Bro. I want BB to do well also but lets not get ahead of ourselves. It's still a niche genre and a new IP.
I think over time it'll do well.
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NPD Sales Results for February 2015 [Nintendo Numbers, Majora's, MH4, ~XB1]
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Bro. I want BB to do well also but lets not get ahead of ourselves. It's still a niche genre and a new IP.
I think over time it'll do well.
Welfare
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I don't think you know what conservative means.
You missed the sarcastic tag. Splatoon is going to bomb
I guess you missed the retail insight above stating pre order numbers to be lower than the order
splatoon ain't moving any hardware. I think it's sales will be just ok. not great but solid enough to give it a nod for being a Wii U game. it's all relative because of the platform honestly.
yeah but SO would be competing with less games to get sales and exposure.
Gotdatmoney
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500k is not conservative imo. I think if it did 500k that would largely be above expectations. But I think it'll do more than 300k. Well actually, I think it'll do more than w/e MH4 retail was. Could potentially still be under 300k.
Based on all those Dark Souls sales! Uhm...
But yeah there's been very odd comments on that game for months now.
It will have a good debut and be successful for the studio. Not a single bit of reasoning to think it will do gangbusters though. It clearly won't.
Makes sense. The Order has more mass market appeal.
Maintenance
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You mean 500k in the 8 days of March, or a full month's time?
Indeed with the game releasing on March 25th and being a new IP in a relatively niche genre (tons of people are not into difficult gothic bloody RPGs), 300k in the next NPD would be a significant accomplishment.
Btw I think that PS4 will get a boost in hardware sales because of the Bloodborne and Type Zero combo.
I think (also based on people I actually know) that a few Souls and Final Fantasy fans have been waiting this month before buying the console.
Trust me. I'm a PhD
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Worldwide? Oh, most certainly. NPD? ...I think the Orders 300K ish would be a great debut for Bloodborne. I will not be one of them, due to my PSN pre order, though.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
I agree, of course it isn't!
What it is though is a great indicator of where the media is thinking what the market wants.
That coverage exists to satisfy an expectation of demand.
RespectThySole
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It was critically acclaimed and is probably the best selling EA new IP ever according to Respawn. That is in no way a failure. No rational person believed one game was going to win the generation. I don't see how you equate a few outlandish predictions to be the game's "expectations" at large.
Titanfall sold A LOT more than Evolve did even without being on PS4. The constant comparison just seems silly.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
I went to play GTA.
It's the same garbage as PlayStation Family or Xbox Family.
Don't get fanboy on me for BS that they all used.
I believe DS2 was around 350k on npd. It was like 4th or 5th for the month.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
I wonder what PS4's numbers were??
To Far Away Times
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Wow. A re-release of a 15 year old game on a single platform outsold all other software including combined sales of mutliplatform games.
Normally I don't check out sales threads very often but that seems pretty incredible to me.
Normally I don't check out sales threads very often but that seems pretty incredible to me.
OK, I'm not going to respond to every comment calling me crazy. Maybe that's too aggressive, I am willing to stick by the 500K number, but whatever. My predictions mean nothing in the end.
I will say, that Sony would not be putting the type of marketing dollars behind it if it was so niche. It's been plastered on the sports television I watch since last week. You're not reaching out to a mainstream sports audience if this game was tracking as a niche title.
I know Amazon charts are rudimentary, but it's also doing far better than the Order did on Amazon at this period before its release.
semiconscious
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seems a little extreme to me. this's a studio that has a good track record with sony. dumping them over a new ip which obviously got a number of things right, & showed a lot of promise, but which didn't do as well as might've been expected? i'd hope sony isn't that short-sighted...
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Dark Souls 2 sold plenty well even despite being not quite as good as the previous game. If "Blood Souls" reviews well (and there's every indication it will), I expect it to do very well as the first AAA must-have exclusive for the PS4.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Isn't that good for the Order? Especially given the review situation.
LOL come on.
Xbox 360 to XB1 is a generational leap, PS2 to PS3, same deal. 3DS to n3DS is NOT, stop feigning ignorance
Gotdatmoney
Member
The Zelda hype is real. Man, if WiiU was selling half decent Zelda U would be a huge game.
Fanboy? No dude it isn't "fanboy" to point out that a n3ds is still a, wait for it, 3ds.
Such is the nature of AAA.
semiconscious
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Officerrob
Banned
I hope this is a joke
RespectThySole
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300k would be a great opening for Bloodborne. I doubt it will do that much though. I see it doing 200-250k.
thunder_snail
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I really hope Bloodborne does well. FROM deserves recognition. The mainstream are slow to catch up on the best games and I hope Bloodborne will be the trigger.
Gotdatmoney
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They're revisions of the same system. It's no different than DS --> DSi.
That'd be Nintendo family. 3DS is one system with several sizes and one redesign. You're reaching like Dhalsim with one exclusive port (not out yet) making N3DS its own generation, but it's even more silly separating 2DS, 3DS and 3DS XL.
People said the exact same thing about Evolution. I hope it doesn't happen just as it didn't for them.
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The Shogun
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Yeah word of mouth is going to be very important for this game. I believe its going to have very positive opinions on it, and as we've seen with Dying Light, positive word of mouth can go very far.
Now it doesn't have the mass market appeal that Dying Light has but I'm leaning towards a very successful launch all things considered for Bloodborne.
Trust me. I'm a PhD
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On Amazon. This is simply not true. At this point the order was just below PS4 on hourly and in the top 20 monthly. Bloodborne is two behind PS4 and only 28 for monthly. There is still time and leg post lauch are primed to be better, but pre orders are favoring the Order at this point before its launch.
The issue is Dark Souls got noticed; this is a new brand on a young platform and is now an exclusive. The test for this type of game is not first month sales but sales through to the end of the year.
SEE!? SEE WHAT I SAD!?
DIDN'T I TELL YOU!?
All those 'ughuahah PS4 and XB1 and Nintendo HW sales down in January from last year, DEDICATED HARDWARE IS DEADEDED" annoying freaking out posts have to eat their words now!
Every single month its like this and every single time Neogaf splits itself into schizophrenics
DIDN'T I TELL YOU!?
All those 'ughuahah PS4 and XB1 and Nintendo HW sales down in January from last year, DEDICATED HARDWARE IS DEADEDED" annoying freaking out posts have to eat their words now!
Every single month its like this and every single time Neogaf splits itself into schizophrenics
Nicktendo86
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Soooooo happy for majora's mask, totally deserves it the 3ds version is amazing as was the original. About damn time it got some appreciation.
Danlord
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Not really responding to your post content specifically, just curious if you'd prefer 'ʌǝʞ2ʎ' as your tag, does it not display well on other browsers/devices?
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
The remaster of the game pretty much polishes all the painful N64 rough edges and limitations and allows the core game to shine.
As time goes on and gaming matures, we're probably going to see more and more of this; extremely well-made games don't age, outside of technical details that can be upgraded. In the same way that a classic film receives an HD scan for blu-ray and sells fine to a new generation.
One could also view it as proof of the value behind Nintendo's philosophy of making evergreen games. 15 years ago they invested in that title. And it's still paying off today.