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Forums - Sales - February 2014 NPD Thread! PS4: 285k, XBO: 258k, Wii U: 82k

Max King of the Wild said:
Talal said:
JayWood2010 said:
BenVTrigger continues to be correct. Idc about all this ethomaz business, BenV isnt biased and he continues to be right when he says or hints at things for us.


He can be wrong too. He was wrong about the Wii U.


I also love the notion that he isnt biased when he didnt mum a word about Ps4 being undertracked at all when in fact it was nearly as much as the XB1 ( the way he said it also made it seem like he was hinting XB1>ps4 too). He was also the one claiming Ps4 failure rate was higher than normal and "a very real problem" lolololo


What the actual hell are you talking about. I never once insinuated Xbox One would be higher than PS4, the only time I talked about February NPD was on my wall. Go look at it right now, Seece asked me how I felt February looked compared to January on Xbox One and I said it was considerably better than January and could be over 200k.

You people who actually care about consoles / wars / biases / blah blah blah are beyond strange. Who cares they are pieces of plastic you take a plastic disc and stick into it to play files / bits / and pieces of data on.  If any of you feel emotionally invested into these pieces of plastic you need to step away from your damn machines.

I only said the PS4 stuff because I had a PS4 that failed. That's it.

One thing I'll say about becoming a PC gamer, is it makes all of you look frankly sad arguing and bickering over this crap. Leaving consoles behind as a secondary platform is litteraly the best gaming decision I've ever made.



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"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."

Gunpei Yoko

Castlevania is such a gigantic bomb.



                            

Carl2291 said:
Castlevania is such a gigantic bomb.


Yep, Lightning Returns is a horrible bomb as well when you think about how massive a brand final fantasy used to be.

Don't be surprised if the FFX remake outsells it, because its looking like it just might.



BenVTrigger said:

Yep, Lightning Returns is a horrible bomb as well when you think about how massive a brand final fantasy used to be.

Don't be surprised if the FFX remake outsells it, because its looking like it just might.


Youd have thought after the reaction they had from XIII and XIII-2, theyd have got the hint.

Hopefully with Lightning Returns getting outdone by small, niche JRPGs they will learn that people simply dont want the XIII saga. I mean, we actually had an entire generation dedicated to Final Fantasy XIII. An entire generation. Despite the absolute hate I hold for Final Fantasy X, I cant help but feel the urge to cheer it on as it blows LR out of the water.



                            

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Well well... How do these check up against VGC numbers?

Lifetime for Wii U

Rayman ~ 99k
MH3U ~ 97k
S:LW ~ 94k
TW101 ~ 65k

Edit -

VGC numbers

Rayman ~127k (Over by ~28k)
MH3U ~112k (Over by ~15k)
S:LW ~124k (Over by ~30k)
TW101 ~79k (Over by 14k)

Numbers-wise, VGC doesnt look too bad. Percentage-wise is another story, especially for Rayman and Sonic.



                            

Wiiu LTD

Rayman ~ 99k
MH3U ~ 97k
S:LW ~ 94k
TW101 ~ 65k



"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."

Gunpei Yoko

Carl2291 said:
Well well... How do these check up against VGC numbers?

Lifetime for Wii U

Rayman ~ 99k - Over by 40k
MH3U ~ 97k - Over by 20k
S:LW ~ 94k - Over by 40k
TW101 ~ 65k - Over by 30k

*Sigh*

Not very good.



And this is my last post regarding this stuff as its off topic, but if you have a problem with me say it on my wall, don't derail a thread to slander me, or try to make it out like I'm just spreading FUD. Every single things I've ever said on here regarding numbers, leaks was what I hoped was good for the community and to give you guys a little insight on behind the scenes stuff and get some discussion going.

Maybe thats a mistake, as like anyone who does these kinds of things will tell you its impossible to be 100% accurate all the time. Things change, different retailers get different numbers, game announcements get delayed or changed. Its not easy and frankly risky.

Perhaps I'll just stick to my screenshot thread where its just us a few of us posting screens and being civil. Maybe I'll lay off saying anything about numbers or giving you a guys hints at whats gonna be announced. If thats what people from here want from me then so be it. I never went into any thread ANYWHERE on this forum in the 6 years I've been here and tried dragging peoples names through the mud. If I disagreed with them I confronted them in person directly.

Again I apologize for this off topic post mods, I just saw too much discussion going on in here about me, and it had little to do with my assessment of what February NPD would look like and more just bashing me. Hopefully this will end that thread of discussion.



MH3U 3DS 240K LTD



"Hardware design isn’t about making the most powerful thing you can.
Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."

Gunpei Yoko