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NPD August 2021: Madden #1, GoT #2, Humankind #4 ; Switch #1 HW in units, PS5 #1 in revenue
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If the game is good and well regarded it will sell. Same thing happened with Skyward Sword.
In two and a half months it has already made more revenue than any Ratchet game LTD. Those are big news.
Let me write it down for the third time, maybe third time is the charm :-)
They could publish a physical only chart where from every publisher, only physical is counted, while keeping the current mixed chart and maybe even publish a chart only about games where everything is included.
UK is the perfect example, where we get a physical only chart first, then a mixed similar to NPD chart later.
You are right that we are well informed about how flawed this chart is, so they are absolutely fair and transparent about it, my main painpoint is that as time goes on due to the digital takeover this kind of chart makes less and less sense and I am afraid that they don't plan to address it anyhow, which is totally understandable, this chart is not from where they get their revenue, so we should be grateful to get at least this.
Miles legs are quite impressive considering it's been what 9 months since its release? and GoT being this high means means we're probably getting more director's cut.
No, it doesn't make sense when platforms have a huge difference in digital split. If anything it'd make it worse.
Which is why I brought up the price? That would help the LTD comparison.
I think 3 would've only had two or three days of tracking. The game was peaking at #5 in US eShop rankings last week and also charted similarly on Amazon's Switch games chart on release (even though it always showed as being sold out for me personally), so I presume it did within expectations.
The game is the perfect example of a niche title. Its chances of appearing in the top 20 were slim to none.
Honestly, if Nintendo adds digital to this, I believe the charts would be boring as hell. Without digital, Nintendo is accounting from 40 to 50% of the charts, add digital and NPD will probably get 70 to 75% of Nintendo titles.
Nintendo would still be half the chart, just on the upper end. Don't think it would be complete dominance
those digital games are still sold full price for the most part.
Given it was only two and a half months at the time, I think it would have to be the fastest selling lol. Ratchet & Clank PS4 also released when the PS4 had sold ~40 million consoles vs. ~10 million PS5s.
And sure, as I said, the price does help but lets not forget the push back against the $70 price and the fact that people thought it would have a negative impact on it.
Is there a reason they no longer provide info? Or just gone with no public reason sort of thing?
Looks like it only got 2 days of tracking. The August numbers only cover Aug (8/1-8/28) - Sep 14.
Yeah, there's no way it would've charted then. Even NEO TWEWY got a good chunk of the week to hit #16, and that had digital tracked while this didn't. Bit of an awkward release period for a more niche game if you wanted it to chart.
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I mean half of the charts on the upper end ...that's pretty much domination. Don't think the other publishers would be happy or sign off for having charts that looked like this lol.
With Factions, maybe? No way they'll pass up on all those potential $70 sales.
maybe they should put their games on switch to a shot at breaking it up
So just to be clear: in your opinion comparing physical sales to physical sales makes less sense than comparing physical sales to physical+digital sales, is my understanding correct...?
I only say this because I'm currently in Dallas, Texas and it's pretty much back to normal. No masks or anything. It was quite jarring when I landed to be honest. I'm probably one of the few people still wearing a mask around where I'm staying.
Back in Canada, you still pretty much have to wear a mask everywhere except outdoors.
That says more about our stupid country than about whether the pandemic is past tense. Especially given that winter is coming.
There's no physical sales vs physical+digital sales except Nintendo and 2k AFAIK. It's physical+digital for everyone else. And comparing physical vs physical isn't logical as it might look because digital on Xbox is a completely different game compared to Nintendo for example.
I would guess part of the reason they do it like this is also to apply pressure to publishers not participating in the DPP (Nintendo, T2, Bethesda, etc).
Thought this would be the month PS5 ended the Switch's streak. Madden Month, Tsushima, and a slow August for Nintendo would seemingly leave it at its weakest for the year.
Even so, those evergreens keep selling, and Switch does have an advantage of being the only system physically available at stores. If Switch grabs September, then I think it makes it to 3 straight years of leading the pack.
Even so, those evergreens keep selling, and Switch does have an advantage of being the only system physically available at stores. If Switch grabs September, then I think it makes it to 3 straight years of leading the pack.
PS5 isn't dictated by supply yet for it to be affected by the games released. Until Sony have enough inventory to outsell the switch, the switch will continue to be number 1 in units.
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Switch will remain untouchable this year.
Next window of opportunity I see is February 2022 with Horizon coming out and hopefully a big batch of PS5 consoles.
Next window of opportunity I see is February 2022 with Horizon coming out and hopefully a big batch of PS5 consoles.
The Tsushima spike is wild, but understandable, but do we know what got Miles Morales (and to a lesser extent Last of Us) boosted? Was it just sale prices or did Sony have a good month on PS5 shipments with lots of people picking up some of the first party games along with it? Trying to figure out if Sony has successfully engineered a smaller version of the Nintendo evergreen phenomenon, where each PS5 sale becomes a sale for a couple of older Sony exclusives as well, instead of how it went more traditionally where a new Playstation sale meant a sale for whatever the biggest release of the month was along with it.
And that´s still to be seen what game will Nintendo slot for Feb
Arceus on Jan 28 should help the early February baseline though, especially given there's a new revision to upgrade up to.
Last of us got a promotion but Miles Morales is just an evergreen title I think. It will continue to sell for the foreseeable future until the sequel is out.
Was more them changing the data and PS4 dominating, then the Switch continuing probably didn't help. But NPD threads didn't really ever recover after they changed how they give out data.
People in Texas pretending the pandemic is over while hospitalizations and deaths there are at insanely high levels doesn't mean it's actually over.
I always thought September could be a weak month for Switch due to the proximity of OLED. At the same time, it's a more expensive SKU so maybe it doesn't impact the other SKUs that much.
And I never declared it was over. I said post pandemic life is going to hit different.
