darkstation writes: "The NPD numbers are always a great look into where the market is heading and how your precious purchases are faring against the competition. So we thought we could play a little game with the NPD numbers and have our readers predict what you think will make the top ten."
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Uncharted 3 should definettly be higher considering how much Sony reported.
HardWare :
Xbox 360 : 1.2M
Ps3 : 700K
Wii : 1.1M
DS : 600K
3DS : 800K
Psp : 250K
Ps2 : 65K
Software :
Modern Warfare 3 (360) - 5.7M
Modern Warfare 3 (Ps3) - 3.5M
Skyrim (360) : 2M
Halo Anniversary : 1.4M
Just Dance 3 : 1M
Assassins Creed (360) : 900K
Uncharted 3 : 700K
Skyrim (Ps3) : 650K
Assassins Creed (Ps3) : 400K
Dance Central 2 : 350K
I wish there was a company that gave out monthly worldwide numbers, US-only is as useless as Japan-only or Europe-only, I want a complete picture not a fraction of one.
It isn't really useless, it is a pretty large sample of consumers. I agree, however, that it would be cool to see worldwide trends as well.
Lol lots of people still seem to be confused about uncharted 3 numbers.
Allow me to clarify.
1. Those numbers were not US only numbers, they were worldwide, so obviously the US only numbers will be much less.
2. Those first day sales numbers were shipped to retail numbers and not polo through to customers. That means there aren't 3.8 million copies of UC3 in people's homes at the moment and no matter how optimistic you force yourself to be, most of those copies were not sold out so please stop deludins yourself.
Vgchartz may not be the authority in video game sales but they do pretty ok guesses/estimations and they had UC3 at 1.1 million first week.
BF 3 shipped 10 million copies first week and everybody got all excited but in the end they didn't even sell 5 million to consumers. Expect Uncharted 3 to be the same, esp since it released one week before PS3's most beloved franchise. . .CoD.