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Forums - Sales - PS3 only has one game in JAN NPD TOP 20. Sign of Trouble ahead?

noname2200 on 18 January 2009
Kantor said:
No, it's not a sign of trouble ahead. Did anybody really expect LBP to crack the top 20 in the US?

Yes, starting with Sony and moving down the list. We have an archive on this site, if you care to see some examples...

palancas7 said:
Come on VGC. Too many wrong numbers now.

Normally I think the top 50 on this site are "good enough" for our purposes (I'm growing increasingly skeptical about numbers below a certain threshold, as too many games have too great legs for there to not be something fishy), but I have to agree that at least with December in the U.S., something went wrong. Here's hoping it's just an anamoly.

 



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Lurker on 18 January 2009

It's the same every month. PS3 can't sell software in the US at all it seems.



BengaBenga on 18 January 2009
Lurker said:
It's the same every month. PS3 can't sell software in the US at all it seems.

 

This. If you can get only a single game in the December top 20 (most important month in the year) something's wrong. Maybe a lot of people do own it primarily as a BluRay player.

 



dolemit3 on 18 January 2009
BengaBenga said:
Lurker said:
It's the same every month. PS3 can't sell software in the US at all it seems.

 

This. If you can get only a single game in the December top 20 (most important month in the year) something's wrong. Maybe a lot of people do own it primarily as a BluRay player.

 

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Staude on 18 January 2009
Blacksaber said:
....Last time I checked people can't get sale figures from the future...

 



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Bitmap Frogs on 18 January 2009
Staude said:
Blacksaber said:
....Last time I checked people can't get sale figures from the future...

 

 

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WiiStation360 on 18 January 2009
BengaBenga said:
Lurker said:
It's the same every month. PS3 can't sell software in the US at all it seems.

 

This. If you can get only a single game in the December top 20 (most important month in the year) something's wrong. Maybe a lot of people do own it primarily as a BluRay player.

 

According to VGChartz, the PS3 sold software at only a slightly lower ratio than the 360/Wii in December in NA.  The only difference was install base.  There are far cheaper Blu-Ray players out there for people who just want to watch movies. 

Maybe last Christmas people were buying PS3s as Blu-ray player, but not so much today.  The sole reason there are not more PS3 games in the top 20 is that there are 1/2 as many PS3s as 360 in NA, and 1/3 as many as the Wii.

NA Dec Software/ Total Hardware for December:
Wii: 1.35 (1.2 without bundles)
360: 1.31 (1.19 without bundles)
PS3: 1.19 (1.17 without bundles)

 

 

 



noname2200 on 18 January 2009
WiiStation360 said:
BengaBenga said:
Lurker said:
It's the same every month. PS3 can't sell software in the US at all it seems.

 

This. If you can get only a single game in the December top 20 (most important month in the year) something's wrong. Maybe a lot of people do own it primarily as a BluRay player.

 

According to VGChartz, the PS3 sold software at only a slightly lower ratio than the 360/Wii in December in NA.  The only difference was install base.  There are far cheaper Blu-Ray players out there for people who just want to watch movies. 

Maybe last Christmas people were buying PS3s as Blu-ray player, but not so much today.  The sole reason there are not more PS3 games in the top 20 is that there are 1/2 as many PS3s as 360 in NA, and 1/3 as many as the Wii.

NA Dec Software/ Total Hardware for December:
Wii: 1.35 (1.2 without bundles)
360: 1.31 (1.19 without bundles)
PS3: 1.19 (1.17 without bundles)

Nice post, and I can't argue with it. However, BengaBenga does have a point as well.

In addition to the fact that only one PS3 game (Call of Duty: World at War) was in the top 20 (for NPD) in December, there's the much more troubling fact that that single game accounts for over 10% of the PS3 software sold that month. THAT should be extremely troubling to anyone, especially when you realize that it sold only 533k, leaving very little wiggle room for all other titles.

 



Mr. sickVisionz on 19 January 2009

I'll tell you what really disturbs me: when you break it down by genre and platform

Wii Genres minigame, fitness, racing, music, whatever Animal Crossing classifies as, sports, shooter

360 Genres shooter,  shooter-rpg, sports

PS3 Genres shooter

I pray to god that developers don't sit around say, "Why do waste time making anything other than shooters?  The only people that want them don't even have a PS3 or 360."  Its sad times for the PS3/360 gamer who isn't a fan of shooters.



play_ea on 19 January 2009

thats poor