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NPD Sales Results for November 2015 [Up3: Combined Hardware For PS4 + XB1 + Wii U]

Mihos

Gold Member
Agreed about the timing but what was the bad deal? I don't think the exclusivity in and of itself is the problem, so what about the deal was bad? Surely it would have sold better on both platforms but it still would not have charted.

Does anyone honestly that this game would have charted if it was multiplatform?

Yes, it would have charted if multiplatform.
 

Hanmik

Member
I want to, loved the original reboot. Just lacking the time to play games I'm afraid.

I lack the time myself, therefore I only own one console. I don't understand why you would own both if you haven't got the time to play games as much as you like.
 

QaaQer

Member
1.5 million PS4's
1.3 million Xbones






240k Wii U's.......

Man Nintendo, not a good look. Not good at all

And yet they are profitable.

1 Nintendo CLV* = X MS/Sony CLV

I'm guessing x>3 despite ninty not charging for online.

*CLV is "Customer Lifetime Value", I.e. how much each user is worth to a company in dollars, which is all any of us are to these people.
 

Markitron

Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
And to think Squenix were disappointed with the 6 or so million that the first TR sold, and that was before the re-release.

What the utter fuck were they thinking?
 

Kill3r7

Member
If the game sold around 200k being exclusive wouldn't it be likely to sell over 300k with PS4 included? Might not have sold great because the release date was fucking stupid but charting? Possibly.

We still don't know the cutoff for the TOP10 but if it is under 400-500k then yeah it would have likely charted.
 
And to think Squenix were disappointed with the 6 or so million that the first TR sold, and that was before the re-release.

What the utter fuck were they thinking?

To paraphrase what Kagari said some time ago, Square thought that the XBO would do a lot better than what it's doing now.
 
The game is two years too late, sadly.

You are right yokai really should have come out summer of last year, between Pokemon games and during the summer when more children could watch the cartoon. Heck even this year if yokai and little battler experience swapped release dates and yokai was given the same marketing as it did during November it might have done better

Agreed. I am enjoying Yo-kai immensely, both the game and the anime. Was it not marketed enough in the US or something?

The cartoon is on a niche cable channel, Disney XD, and it's not syndicated or on a national network like Pokemon was. It also doesn't help that it's on during the day while children are at school. I feel marketing would have been fine, if some of the circumstances were different, the game is lots of fun and my 3 year old loves the yokai exercise and anime. But he can watch it because he doesn't have school.


TLDR: missteps: they probably should have released during the summer, and maybe 1 year earlier.
 

Hanmik

Member
I don't understand why you would either, but I don't own both?

not..? maybe I´m confused.. I just read this post yesterday in another thread and thought you owned both..

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188665469&postcount=137

I understand why people would think it's strange, but I think it's rather neat to be able to hold a hard drive and say, all my Xbox/PS4 games are on here. More so Xbox, due to it's external HDD support, but you hopefully can see what I'm saying.

or did I read that post wrong?
 

foxbeldin

Member
What is this about?

I wrote that as an example what someone would say, not me personally. If you also go back more, I've mentioned on here many times about wanting to own both consoles if I had the time.

I think it was confusing because you used didn't use quotation marks.

I think it's rather neat to be able to hold a hard drive and say : "all my Xbox/PS4 games are on here."
 

Hanmik

Member
What is this about?

I wrote that as an example what someone would say, not me personally. If you also go back more, I've mentioned on here many times about wanting to own both consoles if I had the time.

this isn't about anything.. I just found the post strange.. as I said I might have misunderstood that post.
 

Raist

Banned
The difference in sales compared to last year is stark:

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Happy holidays, GAF.
 

QaaQer

Member
Same. I don't see how they can ride out another year on this hardware. This has to be the smallest combined hardware for Nintendo in years and years

12 months is no big deal if the alternative is rushing out a half baked OS + network + games. Nintendo isn't on the verge of bankruptcy.
 

DieH@rd

Banned
US Is important for the overall picture, if ps4 did 1.5m in the US this November just imagine how much it did WW.

According to the current data we have, we don't need to imagine what happened in WW market. :)


  • For every 10 Xbone consoles sold in the US, another ~5 were sold in the entire rest of the world.
  • For every 10 PS4 consoles sold in the US, another ~20 were sold in the entire rest of the world.

US:World ratio after 2 years on the market
Xbone ~ 66:33
PS4 ~ 33:66

Things can obviously change, but I don't see Xbone moving the needle much with its current offerings.
 

Sterok

Member
Platformer of 2014

3DS ~ 10
WiiU ~ 8.6
4 ~ 5.9

See you in a couple of days.

See people, Nintendo consoles can lead in multiplatform sales. Just give it a chance, and they will dazzle.

On a slightly more serious note, would these be considered good numbers for Shovel Knight (assuming that's what this is)?
 

etta

my hard graphic balls
So, have you bought The Vanishing of Ethan Carter for the PS4 after the 30fps lock patch was released, or was the variable framerate dilemma just something to complain about with the screenshot thread darling that wasn't on XBO?
I had no idea about the 30 fps lock patch being released. I hadn't even thought of the game since then.
For some reason you're insinuating that I talked about my issue with it more than once, and that my issue was false given it was a game not on XBO. Why don't you find my posts I made and tell me how you came to those conclusions.
 
See people, Nintendo consoles can lead in multiplatform sales. Just give it a chance, and they will dazzle.

On a slightly more serious note, would these be considered good numbers for Shovel Knight (assuming that's what this is)?

Well, THEY made their money digitally. Retail is just a nice extra.
An indie developer with a boxed release? This is really something to be proud of.

Only the top 12 sold more than 300K.
This avatar adds a thick layer of dignity to your posts. You should just keep it.
 

