Looks like it. Could be a fair gap in September as well. With RDR2 in October I daresay it will be the same.
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August 2018 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, September 11th
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Looks like it. Could be a fair gap in September as well. With RDR2 in October I daresay it will be the same.
I know your joking but nah. Still though considering Sony typically releases PR around the performance of their major exclusive performers (Horizon, Uncharted 4, God of War, etc being recent examples) it would be surprising if we dont hear anything officially before the end of the month.
I am really curious how Spidey will perform in non US markets though.
Aye, September is indeed quite the thing this year. Well even if it doesn't chart (I hope it does) I'll be happy to know it probably did relatively well for itself. Anything to get Square Enix to keep sending those games over here.
Really don't get why Nintendo thought that thing was going to be a big seller.
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I find that handheld systems lend themselves really well to download titles. Obviously R4 on DS had the whole "free games" thing going for it, but a lot of people who buy their games would then put them digitally on R4 just for convenience. 3DS had some really bright digital spots like Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem at launch and any other titles that you want always available on the system. Personally, I want WWGold, but only when I can get it on sale digitally some way or another, for example.
Physical would still trump digital, especially in the long-run, so if it falls flat physically, digital isn't going to dig it out. However, it'd be good to get some digital idea from Nintendo, too, since Switch is much like a portable system even though it can do both. Labo and any other games with physical components would have no impact digitally, of course, and I'd imagine that it's mostly the majorly pushed games like Nintendo stuff or big third-party titles that would do best digitally, as well. Therefore, Go! Vacation probably didn't rock the sales digitally if it was flat physically. Just pointing out that, as far as downloads on Nintendo systems, the handheld form factor makes digital much more appealing to people who buy more than a handful of games.
How about compared to Persona 5 and Octopath? since those sold better than any DQ game in the west.
Crazy how much SW is going to be sold at the end of this year. To follow up that stacked September you have RDR2 and COD in October. Then you have the likes of Pokemon and smash bros in the holidays. It's going to be such an enormous end to the year.
Superheroes dominating everything, and I got bored after the first Avengers movie, I just don't feel the hype.
What do you define as underwhelming for Let's Go? In the S/M range, in the OR/AS range or in the US/UM range?
I'm fairly sure it will sell less than S/M in the first month, but that's obvious.
Persona 5 and Octopath both had significantly less competition. Thus they had a lot more coverage by mainstream outlets. SE's launch date for DQXI couldn't be worse, so even after stellar reviews because of the hype surrounding other releases it will get a lot less coverage compared to what an August release would have done for the game.
i don't care so much about video games, but i always was a huge fan of __________ . so i might finally give it a try and get a console to play the new game.
what does make more sense?
a) god of war
b) spider man
what does make more sense?
a) god of war
b) spider man
That is fair. I'm enjoying Marvel's current run and even I'm drained somewhat.
Spiderman is an open-world game on the biggest platform out there with a DLC support plan.
Nobody said that these kind of games were dying, come on lol.
OK. But how many copies of Batman: Arkham Knight were sold the first month in US ? Apparently it sold better than Arkham city which sold 1.5 million back in 2011.
Aqua, please...
I don't think Octopath has necessarily done better than DQ8 or DQ9.
According to previous NPD thread, Octopath launched lower than Xenoblade 2, which was around 280k.
DQ8 sold 430k in North America.
I am curious about this also.I have some feeling it could flop or more likely seriously underperform.
Should do better than Rise thanks to being on PS4, Xbox One, and PS4 all at once. Things were looking pretty rough for it a bit back but its picked up recently. I'm still not feeling particularly strong on its performance pre launch but I'm also not anticipating it being an outright "flop".
Yeah Q4 is going to be enormous. Probably the biggest end of the year of this generation in terms of overall software performance
Spider-Man is precisely the type of solo experience that will stick around. It's the linear 10-15 hour experience that's in danger.
I dunno...i think it will be squeezed heavily between Spider man and new Fifa/CoD that will come out soon after...gonna be ~ $20 by Christmas probably.
Benji what about RDR 2? We all know is going to do really well but do you have any info about pre orders? Maybe a comparison with other big blockbusters of this gen?
Battlefield V might not bomb, but it's gonna get as close as it can to it.
It may underperform relative to EA's expectations but that still means several millions sold and one of the highest selling games of the year.
Yea I can see this. On twitter i've been seeing so many people getting the PS4 spider-man bundle. This is the first PS4 console for many of them.
Thanks for the insight as always.
It's pretty clear at this point there is absolutely no way Nintendo expected it to sell this slow. People desperately hanging on to old PR and "wait for Christmas" are going to be sorely disappointed.
Maybe they should have launched it at 20 dollars like Okami. I would pick it up for that price but I'm sure as hell not paying 50 with lackluster amount of enhancements.
See, that's the thing.
They PS4 sold so many consoles that month. So many Pros.
I would like to think it was to mostly new PS4 owners.
Yea, I've been wanting to pick it up as a couch co-op game for the family but hoping for a sale at some point soon.
