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Forums - Sales Discussion - Gamasutra March NPD article (with bonus PS3 ltds!)

jarrod on 19 April 2010

Interesting stuff...

 

PS3 ltds as of April 2009

  • Resistance: Fall of Man > 1,000,000
  • LittleBig Planet > 750,000
  • Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Motorstorm, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction all "well short of" 750,000

PS3 ltds as of April 2010

  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves > 850,000
  • God of War I & II Collection > 650,000
  • M.A.G. Massive Action Game > 350,000
  • Heavy Rain > 325,000
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 > 3,500,000
  • Assassin's Creed II is "likely to pass 1 million in the next several months"

 

Nintendo DSi XL sold 141,000 in seven days

 

Also, graphs!



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dolemit3 on 19 April 2010

The PS3 weekly rate dropped in March, which is what usually happens in March.. Doesn't look like shortages is a good excuse for the drop.



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griffinA on 19 April 2010

The 2010 Handheld Software graph looks like Pac-man....coincidence?



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TWRoO on 19 April 2010

DS really has a stranglehold on PSP over there.



psrock on 19 April 2010

An amazing Generation, it seems that the PS3 is finallly selling 1st party software the way it should.



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trangentspree on 19 April 2010
griffinA said:
The 2010 Handheld Software graph looks like Pac-man....coincidence?

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Seece on 19 April 2010

Why such large gaps

I'm sure ioi's figures for LBP ect are all correct given past NPD's

so saying >750k for LBP when it's done around 1.3 mill there is useless ....

Edit - Oops LBP figures are 2009 ^^

 

Well everything else seems spot on from what I can tell, well done VGC!

Edit #2 ACII we have at 1.5 mill, say 1.35 mill for NA. Maybe we have that over tracked?



 

ameratsu on 19 April 2010

Pretty bad that R:FOM was the only SCEA-published million seller this time last year. The fact that GOW3 exceeded 1mln in its first month is impressive though.

I have to say that some titles seem to be poorly tracked here based on numbers given in that gamasutra article.



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jarrod on 19 April 2010
ameratsu said:

Pretty bad that R:FOM was the only SCEA-published million seller this time last year. The fact that GOW3 exceeded 1mln in its first month is impressive though.

The article actually pointed out that GOW3 is the only PS3 to pass 1m it's first NPD.  MGS4 also did it, but only by combining hardware bundles too (software alone MGS4 was ~750k).

Really, really impressive for Sony.  The slimomentum's really righted the ship for them.



Barozi on 19 April 2010

Software-wise pretty close (only checked the April 2010 data)
Only games that look incorrect are Uncharted 2 and Assassin's Creed 2.

However this is just an estimation from the author based on "software dollars" right ?
Or does he really have full informations about those NPD April 2010 LTD sales ?