-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
NPD Sales Results For June 2016 (new format, read OP)
- Thread starter Nirolak
- Start date
MaximumSpider
Banned
It's over.
Wafflecakes
Member
No its not, because now every time I visit my soul dies a little more from the disappointment of how far NPD threads have fallen over the last 5 years.
If they just stopped releasing the info, I would no longer click the threads, and my soul would continue.
why? the people paying them are actually receiving the data they want, if you want to know, pay the npd group
cleveridea
Member
Remember the time where a new NPD just made insane numbers of pages of posts and you couldnt read them all?
I wonder if that ever comes back.
And of course NPD misses the Pokemon Go phenomena, since er...I guess its not a game or something? Like all of mobile...
I wonder if that ever comes back.
And of course NPD misses the Pokemon Go phenomena, since er...I guess its not a game or something? Like all of mobile...
EventHorizon
Member
Although I think rankings should take both sales and revenue into account, I like the change. It was incorrect for a cheaper games to be equated 1 for 1 with more expensive games for the simple reason that if those more expensive games were sold for less they would sell more too.
Art Teitlebaum
Member
Still no public discussion over numbers allowed. I'm not a business suit, but a video game aficionado on a nerd forum.
Katana_Strikes
Member
This could be the worst performing NPD
ever!
thread
Pathfinder
Member
Wow, I don't think I've seen an NPD thread so empty before.
NPD reporting revenue now instead of units isn't very helpful.
NPD reporting revenue now instead of units isn't very helpful.
UberTag
Member
I think I'd rather have nothing than revenue ranks artificially inflated because GTA V sold a bunch of shark cash cards during the month.
To be fair, the Go craze didn't take off until July. But your point stands. It won't be there next month, either. GTA V will be, though.
Doesn't help when none of the existing platforms have hit the sub-$200 price point that casuals flock to and all of the enthusiasts that will spend more either already have what they want or know that something better from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft is right around the corner.
backbreaker65
Banned
Damn, I was hoping they got rid of reporting this shit altogether. I hate seeing these threads and all the cheerleading and bickering. The useless banter, became stale in 2011.
Well no one forced you to enter them, most of us liked them and some of the NPD threads were truly legendary here on GAF, doesn't matter though as this format kills most of the interest anyway so I guess you got what you wish for.
well yeah, but if he wants to know the numbers, he gotta pay up
RedAssedApe
Banned
i feel so out of touch...people still playing GTA V. zero of them people i know
Final Verdict
Member
Since they are counting revenue now, and including digital data, does this then include digital revenue gained from microtransactions and season passes?
I can't remember the last time I saw one move this slowly
Mister Megative
Banned
No they're not. Like, at all. Last June had Batman: Arkham Knight and the 1TB Xbox One. This June had Jack and shit, and Jack left town. 2015 June was the fourth best non-holiday month for PS4. 3rd best for Xbox One. And both consoles VASTLY outsold what they did in June 2014. It's the summer drought, nothing more. And this June's summer drought was a damn sight better than June 2014.
This isn't directed specifically at you, but sometimes I wish NPD would just go away forever. There'd be no more ridiculous hyperbole about the industry dying or consoles being doomed or any of that nonsense.
Well we've already known the good stuff for a week now.
Shouldn't pokemon go be #1/s
In June?
Gamer @ Heart
Member
Seriously. Fuck this.
Sales age gaf was one of the best things about this place when I joined. This destruction of it over the past 4 years is just sad.
Sales age gaf was one of the best things about this place when I joined. This destruction of it over the past 4 years is just sad.
Xilium
Member
I actually don't mind having revenue rankings as I imagine that's the more import number to publishers and the longevity of an IP. It would be even better if we could get development cost as well but that doesn't seem like it's ever going to happen.
The partial info on digital sales is disappointing but hopefully that will get better with time.
The partial info on digital sales is disappointing but hopefully that will get better with time.
Great, it's new NPD thread! And.....
Never before has this been used more appropriately
I'm not even disappointed, just sad.
boredandlazy
Member
Bump.
This is for June
My bad. Sarcastic response either way. And pokemon go must have somehow been making money in June
Osukaa
Member
I guess were going to be seeing to same AAA games for a while and maybe some lucky offshots -_-.. I don't like this format either..
DriftingSpirit
Member
Yep.Great, it's new NPD thread! And.....
Samurai G0SU
Member
Damn gta5. Wowzaaaaaa
Agreed. As a strong Trump supporter and a long-time proponent of Southern exceptionalism, I understand that data analytics represents perhaps the single greatest threat to our national polity since the 2017 dissolution of NATO.
dreamlongdead
Member
Is this only affecting software results? We will still get hardware numbers, right?