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

 

Did the NPD results surprise you?

Yes 379 53.23%
 
No 308 43.26%
 
Total:687
DerNebel on 18 April 2014
pezus said:
DerNebel said:
MANUELF said:

Titanfall > 1 million
Infamous:SS < 500k
Yoshi New Island < 160k
South Park < 440k
Dark Souls 2 < 350k

Edit: 

Metal Gear Solid 5 demo <280k

BTW this does include bundles, so Titanfall slightly undertracked and Infamous slightly overtracked.

Well we know inFAMOUS' WW sales already so this just means they need to shift more of it to Europe or something

Or just higher digital sales, I mean I:SS has already over 22k ratings on PSN, which as far as I know can only be given once you purchased the game through PSN, compared to that Minecraft has 106k ratings and we know that game sold over 1.5 million digitally, so Infamous' digital sales are bound to be good.

But yeah overall we already have a pretty decent idea of what it sold.



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DerNebel on 18 April 2014
jlmurph2 said:
DerNebel said:

Including bundle, but yes.

I figured, but I know Titanfall was the #1 downloaded game for about 2 weeks on Xbox Live Store being over free games like Project Spark, Killer Instinct and Xbox Fitness. Its settled in the top 5 but I do wonder how much the game sold digitally.

It sold probably very well digitally too, though I'd guess that the downloads from the bundle are also counted towards the charts on the Xbox Live Store, so that affected the placing of Titanfall as well. Overall, only MS/EA can tell us what the game did digitally.



Turkish on 18 April 2014
bigjon said:
Look I am a PS4/WiiU guy, but Sony fanboys in 2007-08 sounded a lot like XB1 fanboy do now. Back then it was Folklore will save it(seriously people said this), Lair will be a killer app(Would prove Six axis better than WiiMote), PS Home will sell millions, Haze will kill Halo (CoD was still only on 4), LBP Planet will take all the casuals from the Wii.... and on and on. PS3 finished strong, but it would have been dead if not for it being for BluRay, best specs, and great 1st party support, but Sony fans now all admit 07-08 were dark days, they only had Uncharted 1 to sooth their souls.


This is revisionist history. Haze was never seen as a Halo killer. PS Home, announced a free service from day 1 would sell millions...?  Lol at "Sony fans only had UC1 in 07-08", disregarding all the good games that came out in that period just becuz they didnt sell 10m copies on day 1, truly some old fashioned thinking from that period. LBP sold over 5m (and only a few exclusives like the Halos, and Gears of Wars could do on the 360), and MGS4, which had a bigger impact on the 599 PS3 than Titanfall last month(on 5 weeks basis the weekly avg is actually down). Also PS3 got Warhawk, Motorstorm Pacifc Rift, Resistance, Valkyria Chronicles and many more during those "dark" days. For being the worst years of the PS3, it got great games.



celador on 18 April 2014
Kyuu said:
celador said:
I requested mine to be locked because it was shit compared to that other guy, even though he hasn't been online. Thought someone else could do better, and I might have missed the results coming in because something came up.

Anyway, looking forward to this


I see. Your thread was good though!

I think people here should encourage newer users to post rather than comparing them to more experienced ones.

Thanks, but it was very basic compared to that other guys.  I just threw it together quickly because Boutros(?) wasn't online and it was only a couple hours away.  Hopefully he will be ok to do it next month to avoid confusion



jlmurph2 on 18 April 2014
Turkish said:
bananaking21 said:
BenVTrigger said:

In terms of vs the PS4? Yes that is probably true 

But in terms of units May actually might be better as Watch Dogs is gonna have a solid launch on the One. 


looking at VGC pre-order numbers Watch Dogs has around 645K pre-orders in the USA. im prett sure the delay hurt Watch Dogs in terms of sales, but do you think it can still surprise us and actually be a big seller?  i personally feel the general consciousness right now is watch dogs just wont be that big, but pre-order numbers are good. mostly likely at this rate it will end with 800k~850k pre orders in the USA alone (according to VGC). how do you think it will perform?

