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NPD Oct 2018: COD: BO4 and RDR2 top the charts, PS4 best selling hardware
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I think this proves Treyarch/Activision made a really good decision in deciding to dump the single player campaign in favour of putting in battle royale, despite all the crap that was said by people when the news came out.
Can't help but feel BO4 would have sold much worse otherwise, since the battle royale most likely pushed waaaaay more sales than any SP campaign could have. I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this, Benji ZhugeEX?
Can't help but feel BO4 would have sold much worse otherwise, since the battle royale most likely pushed waaaaay more sales than any SP campaign could have. I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this, Benji ZhugeEX?
I'm kinda surprised XB1 didn't make a dent at the top spot, considering them having a great trade-in deal toward RDR2 bundles.
i meant every year as a whole, not every month...even taking into months as whole on average, i think at least 8 out of 12 months are sony as best selling.
Red Dead killing it as it should. Glad to see Odyssey is hanging in there. Ubisoft really breathed new life into the series and I definitely want to see them continue on down the line their on and make improvements.
Yep, has already outdone GoW in about 2 months.
And PS4 didn't have any deals in October, right?
What deal did the PS4 have in October? I must be missing out.
PS4's dominance isn't surprising to me. I knew they would demolish with that RDR2 bundle as well as Spider-Man hype still being strong. They will also dominate November but I see Switch taking December thanks to Pokemon and Smash. Congrats to all the companies though, they all posted great numbers this month and it's good to see the industry is very healthy.
October 5th was the release date, last September tracking day was the 6th.
None. There were the RDR2 and Black Ops 4 bundles, but no special deals.
re: The Xbox deal - like I mentioned earlier, I think people were way overestimating the effect of both the trade-in deal and the $100 off deal. I'm sure both moved decent numbers for Xbox, but it wasn't going to turn the tables or anything, especially with Sony have the marketing for the two biggest games of the year (RDR2 & BO4).
Soooo it tracked for one day in the September NPD but a whole month in October's? What's that gotta do with my initial post? If anything, it should've charted higher on October's NPD since that's where it spent most of its time
So.... what was he trying to say again? I originally said I was surprised that XB1 didn't claim the top spot despite MS heavily pushing the RDR2 bundle. And he quoted me, saying "and PS4 didn't have any deal, right?" He implied that PS4 also had a deal in October, which I couldn't recall it having any.
It was third behind COD and RDR. That's as high as I think people were expecting it could go. Just was wondering what was so funny about RDR2 charting higher than Odyssey since it was expected. That was really it, no big deal.
I doubt it personally. I don't think marketing deals have all that much impact on sales overall. Most people know full well that COD, Rockstar Games etc are available on both Xbox and Playstation.
It's just really really hard to come back if you don't come out of the gate well. At this stage of this generation there really isn't anything Microsoft can do to make a dent in Sony's lead. The best they can do is set themselves up well for next generation.
I think Sony will be sitting pretty for next gen, but the start of a generation is always the most interesting time because things can change!
I think he's just trying to confirm that the Ps4 didn't have any deals in October.
Sorry about the confusion. Yeah, I was asking a legitimate question. It wasn't sarcasm.
The heavy hitters are out, launches are out of the way.
Time to see what the real holiday demand is like for the big titles.
More than a year old, and clearly still selling since they're not only in the top 10 switch list, but the top 10 overall. A year later. So what difference does that make?
And in all likelihood, if the UK split is any indication (not exactly the Switch's strongest region), it did do worse.
I found it funny because, like I said, Red Dead only spent 5 days in October.
Why do you believe Sony doesn't realize this? Last gen they were already eager to repeat at every turn that PS3 was "the number one platform for Netflix". The PlayStation store has an entire movie half to it. They automatically offer Crackle on every PS4. They've tried both movie and music services of their own on PS4, and then a deal with Spotify. And while it's unfortunately restricted to only a few markets, PS Vue was a groundbreaking cable-cutting service.
Here's the NPD winners since PS4 and Xbox One launched (last 10 entries are 2018):
PS4
XB1
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
XB1
XB1
PS4
PS4
PS4
XB1
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
XB1
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
XB1
XB1
XB1
XB1
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
SWI
SWI
PS4
PS4
SWI
SWI
SWI
SWI
PS4
SWI
SWI
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
PS4
SWI
SWI
PS4
PS4
Shipped is within reach, yes (and that's what company projections are all about). Both for calendar 2018 and for the fiscal year ending next March. Sell-through to consumers of 20m isn't likely for either period...though it's not entirely impossible.
The PS4 is such a monster. Unbelievable! Just collect the cash for another 2 years, with great exclusives like The Last of Us 2, Dreams, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Death Stranding, etc. October/November 2020 is the perfect launch date for the PS5.
Can't wait so see what Sony's amazing 1st party studios are cooking.
Can't wait so see what Sony's amazing 1st party studios are cooking.
Wow! They deserved it this gen. Saved us from a no used game society.
I feel like PlayStation Plus should cover more than just games. They are so fragmented at least within Sony's own services . I think they should look into ways that they could make Vue and PS Now into PS Plus as well as a movie rental from the store
Or like if you have a plus sub for a year you would get a discount on their other services instead of paying the normal subscription fee . I also think Sony just bought Funimation so they could have their own anime network tied into that.
Edit also why is crackle so outdated they own Sony pictures funimation now and aniplex
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