March NPD - X360 #1 371k, PS3 337k, Wii 175k

[Conegamer]

leatherhat said:

Conegamer said:

leatherhat said:

Zlejedi said:

March and early April were bad but rest of Q2 looks much better:

04/17 - Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (PSV)

05/01 - Mortal Kombat (PSV)

05/29- Resistance

05/31 - Silent Hill: Book of Memories (PSV)

06/12 - Gravity Rush (PSV)

end of June - LBP

Thats a sexy little lineup right there. 

Not really. Disgea, Silent Hill and Gravity Rush will all struggle to reach 500k, or anything like it. 

Mortal Kombat will hit 500k, maybe.

LBP and Resistance will probably reach 7-800k.

Nothing will boost sales for more than a week, and even then, maybe only by a couple k.

 

The Vita NEEDS a system seller. There isn't one yet. And none of those look as though they will be.

I was talking about what I want to play. And LBP, resistance and MK should all be million sellers.

That's cool. I knew that And I agree.

But my point remains that, from a business standpoint, it's pretty poor.

And the best selling Mortal Kombat game this past gen sold 1.6mil, on the PS3, which had a 55mil install base at the time. That's a 2.9% attach rate. And fighting games aren't as big on handhelds. LittleBigPlanet sold 2mil on the PSP, with an install base of 58mil at the time, making it 3.4%. Resistanceon the PSP only sold 800k, on an install base of 57mil at the time, so that ain't gonna happen. For any of those games to sell a million, you'd need closer to 50%, or for it to sell slowly for a very, VERY long time. None of the series' are big enough for that, or to sustain sales.

Remember that Uncharted for PSV has only just reached 500k, and the next best selling game isn't even at 200k. The Vita simply doesn't have the selling power yet.