You know it was just over 20M shy of that as of the end of 2017, right? 100M was a lock even if sales had dropped noticeably. 100M by March 2019 is even possible at this rate.
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NPD March 2018: Far Cry 5 #1, Sea of Thieves #2; PS4 Tops Hardware Charts
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life time sales?
I was thinking between 120 to 130 life time sales by 2023
I'm sure it doesn't have a huge impact on their revenue, but I am incredulous that it's impossible to buy a 360 game or an original Xbox game on the Xbox One without using a credit card.
On the Xbox One if you try to use your Microsoft Account Balance on a BC game, it tells you to use a credit card. With Microsoft's growing focus on backwards compatibility, they really need to figure out a way to make it work.
On the Xbox One if you try to use your Microsoft Account Balance on a BC game, it tells you to use a credit card. With Microsoft's growing focus on backwards compatibility, they really need to figure out a way to make it work.
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Yea, even getting the 360 Games with Gold you need a credit card attached. I always thought that was strange.
they will sell ps4s as long as rockstar manufactures gta5s.
All depends on price. If they can get it to $149 permanently then I say 130M is a lock. If they can only do $199 then 115M.
Dude they might hit 100 million at the end of the holiday this year. 2018 will be there biggest sales year
Revenge of Shinobi was the best-selling Game Boy Advance game of March 2018 in the U.S. market.
No, not kidding.
We track em all.
Wait, how are you guys even tracking GBA games? I mean, where are they even being sold brand new in the US?
Apparently. We track retailer POS, so new copies sold somewhere.
Wow, well then I guess it wouldn't be TOO much of a shock to find a new GBA game out there somewhere then :P
Lmao, how many copies though?
No but seriously they still sell those?
Wtf.
It gets people in and once they have PS4s they will likely get Plus or more games.
Everyone is praising gamepass for getting people to buy games that wouldn't otherwise, I think not charging for FTP has the same effect and probably better.
Game pass sales included? if not then wow amazing. SOT managed to make money even after relentless thrashing from everyone
Four and half year old GTA V outsells a four month old Call of Duty game. Is this thing going to hit 125 million units by the time a GTA VI comes out? It was at 85 million five months ago, and never seems to slow down.
Hard to believe GTA IV is a ten year old game on Sunday... :-/
Why sell more copies when you can delay it to three days before the biggest single player PS4 exclusive ever? I'm still kinda amazed we have gotten this many Yakuza games stateside with the way Sega handles things. Glad Dead Souls didn't permanently derail the train, because Y5 (years after the fact) and Y0 are both top three games in the franchise. Hopefully I get to Y6 and YK2 during the inferno summer months, current timing is all kinds of bad.
Hard to believe GTA IV is a ten year old game on Sunday... :-/
Why sell more copies when you can delay it to three days before the biggest single player PS4 exclusive ever? I'm still kinda amazed we have gotten this many Yakuza games stateside with the way Sega handles things. Glad Dead Souls didn't permanently derail the train, because Y5 (years after the fact) and Y0 are both top three games in the franchise. Hopefully I get to Y6 and YK2 during the inferno summer months, current timing is all kinds of bad.
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Xbox doing "fine" considering every exclusive is on PC. But it's not gonna top chart anytime soon now, especially this year when Sony bringing yet another pack of AAA exclusives, starting with GOW and ending with Spiderman.
People should stop expecting Xbox to top sales now. There is no console only exclusives to push hardware.
This might be my favourite piece of information in the entire thread. I'm so curious about other oddball games somehow still getting tracked now lol
I like this kind of thing too.
Some other top-sellers by platform for March 2018:
Game Gear - Sonic 2
Cube - SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
NDS - Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay/Disney Frozen: Olaf's Quest double pack
PS1 - Final Fantasy Anthology
PSP - Pac-Man World 3
Wii - Just Dance 2018
OG Xbox - Otogi 2: Immortal
Congrats to the team at 3d6 Games. Great achievement.
It's nice to see how single player only games still dominate the platform charts.
Should have been SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. The GOAT of platformers.
*spits out drink*
game gear?!
haha, that's pretty fun info. We're probably talking... tens of units here, right?
I bet these titles (outside of Just Dance on the Wii) sold a grand total of 20 units combined.
Wait, for PSP and OG Xbox (and PS1 classics?), do you track digital sales?
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Forget this stuff, give me the dope on Atari Lynx sales. I want to gauge the best time to sell my collection...
(That's a lie, I'd never sell it!)
Sonic 2 on Game Gear? Wow
Also the Wii is a Just Dance machine.
Amazing. These are great!
I just looked it up: Pac-Man World 3 ships on UMD. There's a blast from the past.
Mario Kart Wii managed to sell 80k copies during the last quarter too.
*nods*
At the same time though, many indie developers are saying they're getting sales on Switch at or better than they are on other platforms.
Switch a great place to be, but also shows how tough it is on STEAM and other platforms for indies right now.
Mario kart 8 appears to have finally hit saturation for its install base in the US.
on switch games are sold for actual money. on steam it's for a tip.
people whine about switch sales not giving low enough discounts and keeping prices high, but for indies it's just healthy to live in an environment where there's no constant race to the bottom. steam sales are obscene.
Wow. Thanks for the info.
What's some of the best-selling game on DS which is not part of Nintendo franchises/popular franchises?
Do you foresee that indies will have tough time to sell on the eshop 1-2 years from now?
No. Microsoft is leading in the revenue GROWTH, not total revenue.
You making the false assumption most console owners also game on PC. So shared exclusive with PC doesnt eat into console sales, thats why it's supported by MS, a console gamer is only ever going to compare options between PS4/Xbox/Switch. These shared exclusives are still a deciding factor, just as much as any platform only exclusives.
My concern is more immediate. We're seeing gold rush behavior there right now. Getting a dozen or so games a week, many of them good, and they're launching within an eShop that's not optimized for discoverability. By the time Q4 gets here the number of good titles showing up every week is just going to increase in scale. It's going to be very easy to get lost in all the new releases.
Indies seem to be selling quite well on the platform. Hoping we're going to see some improvements that make it easier for consumers to find them.
FY 18 is April 17 to March 18?
We have official numbers so we can calculate how many units for 3P and 1P ganes.
the best place to hide a body is page 2 on google search. also goes for digital stores.
old but still true.
but how i hate people who start their powerpoint presentation with that slide and still expect to appear clever and edgy...
old but still true.
but how i hate people who start their powerpoint presentation with that slide and still expect to appear clever and edgy...
I wonder if the OG Xbox BC program will cause some of those old titles to bob to the surface of the charts again.