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NPD Sales Results for February 2009
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schuelma said:
We'll see, obviously, and I had considered this when answering. My response: even if Halo 3 does outsell GT5, I still would consider GT the larger franchise. We have GT 1-4 all outselling Halo 1-3, so it would take several iterations of Halo outselling several iterations of GT to convince me to give the crown to Halo.
Digital-Hero
Member
MWS Natural said:
Ouch. We get it, SONY isn't winning anything this generation.
Nevertheless, those are still good games. (Maybe not Lair or Heavenly Sword :lol )
rexor0717 said:
Halo 2 had 1.5 million pre-orders on the Xbox. I think that's a good comparison given the situation of the respective consoles (in fact the PS3 HW numbers right now are probably higher compared to the Xbox HW number back then) and game hype. Saying Sony fucked up the marketing is an understatement.
Magik said:
The PS3's also not doing bad, really. Almost 300k in February for a $400 system is a nice number. And for once, there are two games that did pretty well on the system in a month. If things can keep up for that system, there's a chance it'll wind up around Xbox-N64 numbers (14-20m)
I'm guessing outside of the top ten, 360 and PS3 game sales remain low versus the competition.
Also, it probably wouldn't sell as well as the PS360 ports, and it would have really sucked, but there should have been a Wii/PSP version of Street Fighter IV.
biggkidd32
Member
I think he's being sarcasticGameGamer said:
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Aaron Strife said:
Yeah, you'd almost think there were nearly 600,000 new DS owners that month who hadn't played them yet...
cw_sasuke said:
It has nothing to do with the 360, the fact that RPGs fail to sell well on the 360 has little to do with platform and more to do with the state of the genre within the USA. The entire genre is unpopular in the US outside of Final Fantasy and spinoffs of Final Fantasy (Kingdom Hearts), hell, the best selling JRPG in recent memory is Lost Odyssey and the similarities between both franchises are quite striking :lol Anime or disproportionately short character RPGs that are innocent and kid friendly are simply not going to sell here, it's going to take; a mature story, art that appeals to the west, and a sizable marketing budget to get anything to click with American audiences.
DMeisterJ said:
Depends on the budget IMO.
Shalashaska said:
From what Sony told us (I don't have the links to this anymore, so please link if you find them) we know GoW1 hit 3 million, GoW passed 2 million (but no word on 3 million) and while there has never been any announcement, I would be shocked, based on sales, if GoW:CoO had passed 2 million. Thus, sales of the franchise look roughly like this:
GoW1: 3-4 million
GoW2: 2-3 million
GoW:CoO: 1-2 million
So not only is it a franchise that's been selling less every iteration, even at its peak it never even sold half as much as Halo 3 has. God of War is not in the ballpark of the major blockbusters a la Mario Platformers, Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Halo, and Gran Turismo. The last Mario Party sold nearly as much as all of the God of Wars combined.
Wow, SFIV truly is indestructable!
"But but... SFIV is too hardcore!"
"Capcom isn't making it casual friendly!"
"The Dualshock and 360 controller suck!"
"There are no sticks left, they dropped the ball!"
WHERE IS YOUR INDESTRUCTABLE GOD NOW!
And for the KZ2 fans, I'm sorry guys, but KZ2 will be stuck between RE5 PS3 and RE5 360 next month. CAPGOD FTW!
"But but... SFIV is too hardcore!"
"Capcom isn't making it casual friendly!"
"The Dualshock and 360 controller suck!"
"There are no sticks left, they dropped the ball!"
WHERE IS YOUR INDESTRUCTABLE GOD NOW!
And for the KZ2 fans, I'm sorry guys, but KZ2 will be stuck between RE5 PS3 and RE5 360 next month. CAPGOD FTW!
Stoney Mason
Banned
womfalcs3 said:
We'll certainly be able to see next month exactly how it fared. Over 300K is pretty good for a couple of days on the market but most big hardcore games are heavily frontloaded in sales so next month will tell the story.
FateBreaker
Member
DMeisterJ said:
It's respectable. But like people are saying, March will be the interesting month.
CharminUltra
Member
Go go go SF IV!
Opiate said:
To defend the series a bit, GoW established the series, GoW 2 came out when the PS2 was waaaaaay on its way out (although the PS3 was struggling and there was still some backwards compatibility), and Chains of Olympus was on a system where nobody buys the games. GoW3 will be good for a very short boost in America.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I had a dream similar to Captain Picard's, only in that dream Dragon Quest V DS outsold everything.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
S F-YEAH 4
(is blind to wii fit)
(is blind to wii fit)
Stoney Mason
Banned
iceatcs said:
That's not really saying much.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Wow @ Wii and DS.
The 360 had nice numbers too.
Ouch PS3 and K2. I remember when LBP launched, it was supposed to have really long legs, and coincidentally, it had 3 days of NPD, and next month it vanished.
And I don't know why people think K2 is over a million now. Remember last year MGS4 barely sold a million in the USA. I predict K2 will not be in the top 20 next month.
Also to the question of why the Wii is selling, see the software charts; Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart.
The 360 had nice numbers too.
Ouch PS3 and K2. I remember when LBP launched, it was supposed to have really long legs, and coincidentally, it had 3 days of NPD, and next month it vanished.
And I don't know why people think K2 is over a million now. Remember last year MGS4 barely sold a million in the USA. I predict K2 will not be in the top 20 next month.
Also to the question of why the Wii is selling, see the software charts; Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart.
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
Let's talk about the elephant in the room and why it didn't chart..
loco roco 2
loco roco 2
polyh3dron
Banned
Dude it came out on Feb 27th and there are 28 days in February.Grecco said:
Also, holy shit at how close the SF4 numbers were.
AniHawk said:
We'll see: there are always excuses, so I tend to stick to the hard numbers. For example, it's entirely possible it will sell even worse, and people will reasonably point to the fact that the PS2 had a much larger install base so obviously it would sell worse. If it sells better, people will point ot the things you've just listed. Let's just stick to hard numbers, imo.
Coolio McAwesome
Member
Aaron Strife said:
There were 588,000 new DS owners last month in America alone. It makes sense that a sizable amount of those new DS owners would gravitate to a known commodity like Mario Bros. or Mario Kart. I'll also point out that those games were never "flavor of the month" properties and they are every bit as appealing today as they were when they were originally released. Finally, keep in mind that the DS userbase is ridiculously large. As impressive as the sales of New Super Mario Bros. have been, four out of five DS owners still don't have the game.