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US NPD August 2020: Nintendo Switch set the highest ever dollar sales record in the history of August US NPD, top 20 August sellers, and BOTW feats.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman
leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
the last of us top 3 best selling games of 2020.....but but its not selling
Klayzer
Member
When it drops out the NPD top twenty, victory will be claimed by the haters. Expect about four or five topics to be made.
Mercenary09
Member
Yup. Even though God of War, Spider-Man, and Horizon all dropped out of the top 20 too. Clearly means they all flopped and Sony should fire all of those directors.
Humdinger
Member
Wow. That's impressive, especially because there haven't been any price drops on either Switch or its games. In fact, it costs more to get a Switch now than it did before. Crazy. I'm sure the lockdown has something to do with it, but there's no denying this system's mass appeal.
Explosive Zombie
Banned
Breath of the Wild is the definition of "has legs."
Yeah, really it's GTAV
"Shallow pool"
List of PS4 games: 2860 games
List of Switch games: 2929 games
That's a whole lot of unreleased games.
Fake
Member
Playstation Store sales.
prinz_valium
Member
Don't worry, it'll be #9 or #10 at the end of the year.
the last of us top 3 best selling games of 2020.....but but its not selling
Mingch0910
Neo Member
Because NPD counts dollar sell and Sony counts no. of copy sell. Tlou2 keeps the same price in August.
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Nintendo Switch is crushing ps and xbox
Cant wait for Breath of The Wild 2
Also TLOU 2 beaten by 3 years old game BOtW
Take that Druckie
New to Switch so I have really kept up on Nintendo news. So when is BOTW 2 coming. I really liked the first one and I'm looking forward to #2
Klayzer
Member
I hope you get that for Christmas, you certainly are begging for it.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
This NPD covers August 2nd-29th. The Last of Us Part II went on sale September 2nd.
iconmaster
Banned
There are some, um, issues with this chart.
Note that the 3DS bar shows 75 million but is as tall as the PS4's 113 million. The table of hardware numbers also seems to have nothing to do with anything above.
MrFunSocks
Banned
You just know that seeing madden at number 1 is absolutely eating up a large part of this forum haha.
Ridiculous sales from Nintendo and their games. Wonder what the switch game purchase ratio is? Must be massive.
Ridiculous sales from Nintendo and their games. Wonder what the switch game purchase ratio is? Must be massive.
Shaqazooloo
Member
No release date yet.
2021 or 2022, is my guess.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Gamers are still in awe of the Switch
Hezekiah
Banned
Nintendo has weak third-party support. Of course their first-party games sell a lot when there is nothing else to play.
I don't see a problem with bringing three year-old Playstation games to PC.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman
leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
yes because it is sellnig zero copies I assume on the daily.....
Humdinger
Member
They don't give a scale for what's on the vertical axis, but it looks like percentages, rather than # sold. But the percentages are calculated within groups -- the home consoles being one group, and the portables being a separate group. Then they lump both groups on the same graph. Very confusing way to present it.
iconmaster
Banned
Gah! I get it now, but.... ugh. That's terrible information design.
30yearsofhurt
Member
I'm surprised Sony sold 131,000 PS4s four months out from the PS5 launch.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Bruh!
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Why would either Sony or MS chase Nintendo and copy the Switch? It's NOT their game. Sony knows what they are doing. And MS is trying to figure things out.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Not if Sony actually drops the price of the PS4 officially to $199.
Even then Switch is on a path to pass the PS4 unless we get a PS4 portable . Switch sells are actually accelerating & there is no competition for Stitch
mejin
Member
too soon, remember Wii.
When we talk about Nintendo you never know, maybe you can apply the candle philosophy on their strategy. The lack of games this year could possibly be a way for them to prepare for their next gen cross gens games.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Next-gen consoles are the Switch's competition. The amount of total dollars will decrease to be spent on the Switch. The sales will slow down next summer.
I don't see how PS5 or Xbox SS/SX will interfere with The Switch market.
Switch has weak AAA support. Switch gets tons of AA and below third party games. Speaking as someone who owned the N64 and Wii U and knows what not getting third party support really looks like.
Lionel Richie
Member
Because the Switch is going to outsell the PS4. Don't you think there's any lesson to be taken from the one who beats you?
Explosive Zombie
Banned
Nope. Nintendo took no lessons from the Playstation 2, still the best-selling console of all time. PS4 is currently number 2, number 3 is the PSX. Come back to me when Switch passes the PS3 at least.
gamerguywashere
Neophyte
switch has great 3rd party games...imo none of nintendo's first party games are very interesting at all...the closest is DKC, is second party still a thing?
i can't see the end of my backlog, and I haven't even considered indies really
with more and more sales, this is gonna be the most epic handheld library of all time, fighting it would be like fighting PS2 back in the day
just let it happen...give in to your feelings, you know it be true
i can't see the end of my backlog, and I haven't even considered indies really
with more and more sales, this is gonna be the most epic handheld library of all time, fighting it would be like fighting PS2 back in the day
just let it happen...give in to your feelings, you know it be true
Super Mario 3DS Collection, Hyrule Warriors, Pikmin for the rest of the year.
Finally solving the Ring Fit stock issues with the official launch in China:
Animal Crossing basically having no competition in terms of attracting female gamers to the platform.
A bunch of Japanese devs making exclusive AA games for the system now.
Still selling at full price, still sold out on Amazon, still selling out as retailers get more supply
demand is going to slow down any minute now...
Finally solving the Ring Fit stock issues with the official launch in China:
Animal Crossing basically having no competition in terms of attracting female gamers to the platform.
A bunch of Japanese devs making exclusive AA games for the system now.
Still selling at full price, still sold out on Amazon, still selling out as retailers get more supply
demand is going to slow down any minute now...
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Lionel Richie
Member
Of course they did, they didn't try to compete head on with the Playstation consoles and instead have tried to offer something different ever since. Why do you think the Wii was such a significant departure from the Gamecube?
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Explosive Zombie
Banned
If the lesson is to be different from the Switch they have that covered.
gamerguywashere
Neophyte
good luck, i'm already fighting for my half of the bottle (not today lol, just in general)
StormCell
Member
I feel like this will be the underappreciated post of the thread that will sail by most Sony fans. It shouldn't be taken as a dig at Sony. If anything, it would be nice for Sony to re-examine their gaming priorities and perhaps look at pushing the envelope on series that have gone away like Twisted Metal. I would like to see something else in addition to the story-driven action games, personally.
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Sleepwalker
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Ogbert
Member
Sony IPs do not lend themselves to handheld. They target 30fps, graphically advanced third person games. Likewise MS, only for 60fps shooters.
The Switch, in contrast, is perfect for Nintendo. Their games are not graphically demanding and can maintain 60fps on a handheld device. Splatoon epitomises how Nintendo maintained their principles whilst developing a shooter.
As you say, not a criticism of Sony or MS but, for example, what is Naughty Dog going to do with a handheld?
Perhaps Sony could move back towards the handheld market, but they would need a completely different stable of IPs.
These are the Nintendo million sellers on Switch (note that the evergreen games will continue to sell several more million units in the upcoming months/years):
In million of units.
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Explosive Zombie
Banned
These are the Nintendo million sellers on Switch (note that the evergreen games will continue to sell several more million units in the upcoming months/years):
In million of units.
PS4 sold more than 274 million games in 2019 alone, really puts things in perspective.
