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NPD Sales Results for February 2010
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Final Fantasy XII only sold 896k units in its launch month and it had the entire NPD tracking month of November: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132896KuwabaraTheMan said:
Unless you expect Final Fantasy XIII to sell almost 70% better in less time to boot, that's not happening.
Any game that gets to #5 on Live activity list in the first week is going to do well.DiddyBop said:
Both L4D2 and Assassins Creed 2 came in at number 5 and are million sellers.
Bioshock 2 came in at 9 and ME2 at 6, those both did over 500k.
Whilst I know this is hardly scientific, but it does point to good numbers.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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I'm telling you, man. Sonic Sega Racing confused customers!WasteLand Soldier said:
gofreak said:
I didn't know they are predicting that long out for shortages. Anyhow, April and May have the 360 heavy hitters and maybe even June as well. With no big SW for Sony during those months I'm surprised they don't have it together now.
Also 15% off overall for the month;
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1123020020100312?type=marketsNews
user_nat said:
Yup. No idea how well it will do in the end, but it should do very well for the month.
I think Battlefield will be put up some pretty impressive numbers. Obviously people love online shooters and it's had a lot more hype and advertising than the first. This is only anecdotal but the midnight release at my gamestop was way busier than for most games.
I really like the game so I hope it surprises people with it's sales.
I really like the game so I hope it surprises people with it's sales.
Macho Madness
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Or maybe because MAG is a bad game and therefore a bad example?BlazingDarkness said:
Mr. Miyato
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If there aren't any ps3s on shelves this month then Sony have surely shot themselves in the foot. Final Fantasy XIII is definitely a game that would have people glance at the 360 if the PS3 is out of stock. Maybe God of War III can offset this effect though.
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
360 > Wii? Damn Microsoft's doing something right.
...is a great game. Multiplayer with it is a blast. It's no wonder why it's selling.DMPrince said:
Nuclear Muffin
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Oh wow, Heavy Rain managed that in only 5 days? Solid, very solid.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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But it's a whole new ball game and FFXII came out during PS2's twilight years and a month before the PS3 came out.miladesn said:
Nobody cared, sadly.
Square-Enix waited too long to release FFXIII but at least they still have five-six more years of PS3's life left. FFXII came out when the PS2 was sent to its nursery home.
I think FFXIII will sell more.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Nirolak said:
I think it will do better than XII. XII came out on a system that was in the midst of getting replaced. I think XIII will do bigger numbers than XII because of that. It has a lot more hype and it's not on a lame duck system.
Psychotext
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I don't think anyone else has posted it yet... so here's the Feb 2009 vs Feb 2010 comparison for each console.
Code:
PS3: +30.5%
360: +7.9%
NDS: +4.3%
PS2: -22.2%
PSP: -33.0%
WII: -47.2%
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
Replicant said:
It's not just Sony, it's pretty much every publisher this generation.
Macho Madness
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So these publishers are ignoring the 200k people who bought Heavy Rain to please the 10 million people who bought Modern Warfare 2. Hmmm... I can't tell which one makes sense! Publishers would rather have a bite at the 10 million rather than a bite at the 200k.Rated-Rsuperstar said:
BenjaminBirdie
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UraMallas said:
Reginald P. Linux
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Psychotext said:
Yikes, Wii is down almost 50%.
V
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shwimpy said:
But not a year later.
GrotesqueBeauty
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February was a strange month. It's hard to parse out why the chips fell as they did. If the Wii's numbers are genuinely because of supply constraint it would seem Nintendo was too hasty in scaling down their production, and they had better straighten it out before May/June. If it's not supply issues they really need to start attacking from more angles, like budget releases and new colors. I hope Sony has been skimming units to stockpile for this month, otherwise they'll be wasting a lot of potential with some of the heavy hitters coming out.
The gap between Bioshock 360 and PS3 is pretty massive. It seems like PS3 owners are more receptive to 3rd person games than FPS, and vice versa. I guess you could attribute some of this to the special editions the PS3 gets sometimes, but considering how the sales shake out despite the disparity between their installed user bases I tend to think it's more of a demographic thing.
The gap between Bioshock 360 and PS3 is pretty massive. It seems like PS3 owners are more receptive to 3rd person games than FPS, and vice versa. I guess you could attribute some of this to the special editions the PS3 gets sometimes, but considering how the sales shake out despite the disparity between their installed user bases I tend to think it's more of a demographic thing.
Unidentified
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Has Final Fantasy ever sold 1.5 million in its first month? I know God of War definitely hasn't (wouldn't be surprised if even it's U.S. LTD sales is only about that.)KuwabaraTheMan said:
God of War 2 only did 800k first month, 100k second month, and wasn't even in the top 20 after that (in a likely slow month.) The first God of War also did less than a million its first year.
Though it still better than Bad Company. But it's quite possible it's overall sales ended up being decent and Bad Company 2 will be more frontloaded.
red shoe paul
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Sadist said:
Seriously. Cause it fucking beat Bioshock. I can't get over that.
Fenderputty
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thewesker said:
You just compared overall sales from two consoles of a game, to 5 days worth of sales on a single system.
Speaking of shortages, do we know how many copies of FF13 SE shipped to the USA? PS3 version is extremely hard to find, sold out at a lot of places. 360 version is low stock too. I think the game has done very well, unless square enix didn't ship any.
I don't think it will hit 1.5 million, but over 1 million between both platforms is reasonable. I think FF13 has more juice than FF12 did since its the first real FF on this generation of platforms.
I don't think it will hit 1.5 million, but over 1 million between both platforms is reasonable. I think FF13 has more juice than FF12 did since its the first real FF on this generation of platforms.