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tbone51 on 10 April 2015
Angelv577 said:
tbone51 said:


Zelda migt be a remake but its not niche............ :p

lol I think you know that I was talking about bloodborne, right?.  Zelda isn't niche but it did great for being a remake.


I know, i was messing wth you. That said MM 3D blew expectations, Bloodborne will easily get #1 March NPD.

Actually im also interested in Mario Party sales in the US, i thought it will be underwhelming but it actually looking like it mght have a good debut



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thedawghousev2 on 10 April 2015
NewGuy said:
thedawghousev2 said:
i'm telling you just give the wii u a nice price cut and it will do great


Just like the Vita, I think it might be too late for the WiiU. If Sony and MS drop the price of the PS3/360 at E3 (and then PS4/XB1 for the holiday period), that only exacerbates how late it is for Nintendo to do anything about WiiU's pricing.


i meant for wii u standards. if it can sell 4-5 million in a year i'd consider that great for wii u



TheGoldenBoy on 10 April 2015
tbone51 said:
Angelv577 said:

lol I think you know that I was talking about bloodborne, right?.  Zelda isn't niche but it did great for being a remake.


I know, i was messing wth you. That said MM 3D blew expectations, Bloodborne will easily get #1 March NPD.

Actually im also interested in Mario Party sales in the US, i thought it will be underwhelming but it actually looking like it mght have a good debut

I don't know about that. Hardline came out a week earlier and is on 5 platforms.



tbone51 on 10 April 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:
tbone51 said:


I know, i was messing wth you. That said MM 3D blew expectations, Bloodborne will easily get #1 March NPD.

Actually im also interested in Mario Party sales in the US, i thought it will be underwhelming but it actually looking like it mght have a good debut

I don't know about that. Hardline came out a week earlier and is on 5 platforms.

Still going for Bloodborne but Hardline does have the slightly better chance. :0



Imnus on 10 April 2015
tbone51 said:
TheGoldenBoy said:

I don't know about that. Hardline came out a week earlier and is on 5 platforms.

Still going for Bloodborne but Hardline does have the slightly better chance. :0


There's no chance in hell that Bloodborne outsells the total sales of Hardline. Hardline should easily sell over 500k, Bloodborne upper limit should be around 400k. Bloodborne could be the best selling single-platform sku, but in total sales Hardline should at least double it.



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tbone51 on 10 April 2015
Imnus said:
tbone51 said:

Still going for Bloodborne but Hardline does have the slightly better chance. :0


There's no chance in hell that Bloodborne outsells the total sales of Hardline. Hardline should easily sell over 500k, Bloodborne upper limit should be around 400k. Bloodborne could be the best selling single-platform sku, but in total sales Hardline should at least double it.


I thought Battlefield underperformed? I remember in the UK charts that Bloodborne was close to Total Battlefield Hardline Sales no?

Im going based on Bloodborne selling out at retailers like crazy, and Battlefield not even doing all that well on amazon, of course its not 100% but imma still go with BB. If It loses, i think it wont be by more than 150k.



Ryng on 10 April 2015

tbone51 said:

I know, i was messing wth you. That said MM 3D blew expectations, Bloodborne will easily get #1 March NPD.

Actually im also interested in Mario Party sales in the US, i thought it will be underwhelming but it actually looking like it mght have a good debut

tbone PLZ!!!!!

Will be lucky if will sell 1/3 of the BFH sales...



Nuvendil on 10 April 2015

Just to give some perspective, Bloodborne was at 4 in the March monthly. Battlefield charted with three SKUs at 24, 43, and 73. So actually, Bloodborne beating it may not be impossible. These trends aren't accurate indicators of success mind you, just good barometers of sales health. Hardline did pretty poor to be honest.

Also, the monthly updated again.  Wii U up to 59 in the April chart now.  Xenoblade at 13. 



Wiggy on 10 April 2015

one of those 'bish checked' guys on neogaf said that hardline will be comfortably number one, but bloodborne is doing surprisingly well



hoggin' all the action, I see...

Tlozjb on 11 April 2015
Nuvendil said:
Tlozjb said:
Is there even a reason for that weird Wii U rise? Confidence breathed into the console by the Direct? The Smash Ballot thing going viral and pushing awareness of it alongside 3DS? Or maybe people finally noticing it exists because of the overflooding NIntendo is doing with those amiibo commercials, that also advertize Wii U, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, MK8, MP10, SSBU, Yoshi, Captain Toad, and New 3DS?

I think it's a snowball effect of a number of variables.  Nintendo's competitors - in terms of game developers, not just Sony and MS - stumbling with key releases while they have maintained relatively high consistency has probably helped put them in a positiive light.  The Direct probably helped counter the doom and gloom.  Smash got a decent ad campaign and of course has a lot of coverage around the net so it's no doubt raising awareness.  Smash Ballot is creating a lot of buzz.  The price on Amazon is stable at or below MSRP.  Word of mouth is pretty strong.  I know people are giving him a lot of flack right now, but even Angry Joe - despite being upset with Nintendo - has said numerous times that the Wii U is the most fun eighth gen console for him.  So yeah, I think the Wii U has just got a lot of positivity coming in from various factors. 

Well that's reasonable, and the most probable, though I would also add the flooding of amiibo commercials that are going, which promote the console, some of it's big games, and New 3DS.  If with that overflooding of commercias, people still do not know about Wii U, then there is nothing that will make them know about it.



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