NPD January 2019: KH3, RE2 and NSMBUD top the charts, Switch best selling console
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That one is sadly not up for sale for anyone else.
Except Xbox One hardware
Only publisher who share digital data, get the digital data report.
That one is sadly not up for sale for anyone else.
You might have had point if 6 of those 9 Nintendo title (7 of 8 if Pokemon is combined) weren't also in the Top 20 combined sku, plus digital, chart. Then it could have been claimed that "only Nintendo games selling and, even then, not that hot." But when Nintendo's output stands favorably against the entirety of the rest of the market combined, with a digital advantage... there's no particular reason to assume that their 3rd party sales aren't also favorably comparable.
What do you mean? Can you please elaborate? PS4 is down 4% on weekly average and XB1 is down 46% YoY. No matter how you look at it this is a huge difference. This has been stated multiple times in this thread. So basically XB1 is in full decline because it cannot really sell anymore without heavy discounts and PS4 is basically flat.
Third party games sold on the Wii too, and the publishers still blew it off. Just look at Capcom's endless barrage of "test" games - they kept beating their own expectations until they finally failed with (I think) Dead Rising, allowing them to justify writing off the system.
Fortunately I don't think the third-party situation is nearly as bad as it was for the Wii circa like, 2008, though I think that's also alleviated somewhat by Nintendo being better about keeping a steady stream of games (there's a bit of a lull right now but good lord, nothing will ever compare to the six-month gap between Mario Kart Wii and Animal Crossing: City Folk, especially since neither of those interested me much at the time. I didn't buy any new Wii games between Smash in Feb 08 and Tales of Symphonia DOTNW in November).
Lol yea, there isn't much to say there. Ps4 had a monster 2015-2018 in a run of exclusives. TLOU2 and DS will dominate, and GoT will be big too.
Don't worry, 2019 is the year of the kart racer. We'll get Crash, Sonic and MK8 DLC.
Depends. It's likely that buyers for both KH and RE would favor PlayStation, particularly KH, and would have caused a spike in PS4/Pro purchases. Also last year Xbox was coming off the X launch. We'll probably get a better idea of where the PS4 is at this year in Feb and March. Being flat or only slightly down would certainly be a great result, but it's hard to imagine that being the case going forward.
I need to find that "I understand that reference" Captain America gif.
I mean to be fair the Switch had the highest January sales for any console this generation. So compare it to the other consoles this year or in their peak, Switch still sold the best even up against two highly anticipated AAA titles that missed the platform.
Edit: so basically what it tells you is that Nintendo first party titles drive hardware sales incredibly well.
Where is this stated? I just looked at the OP where that is not stated.
And down 4% is not a decline? hmmm...
EDit: I see there were hardware leaks! Investigating posts now.
It'll probably end up selling anywhere from 12-15 million copies
you know a franchise is big when that's considered a disappointment
Also too add games like Diablo and Civ6 are doing well on the eShop, Both are on sale presently and last I checked they were both above any Nintendo published game for the week.
Well it will be interesting to see if Nintendo continues the Let's Go branding or game style at all after this. If the intent was for it to pull in mobile players, and be some kind of mega evergreen hit, obviously that doesn't seem to be happening. In which case was this experiment any more valuable that what any Pokemon game/remake could have done? Who knows.
Yup.
- 10 million copies sold in less than 2 months
- Second fastest selling Switch game after Super Smash Bros Ultimate
The people have spoken indeedy.
Surprised at how Popular RE2 is on Xbone compared to PS4, but then again more people could've went digital this time around for PS4 perhaps. Also good god GTA 5 6 years and this game is still fighting at top ten!? Who is still buying this???
edit: Just realized Travis Strikes again didn't even break switch top ten. Hope it at least made top 20 :(
edit: Just realized Travis Strikes again didn't even break switch top ten. Hope it at least made top 20 :(
New PS4 / XB1 owners. It's the evergreen to top all evergreens
Hope tales sold enough on xbox to justify future tales games to come for xbox. Didn't buy it but played the original. I guess the kh3 split will be very similar to ffxv or a little better even as its disney with LOTS of marketing. So 70:30. Tales of vesperia something like 47:47:6.
I think it would be smart if Microsoft was ready to launch before Fall 2020. Try a March or June launch if ready and iron out the kinks before Sony launches and the holiday season arrives.
An early launch has worked for consoles in the past like the 360 and PS2.
An early launch has worked for consoles in the past like the 360 and PS2.
Except for the fact that Microsoft nearly had a lock on many Japanese 3rd party titles during the 360 era. And they sold very well and were super successful.
You know, the top 10 individuals of the PS4 can have top 1 as 10000 units and the top 10 individuals of Xbone can have top 1 as 1000 units.
I'm basically saying comparing two completely different charts is pretty moot.
well, the competition is in year 6. You know, the declining phase of a console life cycle. Switch is in year I dont know, 2 or 3, you know, the increasing phase.
Think if we compared Switch in 2022 (yr 5-6) vs a young PS5/XB2 (it might still be winning, I dunno, but anyway).
The Saturn launch was a complete surprise and pushed up from its original release, destroying retailer trust and consumer confidence.
That one was a bit different :p
Maybe if PC digital sales were included RE2 would be on top. Anyway very nice to see japanese made games thriving.
Yep, the Xbox fans have already bought in. It's all down hill from here for Xbox one until the rumored diskless or streaming Xbox.
It'll rise again if the Detective Pikachu movie is as big as a success as it's looking like it'll be. Pokemon branding this year will be huge.
A low-cost Switch variant will probably be released by the end of the PS5/XB2's first year at the latest. The Switch will be performing like a Nintendo handheld at that point, so it should still be winning or at least be still competitive with the next generation of traditional consoles.
You can't compare Dragon Quest with having Frozen and Pixar on your game though :P at least in the west