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Forums - Sales Discussion - May 2012 NPD - Diablo III:1m; X360:160k; PS3:124k; Wii:71k; 3DS:113.5k; PSV:~54k -

Barozi on 15 June 2012

Ghost Recon Future Soldier did slightly above 400k
Dragon's Dogma 92k



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Slimebeast on 15 June 2012

How do those 92K for Dragon's Dogma compare to VGC numbers?



Barozi on 15 June 2012
Slimebeast said:
How do those 92K for Dragon's Dogma compare to VGC numbers?

20k overtracked.



Slimebeast on 15 June 2012
Barozi said:
Slimebeast said:
How do those 92K for Dragon's Dogma compare to VGC numbers?

20k overtracked.

Damn.

Btw, did VGC already adjust May numbers because I can't see that we have 244K for X360.



Barozi on 15 June 2012
Slimebeast said:
Barozi said:
Slimebeast said:
How do those 92K for Dragon's Dogma compare to VGC numbers?

20k overtracked.

Damn.

Btw, did VGC already adjust May numbers because I can't see that we have 244K for X360.

Yes already done. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4633322



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Barozi on 15 June 2012

Update: Diablo 3 sold 1 million at retail

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/172477/Max_Payne_3_Future_Soldier_sold_400K_US_units_each_during_May.php



Gamerace on 15 June 2012

Wow, VGC was way off on all accounts for May. Surprisingly way under on DS sales.

Dismal sales all around but at least 360 can continue to boost 1st place. Quite a feat considering it's a year older than it's competition and the only to charge for online. Kinect must really be making the difference for them.



 

Cobretti2 on 16 June 2012
pezus said:
Cobretti2 said:
TheSource said:

I reckon VGC is high on almost everything for hardware. The US economy is slowing down, all the consoles are very old - the 3DS / Vita are tiny yet, and with a 40 / 35 / 21 split between Wii / X360 / PS3 in the US having one big game a month just isn't going to push big hardware numbers anymore.  There is a chance Microsoft's numbers will be up I suppose because NPD will have found a way to include that "$100 downpayment plus future $20 payments" thing into the numbers at Microsoft's stores (I've never seen one though?), but that proposition is still pretty expensive long term for a seven year old console.


I think you may be right. I think the European economy is probably in worst situation atm. A good example not just for games would be for movies.

Look at The Avengers as an example. The biggest opening weekend in the US, yet in Europe it is doing very poorly. You would think the hype of that fact alone would show some interest. Most european countries for avengers gross is about 10%-20% of what Avatar achieved.  Outside of europe other places are around the 50% mark of what avatar achieved.

Source? Avatar was absolutely huge outside of the US, so it really shouldn't be compared to Avengers to estimate how well movies are doing there lol. Compare it to The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Spider-Man 2 instead.


The boxofiicemojo:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=avatar.htm

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=avengers11.htm

 

I stull think it is a valid comparission as Avengers topped america. I know people in AUS talked about how it did and many decided to go watch it just because of that.

If you look at some of the latin american countries and asian countries, they exceeded Avatar even. I agree that it won't get to avatar numbers but would have expected atleast -30%-50% minimum in those countries compared to Avatar from the hype alone.

Now comparing to he dark knight:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=darkknight.htm

Most the asian and latin american countries  doubled gross for avengers over the dark knight. European ones are below or about on par (a few slightly more). Also I looked at a few on the countries and they had significantly more screening theaters for the avengers than for the dark knight and still did not managed to top it.

I think the state of the european economy atm has played some part in lower revenue and it is impacting on gaming atm too, which was the key thing I was trying to say.



 

 

Slimebeast on 16 June 2012

I'm a lil surprised (and very saddened) that Max Payne flopped. It got a great Metacritic.
But more importantly I am extremely sad that Dragon's Dogma didn't sell more. I need a sequel!

What is the explanation? Is this an overall trend for all software perhaps? That overall software sales are dropping now that we are so late in a generation.