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[ZedIndyLil]

New NPD is like raising Sea Monkeys; gotta wait for the OP to grow before there's much to talk about. More relaxing than Old NPD.

Well done, Dance Central--looks like it might drive Kinect a bit this year.

 

[donkey show]

Yay LBP2!!!

 

[Leonsito]

100 posts in 20 minutes, so sad

 

[Ranger X]

Hmmm... DKCR suffering from a word of mouth backslash maybe? (probably difficulty related?)

 

[Psychotext]

Needs more data.

 

[Rolf NB]

Requesting thread title fix for supreme 2011ness.

edit: well that was quick, thanks.

 

[Leonsito]

Requesting thread title fix for supreme 2011ness.

Woah, didn't notice it

 

[Karma]

I've been looking, but nothing so far. Usually Aaron Greenberg or Stepto will tweet about how well MS did.

Maybe they didnt do so well. I didnt see any non-kinect units in stock all month.

 

[The Omega Man]

Good for LBP 2, although I was looking forward to little big bomba thread part deux

 

[Arnie]

Great for LBP2, from what my friends tell me it's well deserved. I still need to pick it up. Good for Dead Space 2 too, just started that game and it's really fucking good, if a bit too oppressively scary.

 

[Snuggles]

Nice, looks like LBP2 did better than I expected. Media Molecule knocked it out of the park and they deserve every single sale.

 

[Rainier]

Me neither. But then again, people have REALLY lowered their expectations when it comes to sales of PS3 exclusives this generation.

Agreed. I was hoping LBP 2 would do well, but didn't expect it to be in the top 10 at all.

 

[Old Gimlet Eyes]

3 dance games in the top 10, wow. The people love to shake it. Damn, make that 4 if you want to count Zumba Fitness which looks like some kind of dancing aerobics game.

 

[Mizzou Gaming]

Nice to see Dance Central and LBP2 up there.

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

Hmmm... DKCR suffering from a word of mouth backslash maybe? (probably difficulty related?)

More likely it was pushed out of the top 10 by all the multi-platform releases.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Hard to say anything without numbers. We know the overall totals are down from last year. I've got a feeling the actual numbers on each of these top ten software items will seem kind of low as well.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

FIVE YEARS IN THE FUUUUUTURE

"Activision lays off 500 employees due to declining dance game sales, will retire 'Dance Party' line this year."

 

[TTP]

Seeing Zumba Fitness there boggles my mind. What happened?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

LBP1 sold 215k in its first month, Dead Space 1 sold 310k across PS3 and 360 in its first month.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

FIVE YEARS IN THE FUUUUUTURE

"Activision lays off 500 employees due to declining dance game sales, will retire 'Dance Party' line this year."

Five years?

Dance games are going to be at market saturation much sooner than that.

 

[Patriotsbball5460]

3 dance games in the top 10, wow. The people love to shake it.

4 actually, Zumba is pretty much workout-dancing

 

[Kenka]

This month's data is really a surprise for everybody. I have totally blown my predictions, it's almost certain now.


How could we end up with such unexpected charts these last two months ?

 

[Blueblur1]

I too am surprised to see Dance Central and DCUO charting. LBP2 surprised me at first but it makes sense that it ended up on the chart. January wasn't really packed with new AAA titles after all. I'm looking forward to the numbers.

 

[Onion_Relish]

Why not? I thought this was a big PS3 release and the first sold well.

purely anecdotal, but if I am any indication, Canada was completely inundated with commercials for LBP2. I was seeing them so often I was starting to wonder why they didnt split the commercials between two different games. So yeah, it was very well represented in my media life.

 

[[Nintex]]

Hardware is down 8%, software is down 5%. My guess is no one is giving us numbers because they're all pretty bad.

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

FIVE YEARS IN THE FUUUUUTURE

"Activision lays off 500 employees due to declining dance game sales, will retire 'Dance Party' line this year."

You gotta understand that talk show games are the new hotness. Dr. Phil Emergency Intervention is doing gangbusters! Now this is a trend that will never wear thin!

