Give the console some time to spread its wings, there were plenty of quality projects that could be picked up when the system launched. I'm sure Black Ops sales are going to increase as more people get there hands on the console.
| TheLastStarFighter said: Your point on US attach rates are valid, your point on attach rates going down is not. Some attach rates will go up from launch week, others down. You can be sure that Mario and NintendoLand will go down, as they are the first two games purchased by most people. When they are done with those, they may pick up a COD, an AC, a ZombiU perhaps. So those may go up as people buy more software. Then as the next wave of software hits, attach rates for all titles will most likely decline. I would expect lots of changes. However, I do feel that Black Ops being the 4th most popular title at launch should be considered a success. Unlike the 360 Launch, when there was almost no must-have software, this COD has some juggernaught competition. BlackOps is doing well, and it's dispelling the myth that people who buy a nintendo system won't buy a title like COD. THey'll buy it as long as it's not a crap version. |
How can you say the 360 had no "must-have software" when Call of Duty 2 sold more than NSMBU despite having smaller hardware sales? You can hardly hold it against the 360 that Call of Duty was the must have software. Apparently even more must-have than Mario. Not to mention numerous other games that had strong sales (four games over 100k). The Wii U has an attach rate of 1.2, the 360 had 3.69 in its launch month. You say Black Ops 2 had good sales because it landed as the fourth best selling game. However the 360 had at least 8 games with more than double the sales of Black Ops 2. (8th best selling game was Quake 4 with 57k sales) If we go by VGC the 360 had 14 games that outsold BO2 WiiU. Keep in mind all of this is with about 100k fewer hardware sales.
It wasn't just the 360 though. The Wii sold 48k copies of CoD3 and the PS3 sold 24k. This was before Call of Duty exploded and the PS3 had less than half the hardware sales of the Wii U. So apparently not being a "crap version" seems to have hurt sales rather than helped. The Wii after all had its "must-have" as well which did better than NSMBU, but still managed to sell more copies of Call of Duty.
I just don't see any way BO2 can be called a "success" or "doing well".
Say what? Your info is all wrong:
XBox 360:
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/38683/Global/
WiiU:
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41238/Global/
NintendoLand and NSMBU both sold well beyond what COD2 did on launch. Almost everyone has those 2 games that has a WiiU. You're right that COD2 was THE game to have when you picked up a 360 because it was the only game to have. XBox 360 didn't launch with a massive franchise. COD was the game I saw demoed every store I went in.
| Heavenly_King said: Nintendo was hoping that considering they were releasing a "better" console, the people who enjoys those games, would buy a WiiU in order to play the "best" version. It is quite obvious that Nintendo payed Ubisoft, and Activision to have their flagship titles on the console. They were expecting those games to be the bait to buy the console, but nobody gave damn. |
Lol just lol I can't even respond to n4g logic here.
paying them to release it?
lol
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34 years playing games.
Expected. Game is a multiplat on a Nintendo console, and a late one at that. Plus, no Nuketown?? Boooo!
Zombi U should be used as a much better example of third party sales on Wii U, not this game.
| TheLastStarFighter said:
Say what? Your info is all wrong: XBox 360: http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/38683/Global/ WiiU: http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41238/Global/
NintendoLand and NSMBU both sold well beyond what COD2 did on launch. Almost everyone has those 2 games that has a WiiU. You're right that COD2 was THE game to have when you picked up a 360 because it was the only game to have. XBox 360 didn't launch with a massive franchise. COD was the game I saw demoed every store I went in. |
I don't know why you are linking global VGC data in a thread about NPD sales. Especially when it is clear that the US numbers have been adjusted down while for some reason they have neglected to alter the Global/Americas totals. I doubt the rest of the Americas accounted for 100k+ sales of NSMBU when it only did 243k in the US. Also I'm not talking about Nintendoland as most of the sales are from bundles.
NSMBU sold 243k in the US. Call of Duty 2 sold 260k in November 2005 in the US.
Here is a list of the software sales in the launch month for the Wii/WiiU/PS3/360.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45176294&postcount=1930
So now that we have that clarified. We see that Call of Duty 2 sold to an even greater percentage of 360 owners than NSMBU did, so by your logic the rest of the software should have suffered due to such a large franchise taking up people's money. However it didn't. Numerous other games managed to sell significantly more than what BO2 did on the Wii U. In fact, each person who bought a 360 purchased more than three times the games that Wii U owners did. So apparently CoD2 wasn't the only game to have.
I think it is not coincidence that the games that sold the most (like ZombiU) were built from the ground up and not ports of things already released earlier.
This is how it will stay in order to achieve success on Wii U. Simple as that.
Leatherhat on July 6th, 2012 3pm. Vita sales:"3 mil for COD 2 mil for AC. Maybe more. " thehusbo on July 6th, 2012 5pm. Vita sales:"5 mil for COD 2.2 mil for AC."
@OP:
I dont't find this news negative, obviously Nintendo gamers understood before the others that by now CoD is reheated soup.
| Barozi said: Stolen from the NPD thread: |
I think the partial blame here is because Gamestop HYPED UP the numbers they sold
Remember their statements 500K WiiU preorders and 1.2million software sold. Who ever calculated tha tin their office should be fired.
Now if gamestop was managing such numbers people assumed that with other retailers factored in (other retailers making up say 50% share), WiiU sold around 700K-800K units and probably 2.5million software.
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