Holy shit. Switch dominating!
Glad to see both RE2 and KH3 doing well too!
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NPD January 2019: KH3, RE2 and NSMBUD top the charts, Switch best selling console
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Holy shit. Switch dominating!
Glad to see both RE2 and KH3 doing well too!
Once more, I'm impressed that Era was able to attract everyone ever that bought a Wii U for how prevalent the thinking is that there's no additional audience out there for the games that system had. How many more Wii U ports will it take for them to realize that maybe no one wanted a Wii U for those game and said titles going on to sell considerably more on Switch, I wonder.
Nice.
How down are the PS4 and Xbox compared to last year? That Xbox number looks particularly bad.
Guess Nomura concepts + long wait from announcement is a good formula for launch sales.
Fully expected RE2 to outsell KH3 given it's earlier release date. Guess people really wanted KH3. Wonder if KH3 has it in it to outsell the first game (which is still the highest selling by a wide margin).
Resident Evil 2 seling more than KH III on Xbox was the expected.
It didn't sold more. It was the most profitable Xbox title in january.
It's second on PS4 but PS4 sells more games than Xbox, so the actual sales number should be higher.
Edit: maybe you are comparing KH3 and RE2 my bad.
Exactly, your post had me think of this:
Proving once again how superior New Super Mario Bros. U is to Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
Bring on the ratio you cowards. The people have spoken.
Bring on the ratio you cowards. The people have spoken.
Both are amazing platformers and I'm ecstatic both found further success on Switch! :D
Rankings for each platform doesn't mean game sold well on that platform, though. Saying that KH3 sold well on X1 just because that version is 2nd on X1 chart list is a spin actually if we look how split is big in PS4 favor ( reference taken from UK charts and from Benjis quote few weeks ago ).
Oh my, the multiplatform split war has begun. You'd think for 3rd party multiplatform game console war can't be a problem, yet here we are.
100k/50k is still good enough for a port though. Porting a PS4 game to XBOX One is not as difficult as you think. Especially in the case of ToV where Microsoft give support. As for VC4, I think every copy is important.
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Probably people thinking YOY increase is weak given Smash ultimate but then forgetting to realise this is over 4 weeks not 5 which actually means switch increase YOY is huge
Hasn't it already outsold vanilla KH? It will pass vanilla + Final Mix no problem (6 million) if it's already past 5 million.
well its sold 5mill since launch so even if the split is 80/20 it sold a million on xbox alone
Agreed. The issue comes when you consider bringing a game that tends to sell less than 500k worldwide. For such games, XB1 shares could be below 10%(see for example Valkyria chronicles 4 UK split). In those cases, you're looking at a sub-50k sales potential for the XB1 version, at which point the financial viability could come into doubt. for bigger games, it won't be an issue.
Parents can also get KH3 for kids, unlike Remake 2. Unless you the kids have cool parents lol.
Okay, so on a weekly basis, the PS4's drop isn't bad at all.
Xbox on the other hand... I guess the X Factor has fully worn off now.
It sold just under 30% more per week this year than last year:
Just justifying a port to a platform is one thing ( still cost money and time no matter how easy is ), but make a profit from that port is another thing. Is Square happy enough how X1 version is selling, i dunno.
You have to see, that we are comparing 4 weeks in 2019 against 5 weeks in 2018.
but they are both $60 dollar games, so wouldn't it still be true?
You know, i think that a tablet version of one of the big consoles given the switch sales. I think Microsoft may push a gamepass model with a tablet xb1.
Well that, once again, answers many people questions about why Nintendo charges full price for Wii U ports: Those sell like hot cakes anyway!
Looks like PS4 only dropped 4% on weekly average while XB1 dropped like 45%. So it seems this has much more to do with XB1's inabilty to sell without heavy discounts anymore and XBX's fading impact and not the consoles age.
What about BOIIII in that case?
That game is #4 overall and #3 on both Ps4 and Xbox One with a similar split.
KH3 on Xbox One still sold more than roughly 50% of all CoD: BOIIII sales.
UK retail only split and US platform split including digital is very different. Even if the genre skew still applies.
What's the difference between Hardware spending and Total hardware dollar sales? Just trying to understand why the former was lower than last year and the latter was higher
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It will be more like 90/10 worldwide though due to Japan and other regions that don't have a big Xbox presence.
Eh, kids have gotta learn what a face looks like with a jaw ripped off sooner or later
Nice thanks !
Great for Switch, PS4 is steady, impressive
I can't remember what I predicted for Jan ahah
But agree with other members, PS4 needs a price cut with Day's Gone, it could help the game and Sony could offset these profits with profits made by more games/services sold
Just saw ToV at 12. I'm sure it didn't sell a huge amount and it's not top 10 but for a remaster niche JRPG b
Curious as to why you are surprised?
RE series had a presence on Xbox before. I'm not saying KH3 would have been first on Xbox if they would have released 1.5+2.5 and 2.8 on the console but it might have helped 🤷♂️
EDIT: then factor in knuckleheads like me that own both boxes but bought KH3 on PS4 because 1) that's where all the other games are at and 2) historical relationship between console and franchise
I still expected KH3 to sell more as I figured it had more potential for casual sales.
I thought I saw KH3 selling more than RE2 on the Xbox Store so maybe retail is where RE2 sold more.
Like for all I know the difference could have been ~2K so I'm just a little surprised is all :p.