 

[Old Gimlet Eyes]

4 actually, Zumba is pretty much workout-dancing

I just watched a trailer on it and yeah it's definitely some workout dancing. 4 out of the top 10 games are all about shaking that ass.

 

[Kafel]

Maybe they didnt do so well. I didnt see any non-kinect units in stock all month.

They warned late last year that supply would be tight for a few months.

 

[Plinko]

Zumba Fitness being in the top is a disgrace. That piece of software is awful.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Zumba Fitness.

What the fuck.

 

[Mrbob]

Major Nelson is tweeting about play Hard Corps Uprising right now. Even MS doesn't want to release hardware data this month! Usually they are the first to gloat via twitter. Must be bad all around for the top 10 and hardware sales.

 

[heringer]

Read Zombie Fitness at first, now I'm disappointed.

 

[Kandinsky]

LBP1 sold 215k in its first month

I bet LBP2 sold less :/

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

I bet LBP2 sold less :/

Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[user_nat]

I had a feeling MS would stop being helpful once their sales dropped.

Where art thou Pachter!

I bet LBP2 sold less :/

That would make number 4 much lower this year than last.

 

[CozMick]

Zumba Fitness being in the top is a disgrace. That piece of software is awful.

Whatever the UK can do, the US can do better...........

Spoiler

Just Dance related

What a truly horrible game.

 

[Dead Prince]

Major Nelson is tweeting about play Hard Corps Uprising right now. Even MS doesn't want to release hardware data this month! Usually they are the first to gloat via twitter. Must be bad all around for the top 10 and hardware sales.

or we know they are on top and they are tired of tweeting it? ;P

 

[Sohter.Nura]

Hardware is down 8%, software is down 5%. My guess is no one is giving us numbers because they're all pretty bad.

It's been 5 years since the beginning of the generation, I think at this point unless there are price cuts we will see hardware sales down YoY very consistently.

Companies said they want this generation last 10 years or whatever, but I really think consumers are starting to grow old of the current gen hardware

 

[apana]

Just Dance 2 and Zumba are carrying the Wii right now. I wonder how DKCR is holding up.

 

[fernoca]

I bet LBP2 sold less :/

Doubtful that games like DC Universe Online, Brotherhood sold less than 215k (combined). Just Dance (1) sold nearly 200k last year and it ended lower in an NPD with individual sales. So more than 215k seems to be a given.

But we'll see.

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Seeing Zumba Fitness there boggles my mind. What happened?

It's the best Zumba game out there.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

It's been 5 years since the beginning of the generation, I think at this point unless there are price cuts we will see hardware sales down YoY very consistently.

Companies said they want this generation last 10 years or whatever, but I really think consumers are starting to grow old of the current gen hardware

The PS3 pretty much had a $50 price cut at the beginning of the year.

 

[legend166]

You'd think the winner would at least issue a press release.

 

[[Nintex]]

Also, Kinect Sports charted quite a few times in Europe(especially the UK) but we haven't seen it in the US's top 10 numbers. I guess that had some influence on the recent troubles at Rare.

 

[Finalow]

well done MM.

 

[StealthGoblin]

You'd think the winner would at least issue a press release.

Lol. Winner.

 

[JWong]

I bet LBP2 sold less :/

It's just below Dead Space 2, which DS2 sold

Spoiler

or shipped

2 million in the first week.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

It's just below Dead Space 2, which DS2 sold 2 million in the first week.

Worldwide
Shipped

 

[Rolf NB]

Does the increase in accessory money seem really low to anyone else considering how much Move and Kinect cost and how important of accessories they are?

*slowly raises hand*

... if we assume the market as a whole is shrinking, and set the "natural" YoY decline for accessories as the average of hardware and software shrinkage (6.5%), we can pretend that Kinect+Move expanded the accessory market not by 6%, but by 1.06/0.935=+13.5%. That's still kinda not a whole lot.

 

[Gravijah]

Lol. Winner.

whoever wins, we all snooze