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NPD Sales Results For November 2010 [Update 6: PSP, PS2, Move Games]
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lastplayed
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Is there such a thing as reverse momentum?
Wow Sony.
Wow Sony.
apana said:
At the rate it seems to be going the Wii should sell fairly equal to last December when it set an all new december sales record of 3.81 Million.
For the 360 to beat that would require the kind of jump that I just dont think is possible. 360 sold 1.31 million last December. The real loser for December will be the PS3 for sure as last year it managed to edge out the 360.
Holiday 2010 is best summarized as the Fall of the PS3
BenjaminBirdie
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gerg said:
Based on? Weren't software sales in the UK on par with Wii at launch?
butter_stick
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Zeouterlimits said:
Well it's just whoever buys Harmonix will look at the sales of both games and think "let's drop Rock Band"
Yeah, from a sales perspective, it's hard to believe that Sony could allow so many titles to drift over New Years. It may well have killed their Move plans dead as well (no killer-app).Averon said:
I wonder if they're planning a PS3 superslim at this point (if it's even at all possible).
DefectiveReject
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$500m, and god knows how much on costs for Kinect & slim development, to beat a shitty white box by 100,000 units. Guess that was worth it!!
poor Sony though....lol.
I applaud nintendo on wii figures. Very impressive, as much as I use my 360 & ps3 more than it now you gotta applaud it!
poor Sony though....lol.
I applaud nintendo on wii figures. Very impressive, as much as I use my 360 & ps3 more than it now you gotta applaud it!
Yup.Averon said:
$300 base price
$400 bundles
No real Move marketing at all
compared to
$199 base 360 (and bundles too)
$500 mil Kinect marketing budget
Wii (no competition with wii)
Not sure what marketing Sony can do to make broader market buy their still expensive console.
Looking at how the Wii has a huge increase in November, compared to other systems, I think the 'casuals'(for lack of a better word) come out in droves in the holidays. They don't buy video games at other times of the year. Wii was getting smoked up until this November. Even ps3 was outselling it last month. Wii sold 232k last month. This month is sold 1.27 million. That is a 450% increase over the last month. Insane
2 Minutes Turkish
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Kusagari said:
It actually shows something else entirely.
timetokill
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Sipowicz said:
PSP deserved the support it got, I'd say. It did pretty well but was never going to be the best handheld on the market.
Sipowicz said:
Pretty sure that ship has sailed
the thin is games that are popular in US like SOCOM , that should have been on sale by september, will be released after the holiday season, that affects directly console sales and Socom sales.Garjon said:
And even lowering price by 50 or 100 bucks, MS and nintendo can still do the same, so i see no real advantage there. They started late, and they are arriving late all the time this gen.
gundamkyoukai
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Sony needs a price drop , if you just want to play HD games why would even buy a ps3.
PS3 299 vs Xbox360 199 plus more people going to get what there friends have .
All they can do now is ride it out and bring out PS4 in 2012 with a normal price for NA.
PS3 299 vs Xbox360 199 plus more people going to get what there friends have .
All they can do now is ride it out and bring out PS4 in 2012 with a normal price for NA.
HAL_Laboratory
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I love how people are acting like 360 outselling Wii by 200,000 units in one month is a big deal. Wii has been stomping everyone's ass for like 4 years.
Jive Turkey
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LOLGT5
Really surprised by Fable and naturally at Just Dance 2.
Really surprised by Fable and naturally
at Just Dance 2.BenjaminBirdie said:
Based on the fact that the device is no longer sold out on Amazon UK. On the American version the device still commands high premiums from third-party sellers.
Sure, it's LOL Amazon, but I think it's interesting in regards to momentum.
Edit: Software comparisons, iirc, are difficult because when the Wii launched Chart-Track didn't release single SKU charts.
MikeE21286
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Chris1964 said:
Do we attribute this to Just Dance 2 and Donkey Kong?
There were a lot of good bundles out there this BF. More so than any other BF I remember
Souldriver
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Well, you're explaining yourself why it is a big deal.HAL_Laboratory said:
(And it's 100,000 units btw)
Zeouterlimits
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No argument (perhaps, "let's rethink Rock Band, how about Kinect?"), but I'm still very happy for them. And Dance Central is really fun. No Rock Band, but it really is a blast.butter_stick said:Well it's just whoever buys Harmonix will look at the sales of both games and think "let's drop Rock Band"
Well they might've had 'more' games but Little Big Planet 2 and Socom can't compete against Halo or a Wii + Mario bundle. Sony shot their load in 2009 with mixed results, Nintendo is ramping up for the 3DS so it was Microsoft's time to shine. But the future for Move seems grim because they had little to back it up with.Garjon said:
BenjaminBirdie
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DuckRacer said:
More accurately:
HMX acquisition without a successful Dance Central: let's just drop this idea.
Marketing was the least of Sony's problems this month. There were a metric fuck-ton of Move and GT5 ads. The overall price of the system is the major factor, the lack of any big titles outside of GT5, and how poorly GT5 was handled in general were the big factors. The fact that Socom 4 and LBP 2 didn't make it this year didn't help either. From about September on, it was just mistake after mistake. Now I don't think it was like Sony set out to destroy their momentum, but whatever bad luck they've had regarding their games, and delays, has really hurt them.
RurouniZel
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Chris1964 said:
Wow. That's insane!
Anasui Kishibe
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and as usual, I'll run to Ps3forums for the obligatory laconic thread where people pretend to be happy about PS3 numbers
BenjaminBirdie
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HAL_Laboratory said:
I don't think that's really the big deal, Hal.
:lol
timetokill
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The prediction charts from the beginning of this gen are even funnier now :lol :lol
Basically everything that was predicted -- that Wii would sputter out in a year or two, that PS3 would eventually dominate all, that 360 would soon languish into 3rd place with nothing to speak of by 2010, has been proven completely wrong :lol
Basically everything that was predicted -- that Wii would sputter out in a year or two, that PS3 would eventually dominate all, that 360 would soon languish into 3rd place with nothing to speak of by 2010, has been proven completely wrong :lol
timetokill said:
it's an excellent handheld and it deserved better than shit versions of sony franchises often farmed out to other teams
and what's the PS3 supposed to be, some sort of huge success? PSP deserved much better than what it got off sony
timetokill said:
i meant psp 2. i've changed it
DefectiveReject
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How about a redesigned Wii.Lunchbox said:
Only console still in its original form factor, surprised though if it doesn't hit $150 soon in the new year.
Stumpokapow
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So, uh...
... that 8.4 million unit Black Ops number includes PC. No previous COD numbers we have include PC. Hmm.
... that 8.4 million unit Black Ops number includes PC. No previous COD numbers we have include PC. Hmm.
DevelopmentArrested
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problem with this is? do you really need Rock Band 4? I mean really?butter_stick said:Well it's just whoever buys Harmonix will look at the sales of both games and think "let's drop Rock Band"
Lonely1 said:
Those were latin american ads (if you're talking about the ones I think you are).
Also what I said was that I think they should review and revise what's working and what's not in their marketing mix in general. I wouldn't presume to know if ads are or are not a problem. Price probably is much more fundamental than any Kevin Butler ad, I'm sure. SCEA's hands are kind of tied on that til SCEJ gives them a nod though.