The Official June NPD Thread (for the 5 weeks ending 7/5, data in ~6 hours)

[ZenfoldorVGI]

DMeisterJ said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

damkira said:
The biggest news here is that the PS3 got the biggest third-party exclusive it will ever receive and STILL fell far short of Wii's total.. and it couldn't come at a worse time for Sony.

 

I dunno man, I have a hard time spinning this bad for Sony. They aren't gonna beat the Wii in NPD, we shoulda realized that, but the fact that a hardware boost did actually show up in NPD numbers is huge and unprescidented for the PS3. Nothing for the Wii to hit 400,000, but for the PS3 to do it, that's monumental, as unpopular as that console has been in the past.

 

Again, I attribute this to MGS4. A great 3rd party exclusive.

It should have served as a lesson to Sony, to let them know that keeping FFXIII exclusive would have served them well in the US just like it would in Japan.

Instead, we'll see a GTAIV type of effect, with a big game getting released on multiple platforms and bumping them both slightly. We won't see a MGS4 effect from the game though, because of that loss.

I know.

But you're talking two years, at least in the horizon.

By the time any possible FFXIII effect would have came for the PS3, it would have been too late.

 

Good point. I sincerely hope we get FFXIII before 2010, but I kinda doubt it, which is unfortunate.