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NPD Sales Results for February 2009
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The Faceless Master
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Fuzzy said:
*at least* as often as we saw "people bought crackdown for the halo 3 beta"
sixteen-bit
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Delicious SFIV!
Excellent/unexpected showing for the PS3 version especially, considering install bases.
Excellent/unexpected showing for the PS3 version especially, considering install bases.
sechsterangriff
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Kagari said:
Any JRPGs in HD consoles that didn't tanked?
Stumpokapow said:
Nice.
Listen, I love Nintendo games, and I'll concede that there a few good third party efforts coming, but Wii fans are just simply never going to get something with the level of polish or depth of say Fallout 3 from a third party. The only company that you can (normally) count on for great polished games is Nintendo, but they would do that regardless of how well the system sold.
Agent Icebeezy
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I have every last game as well and enjoyed most of them. I bought SF4 for the PS3 because I have a better arcade stick for it than I do the 360.
PistolGrip
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Wow PS3 needs to drop its price FAST. like today SONY ARE FKING LISTENING
I expect Killzone 2 to be one of the best selling PS3 games of all time at around 4Million when its all said and done despite all the dumb comments on this thread... Thats all that truly matters..
I expect Killzone 2 to be one of the best selling PS3 games of all time at around 4Million when its all said and done despite all the dumb comments on this thread... Thats all that truly matters..
Paracelsus
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sechsterangriff said:Any JRPGs in HD consoles that didn't tanked?
Apparently Lost Odyssey had a good amount of copies shipped/sold, over 700k. That is all.
frankie_baby
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bout tree fitty is probably all sony had left after what they spent making itValkyr Junkie said:
thuway said:
Because they still need whatever PROFIT they can make on it? Selling a few thousand of those games per month is better than giving them away?
Again, you're removing things that Sony can use to generate a PROFIT, for a gain of what? Maybe possibly giving it a CHANCE of second place? Why would Sony give up making people pay for yet another controller, that's money they could definitely use right now. They're not exactly making a fortune per PS3 sold right now, and "adding value" is another way of saying "adding cost" on Sony's end.
TheGrayGhost
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soldat7 said:
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I don't NSMB is a pack-in, at least not in America, not anymore.
thuway said:
They are trying to maximize profits. They have to, the whole company is in pretty poor shape regardless of how the PS3 performs, so marketshare is too expensive. I don't know if anyone who isn't a marketing genius could turn the perception of the PS3 into a "value" system at it's current price, even with free bundled stuff. People would just wonder why they can't buy a cheaper PS3 without the bundled equipment.
PartlyCloudlike
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I've pretty much given up hope on the PS3 ever achieving second place in the US. :lol I just like these threads for the animated gifs. The 360 has plenty of good games to keep the non-wii audience satisfied and it has the right price point to maintain this advantage for the foreseeable future. But if the PS3 can at least keep up with the 360 enough to warrant third party support, I'll be happy.
me = VERY satisfied PS3 owner when it comes to games.
me = VERY satisfied PS3 owner when it comes to games.
sechsterangriff said:Any JRPGs in HD consoles that didn't tanked?
WKC did better than every 360 JRPG in JP by a nice margin, iirc, so we'll have to see if that translates over to America/EU or not. But yeah, most have tanked, except for Lost Odyssey which apparently did good.
LoudNinja said:
Who the hell knows. Either dropped cause it tanked on 360, or on the way, to recoup the losses.
afternoon delight
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Killzone 2 deserves every copy sold. Such a solid game.
Stoney Mason
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PistolGrip said:
That's a bold prediction...
Agent X
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Capcom kicked some serious butt with Street Fighter IV! It's an awesome game and I'm happy to see it's a sales success as well.
Killzone 2 did great for only two days of sales. (I didn't actually contribute to these sales, since I got mine a few days later.) It's also a great game that deserves to do well.
