I know. I just looked up the amount of individual towns or cities in the US, and it was somewhere around 30,000. It sort of blew my mind so I thought I would have some fun with the idea.
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NPD Sales Results for September 2013 [Up2: Console positioning, 360 estimate]
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I know. I just looked up the amount of individual towns or cities in the US, and it was somewhere around 30,000. It sort of blew my mind so I thought I would have some fun with the idea.
No prob
Does this mean the PS3 hasn't outsold the Xbox 360 in NA in over 3yrs prior to today?
Pretty much.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
The PS3 userbase in the USA is only slightly above the US PSP userbase isn't it? And far below the sales of GBA or DS.
Yeah which is why I find the combo breaker funny. It just screws up MS PR. "97.5% over the last so many months we were the number one console!" Just does not have the same ring to it.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
No idea to be honest, was talking mostly about the 3DS version. since that was the most recent and similar comparison. Suppose those could work but don't know about those numbers.
creamsugar
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MC LTD > 1M
Immaculate
Banned
whats mc?
Sho_Nuff82
Member
MC = Minecraft guys.
With millions more sold online. Thing's gonna keep 360 relevant for the kid crowd for a looong time, I'm thinking.
pieatorium
Member
its coming to every platform soon though
Minecraft
360 only.
it would, unless microsoft unceremoniously murders it in the middle of 2014 like they did to the xbox in 2006.
creamsugar
Member
3DS Brain age LTD < 101
Unless it comes to the Wii and/or 3DS, it won't matter for the kid crowd. Cheap, cheap, cheap is key there.
People in the U.S. must finally be waking up to see that the PS3 is delivering more exclusives & more games than the 360 since 2010. Europe & everywhere else has woken up a long time ago.
Coldnoodle
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......there's a k there right?
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Fuck, Nintendo's Touch series fell off faster than anything else I can remember.
Aquamarine
Member
Here are the sales that Neverland experiences in Japan:
Rune Factory (NDS) - 39,973 first week
Rune Factory 2 (NDS) - 56,082 first week
Rune Factory 3 (NDS) - 44,894 first week
Rune Factory Frontier (Wii) - 18,240 first week
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (PS3) - 26,979 first week
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (Wii) - 10,040 first week
Rune Factory 4 (3DS) - 88,700 first week
So Rune Factory 4's 17,000 first week overseas... in comparison to other localizations it's probably on-par, but it's a sharp contrast to Rune Factory 4's great domestic success.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
A w before.
velvet_nitemare
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101 = Wonderful 101 < 20K
Game is awesome and digital is the way to go. The complete and total lack of non-Homepass Streetpass tags for the game pretty much convinced me of its total bombing in the U.S., but wouldn't be surprised if this game has the highest digital % for a retail release on 3DS. If it sold 15K retail, then 7.5K digital would be 50% of the retail numbers. :lol
Saint Gregory
Member
Wow, what an incredible drop off for that series. All the casual stuff that lifted the DS to stardom in the US has fallen off a cliff (and onto mobile) on 3DS.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Huh, didn't expect Kingdom Hearts to perform so well.
Coldnoodle
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ShockingAlberto
Member
I gave Wind Waker numbers earlier in the thread but I guess people didn't see them.
As of the 26th of September, they were 66k on eShop (not counting codes bundled with the Wii U but direct purchases).
System has been priced too high, and as you said, there are other completely viable options out there that weren't available when DS was hitting up that crowd. Animal Crossing may be an exception to that, though.
So 190K first month combining every avenue of its availability for September's NPD period.
Glad Square's crappy handling of the franchise hasn't damaged interest in Kingdom Hearts at all.
Hope they don't go crazy with various handheld entries again after KHIII.
if you were to combine all rayman origins sales, you would get a fairly okay number (in the 200k-300k range). legends might get there, but i wonder just what in the hell ubisoft's plan was. it's like they studied how ea botched nba jam and decided to repeat the same thing except with a half-year delay for extra zest. it should have been a ps3/360/wii u/vita game from the start. they could have planned a better launch for it during a time when they weren't going to be going up against one of the biggest games of the year. it wouldn't have done amazing, but it certainly couldn't have done worse.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
You draw shapes with the touchscreen or right stick to morph into different weapon and attack enemies. Touchscreen shows the shapes you can draw. Still, the demo really should have been the intro of the game.
20k may be a huge flop but its honestly more than I was expecting it to do, especially after the 5k opener in Japan.
ShockingAlberto
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It doesn't but eShop sales weren't good.
The 10% of retail number holds for that title, too.
no retail only
Good. Hopefully it sends a message to Nintendo that you don't price casual games so stupidly high.
Of course it did. Nintendo looked at the tablet/phone competition, shrugged, raised the prices of their casual games, and then did nothing to promote them. It's almost as if they want their games to die.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Origins came out the week after Modern Warfare 3. Ubisoft loves sending Rayman to die.
No it is way above the "current" userbase of said handhelds that are competing in a different market, and one of their own competitors appears to be the PSP. Let's get really stupid about it. More people have played snake, on a Nokia phone, then will ever play A single PS3 title. Plus solitaire and minesweeper, put all Sony games to shame. We are looking at 100s of millions, maybe billions when it comes to people who have gamed on those two windows games. Let us bring smartphones and tablets into the mix. The PS3 has not sold nearly as well as the IPhone, and more people are playing Candy Crush then Killzone right now!!
Coldnoodle
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Wasn't it 19.99?