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Forums - Sales Discussion - November NPD numbers released today

3. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 980,000

10. Assassin's Creed (PlayStation 3) -- 377,000


I wonder how big the gap would have been if every Assassin's Creed TV commercial didn't end with a PS3 logo?



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

PS3 UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE (T) 117K
PS3 RATCHET & CLANK FUTURE (T) 66K

You pretty much must have a fear of making money (at least US$) if you are working on a PS3 exclusive game right now.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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Nintendo DS
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 227K
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings 49K

Xbox 360
Rock Band 312K
Assassin’s Creed: Collector’s Edition 140K

Nintendo Wii
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games 328K
Wii Zapper w/ Link’s Crossbow Training 232K
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Trilogy 180K
High School Musical 180K
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles 121K
Manhunt 2 19K

Sony PS3
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune 117K
Rachet and Clank Future 66K
Rock Band 70K



 

ps3 is doing fine.
Competition is tough but Sony did the right move to stay in the race.
But NOBODY will forgive them if they don't deliver a stellar 2008 year.
We want BIG games.



PS3 sold almost as many units as X360 last year. And America is an Xbox land. With Japan and Europe PS3 will easily beat X360 last year' result.



Ummm.

Everyone forgets that this month was 5 months, and your monthly numbers via VGC are 4 weeks, right? Numbers are off a bit more than you think.

http://vgchartz.com/amonthly.php?month=11&year=2007&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

SMG was right on the money (within 10k units).



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

mrstickball said:
Ummm.

Everyone forgets that this month was 5 months, and your monthly numbers via VGC are 4 weeks, right? Numbers are off a bit more than you think.

http://vgchartz.com/amonthly.php?month=11&year=2007&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

SMG was right on the money (within 10k units).

 Don't you mean 5 weeks?

 

Also wasn't this NPD figures for Nov 4th through December 1st, so wouldn't that just mean that VGC had a few extra days of tracking that NPD didn't, since it was all of NOV ,not just the 4th thorught the 1st



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

There's no way to spin it, this month's hardware numbers were VERY close to NPD's.

Notice how I didn't say very accurate. Most likely they're accurate too, but we can only judge that after more data gets released (for example, shipment reports).

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

R&C bombed hard



Go to The Sources News thread.... that gives you a proper comparison of NPD versus 90% (taking out Canada) of VGC for the same period.

NPD is 4 weeks from 4th November through to 2nd November.

here is VGC for the same period.

ConsoleWiiPS3X360PSPDSPS2
America VGC
X 0.9
NPD USA
1,157,936
1,042,142
981,000
488,149
439,334
466,000
881,881
793,693
770,000
520,502
468,452
567,000
1,578,957
1,421,061
1,530,000
547,176
492,458
496,000

In fact, as i said elsewhere, Canada seem to like the Wii and 360, and are not so keen on PS3/PSP, which if taken into account pulls all those numbers even closer. probably all consoles within 5% except PSP.