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mornelithe on 17 March 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
AEGRO said:
On a happy note, Quantum Break FINALLY broke the Top 100 and is currently at #95.

In the mean time the bundle is dropping and currently sits at #2,085. I can't see this game being a system seller but it really should be from what I've seen.

I don't know, I'm not sure how trustworthy Jesse Cox is, but his impressions of QB were it looked great but the game itself...not so great.



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FIT_Gamer on 17 March 2016
mornelithe said:
GribbleGrunger said:

In the mean time the bundle is dropping and currently sits at #2,085. I can't see this game being a system seller but it really should be from what I've seen.

I don't know, I'm not sure how trustworthy Jesse Cox is, but his impressions of QB were it looked great but the game itself...not so great.

Who is this?



mornelithe on 17 March 2016
FIT_Gamer said:
mornelithe said:

I don't know, I'm not sure how trustworthy Jesse Cox is, but his impressions of QB were it looked great but the game itself...not so great.

Who is this?

Jesse Cox, he's part of the Co-Optional Podcast w/ TotalBiscuit and Dodger.



GamechaserBE on 17 March 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
AEGRO said:
On a happy note, Quantum Break FINALLY broke the Top 100 and is currently at #95.

In the mean time the bundle is dropping and currently sits at #2,085. I can't see this game being a system seller but it really should be from what I've seen.

A system seller sure but not a big one, Alan Wake sold first week with all regions included less than 250K on Xbox 360.  Personally if they can hit a million with QB first year I consider it good sales considering Alan Wake could not even break a million first year on Xbox 360...



Aura7541 on 17 March 2016
Trhawk said:

First month NPDs of new IPs published by Sony and Microsoft that don't have multiplayer:

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - 117k

Infamous - 175k

Heavy Rain - 219k

Alan Wake - 145k

The Order 1886 - 200k

Until Dawn - 90k

I tried to keep within the Action adventure/adventure Genre.  Note -Infamous is open world, the rest are linear.

First party new IPs that have only a small element of multi player(mainly coop):

Two Human - 169k

Beyond Two Souls - 120k

Sunset Overdrive - 110k

It's hard to know exactly what Microsoft expects, but the above should give a baseline on what to expect.  THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR QUANTUM BREAK WILL BE WORD OF MOUTH, AND REVIEWS!!  Look above, The Order 1886 is one of the highest sellers here, but it completely flamed out (selling only 150k over the next 10 months), and the prospects for a sequal are slim to none.  Meanwhile, the lowest seller here, Until Dawn, came out of August with amazing word of mouth, its sales were excelent post launch (240k in 4 months), and chances for a sequal are high.

Thanks for this. I think it's also worth noting that Sunset Overdrive got good reception, but unforunately, that didn't help it on the long run. The game was also bundled with a nice looking white XB1. Another thing to to consider is that the 360 and XB1 userbases have different tastes. The 360's userbase was less skewed towards the US and Microsoft put a lot of effort into diversifying the 360's library early on (e.g. Fable series, Tales of Versperia, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey). In contrast, the XB1's userbase is highly skewed towards the US and the console's library is a lot less diverse compared to its predecessor's.

That said, I agree that the most important thing for Quantum Break is word of mouth and reviews. Looking back at Sunset Overdrive's sales performance, QB can't just have good reception, it needs to have great reception.



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GribbleGrunger on 17 March 2016
celador said:

I just want to preface this with the fact that I have an X1 and really like it, and this is not my personal position, just what I am seeing on forums.

But, the consoles seem to be in totally different places, and not just by sales.

On PS4, there seems to be a continual buzz. Uncharted 4, the last in a massive series, with a shit-ton of interest behind it, is approaching, we have have all this VR stuff announced that has caught a lot of people's interest etc.

There just doesn't seem to be much excitement around X1 right now, and although I am a PS fan first and foremost, I have really loved my time with the console so it would be a shame if that was really the case.

I might be wrong though, I usually am.

Absolutely what I think too.



 

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JRPGfan on 17 March 2016
Trhawk said:
FIT_Gamer said:

QB is still behind Ratchet & Clank though, at GameStop, Amazon, and BestBuy. Not sure how strong R&C pre-orders are, but i'd say QB intially isn't going to make waves sales wise. 

First month NPDs of new IPs published by Sony and Microsoft that don't have multiplayer:

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - 117k

Infamous - 175k

Heavy Rain - 219k

Alan Wake - 145k

The Order 1886 - 200k

Until Dawn - 90k

I tried to keep within the Action adventure/adventure Genre.  Note -Infamous is open world, the rest are linear.

First party new IPs that have only a small element of multi player(mainly coop):

Two Human - 169k

Beyond Two Souls - 120k

Sunset Overdrive - 110k

It's hard to know exactly what Microsoft expects, but the above should give a baseline on what to expect.  THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR QUANTUM BREAK WILL BE WORD OF MOUTH, AND REVIEWS!!  Look above, The Order 1886 is one of the highest sellers here, but it completely flamed out (selling only 150k over the next 10 months), and the prospects for a sequal are slim to none.  Meanwhile, the lowest seller here, Until Dawn, came out of August with amazing word of mouth, its sales were excelent post launch (240k in 4 months), and chances for a sequal are high.

Thank you for this post, it makes it easy to put things into perspective.

Im really looking forwards to the NPD.



JRPGfan on 17 March 2016
FIT_Gamer said:
QB finally in the top 100 at #96.

6hours ago it was #95

4hours ago it was #96

now its #97

 

Still atleast its in the top100, which is better than not, but with only 18-19days to release, its not really setting the charts on fire.

 

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II ( a niche JRPG for the PS Vita) that is releaseing in 6months time,

is getting more pre-orders on amazon, than Quantum Break.



GribbleGrunger on 17 March 2016

9 Hours since last update:

#11 PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle (down 1)
#17 PS4 Camera (down 2)
#32 XB1 Gears Bundle (up 1)
#100 XB1 Elite Bundle (down 5)

#07 No Man's Sky LE



 

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Ryng on 17 March 2016

Any chance the XB1 will be up YOY?

Last year it sold 236,000 in March, this year 248,000 in February... March is surely gonna be lower than March, no matter The Division insane sales... but should be a nice battle March 2015 VS March 2016.

I will go with a bit down YOY.