The Official October NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST ~3.5 hours)

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Squilliam on 13 November 2008

So one 360 1st party trumped everything Sony had to offer? Interesting. Fable 2 really is big.

Ditto will probably be the word for November NPD/Sales as well. Gears really is huge.

Looks like if the results = the same thing for vgchartz, the 360 will hit a 6 million lead next week or the week after, and the stage is set for to push beyond 7 million before the end of the year (maybe)

Tease.

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Hyruken on 13 November 2008

LBP only sold 200k? hmm dont think anyone would of predicted that one

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matt247 on 13 November 2008

VGC thinks NBA2k8 made it in the top 10?

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HeroeDeLeyenda on 13 November 2008

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damkira on 13 November 2008

Awesome sales for the Wii despite the abject failure of Wii Music. Its good for the industry and Nintendo itself for this title to fail.

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leo-j on 13 November 2008

@Zen

Calm down these are just 4 days of LBP, Its awsome how you want it to flop so bad as well.

On topic:

Sony need a price cut now more than never, they are MUCH more expensive than XBOX 360, and Wii, they have the most to gain, they have 130 million PS2 owners+360 owners+Wii owners waiting for the price cut, waiting for the playstation 3.

Sony are stupid, and dont want to waste there little money, and in conclusion the playstation brand is doing horribly.

Honestly if this were 5 years ago, people would laugh at the thought sony would be dead last in North America, they would laugh at the thought the PS3 would bomb, and that the PSP would be significantly behind the DS.

Well guys, its happened, and sony is the only one that can change that.

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DMeisterJ on 13 November 2008

@ Acevil

I took that into account, still, some sales are over 100k taking the .9 of our sales into account.

Hardware is better though, DS is over by 100k 360 was undertracked, PS3 overtracked, PSP and PS2 okay, Wii okay

@ Zen

It's too early to call it on LBP.

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lapsed_gamer on 13 November 2008

DMeisterJ said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
So, LBP sold significantly less than we thought?

Is it huge? Or, is it now considered a flop? We need a new thread to discuss that. I'll start it later, if no one wants to beat me to it. :P

Also, Crazzy(and Diomedes, if he's reading from his ban), was VGChartz still cheating in favor of the 360, and if so, is NPD even more in the hole for Microsoft?

...or is it just possible that the PS3 and its software isn't selling as well as you'd hoped in the US?

The hits just keep on coming for Sony this month...it has not been a good time to be a Sony fan on a sales site.

This, of course, is the direct consequence of not dropping its price to compete with the 360. Maybe this will be a wake-up call for the company. Microsoft is not rolling over like Nintendo did.

Read my above post, but almost every game sold less than we thought.

By a huge margin.

>_>

Wii Fit 150K overtracked != LBP 130K overtracked in its impact.

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DMeisterJ on 13 November 2008

Oh, apparently Wii music only sold 81k this month.

And GH: WT across all platforms at 540k.

[stolen from NeoGAF]

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matt247 on 13 November 2008

DMeisterJ said:
Wow @ GH:WT not even charting this month. Crazy

So, GH: WT, NBA 2K9, Dead Space, Saints Row 2, Fallout 3, Fable 2, LBP, Wii play and Wii fit hideously overtracked, at least by 100k in sales.

GH: WT overtracked by at least 150k units (lowest of top 10)
Fable 2 over by 100k
Wii fit over by 150K
Fallout 3 isn't by much taking the .9 into account
Neiter is MK Wii
Wii play over by 100k
Saints row 2 over by 100k
LBP over by 100k
And Dead space by 100k.

GHWT sold 534k across all platforms. http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/14/october-npd-wii-music-sells-81k-ghwt-hits-534k/

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