It to bad about Pro shortages since i wonder how much hardware they could have sold this month .
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August 2018 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, September 11th
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It to bad about Pro shortages since i wonder how much hardware they could have sold this month .
i'm a little disappointed that no one so far pointed out that spider man's success is overrated as gaas games are making much bigger profits anyway.
*classic "and publishers don't want to make single player games anymore!!!" post*
Mild disappointment...
I'm not sure I agree on the idea that Fortnite can expand the Switch audience much. These type of games tend to develop their success on community and streaming, and that's not the Switch's forte. Has any Switch game been a big hit on Twitch? I remember Splatoon having a (small) audience for a while, but I wouldn't make any bets on the online component of a Nintendo console providing a big push for its success.
I'm probably too negative, but while Fortnite is still going strong it's a community driven game, and it already expanded on all platforms it could before coming to Switch. I think the Switch version has a very uphill battle to fight to gain a significant share of the pie.
Who cares about launching with multiple millions of units in 5 days when you could be getting BILLIONS IN LOOT BOX MONEYS
Goddammit, I'll actually have to start using Twitter properly now.
On Labo - as I said before, Nintendo put the cart before the horse by releasing it before they got all the kids on board with Pokemon so instead of it being a $60 novelty toy+game, it became a $360 novelty toy+game. Or Nintendo grossly underestimated the desire of gamers to build cardboard stuff.
I think developers and expecially publishers are still going to move towards the GaaS model because aside of being good money, it's easy money. People keep pointing out that staying on top of the GaaS market is difficult (it is) but it's still a lot easier to make money out of it in terms of investment and time.
The fact that mobile-focused companies keep releasing new games that cannibalize the audience of their previous ones should tell you everything. I think the GaaS model is becoming less and less about keeping a game afloat for years (think World of Warcraft) and more about getting as much money from the audience in the honeymoon period and then move on.
*big_think*
What do you think about Sony software performance this gen? Every big new release end up selling even more than everyone expects. Do you think that Sony can come close to Nintendo first party success?
No idea about the online community aspect, but Fortnite is huge with kids and them being able to play it on a portable device is a big selling point for that demographic.
If GoW sold 3M in 3 days WW I'd say Spiderman sold betwen 4-4.5M
Era will always be my home make no mistake. I love the hardcore dedicated sales community and there is far less noise here than on Twitter
But at the end of the day I am looking to branch out and expand a bit, and Twitter is the easiest way for me to do that
But Era will always be the best way to follow me no mistake
Yep in 2 places we know it already sell 200k ( round figure ) more and that without DD .
We know is gonna sell about the same in the US, and so far we know it has sold twice as much in the UK and in Japan. So if we extrapolate to the rest of the world we get those numbers.
Of course the data we get from Sony could be different, so instead of units sold in 3 days we get units sold in a week, to make it 5M for example. We'll see :)
How about Sony PR folks just decide to troll us and say that Spiderman sales have "exceeded expectations" without releasing any numbers...? ;)
I hope we will get a 'Sold xxx in one week' or 'sold xxx in one month' number. Those 'sold in 2 or 3 days' numbers are boring as hell imo =P
Can't wait for the 'Only 5mio? That's not impressive. PS4 has an install base of 81.2mio. 5mio is only at little bit over 4%. That's bad.' posts and tweets. You know they're coming. =D
Or X million hours played, or whatever metric instead of actual sold units XD
Lol those posts are funny indeed :-D
Also I think Spiderman is gonna have crazy legs. I myself wasn't interested in it, (not much into superheros or disney, and I didn't like Ratchet & Clank, I guess for similar reasons) but a friend bought it to share play it and oh boy this game is gooood. It's fun, the story is surprisingly good, the swinging is amazing, the combat is a step above my "batman" expectations, graphics as well (puddlegate, lol)...
People that buy it are gonna tell their friends, I'm sure the word of mouth is gonna be as good as GoW's was (is)
they aren't. A funny post makes me laught. When i see those posts all i want to do is hurt myself.
why in Jesus name would Sony have shortage of pro any way, there been not reports of any particular piece of hardware being battled for like during Switch.
the bottleneck isn't hardware parts or assembly lines but final test. local government only allowed to test up to 4 consoles at the same time to avoid damages on the building's static and noise pollution. employees of the nearby airport were heavily complaining about the unbearable din.
Ceramic parts or whatever they are called are low on supply.
Mario and Zelda were up there for a while, but the only Nintendo-specific things i can think of that i see regularly are those Zelda (LTTP?) randomisers in the 2-3k viewer range. That's about as far as i scroll when I'm bored and looking for something to watch for a little bit while i eat. There have been some indie games up there in the 10-20k+ range for a while, but they shared viewers with pc streamers too.
let me remake that question: what part that Pro has that PS4 does not is on low supply? (unless is that ceramic thing and im being stupid)
its on the go that is not slaved to mobile. so that is a plus imo
No idea but it seems only the Pro is having issues from current gen consoles which is weird.
IIRC it's some ceramic supercapacitor or something like that.
Feeling so happy for insomniac, one of my fav developers ever. :D
Whew.
This seems to imply digital is soaring too.
Feels good when one of your favorite devs are skyrocketing. They heading to another level.
Or pull the classic.
5 billion YouTube views.
1 Bilion hours played.
521 million backpacks found.
100 million webs shot.
47 million thugs captured.
Over 5 million players played.
THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT!
you have to think is whether or not the character and the type of game works. not all Marvel hero would be fit for this type of exploration action games
Are you talking about the UK and Japan performance or something else?
Captain America, Ironman, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Hulk come to mind first in terms of both popularity and video game synchronization.
ill give you Iron man and DS, BP and CA lack "diversity" on the combat department, for it not to become tedious rather quick.
Hulk, just make a better Prototype
Sony won't send a PR without giving actual numbers that's for sure.
4.5M first 3 days seems about right, we have >400K (With Digital) in UK + Japan, we also know from Benji that US performance is better or in line with God of War, we know that God of War sold way less in UK & Japan too and still did 3.1M WW 1st 3 days.
Now Spidey is much stronger in other regions than God of War, specifically Europe so safe to say Spidey is outselling Kratos 2:1 over EU, 3:1 in Japan.
4.5M first 3 days seems about right, we have >400K (With Digital) in UK + Japan, we also know from Benji that US performance is better or in line with God of War, we know that God of War sold way less in UK & Japan too and still did 3.1M WW 1st 3 days.
Now Spidey is much stronger in other regions than God of War, specifically Europe so safe to say Spidey is outselling Kratos 2:1 over EU, 3:1 in Japan.