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Forums - Sales Discussion - NPD (US): God of War had the best debut month ever for a PlayStation exclusive

DonFerrari on 23 May 2018

Great sales and deserved... but I have to say I enjoyed the previous one more as Hack and Slash then demon souls... And I have to say what a chore have it been clearing 1/3 of the game on I Want God of War using level 1 equip.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
areason said:
What does that mean in numbers?

Something between 1.7 and 2.1M from what was discussed on the NPD thread.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

zkp on 23 May 2018

So 15mln LT?



DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
RoboTin said:
So happy for SSM! Happy they got out of the slump after game cancelletion and layoffs. MLB The show seems to do well every year and its actually past Sea of Thieves in NPD sales, even with latter having windows market sales :o . Sea of Thieves had pretty big drop.

I think next month will be very interesting with new exclusives and how old ones hold up.

SO we should make a thread of MLB The Show versus SoT instead?

RolStoppable said:
Ka-pi96 said:
It beat even San Andreas? :O Now that is impressive!

San Andreas released on October 26th 2004, so it had five or six days of tracking. Also, since some time NPD emphasizes revenue over unit sales, so if the same metric is used in this comparison, God of War holds an obvious advantage due to the higher game price today than back then, plus the existence of various special editions which wasn't a common practice over a decade ago.

San Andreas sold 5.1m copies in the USA in 2004, but I couldn't find sales for the individual months of October, November and December. That's why it's unclear if the metric is revenue or unit sales in this comparison.

Seems like SA sold 2.06M on first month.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

CosmicSex on 23 May 2018

This is really wild. This is no small feet. Whatever is going on on these or any boards don't reflect reality. Remember that. Very well earned SSM



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JRPGfan on 23 May 2018
DonFerrari said:
areason said:
What does that mean in numbers?

Something between 1.7 and 2.1M from what was discussed on the NPD thread.

If it did 2m+ in the US in 10days... worldwide what? ~5m?

I wonder how high it is now?....
Anyways its clear that God of War is gonna do big lifetime numbers, so a sequel will come at some point.



DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
JRPGfan said:
DonFerrari said:

Something between 1.7 and 2.1M from what was discussed on the NPD thread.

If it did 2m+ in the US in 10days... worldwide what? ~5m?

I wonder how high it is now?....
Anyways its clear that God of War is gonna do big lifetime numbers, so a sequel will come at some point.

We got something like 3M in first week WW from SSM disclosure.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

TheBlackNaruto on 23 May 2018

That is very big!



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elazz on 23 May 2018
DonFerrari said:
JRPGfan said:

If it did 2m+ in the US in 10days... worldwide what? ~5m?

I wonder how high it is now?....
Anyways its clear that God of War is gonna do big lifetime numbers, so a sequel will come at some point.

We got something like 3M in first week WW from SSM disclosure.

3m week in but also remember the drop rate second and third week was really good. Probably averaged around 40% worldwide which would mean another 1.8m in second week and the week after was similar. Let's say another 900k and we have 5.7m in 3 weeks. I think the game is around 6.5m by now. By the end of the summer I guess 8m could be possible and by the end of the year 10m?



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DonFerrari on 23 May 2018
elazz said:
DonFerrari said:

We got something like 3M in first week WW from SSM disclosure.

3m week in but also remember the drop rate second and third week was really good. Probably averaged around 40% worldwide which would mean another 1.8m in second week and the week after was similar. Let's say another 900k and we have 5.7m in 3 weeks. I think the game is around 6.5m by now. By the end of the summer I guess 8m could be possible and by the end of the year 10m?

I agree with the ballpark of your estimations.

I was just answering to the 5M WW on April, since GoW launched end of month I think it didn't do much over 3M on April. But I could be wrong and won't check how many weekend it had on April (if it had 2, then 5M is possible).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."