QaaQer

Member
... But where is the extended audience for these consoles? I see the same demographic pretty much across the top ten except for one title... on the Wii. And this isn't a new thing, either, these consoles have been reliably poor for family/extended audience oriented titles, regularly outsold by the 360.

All true, but the same thing can be said for top ten movies and that industry is just fine. Moreover, does it matter if kids etc are playing on tablets or phones? Will that prevent some from transitioning to CoD or 'Beth RPG' when they get a bit older?
 

lyrick

Member
All true, but the same thing can be said for top ten movies and that industry is just fine. Moreover, does it matter if kids etc are playing on tablets or phones? Will that prevent some from transitioning to CoD or 'Beth RPG' when they get a bit older?

a $60 per game price tag compared to the $0 they're accustomed to?
 

Markoman

Member
So the gap is clos....fuck it, lame joke.

Poor Lara, poor WiiU, poor Master Chief..oops.. Locke I mean...

Tomb Bomba was expected though, because some smart-asses with academic degree thought this moneyhat was a good idea and every average Joe knew better !

Are we at a 1mio. gap PS4-One in NA now?
 

noshten

Member
Those PS4 numbers are insane.
Microsoft did as well as last November but they can't keep this up considering the contraction of their WW presence.
Wii U gonna Wii U, I do hope that there were at least 200K new us squids with bundle and discounted copies.
 

Interfectum

Member
I'm really curious how Battlefront is going to do in December. Will Episode 7 give it legs? Does DICE have anything planned to capitalize on the movie release (new heroes, etc)?
 

QaaQer

Member
Big jump for PS4 YOY. I expect them to go down to $249, at least temporarily, next holiday.

Maybe even lower if they transition to 14/16 nm. A sub $199 model in 2016 is possible.

I'm betting a $499 VR bundle next holiday, and I'm also betting it will break records including those set by the Wii.
 

thefro

Member
I think Rise of the Tomb Raider's problem is the release date as much as as the platform choice. It would have been buried by COD, Battlefront, Fallout 4, Halo 5, Assassin's Creed etc even if it was multi-platform on day one. I think if you move it to Q1 2016 it would have sold better.

Pretty good numbers for PS4 and XB1. While PS4 is doing very well XB1 has enough of a user base to where it can be profitable. Obviously you hate to lose market-share if you're Microsoft but I don't think this will change much in terms of the user experience on each.

Wii U sales obviously weren't great for November but they're pretty much riding things out until the NX launches at this point.
 
Great news for PS4 and One. Sad for the Wii U, although not unexpected given that Smash came out last year and only two bombs/critically hated spinoffs came this November from Nintendo. And not to mention the NX coming likely next year giving people pause. I still think the Splat/Smash bundle was a good idea (even though it should have been $200 on Black Friday). Basically things could have been much worse without it.
 

dEvAnGeL

Member
guys, in all honesty, how in the world is the ps4 selling so much keeping in mind the console does not have a killer game yet? i have a ps4 but in all honesty i have always been a PS supporter but i never thought this console would be doing this numbers to be honest
 
Wow, that is a massive increase YoY for the PS4, and almost 250K over the Xbone. Guess that goes to show that having a bunch of big exclusives crowded around the holidays really doesn't matter.

CoD Xbone SKU is higher than PS4's... wonder if that's because of the PS4 CoD bundle. Wonder what the split is.

I think it's also good to see that the Xbone was still up YoY (which we knew from the MS PR, but still) even without the crazy fire sales like last year.

Wii U flat. Kind of surprised by that considering the bundle they have this year was far better than last year's. System really is done then.
 

allan-bh

Member
guys, in all honesty, how in the world is the ps4 selling so much keeping in mind the console does not have a killer game yet? i have a ps4 but in all honesty i have always been a PS supporter but i never thought this console would be doing this numbers to be honest

Call of Duty, FIFA (in Europe), Destiny, Fallout... are killer games.
 

mrklaw

MrArseFace
I think Rise of the Tomb Raider's problem is the release date as much as as the platform choice. It would have been buried by COD, Battlefront, Fallout 4, Halo 5, Assassin's Creed etc even if it was multi-platform on day one. I think if you move it to Q1 2016 it would have sold better.

Pretty good numbers for PS4 and XB1. While PS4 is doing very well XB1 has enough of a user base to where it can be profitable. Obviously you hate to lose market-share if you're Microsoft but I don't think this will change much in terms of the user experience on each.

Wii U sales obviously weren't great for November but they're pretty much riding things out until the NX launches at this point.

but Q4 is all that matters.
 

mstevens

Member
guys, in all honesty, how in the world is the ps4 selling so much keeping in mind the console does not have a killer game yet? i have a ps4 but in all honesty i have always been a PS supporter but i never thought this console would be doing this numbers to be honest

Bloodborne is one of the best games I've ever played.
 

Kill3r7

Member
guys, in all honesty, how in the world is the ps4 selling so much keeping in mind the console does not have a killer game yet? i have a ps4 but in all honesty i have always been a PS supporter but i never thought this console would be doing this numbers to be honest

Both consoles are outpacing their predecessors in the US. Without getting into the whole console warrior argument the PS4 is the best way to play most major AAA titles, indies and niche Japanese titles. That doesn't even account for exclusives. Keep in mind that there are still about 50-60 million people who still have not upgraded from last gen.
 
guys, in all honesty, how in the world is the ps4 selling so much keeping in mind the console does not have a killer game yet? i have a ps4 but in all honesty i have always been a PS supporter but i never thought this console would be doing this numbers to be honest

I assume you mean killer exclusive game, but what do you mean by "killer?" Do you mean a massive-selling franchise, or just a highly-rated game?
 
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