December 2014 NPD Thread! XBO, PS4, Wii U up! Many software up!

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Experimental42 said:

Euphoria14 said:

Skidmore said:
Amiibo will do more money than Xbox Live/PSN combined.. That shit already sold 2,5 million in one month in the US. And there is a new wave almost each week.

Amiibos sold 2.5M in Nov + December combined. PS+ has 11M (10.9M as of Jan. 4th) by itself and costs $50 while an Amiibo costs $12. 2.5M Amiibos @ $12 = $30M. 11M PS+ subs @ $50 = $550M. If they keep this pace of 2.5M per 2 months that is $180M. This is way way WAY behind PS+ and it doesn't even include Xbox LIVE.

In other words, your claim is HIGHLY unlikely, especially since PS+ and Live are recurring costs while a $12 Amiibo is not.

 

Edit - Nintendo rep says "Total sales", meaning Amiibos sales are very like not US only. Just in case you were wondering.

If we're talking profit I could see the amiibo pulling in more than the sub services. IIRC PSN gives a payment to the developer for each download of a PS+ free title, plus the cost of maintenance on online services, while the amiibo is a dirt cheap item to make in bulk and requires no maintenance. There's also going to be a trading card format and implementation on another platform so sales will likely pick up going forward.

 

Also, if they're comparing total amiibo figures to total smash figures than they'd have sold over 4mil by now at 2:1. I honestly expect more from the Japanese tbh, what with their general love of figures.

Yeah, an Amiibo probably costs about $1 to get onto retailer shelves. So the margin on amiibo will be huge. Maintaining an online service probably has pretty tight margins. $0.5Bn revenue for PSN probably gets Sony $10 million profit. $50 million sales of amiibos probably gives Nintendo $30 million profits (retailers gotta get something).