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Forums - Sales Discussion - March 2015 NPD Thread! PS4, XBO, Wii U, 3DS, Bloodborne up

DonFerrari on 17 April 2015
CosmicSex said:
There was a big back and forth O n this thread abou MP10 vs Type 0 and people were saying that MP 10 was a success and Type 0 was a flop. Imagine how sill they feel to learn that the two games were so close in sales. As I said before, all T0 needed to do to pass MP10 was get an assist from the Xbox version.


or have more bundles. Or count digital sales. Or be exclusive and then gain extra sales for it.



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tak13 on 17 April 2015
binary solo said:
tak13 said:
CosmicSex said:
There was a big back and forth O n this thread abou MP10 vs Type 0 and people were saying that MP 10 was a success and Type 0 was a flop. Imagine how sill they feel to learn that the two games were so close in sales. As I said before, all T0 needed to do to pass MP10 was get an assist from the Xbox version.


lol...What?I remember seeing many comments about that the ps4 version alone would be above mp10...And that's why,many here were surprised that mp10 was above both versions and with a considerable difference.

Mario paty 10 290k vs Final fantasy type hd 0 200k from both versions!90k difference with a game that's one console...The wii u...;)

Be sure they don't feel silly and they shouldn't feel silly!

You better check again. 290K is phys+digital. >200K is physical only. Given the memory space of the various consoles it's likely that a higher proportion of FFT-0 sales were digital. So sales of the two games are likely to be fairly close. If anyone ever announces US FFT-0 digital sales for March, which I doubt will ever happen, then we would know. For now, we don't know how close they are.

OP of this thread says retail only MP10 was <270K, so that makes the difference on an apples to apples comparison <70K. Not an arse-whopping by any stretch of the imagination.

You are right though that most people were expecting FFT-0 to be higher in the NPD rankings than MP10, so their respective placements are a surprise


That's the point!Actually,they were expecting the ps4 version alone to be above mario party 10...Well,whatever you say but...

it's a game on one console,the wii u vs a game on two consoles,xboxone & ps4,combined are might be near as you say but ''COMBINED''

It's always more fair,to compare the sales of every exclusive with sales of a multiplatform,with the best selling version or each version individually...



tak13 on 17 April 2015
binary solo said:
tak13 said:
CosmicSex said:
There was a big back and forth O n this thread abou MP10 vs Type 0 and people were saying that MP 10 was a success and Type 0 was a flop. Imagine how sill they feel to learn that the two games were so close in sales. As I said before, all T0 needed to do to pass MP10 was get an assist from the Xbox version.


lol...What?I remember seeing many comments about that the ps4 version alone would be above mp10...And that's why,many here were surprised that mp10 was above both versions and with a considerable difference.

Mario paty 10 290k vs Final fantasy type hd 0 200k from both versions!90k difference with a game that's one console...The wii u...;)

Be sure they don't feel silly and they shouldn't feel silly!

You better check again. 290K is phys+digital. >200K is physical only. Given the memory space of the various consoles it's likely that a higher proportion of FFT-0 sales were digital. So sales of the two games are likely to be fairly close. If anyone ever announces US FFT-0 digital sales for March, which I doubt will ever happen, then we would know. For now, we don't know how close they are.

OP of this thread says retail only MP10 was <270K, so that makes the difference on an apples to apples comparison <70K. Not an arse-whopping by any stretch of the imagination.

You are right though that most people were expecting FFT-0 to be higher in the NPD rankings than MP10, so their respective placements are a surprise


That's the point!Actually,they were expecting the ps4 version alone to be above mario party 10...Well,whatever you say but...

it's a game on one console,the wii u vs a game on two consoles,xboxone & ps4,combined are might be near as you say but ''COMBINED''...

It's always more fair,to compare the sales of every exclusive with sales of a multiplatform,with the best selling version or each version individually...



Turkish on 17 April 2015
binary solo said:
Yikes, if FF Type-0 is more like 4:1 (79% : 21%) that makes Xb one sales an awful 42K vs PS4 158K. 158K isn't particularly great for PS4, but at least it's not a total flop. That is a truly terrible sales ratio for a console that is only about 10% behind in install base.


Is that FF Type-0 ratio for the US or the ratio for UK?



Aura7541 on 17 April 2015
Turkish said:
binary solo said:
Yikes, if FF Type-0 is more like 4:1 (79% : 21%) that makes Xb one sales an awful 42K vs PS4 158K. 158K isn't particularly great for PS4, but at least it's not a total flop. That is a truly terrible sales ratio for a console that is only about 10% behind in install base.

Is that FF Type-0 ratio for the US or the ratio for UK?

Both. Kagari said on GAF that the ratio was 4:1 in the UK as well.



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Turkish on 17 April 2015

It was silly how aquamarine and her followers created such a big drama. That thing about keeping the numbers "safe and sound" was just her personal vendetta against the shartz. (though I don't get why she was trying to obstruct the flow of info to get to the community here? Most members here think the estimates are bad as well, they want to discuss the real thing). Here we are, still getting the same info as always, before aqua joined the gaf npd threads. The numbers always came from creamsugar.

If anything, it was the drama that made things worse. Still not seen anyone question her parting message on gaf. She said the npd group found out who she was and therefore ceasing "her operations", but in the same post she threatens to keep leaking info to a select audience...



ethomaz on 17 April 2015

tokilamockingbrd said:

dont forget ioi's numbers are for all of NA where as NDP is just US. Its also believeable that sales would dip a little the last 2 weeks because of all the attention that the PS4 was getting. Either way a tad high but not too bad.

The numbers in VGC US are only US... NA is only showed in the front page.



Boutros on 17 April 2015

So everything we know so far is in the OP!



tak13 on 17 April 2015
Boutros said:
So everything we know so far is in the OP!

Booty! <3

Do we know if zombie u sales include the sales from the bundles?

Also,I saw on gaf 3DS 260-270k,wher did we get the 263k?:P:P:P:PP::P:P:P:P



Boutros on 17 April 2015
tak13 said:
Boutros said:
So everything we know so far is in the OP!

Booty! <3

Do we know if zombie u sales include the sales from the bundles?

Also,I saw on gaf 3DS 260-270k,wher did we get the 263k?:P:P:P:PP::P:P:P:P

Hm I'm not sure if it does includes bundles. I would think so since it was a physical copy in the box but yeah I'm not sure.

The 263k came from Nintendo's comment that "Total hardware sales [for the 3DS] in 2015 have increased by nearly 80 percent over sales during the first three months of 2014.". But yeah it's more of a range than an actual number.