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NPD Sales for July 2015
- Thread starter Mpl90
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Is this a surprise for you?
Svartafaran
Member
Pretty much expected honestly. Got pretty much no marketing outside of the Playstation Youtube channel. It's just something to fill a void and I would NOT be shocked if it was included in some sort of bundle for the holidays.
I'm sure it didn't even cost them anything to do.
Welfare
Member
I knew I was forgetting something. Dimensions is a bit pricey compared to something like Disney Infinity/Skylanders, but I'd be surprised if it under-performed. They have a ton of great licenses attached.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
If Lego managed top spot i can't even imagine the numbers Battlefront will do in november.
Nintendo...is...doomed?
OnionPowder
Member
there doomed
gundamkyoukai
Member
The usual .
3rdamention
Member
Lego Jurassic Park and PGA Golf just blew my mind this month.
Lego Jurassic Park I really want to play, PGA Golf I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot sand wedge.
Lego Jurassic Park I really want to play, PGA Golf I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot sand wedge.
Trust me. I'm a PhD
Member
It probably can't, because the fan base that stuck with it are going to buy the digital upgrade for 40USD. The only people buying the physical edition (the only one counted for NPDs) are people that haven't played Destiny yet at all, of the ones you stopped playing Vanilla Destiny and are jumping back in for all the changes, but need all the DLC.
OnionPowder
Member
Lego is crazy since it didn't even come out in July and it was like 5th last month
No, according to phil spencer he is not ;-)
oh wow lol
DC1
Member
The change would require a 15 fps handicap.
Where doomed?
And_Gignac
Member
Boring month.
Zombie James
Banned
GTAV is unstoppable.
OnionPowder
Member
rip nintendo, comin to mobiles and last place in sales there goners
theyll be makin cod map packs in 6 months tops
With a low price point and their holiday game lineup I can see the XB1 picking up a lot of those kids that still have 360s. Seems to be set up perfectly for it.
Flopping in the box office.
thekonamicode
Member
Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars 2
Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga
Lego Star Wars Clone Wars
Lego Batman
Lego Batman 2
Lego Batman 3
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Indiana Jones 2
Lego Rock Band
Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4
Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7
Lego Lord of the Rings
Lego Hobbit
Lego City Undercover
Lego City Undercover The Chase Begins
Lego Friends
Lego Legends of China Lavals Journey
Lego Ninjago Shadow of Ronin
Lego Ninjago Nindroids
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Lego the Movie the Game
Lego Jurassic World
Lego Mulholland Drive
And many more
OnionPowder
Member
i feel like it's more difficult to find a non bundled console so that's probably the reason why.
MikeE21286
Member
massive sales all month for the most part and the expansion news coverage
Can't remember the last time I actually saw someone buying a console that didn't have a bundle with it.
considering how NoA seems to halfass everything and be incredibly penny pinching, i wouldn't be surprised ads stopped.
RespectThySole
Member
Minecraft just prints money.
Microsoft will take the back portion of the year again by a good amount and they'll make up the ground there. Similar to last year but this year they have a much stronger holiday lineup.
The monthly gap isn't very big anymore either. By next year I wouldn't be surprised to see the consoles bounce back an forth in the monthly sales. NPD Numbers have gotten very boring.
WB has Mad Max and LEGO Dimensions for this year. LEGO Avengers was delayed to January.
Alebrije
Member
I wonder how this represents for Lego company compared to the Lego traditional business , but yea it seems the videogame area is very profitable to them.
Hawk269
Member
I think that is the whole reason for Phil going after BC. I think Phil realizes like many of us that they need to turn that massive 360 crowd into Xbox One owners and letting them bring over their 360 library with them it would be a big win.
That and the big push for 1st party/exclusive games. I think the more they make games for themselves the better for them. They know that a 3rd party game will, for the most part be a little better on the PS4 due to the hardware differences, but an exclusive game there is no comparison etc.
Theres a belief that overall console market is shrinking and that't true. Don't know why some people excludes Nintendo.
85k is fairly comparable to performance in software to Japan, sans the summer vacation bump timing, so its pulling ~21k week on the month which isn't far from Japan's numbers. The bigger difference is that in the NPD, Splatoon isn't moving hardware like it is in MC for Japan. Japan is, however, enjoying continued advertisement and development with/for fans for Splatoon, though the same is still somewhat happening in NA its not to the same degree.
Splatoon, in Japan, is a reason to buy the console and play the game and will potentially synergize really well with SMM (if minecraft is any apriori indication). In NA and, probably, EU, not so much as the game hasn't quite gotten the same sort of "life of its own" evolution which may or may not be simply part of how strength of word of mouth varies between here and there.
2016 will probably be the best year of the PS4, I don't think MS will be able to match that, but we'll see.
OnionPowder
Member
They're already announcing a pretty killer lineup for console exclusive people. I think it should at least be a fun year for NPD threads.
I think the issue for me is that the overall Gen 8 totals are currently under even Gen 6. That shows that the core console market is contracting to me because it disregards the Wii. This is a scary chart below. Smartphones/iPads, to me, are eating the console's lunch by far. Sure the top 2 consoles are killing it comparatively, but that's a pretty narrow view.