I agree. I love both Resistance: Fall of Man an MotorStorm (they're two of the first three PS3 games I bought), but they're old now and both have sequels which are already a few months old. Also, with R:FoM being an M-rated game, this might be a hard package to sell in some circles.
Although, I should say that if there's a noteworthy price drop along with the bundled games, then it would be a fine deal.
That would be a tall order at this point in time. It would be a spectacular deal for sure, but unrealistic. They'd probably be fine with just LBP in the box and a $50 price drop. Perhaps they could also throw in vouchers for one or two downloadable games to raise awareness of the PlayStation Store.
Killzone 2 did great for only two days of sales. (I didn't actually contribute to these sales, since I got mine a few days later.) It's also a great game that deserves to do well.
thuway said:
I agree. I love both Resistance: Fall of Man an MotorStorm (they're two of the first three PS3 games I bought), but they're old now and both have sequels which are already a few months old. Also, with R:FoM being an M-rated game, this might be a hard package to sell in some circles.
Although, I should say that if there's a noteworthy price drop along with the bundled games, then it would be a fine deal.
thuway said:
That would be a tall order at this point in time. It would be a spectacular deal for sure, but unrealistic. They'd probably be fine with just LBP in the box and a $50 price drop. Perhaps they could also throw in vouchers for one or two downloadable games to raise awareness of the PlayStation Store.
Rhazer Fusion
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AndersTheSwede said:
Umm..wasn't SF4 available longer than KZ2?
PistolGrip said:
What exactly does anyone expect dropping the price to tangibly gain Sony? I'm serious, I've been asking it and people just repeat it without actually explaining what the purpose would be. What, you think that would give Sony second place? You think that it would make Sony more money somehow? You just want some bragging rights? I mean... what?
Mr. Enigma
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SF4 outsold Killzone 2? Wow...
Buba Big Guns
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Frillen said:
I totally understand how you feel. The PS3 killed my family too
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Sony has just bombed so hard this gen it's unbelievable. There's no way to spin these sorts of results into a convincing positive.
I hope KZ2 and MLB do well next month, they're both AAA games.
I hope KZ2 and MLB do well next month, they're both AAA games.
Poimandres
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MIMIC said:
On the Dreamcast? Safe to say a lot less than SF4 did...
PartlyCloudlike
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Gaborn said:
I'm going with Gaborn on this one. I think Sony should stay focused on maintaining steady, albeit relatively low, monthly sales until it can achieve profitability through consistent sales, cheaper manufacturing methods, and hopefully steady software sales. Sony know the projections they must meet in order to become profitable in the long term, and I bet if most of NPD-GAF saw them they'd laugh at its modesty. I'm not saying that Sony is aiming for low sales. Of course they want to be the sales leader, but they know that the current market conditions will not allow that. So hunker down, try to make a profit to stay alive and relevant with consumers, until your financial situation allows for more aggressive pricing and marketing schemes. I don't think time is Sony's enemy quite just yet.
Valkyr Junkie
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Gaborn said:
Price drop means more systems sold, and inevitably more software sold. If the profits gained from additional software sold exceeds the losses of dropping the hardware price, it's an easy choice. Even if the delta isn't significant, it's always nice to have a larger install base for gif purposes.
Gaborn said:
You make a great point, the point I was trying to make earlier is that regardless of how these systems placed it wouldn't really affect the landscape that much. If PS3 were in first place, Wii was a distant second and we spent every week laughing at the 360 it wouldn't mean that the games on each platform would be vastly different. 360 still would have gotten ME, FO3, Gears, Halo and Sony would of still gotten LBP, Resistence, etc. etc (Maybe might of kept FF13 exclusive). Wii probably would have less third party support, but its not like it is all that incredible to begin with. There would only be minor differences in the games received this generation, regardless of how these systems sold. This was never going to be a PS2 retread.
These are all companies worth billions of dollars with brilliant people at the helm. Financially Microsoft is doing fine, Nintendo is doing great, Sony could be better but is starting to make itself profitable.