Mario Maker 2 was the number one with only 3 days of sales and no digital numbers tracked. Fucking crazy when you think about it.
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NPD June 2019: Super Mario Maker #1, Crash Team Racing #2, Switch #1 HW
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What's even more impressive to me is Days Gone.
It didn't have those hugely impressive reviews, it's a completely new IP, and it spent weeks at #1 in the UK (and more european countries) and it's doing really well in the USA as well.
They have the best pricing strategy for their first party stuff which I'm sure helps
God of War should be able to hit 15 million with these legs
Insane considering the past best selling title of the series was God of War 3 at ~6million
Also, Spiderfuckingman... 20 million LTD, could it be possible?
Also wonder where Days Gone numbers are currently. It had an amazing performance on Europe on top of its great results on US. It sold well even in Japan ffs lol
Insane considering the past best selling title of the series was God of War 3 at ~6million
Also, Spiderfuckingman... 20 million LTD, could it be possible?
Also wonder where Days Gone numbers are currently. It had an amazing performance on Europe on top of its great results on US. It sold well even in Japan ffs lol
Definitely, PlayStation first party is stronger than ever right now.
Good week all around, GTA5 and BOTW continue to amaze me.
Though Days of Play gave a deserved boost (i.e. God of War was not in the previous charts).
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Overall, liked that Mortal Kombat 11 held quite well for its third month.
And Super Mario Maker 2 sold a ton it seems to end as #1 and without digital sales included.
I think so. Perfect for kids and 199 is the new 99 in terms of impulse purchase territory.
yeah, they seem to have the stages mapped out well
start at 60, after a bit go to 40, have a few sales at 30, have a big sale at 20, then finally make the 20 price point permanent
basically what ubisoft does as well
From an 'AAA' standpoint? Sure an argument could be made for that. But for smaller/niche games? I strongly disagree. See SMP, MTA and surely LM3 soon enough which are spin-offs that are multi-million sellers or even a JRPG like Fire Emblem positively exploding recently which Three Houses will hopefully continue next month.
I agree, pretty crazy to do that in 3 days when the physical/digital split is probably more like 50-60/40-50 than the typical 70-75 physical/25-30 digital.
Usually this just leads to higher sales on the platform. X360 sold way more FPS games than PS3 despite having Halo as a exclusive juggernaut.
Eh, not even really in the same ballpark all things considered. Nintendo games never get reduced and still find a way to top the charts with less hardware out in the wild.
What what? Did you not understand the post?
That's a fair point. Sony's smaller games tend to do extremely poorly outside of a few exceptions like Knack or Astrobot.
But their AAA output has been monstrous. Even Days Gone is doing extremely well.
Games like Spider-Man, Uncharted 4, God of War etc manage to reach or approach 10M units sold without decent sales though...that alone doesn't explain it
Nintendo games on Switch dont compete with stuff like FIFA, Call of Duty, GTA, Red Dead Redemption etc
Having less hardware out there doesn't really matter. What matters is how active that userbase is.
The price is a fair point though. Sony games always get big discounts.
WW if we are speaking about units yes. Revenue? Probably not due to the fact that Sony cut the price of the games way more than Nintendo.
Probably Fire Emblem for July, as it will be heavily frontloaded.
Super Mario Maker 2 is super impressive!
- physical only
- released at the end of the month
- exclusive game
- physical only
- released at the end of the month
- exclusive game
Well FIFA is there but I don't see why even if these games were on the console they would impact sales of Nintendo's IP. They're hardly in the same category of consumer.
They do in the US at least according to Matt- practically every Switch owner has a console that those games have been released on- it's not a vacuum that prevents purchasing on other systems. Thought this 'argument' was proven false ages ago...
Are you serious with this? God of War and Spider-Man both had very good legs throughout all of 2018 when they were still full price. Days Gone has had very good legs so far too.
A ton of sales for Spider-Man and Uncharted are straight up bundles. Last of Us was another massively bundled game. God of War didn't have mass bundles though, but that is like the strongest performer outside of Spider-Man.
June had Days of Play, so it looks like low pricing on first party software boosted sales.
Yep :) Days Gone is doing great. I'm so happy for Bend Studio. And man, MLB The Show is doing great, too!
Year old games getting a discount? Must be a Sony-only strategy. Those mad lads!
I hope so! Hopefully it turns out great as it sounds and it has a good WoM that leads to a decent performance in August as well.
yeah, The Show always has some solid months of sales
the baseball crowd gets hangry
yeah, it's weird, sales dont scale with userbase. When there is 100 million Switch install base the games may not sell any better than they do now. Same for Xbox and PS.
That's why Switch is viable competition for PS4 despite technically a much lower hardware install base worldwide. And that's why PS5 games will be outselling PS4 versions a year or two into the next gem on a much smaller hardware base. The "active core" will have moved onto PS5, and tens of millions of PS4 will lie dormant.
It's more like there's a core of active console users, what is it, I dont know, 10-20 million? At some point that core doesn't grow whether 20 million or 100 million consoles have been sold. A lot of people's older consoles probably dont get any use, and they are replaced as active users by new hardware owners.
Probably a few games can tap the larger extended base to some extent (not fully). Nintendo 1st party, evergreen games like GTA/MInecraft....
Yeah that's a good point. A little surprising, I was under the impression N. Sane Trilogy did quite well on the platform so I did expect better. In terms of numbers though MK8 is the juggernaut when compared to Halo.
Yeah, it's looking really good. I expect it to become the best selling or second best selling game in the series.
The MLB The Show franchise is getting bigger every year. One of the biggest suprises this gen for me :)
Judgment...
Can't imagine they'll ever spend money to dub another Yakuza studio game again
Hell I just hope this didn't tank any future games again like Yakuza 4 and Dead Souls did
unnecessary fan wars on era when there is a comparison to be made between sony & ninty:
