NPD March 2014 Thread - PS4 #1 (371k), Xbox One 311k, 360 111k, WiiU ~70k, Vita close to 4 digits. Titanfall tops software

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DerNebel on 17 April 2014

Oh, and vita is officially dead. Very close to 4 digits.

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Tabular on 17 April 2014

Dark_Feanor said:

Arkaign said:

iceboy151 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

iceboy151 said:
I mean, does the X1 really need to win NPD? It's doing good in America and that's all that counts.

These types of posts are hilarious .All last gen people said ps3 was a failure for losing marketshare. Now losing it in your best territory is fine

Your saying this as if I'm an Xbox fanboy? But that's besides the point. if I was on this site back then, I would've said the same thing about the PS3. I could care less for what sales better, as long as both consoles are selling well.

The situation is significantly more dire this time than the PS3's poor position last time.

Microsoft really fumbled the 360 internationally with the relatively small number of exclusives and poor marketing. It performed magnificently in the US and to large extent the UK, but Europe was not so great. Halo/Gears are more western in appeal. So PS3 had the advantage of getting a lot of the territories that Microsoft wasn't able to sew up.

This time around? They look to be on track to losing even in their previous strongholds, and getting outright blown away outside of US/UK. Numbers in some countries on an average week such as France and Germany are as bad as FIVE to ONE.

Further, if trends continue (and with more multiplats coming that will more likely than not look worse on the XB1) with players tending to want to buy the console that their friends already own for MP, they could be behind by 2 to 1 by the end of THIS year globally. Barring a miracle, it will be even worse through the end of 2015.

Financially that makes profitability on the XB1 platform much harder. It makes it less likely to get 3rd party exclusivity, because paying for that will get out of control pretty quickly. It will go like this :

Microsoft "Hey, company X, we want your new game to be only on the XB1"

Company X "Okay, well you have 9 million consoles sold, and your competitor has 18.5 million sold, so based on our market research, you will have to compensate us for the calculated attach rate for our title on that system"

Microsoft "How much is that?"

Company X "Well, we calculate that this huge title could sell 4 million copies on the PS4, and you will have to pay us $30 per potential lost sale"

Microsoft "A HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS? Okay, how about some exclusive DLC?"

Company X "Sure"

Nintendo knows how to play the 'extra' console game historically, and make money. Microsoft simply has no idea.

A Developer don´t get $30 for each game sale... nor the Publisher (about $20 at most).

Besides, with the PS3 80mi user base and 7 years in the market, how many title sold more than 4mi on it?

And I can ensure that 90% of those 4mi+ games are either COD, GTA, FIFA, Battlefield or Assassins Creed, in other words: games that will be always multiplat.

The 80 million figure came very recently. The PS3 had poor sales early gen with a high price and even those who did buy a ps3 sometimes just wanted a good blu ray player. That led to poor game attach rates and exclusives that performed worse. It's catching up in overall software sales to the other two consoles.

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DerNebel on 17 April 2014

Max King of the Wild said:
No Wii U numbers yet?

No, only Wii U + Wii < 100k

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TheShogun on 17 April 2014

DerNebel said:

Wii + Wii U < 100k -__-

Now we can classify this as a pretty terrible showing. Those are some shockingly low numbers. And considering Smash Bros won't be out till Winter on the Wii U and will see a realease on 3DS before that even hits thats pretty scary.

The only thing in the short term I can see helping is possibly Mario Kart but even that I'm not so sure on at this point. Nintendo makes some wonderful games but they need to figure out something for the Wii U immediatly.