 

also, do you think it will push PS4+XB1 sales? 


You shouldnt look at the preorder numbers, it's generally accepted as the most unreliable data on this site.

Watch Dogs will be big, atleast on the PS4. It's getting exclusive marketing and bundles. It''s one of the next gen games with the biggest buzz since 2012. May will probably be the biggest month this year so far.


The only pre-order numbers they get way off on are JRPGs and Nintendo games. Others are fine.



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maximus22 on 18 April 2014
Turkish said:
bigjon said:
Look I am a PS4/WiiU guy, but Sony fanboys in 2007-08 sounded a lot like XB1 fanboy do now. Back then it was Folklore will save it(seriously people said this), Lair will be a killer app(Would prove Six axis better than WiiMote), PS Home will sell millions, Haze will kill Halo (CoD was still only on 4), LBP Planet will take all the casuals from the Wii.... and on and on. PS3 finished strong, but it would have been dead if not for it being for BluRay, best specs, and great 1st party support, but Sony fans now all admit 07-08 were dark days, they only had Uncharted 1 to sooth their souls.


This is revisionist history. Haze was never seen as a Halo killer. PS Home, announced a free service from day 1 would sell millions...?  Lol at "Sony fans only had UC1 in 07-08", disregarding all the good games that came out in that period just becuz they didnt sell 10m copies on day 1, truly some old fashioned thinking from that period. LBP sold over 5m (and only a few exclusives like the Halos, and Gears of Wars could do on the 360), and MGS4, which had a bigger impact on the 599 PS3 than Titanfall last month(on 5 weeks basis the weekly avg is actually down). Also PS3 got Warhawk, Motorstorm Pacifc Rift, Resistance, Valkyria Chronicles and many more during those "dark" days. For being the worst years of the PS3, it got great games.


Agreed that was a great time for PS3.  Except MGS4 launched when the PS3 was at $499 not $599.  I know because I bought mine as soon as that bundle released.



Shinobi-san on 18 April 2014
celador said:
I wonder if Sony are kind of surprised they won NPD this month. A lot of people, myself included, assumed they had got wind that X1 had beaten them this month so they announced the 7 million sold the day before.

Either they knew the result and wanted a double blow to MS or they genuinely thought they were second


I didnt think there was any alterior motive behind announcing the 7 million. They have announced almost every million since the launch of the console. Perhaps they want to keep showing that they are doing well. Until they dont do well



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Shinobi-san on 18 April 2014
bananaking21 said:
BenVTrigger said:

In terms of vs the PS4? Yes that is probably true 

But in terms of units May actually might be better as Watch Dogs is gonna have a solid launch on the One. 


looking at VGC pre-order numbers Watch Dogs has around 645K pre-orders in the USA. im prett sure the delay hurt Watch Dogs in terms of sales, but do you think it can still surprise us and actually be a big seller?  i personally feel the general consciousness right now is watch dogs just wont be that big, but pre-order numbers are good. mostly likely at this rate it will end with 800k~850k pre orders in the USA alone (according to VGC). how do you think it will perform?

 

also, do you think it will push PS4+XB1 sales? 


Yeah the delay plus the recently released footage of the game, which looks miles off from what it was back in 2012....



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orniletter on 18 April 2014

Very impressive that the PS4 managed to outsell the X1 despite Titanfall and the pricedrop.

Gaf´s 10k for Vita and 70k for WiiU are......just sad.....



Troll_Whisperer on 18 April 2014

In isolation and just looking at the raw numbers, 311k for XB1 in a March NPD is not too bad.

But once you take into account the price drop + free game deals (effectively making it cheaper than PS4) and that this region probably represents about 2/3 or 3/4 of total WW sales, it becomes apparent the console is not doing too well at the moment.



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