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NPD March 2018: Far Cry 5 #1, Sea of Thieves #2; PS4 Tops Hardware Charts
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Sorry, I edited to 3 million. Still a major accomplishment. What were the numbers for Mario on Switch and Zelda on Switch/WiiU?
Bruh come on bruh. Bruh.
3 million lifetime would be more realistic in NA, probably slightly lowballing.
Unless you meant worldwide in which case I can see 3 million shipped first week.
Yes 3 million total for April (just my own guess), I keep forgetting this is NPD and not the entire world. Still very impressive.
outside of Japan, it's been above Xeno consistently.
It's first month wasn't as big as Xenos in NPD, but by now I wouldn't be surprised if it's above it in the US.
all to say it's above 1 million for sure ww
it is Skyrim though.
MatPiscatella How far down would we need to go before Skyrim shows up on the PS4 and XB1 charts? Top 20, 30, 50?
Give me a break. To say that Sea of Thieves' sales are so good they're "unheard of" is silly and....inaccurate. It's the 8th best seller of this year, let alone considering the rest of the generation. We can surmise that it's having a good start. That's about it. I don't think it will maintain a very high spot next month after the initial wave of hype wears off, and the negativity surrounding lack of content and reviews sets in.
Also, you misread the post to begin with. I'm fully aware this list doesn't include Game Pass. He was saying that if you add Game Pass downloads ontop of its number 2 placement on this list, its success is unheard of. Which is silly.
And I absolutely stand by thinking it's funny to buy an Xbox One X to play Red Dead Redemption. That's not to say there aren't other good reasons to buy one.
Really? That seems very optimistic considering the best-selling one, God of War 3, only hit 5 million lifetime.
Did we ever get platform split for PS4/Vita games like Sly 4 or The Puppeteer?
I don't remember that happening.
While optimistic and imo not likely for first month, games do much better on PS4. Almost all of Sony's titles have sold more even when the install base was smaller. Even 3rd parties flourish on the system.
To me, It's all relative.
You should go dig up a thread that has people list what they think will be the biggest flop of 2018.
See how many times SoT was mentioned.
For it to be the 8th best selling game well not being available on the largest platform and at the some time selling an unknown number of subscriptions to its brand new service is really incredible. GRanted it's a bit hyperbolic to say this success is unheard of but this has to be seen as a massive success for everyone involve
Don't forget two important factors
Much bigger install base at time of release
Is a better game. (Hides but is true)
I don't think it's fair to call it a "massive" success either. There haven't exactly been many big releases yet this year, so I'm surprised it's as low as 8 in a way. It's off to a good start. Let's see where it lands next month. You are of course entitled to your own opinion though.
If you have numbers for last year's MLB, than it's higher than that. I mean, do you really expect an exact number in an NPD thread?
I used to have access to full NPD reports and they indeed include all these details and tons more. It is quite frankly insane how much data they have.
But they also restrict what companies can distribute from the data publicly.
I left the company that had the reports I could digest and started my own company.
PS4 family is the best selling hardware but model wise Neon Switch sold the most looking at individual skus
MatPiscatella Hi Mat, thanks for coming in and answering questions!
I was wondering about Skyrim on Switch: it's been around the bottom of the top 10 for couple of month already. Does that mean in your opinion that it is doing decent numbers each month or is the bar of entry for Switch top 10 simply very low?
I was wondering about Skyrim on Switch: it's been around the bottom of the top 10 for couple of month already. Does that mean in your opinion that it is doing decent numbers each month or is the bar of entry for Switch top 10 simply very low?
That will definitely make Mat prediction true. Switch N
I wouldn't call it a quite month when FAR CRY 5 is the best selling software title of the year with only 4 days worth of sales lol.
If that game didn't release Switch probably would have took the month. Just wqit until the latter half of the year when all the Switch games release.
Do you expect Crazy Justice to be able to compete with Fortnite and PUBG?
I know I'm late to the party here, but that is written very poorly. Sounds like NPD needs to invest in some good quality corporate communications people.
Not sure. But I imagine the BR space is going to only get more crowded and competitive over time.
Totally.
Nice, huge success all around for Switch' big titles!
Would you happen to be able to tell us whether Splatoon 2 passed the 1 million mark already? Thanks anyway for always providing us with insight into the numbers!
I'm all for its success of course. I'm just not sure about 3 million (WW) in a month.
We'll see. It's entirely possible.
Oh hey, cool. All 3 a relatively close to each other, so that's good.
Thanks John...and wow.
Nintendo biggest evergreens are doing fantastic numbers, and the best part is that they keep on selling, as we can see in charts for several countries. Right now, they're behaving similarly to GTAV, i.e. being the games that brand new Switch users buy when they purchase the system. I'm expecting this trend to continue in spite of newer big releases (like Smash Bros.), even if on a bit lower level of sales obviously.
Also, if you can share it, could you give us an update on Bayonetta 2 Switch's LTD?
MatPiscatella can you tell us how much weight have digital sales on Sea of Thieves total? And how much of W10 store and Xbox?
I mean situation is better than few years ago (mainly thanks to Nintendo improving so much) but we are still far away from 7th gen era. You had 5 systems doing well (Wii, DS, PS3, X360 and PSP). That was golden era in terms of hardware sales.
The thing is, every month has something like that for both consoles bros (advantage of having a proper 3rd party support) so it's hard for Switch to top if that's the case. I'm just disappointed Switch isn't topping since it's relatively new but then again PS4 is probably a juggernaut at this point.
What happened to the switch sales drying up that some seemed were sure to happen due to no big hitters being released early 2018?
Hardware sales seem to be doing just fine.
Hardware sales seem to be doing just fine.
Game pass is brand new and I don't think we have heard anything about how it's doing so far. It's not surprising that it would not have an huge impact on sales yet as it will take some time to build up subscribers (assuming it even takes off at all)
Love how this narrative changed again (not personally from you) but its fun to see. :P
Pretty much this. PS4 keeps selling at regular prices, while the competition needs to keep doing price drops to even stay competitive.
Dunno. 308k seems pretty damned epic. It's all about perspective, really. If Nintendo was first on the charts with 308k, then Nintendo would be considered doing lights out awesome. However, since Sony is first, and Nintendo is second with 308k.....I'm sure you know the rest.
The way I see it, the console market hasn't been this healthy in a long ass time, and all three are pulling their own weight this time around. Good time to be into gaming.