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[Nirolak]

Overall Results:

February retail game sales are down 21% year over year.

Hardware was down 30% year over year.

Console and Handheld game sales were down 14% year over year.

Physical and Steam PC software sales (for AAA games) were down 26% year over year.


Software Results:

*** No Digital Sales
^ No Battle.net Sales

Notes:
- "Ubisoft's For Honor was the best-selling game of February 2017, despite having only 12 days in market during the month," observed Piscatella.


January Hardware:

PS4: #1

Notes:
- "Console hardware accounted for 82 percent of the total declines as both average retail pricing and units sold fell versus [a] year ago."
- "In the portable space, 3DS unit sales were up 77 percent versus January 2017 driven by the 3DS New Galaxy Style model and the 3DS Limited Pikachu Yellow model," Piscatella explained.


Other Information:

Updating this to the full sheets.

Via NPD's Mat Piscatella: https://mobile.twitter.com/MatPiscatella/status/842533996940541952

 

[falconxcrunner09]

Nioh at #9? WOW

👍👍👌👌

 

[RoboPlato]

For anyone wondering, Horizon will be in the March results.

Surprised software sales were down so much in Feb. Seemed like that would have been in good shape given the number of quality releases.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

Nioh cracking top 10 is some good shit.

 

[The Last One]

It seens that Resident Evil VII did good for it's second.

 

[bigboss370]

oh my, For Honor and RE7 selling like they deserve. Nice to see!

edit: Nioh charted as well, without digital! Praise be

Congrats to PS4 on another win, amazing 1st quarter of the year.

 

[hyp]

great to see Nioh up there. now get that DLC out!

 

[KillerMan91]

Nioh cracking top 10 is some good shit.

And without digital unlike titles above it.

 

[Wollan]

Nioh in top 10 is a nice surprise.

And deservedly good legs for Resident Evil 7. Good word of mouth.

 

[usp84]

What do the three stars to Nioh mean?

 

[ArmGunar]

Good for NiOh

With 1M worldwide in 2 weeks, US surely counts for a a good part

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Nioh made it. Hope those RE7 numbers are great.

 

[Foxxsoxx]

Siege still kicking. Glad it got some serious legs, now Ubisoft just need to fix all the damn glitches.

 

[AmuroChan]

Nioh in the top 10 with just retail numbers is very impressive. The top #8 all include digital numbers. I wonder how high Nioh would've placed if it included digital.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Nioh sold well digitally due to stock shortages, I imagine. Nice to see it crack the top-10 without digital sales.

 

[SargerusBR]

RE7 in #2 makes me happy. Glad to see Nioh charted as well.

 

[GravityInsanity]

GTA V...

 

[Ricerocket]

Huh everything down overall. But I guess expected 4 years in?

Nice to see RE7 and Nioh on top 10.

 

[napata]

Surprised to see Rainbow Six: Siege still charting that high.

 

[Lime]

Aren't all these down over year numbers worrying for the industry or?? Sorry if it's a misinformed question

 

[Chalupa Batman]

Is this the first time Minecraft has been out of the top 10 since launch? Feels like it.

 

[WetWaffle]

No yakuza and Gravity Rush, well at least nioh cracked the top 10

 

[Plinko]

Aren't all these down over year numbers worrying for the industry or?? Sorry if it's a misinformed question

If you assume people are shifting to digital, probably not.

For floor space at B&M stores, maybe.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

February 2016

Now I can't find last year's thread Niro

 

[Lime]

If you assume people are shifting to digital, probably not.

For floor space at B&M stores, maybe.

Yeah but what about hardware?

 

[Nirolak]

Aren't all these down over year numbers worrying for the industry or?? Sorry if it's a misinformed question

Well, hardware pricing causing less revenue isn't too odd, but the hardware units going down suggests we're in the decline phase of the generation, and is less good. That's probably not too surprising though, given a generation is only likely to last ~6 years total and we're at year 3.

The software comp is against... it's not astonishing software, but it's only 14% down there, and arguably had bigger releases: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1196083

If you were hoping for an extended generation though, that's probably not likely.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Nioh deserves much much more

 

[LOLCats]

For Honor #1... really?!?

 

[bigboss370]

very happy to see For Honor at number 1. Hopefully its the start of a big new franchise for Ubi

 

[Theslammer]

Did Halo Wars 2 not chart because it came out so late in February? I still would have expected it to outdo Nioh (great to see it on the list, btw!).

 

[Nirolak]

For Honor #1... really?!?

I'm confused by the confusion. I wouldn't be surprised if it closed Q1 as the biggest game, especially when we count worldwide.

Mind, not necessarily true for LTD.

 

[AmyS]

GTAV is still an absolute beast, 3.5 years after its release on last gen, 2.5 years after current gen release and almost 2 years after PC release.

 

[KillerMan91]

So 3DS should be around 136k if that 77% up yoy is by units and not by revenue (it did 72k units last year)

Edit. It's MoM instead YoY. Nevermind then (thanks for correcting Welfare)

 

[FelipeMGM]

What do the three stars to Nioh mean?

No digital counted

 

[Welfare]

For Honor #1... really?!?

What's wrong?

So 3DS should be around 136k if that 77% up yoy is by units and not by revenue (it did 77k units last year)

Up 77% from January 2017, so MoM.

 

[Ricerocket]

Nioh deserves much much more

It's pretty good where it's at as an exclusive, new ip, and not including digital sales.

 

[Electret]

What do the three stars to Nioh mean?

Digital sales not accounted for.

 

[jon bones]

Awesome to see R6Siege continue to grow!

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

Did Halo Wars 2 not chart because it came out so late in March? I still would have expected it to outdo Nioh (great to see it on the list, btw!).

halo wars 2 came out feb 21st

 

[Jack The Nipper]

I'm confused by the confusion. I wouldn't be surprised if it closed Q1 as the biggest game, especially when we count worldwide.

Mind, not necessarily true for LTD.

It seems like a game that should honestly be super niche though (I think that is the confusion part)

 

[Dubz]

GTA V is absolutely astounding. I wonder if they get to 100M units when all is said and done.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

What's wrong?

People have shit taste.

 

[Kyoufu]

Happy to see Nioh up there.

No sign of Halo Wars 2 though? Not enough days on the market?

 

[KillerMan91]

Up 77% from January 2017, so MoM.

Oh. Nevermind then.

 

[Brazil]

For Honor at #1? Eugh.

 

[Theorry]

Did Halo Wars 2 not chart because it came out so late in March? I still would have expected it to outdo Nioh (great to see it on the list, btw!).

Happy to see Nioh up there.

No sign of Halo Wars 2 though? Not enough days on the market?

Had a bundle also.

---

Daniel Ahmad‏ @ZhugeEX
Halo Wars 2 wasn't in the NPD top 10 last month, but it was the 6th best selling SKU on Xbox One.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

It's pretty good where it's at as an exclusive, new ip, and not including digital sales.

Seeing as how Digital isn't included with other games either (I fail to see how this matters too much)

 

[Tohsaka]

Nice that Nioh managed to chart, deserves to be even higher.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

For Honor #1... really?!?

Lol is this about to be a repeat of the ghost recon wildlands thread?

Should I get my salt bucket

 

[Jimmyfenix]

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/842507267153022977

Halo Wars 2 wasn't in the NPD top 10 last month, but it was the 6th best selling SKU on Xbox One.