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Forums - Gaming Discussion - August NPD result are out NSW: ~203K PS4: ~197K XB1: ~162K 3DS: ~71K

HoangNhatAnh said:
quickrick said:

rabbis is using a nintendo IP, and octopath has falling off a cliff.

Just like many small games on ps4 also has falling off a giant mountain.

yea switch is diffidently king when it comes to selling indie games for obvious reasons, ps4 has tons of AAA games, and switch is perfect for indie games with the portability factor.



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Well looks like the Switch has stabilized, they aren't great sales but not bad either. It's only 1 and a half years old and it's doing ehhh. As long as the console has weak third party support (definitely never will have good third party support) and a bad games calendar the Switch will do pretty much this, which is ok.



quickrick said:
Kai_Mao said:

Eh, when's the last time you said something was falling off a cliff? :P

All jokes aside, its still really impressive of what a new JRPG IP has been able to do in this current gaming climate.

switch audience has been eating up old school retro looking games so its not a surprise  to me, it did good but thats the top for what a third party seitch game can do 1-1.5 million.

Thats maybe top just currently, with bigger install base and more time some game is in sale stronger sales will be, Octopath is already around 1.5m and it will pass 2m LT easily.



quickrick said:
MasonADC said:

Havent heard that the Rabbids title crossed 2 million? Octopath is likely to get there aswell 

rabbis is using a nintendo IP, and octopath has falling off a cliff.

Octopath will most likely has a similar slope as Persona 5, slowing making it's way to 2 million. Persona 5 didn't chart on the npd in its second month as well. 



quickrick said:
Kai_Mao said:

Eh, when's the last time you said something was falling off a cliff? :P

All jokes aside, its still really impressive of what a new JRPG IP has been able to do in this current gaming climate.

switch audience has been eating up old school retro looking games so its not a surprise  to me, it did good but thats the top for what a third party seitch game can do 1-1.5 million.

So like Persona 5 sales on ps4?



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adisababa said:
Well looks like the Switch has stabilized, they aren't great sales but not bad either. It's only 1 and a half years old and it's doing ehhh. As long as the console has weak third party support (definitely never will have good third party support) and a bad games calendar the Switch will do pretty much this, which is ok.

AAA thurd party support is weak, but indie support is amazing.  The total number of games on the system will probably match PS4 in 10-14 months



MasonADC said:
quickrick said:

rabbis is using a nintendo IP, and octopath has falling off a cliff.

Octopath will most likely has a similar slope as Persona 5, slowing making it's way to 2 million. Persona 5 didn't chart on the npd in its second month as well. 

were not talking about persona, we are talking about third party games on switch, they just don't any third-party that make AAA third party developers take notice.



quickrick said:
MasonADC said:

Octopath will most likely has a similar slope as Persona 5, slowing making it's way to 2 million. Persona 5 didn't chart on the npd in its second month as well. 

were not talking about persona, we are talking about third party games on switch, they just don't any third-party that make AAA third party developers take notice.

They are comparable though. 



MasonADC said:
quickrick said:

were not talking about persona, we are talking about third party games on switch, they just don't any third-party that make AAA third party developers take notice.

They are comparable though. 

yea but my main point is no switch thirdparty game has crossed 2 million.



Miyamotoo said:
quickrick said:

switch audience has been eating up old school retro looking games so its not a surprise  to me, it did good but thats the top for what a third party seitch game can do 1-1.5 million.

Thats maybe top just currently, with bigger install base and more time some game is in sale stronger sales will be, Octopath is already around 1.5m and it will pass 2m LT easily.

no it won't, it shipped 1 million, it will probably ship another 600k best case scenario. sales are pretty much dead now.