November 2015 NPD Thread! Hardware and software in OP!

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bananaking21 on 10 December 2015

poklane said:

bananaking21 said:

poklane said:

NPD will stop ranking games and consoles on copies/units sold and will start ranking based on MAUs.

MAU's?

and this will start this month?

Monthly Active Users

And it's a joke

LOL.

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Snoopy on 10 December 2015

What I am getting at is some people are saying Halo 5 is a failure because it didn't hit 3 million on a single platform when even COD couldn't do it (going by retail).

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Teeqoz on 10 December 2015

poklane said:

Monthly Active Users

And it's a joke

Like one second before me, lel

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ethomaz on 10 December 2015

bananaking21 said:

what does even mean?

Nothing.

Y2Kev is just trolling new GAFers.

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ethomaz on 10 December 2015

Snoopy said:
What I am getting at is some people are saying Halo 5 is a failure because it didn't hit 3 million on a single platform when even COD couldn't do it (going by retail).

I think you know that but I will try to make the things transparent again...

- It sold less than half of previous entries (not just Halo 3)
- It sold less than ODST Expansion
- It only moved 93k Xbone at release (way less than UC bundles for eg.)
- The more expensive limited edition ($249) have a price drop less than a month after release ($149)

Unlike previous Halos it didn't put US on fire.
I can be wrong but I don't know any others franchise that underperformanced this bad this generation.

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Snoopy on 10 December 2015

ethomaz said:

Snoopy said:
What I am getting at is some people are saying Halo 5 is a failure because it didn't hit 3 million on a single platform when even COD couldn't do it (going by retail).

I think you know that but I will try to make the things transparent again...

- It sold less than half of previous entries (not just Halo 3)
- It sold less than ODST Expansion
- It only moved 93k Xbone at release (way less than UC bundles for eg.)

Unlike previous Halos it didn't put US on fire.
I can be wrong but I don't know any others franchise that underperformanced this bad this generation.

Halo 5 made xbox one outsell the PS4 for november NPD despite the PS4 price cut for the month in just 4 days.

Also, we are not counting digital sales which could put it above half Halo 3. Halo 3 had the luxery of having no competition while Halo 5 has to go up against star wars and black ops this year. Really good numbers. Mario Kart 8 and GT6 did a lot worse if we compare to previous entries.

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DonFerrari on 10 December 2015

bananaking21 said:

poklane said:

bananaking21 said:

poklane said:

Y2Kev: "Wow, numbers are being compiled by npd. O_O"
Ricky_R: "What do you mean? That they're being prepped for release?
Y2Kev: "I mean when you see what npd is doing you will be so surprised. Wowowowowow"

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188676092&postcount=2319

what does even mean?

NPD will stop ranking games and consoles on copies/units sold and will start ranking based on MAUs.

MAU's?

and this will start this month?

YOu have been had.

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

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Teeqoz on 10 December 2015

ethomaz said:

Snoopy said:
What I am getting at is some people are saying Halo 5 is a failure because it didn't hit 3 million on a single platform when even COD couldn't do it (going by retail).

I think you know that but I will try to make the things transparent again...

- It sold less than half of previous entries (not just Halo 3)
- It sold less than ODST Expansion
- It only moved 93k Xbone at release (way less than UC bundles for eg.)
- The more expensive limited edition ($249) have a price drop less than a month after release ($149)

Unlike previous Halos it didn't put US on fire.
I can be wrong but I don't know any others franchise that underperformanced this bad this generation.

Careful Etho