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Forums - Sales Discussion - September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

 

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flashfire926 on 19 October 2018
Mar1217 said:
flashfire926 said:

You mean 1 day of forza?  Only a small fraction of players buy the ultimate edition. Still, Forza has never been that big of a seller in the US, so I dont know why you’re expecting it to be. 

It's Xbox main territory still. Half of it's sales from recent games are situated in NA.

That's ignoring the fact that the racing genre has shrunk over the course over the last decade, and now is a pretty niche genre, especially in NA. Forza does much better in Europe than it does here. 



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

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JRPGfan on 19 October 2018
Mar1217 said:
flashfire926 said:

You mean 1 day of forza?  Only a small fraction of players buy the ultimate edition. Still, Forza has never been that big of a seller in the US, so I dont know why you’re expecting it to be. 

It's Xbox main territory still. Half of it's sales from recent games are situated in NA.

NA is more like ~60% of the Xbox's Sales.



quickrick on 19 October 2018

ps4 domination, and switch losing momentum, xbox is just bad.

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CosmicSex on 19 October 2018

Sony did say that they expect Spiderman to be one of the games to help them reach 100 million.
Also, this is probably one of the worst underestimations I have seen for a single 30 day time period.
That Chartz found a way to overtrack Xbox in the same time period is fascinating.



flashfire926 on 19 October 2018
Mar1217 said:
flashfire926 said:

That's ignoring the fact that the racing genre has shrunk over the course over the last decade, and now is a pretty niche genre, especially in NA. Forza does much better in Europe than it does here. 

Doesn't mean it's not important to them. You're making it sound like they should completly skip NA just because of not being able to reach a peak they long reached during the X360 era.

I never said they should skip NA. I said the racing genre has declined as a whole, and that's facts. Franchises like Need for Speed, Gran Turismo, and Forza Motorsport don't pull in numbers like they used to. Franchises like Midnight Club and Burnout have dissapeared off the face of this earth. Studios such as Sony Liverpool, Evolution, and Bizarre Creations have shut down. The game was never going to do gangbusters.

Now please stop trying to frame the game as a failure. It comes out every year, does similar numbers every year, so I dont know why a sudden increase is expected all the sudden. 



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

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PortisheadBiscuit on 19 October 2018
quickrick said:

ps4 domination, and switch losing momentum, xbox is just bad.

Switch did better than your prediction of 245K



quickrick on 19 October 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
quickrick said:

ps4 domination, and switch losing momentum, xbox is just bad.

Switch better than your prediction of 245K

yea, so? it's still losing momentum, and reports are october is looking very weak for hardware sales based on insider info.



PortisheadBiscuit on 19 October 2018
quickrick said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

Switch better than your prediction of 245K

yea, so? it's still losing momentum, and reports are october is looking very weak for hardware sales based on insider info.

But it's for ALL hardware, not just Switch. You're just as biased as ever... 



quickrick on 19 October 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
quickrick said:

yea, so? it's still losing momentum, and reports are october is looking very weak for hardware sales based on insider info.

But it's for ALL hardware, not just Switch. You're just as biased as ever... 

isn't switch suppose to do 20 million this year? and most people predicted it would destroy ps4 sales this year, not sure how ps4, and xbox factor into this, as sony has lower estimates for ps4 then nintendo does for switch, and is outselling switch by a nice margin so far, plus sony strongest market isn't NA like it is for nintendo.



CosmicSex on 19 October 2018

How much did Spiderman and Forza sell?