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Yeah, should of got the Uncharted 4 data close considering Sony helped them out with the 2.7M announcement. 

Thanks again aqua for the data and effort you've put in. Also nice to read your knowledgeable posts.

The LE bundle yes, but that would be bought by people that want the game. I'm talking about what they are doing with cod now and before that TLoU, making the standard bundle come free with a game.

Haha! 

Was hoping Uncharted would do a bit better. 870k certainly isn't bad, but it isn't as high as I was expecting.

One also had a month of sales, another had just a few days.

I really need to buy one ASAP. 

Nintendo has been trending downwards since the NES, the only exception being the Wii. They don't have a sustainable amount of core fans, they've burned bridges with major third parties and their fanbase time and time again, and they completely fail at understanding what their customers want and communicating in an effective manner (how long did we think E3 would be JUST Zelda?)

Their core fanbase cannot sustain them, third parties want nothing to do with them, and their entry into mobile was lukewarm at best. The only way they can succeed is if they catch lightning in a bottle again and manage to get a whole new fanbase. You don't cultivate a fanbase and goodwill over night, and it baffles the mind that despite how far they've fallen, they STILL continue to make questionable, sometimes outright idiotic decisions and just bury themselves deeper. 

Thank you aqua for all the data. My go to thread for NPD sales is now vgchartz now .

So thanks a lot again. Can you share any platform exclusive life time sales. Like sunset overdrive, Forza, ryse, tomb raider, drive club, killzone, infamous, etc

Not asking for all of them but any which you can share. Thanks a lot.

Remember, I'm not a leaker. I gave up leaking a long time ago when NPD's old management bullied me to no end. Every data point I reveal is sanctioned by The NPD Group, and in general they don't like me revealing LTDs.

Why? It's simple-----LTDs are a much more relevant gauge of success in the retail market than one-month sales. Therefore, they're much more important to NPD clients. In general, The NPD Group does not allow me to share data that would materially impact their business. That means I can't share so much that clients would no longer invest in their datasets.

In that sense, LTDs for larger multiplats are tolerable because many of the multiplat publishers really don't care all that much (for example, GTA V LTD is currently 17.784 million in the USA excluding bundles). However, LTDs for exclusives and smaller titles are much more touchy. For example, Quantum Break's failure in the market reflects really poorly on Microsoft and creates this "Xbox is doomed!" narrative......but the failure of a big multiplat like Battleborn wouldn't create that same sort of drama. And smaller publishers don't tend to like it because a lot of the niche ones have large digital shares...so if something only sold 30K at retail LTD it could have sold like >100K digitally...which for a niche publisher is the difference between a flop and a success. In that sense, retail is inherently misleading.

Although keep in mind, Creamsugar often focuses primarily on exclusives and does yearly 2014 and 2015 updates. For example, we got updates in December 2015 for many of those titles you listed. That's the difference....Creamsugar is an unsanctioned leaker who pisses the administration off....I'm trying to stay within the rules and reach a happy compromise so we can have data.

If you apply basic conjecture using the #10 sales figure that I usually reveal you can easily get to an approximate LTD (or at the very least, a maximum range) from those December 2015 data points. Catalog sales are rather predictable from month to month...you can approximate them quite nicely.

I'll have to re-negotiate with them if I want to share lots of LTDs with you guys. We'll see how it goes.