bansho
Member
It's probably worth noting your metrics aren't region specific though, as far as I can tell? The relative interest may not be reflected in NPD specifically. I do expect inFamous to do well for itself, and much better than past games in the series have done.
Took me a while, I believe it's Tales of Symphonia Collection
Tales of Symphonia Chronicles.
Omnistalgic
Member
why? Ps2... We want that gen again with a dominant console that has a great diversity of games. If it can happen with both of these platforms selling well that's great too.Yes but as it stands they had a great month that pretty much was beyond most of our expectations. Anything could happen to either system, look how the PS3 turned things around. Why people want this lopsided Sony victory is beyond me
Hopefully this spooks Sony and they get off their ass and give me my DLNA
I'm not going to applaud ms for this bump though, they basically marketing the heck out of it, bought the rights to a game so it's not on the competitors box, and start giving away games with there bundles. I still just don't see the value of owning both boxes at this point. Likely all gen..
Wouldn't really go that far. The system is still $100 more.
SlipperySlope
Banned
Can anyone please expand on these acronyms? I have no idea what games these are.
Please return to us
Oh, I see! Thanks!
tales of symphonia chronicles, lords of shadow 2
yup. I actually fear for square's continued participation in the console space.
Youtube views. Twitter mentions. Preorders.
Second Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzh96ehv4A&list=PLol_ykYs3OQ6BFpbAz7hnq9JhUZ0UZLbm Published mar 7. 4.7 mil views
To find anything even close on titanfall's youtube you have to go back to october. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiIamHIzBY&list=PLaeNmk1THKrX8a79WXuL4x2BH_VlzON5V 2.3 mil views. Their E3 video is just over 3 mil. Their "official gameplay launch trailer" which is a week old... 194k.
People give a fuck about inFamous. I'm not speaking about quality in the slightest. I have and absolutely love titanfall. See:
I'm just saying, and the person who clued me into this is very much with microsoft, but don't sleep on infamous. Titanfall is dominating the media but infamous is dominating things where the consumer makes the choice (like youtube, twitter, etc) and not editors.
That doesn't mean anything though. Ryse's live action television spot basically has the same amount of views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axz0r3Frd5U
famousmortimer
Banned
Very true. But it may also be 100% US views. Who knows. It's reasonable to assume it isn't.
Don't sleep on inFamous
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
So, is the PS3+PS4 just conveniently not caught in the snapshot, or do they literally not have a place in that section of the website?Man, IGN is like
I will not give IGN a pageview to verify myself, can someone do me a solid?
About what?
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
eddfromtheriver
Banned
That is lam... low. And sad... and kind of funny, but not really.
shinra-bansho
Member
Chuck Norris
Banned
Titanfall is a console exclusive launching around the same time as a genuine exclusive on PS4 with inFamous. I don't see how you can split them and say Xbox has had a better treatment of software over the first two months of this year
creamsugar
Member
160K < BD < FF < 165K, PS3 ~ 67%
Chobel
Member
TOSC: Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (PS3)
LOS2: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (X360,PS3,PC)
miDnIghtEr20C
Banned
Ha. I think the same way when I see people still cry about DRM that never happened and so on.
To answer your question no. So expect PS4 to dominate hardcore next NPD. Right?
Maybe we don't need them.
EmptySpace
Banned
exactly. where the hell did those 280k consoles come from? it's out of stock everywhere. does that mean in-between those restocks and out-of-stocks they sold almost 300k units? what the hell? where are those 300k people who were pressing f5 every hour on bestbuy and amazon websites?! ugh.
theprodigy
Member
Hyperactivity
Banned
LOS2 tries to make Castlevania mainstream; sells less than a WiiU game that only had "fucking Cranky Kong"
XD
Wow, that means ~40k downloads for BD. That's pretty damn good.
BoboBrazil
Member
Just saw a Destiny PS4 commercial on tv. Seems like they are trying to combat Titanfall atleast.
Wow, 40K+ digital sales.
You gotta
miDnIghtEr20C
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Youtube views. Twitter mentions. Preorders.
