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March NPD

The physical retail channel continued to show declines in March, according to the newest NPD report. Total sales dipped 4% to $1.53 billion for the month, as software declined 16% to $735.4 million. Hardware, however, increased 12% to $494.5 million while accessories (driven by the PS3 network card for $20) climbed 13% to $241.3 million.

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donniebaseball5550d ago

Wow, Homefront second to Pokemon?!

dragunrising5550d ago

I expected Crysis 2 to beat out Homefront. It released at the end of the month so perhaps its too early to bill it as a failure.

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chidori6665550d ago (Edited 5550d ago )

yeha.. Pretty sad really those Killzone numbers. For some reasons Killzone 3 just does not really sell all that much.

btw, i dont believe Killzone 3 ever past the 2 million worldwide mark.

plb5550d ago

I thought they weren't releasing NPD numbers anymore?

donniebaseball5550d ago

They don't release units sold. They release sales numbers for the overall market and they provide a top 10 games chart without units

Dart895550d ago

No surprise there pokemon is very popular.

Zir05550d ago

How in the world is Blacks Ops still in 5th place in March. Thats just crazy.

Too bad Killzone 2 didn't chart considering it was released so late in Feb, but Crysis did well.

gamingdroid5550d ago

Because other than the people on n4g.com, the vast majority of hardcore gamers really like Black Ops.

BISHOP-BRASIL5550d ago (Edited 5550d ago )

The vast majority of HARDCORE gamers? Sources please...

I have 70+ real friends on my PSN account (as in I know 'em personally) and I would consider 40+ of them hardcore. From those 6 play CoD regularly, more than 10 bought it and played for a week or two and I never seen 'em playing it again...

Yes it's a really small and obviously non representative sample, but from my experience the MAJORITY of hardcore gamers don't like CoD that much. In fact, [edit]around half[/edit] of 'em don't tolerate it.

EDIT NOTE: Bad math.

badz1495549d ago

Hardcore and CoD is the same sentence! oh...what the world has became!

there are hardcore CoD players out there, I know but CoD is a casual shooter! get your fact straight!

gamingdroid5549d ago (Edited 5549d ago )

So considering:

a) Wii doesn't sell CoD games very well because their customer base are casuals

b) PS3 and Xbox 360 have mostly hardcore gamers as their audience

c) About 20 million copies of CoD: Black Ops sold (not including used re-sale copies) and less than probably 1 million of those belong to Wii or PC.

d) Both on Xbox 360 and PS3, the most played games online are CoD: Black Ops alone, let alone older CoD games.

So any way you define hardcore gamer it is considered unanimously that HD consoles (Xbox 360 and PS3) user base are hardcore. The most played game on those consoles would logically be played by hardcore gamers.

@bishop-br:
Your friends are hardly representative of PSN community as they are most likely the type that enjoys the same type of games you do. Don't friends typically share the same interests?

@badz149: Note, approachable games doesn't make it casual nor does it not require skill to master. What you are describing on the other hand are niche games.

DaTruth5549d ago (Edited 5549d ago )

You'd be amazed how disk scratching can inflate sales numbers!

Halo 3 is still in the top 20!/s

MR LOOKINGBILL5549d ago (Edited 5549d ago )

lmao YOU MEANT kILLZONE3 DUDE.

@Bishop-br strange thing about KZE i was playing multiplayer guerilla warfare last weekend .and hardly anyone was playing it. Most matches had 4-5 players total.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin3415d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905859d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5859d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905859d ago (Edited 5859d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5859d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5859d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5859d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495859d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5859d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5859d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn3450d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One