October 2014 NPD Thread!

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tbone51 said:

binary solo said:

shogunknight said:
Sunset Overdrive and Bayonetta didnt make it to the charts. Multiplats takes the throne, smash did good though. Driveclub is also missing, not suprising. Pretty sure November npd is going to be crushed by Advanced Warfare at no.1, GTAV at 2, Smash WiiU at 3, then Inquisition, Farcry 4 and others in the remaining top 10.

Smash Wii U must surely beat a remastered GTAV, especially as there will be an official GTAV PS4 bundle which will not count in NPD. If GTAV comes out ahead of SSB U then surely WIi U is lost in the wilderness.

Ummm No. GTAV= biggest ip and on about 3x more userbase(2 sku's). Even if its a remaster.

User base is irrelevant. 30+ million people have already played GTAV, including a helluva lot of people who own PS4bone. Exactly zero members of the public have played SSB. SSB pre-orders > combined GTAVR pre-orders and conventional wisdom says Nintendo games tend to have a lower proportion of pre-orders to week 1 sales. GTAV might do better than SSB if black friday is all about GTAV and there isn't much BF promotion of SSB. But otherwise SSB should do the job.