Second Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzh96ehv4A&list=PLol_ykYs3OQ6BFpbAz7hnq9JhUZ0UZLbm Published mar 7. 4.7 mil views
To find anything even close on titanfall's youtube you have to go back to october. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiIamHIzBY&list=PLaeNmk1THKrX8a79WXuL4x2BH_VlzON5V 2.3 mil views. Their E3 video is just over 3 mil. Their "official gameplay launch trailer" which is a week old... 194k.
People give a fuck about inFamous. I'm not speaking about quality in the slightest. I have and absolutely love titanfall. See:
I'm just saying, and the person who clued me into this is very much with microsoft, but don't sleep on infamous. Titanfall is dominating the media but infamous is dominating things where the consumer makes the choice (like youtube, twitter, etc) and not editors.
Was that you that said they heard from their peeps that the X1 was hardly scratching 100K for Feb?
famousmortimer
Banned
The same amount of views since october vs the same amount of views from 2 weeks ago.
You don't think there is a difference there?
Someone with marketing knowledge needs to get up in this bitch. They have this shit down to a science right now. I am not one of those people, but I've talked to them. They all say "DONT SLEEP ON INFAMOUS!"
Sony also used it's own metrics in a meeting with EA last week and showed them what they would have sold on the ps3 and ps4. The money EA took from MS doesn't even begin to cover it. The EA guys went over the math and agreed. EA is in full "We're so fucking sorry, Sony" mode currently.
Also, Titanfall 360 is 30 fps. That's just for free for reading my post.
Youtube views. Twitter mentions. Preorders.
Second Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzh96ehv4A&list=PLol_ykYs3OQ6BFpbAz7hnq9JhUZ0UZLbm Published mar 7. 4.7 mil views
To find anything even close on titanfall's youtube you have to go back to october. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiIamHIzBY&list=PLaeNmk1THKrX8a79WXuL4x2BH_VlzON5V 2.3 mil views. Their E3 video is just over 3 mil. Their "official gameplay launch trailer" which is a week old... 194k.
People give a fuck about inFamous. I'm not speaking about quality in the slightest. I have and absolutely love titanfall. See:
I'm just saying, and the person who clued me into this is very much with microsoft, but don't sleep on infamous. Titanfall is dominating the media but infamous is dominating things where the consumer makes the choice (like youtube, twitter, etc) and not editors.
Infamous was my favorite series on the PS3
It's also a single player game, I cannot see how it would be a significant system seller (thankfully Sony doesn't need that) and I think TitanFall will absolutely smoke it in NA in sales
Chobel
Member
The first post you quoted said PS4 was supply constrained in Feb. Your observations are in March.
Ps4 will win march. Infamous may flop, but the system is still selling out around the country. If Sony supplies alot of ps4s, and it looks like they will, they will win. If titanfall did well we would have heard bragging abut the sales. We haven't...
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
The New York times article totally overlooks that most retailers were either giving away gift cards or free games with the Xbox One in order to get it to move.
BTW, Nirvana sells games. Its just a fact.
BTW, Nirvana sells games. Its just a fact.
StarBlazers1
Member
Mort, these numbers are not really an apples to apples comparison. We have been inundated with media for Titanfall since it's E3 debut. Infamous has had a much slower go with their media plans. One has hundreds of trailers, previews, clips etc, and the other has about 1/4 to 1/2 of that. Views don't mean anything.
That's not to say that Infamous isn't going to do well. I have mine preordered, but a more likely reason for all those views is the lack of first-party AAA content for the PS4. We PS4 owners are hungry, dare I say rabid, for something new. Sony knows this and I think they believe we are all going out to buy it anyway. They aren't treating it like a system seller like MS is with Titanfall. Kind of makes you wonder a little bit about the reason why...
More obscure sales information please.
creamsugar
Member
ダンガンロンパ ~ 13.5k
tearaway ~ 56k (LTD)
tearaway ~ 56k (LTD)
theprodigy
Member
MEGATON ALERT
Kenshin001
Member
Possibly. We'll see in April. I said that because I think there is a strong reason Xbone's sales are increasing. I don't mind people disagreeing with me but maybe you could offer why you think the gap went from 135k to 30k.