NPD February 2011
- Thread starter AlphaWolf
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Ms is setting them-selves to break by a healthy margin their best xbox year ever. I would like to have more informations about how much stand alone and bundled Kinect were moved, the same would be neat to for software.
It could be that Ms may not need that much if any "hardcore exclusives" this year, multi platform sales are terrific and announcing a couple of strong Kinect titles at E3 (form them and third party editors) and wait for a shit ton of money to fall in their pocke't by next christmass could be their best bet.
It could be that Ms may not need that much if any "hardcore exclusives" this year, multi platform sales are terrific and announcing a couple of strong Kinect titles at E3 (form them and third party editors) and wait for a shit ton of money to fall in their pocke't by next christmass could be their best bet.
Sigfried1977
Legend
Surprised it's shifting numbers like that at all to be honest. It's the most bare bones, not to mention least accessible fighting game I played in ages.
February was a four week month. March will be a five week.
EDIT: On a personal note when is our next bowling or table tennis match?
EDIT2: For the love of everything...can we please get the Kinect Games thread unlocked...I mean it isn't like there are a lot of 360 threads on the board and even fewer Kinect gamers.
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EDIT: On a personal note when is our next bowling or table tennis match?
EDIT2: For the love of everything...can we please get the Kinect Games thread unlocked...I mean it isn't like there are a lot of 360 threads on the board and even fewer Kinect gamers.
That wasn't my call. I had requested it stay open, but got shot down. Maybe if we get enough people requesting it unlocked, they will open it again?
Tommy McClain
Yeah, everyone on this highway is driving in the wrong direction! They're apparently all insane.
Oh wait... what?
Seriously, when will we stop acting like every customer is stupid and we mighty few are the only people who know what's right? Maybe it'd be more productive to discuss why a shooter about black operations sells that much better than the other two games with sci fi settings and space marines / nazis.
There's a kinect thread?
Not sure if serious, but just in case, he's talking about this one. Locked because it would theoretically be better for each game to have its own thread. As of yet, most of the games are so simple though, that no one of them really merit that much discussion. OTOH, I could see how a catch-all thread could cause moderation issues.
February was a four week month. March will be a five week.
EDIT: On a personal note when is our next bowling or table tennis match?
EDIT2: For the love of everything...can we please get the Kinect Games thread unlocked...I mean it isn't like there are a lot of 360 threads on the board and even fewer Kinect gamers.
I would play Kinect with you except you probably want to come on at some ridiculous hour!
Cheers
EDIT: On a personal note when is our next bowling or table tennis match?
Yup, the bowling was fun. Also very, very surprised at the quality of voice chat over Kinect.
Table Tennis sounds like a great idea, though I'm not sure a game like that would survive the lag over 2 continents. Maybe worth a try though.
I never said that anyone is stupid ...
And it's not that it sells only much better than " the other two games with sci fi settings and space marines / nazis.". It sells much better then anything else regardless of scenario, even the shooters in the same scenario (modern warfare) sell much worse. And it can't be explained with arguments regarding the products quality. BO just became a self-runner, the game everyone has to have. And in my opinion it's sad for all the other devolopers out there who managed to make a comparable product and are nowhere their sales.
Agreed, assuming that there's something wrong with a group of consumers because they don't share your tastes when that group represents a majority opinion is either ego-maniacal or delusional.
TBH, I doubt setting has much to do with it. It's some combination of insight into what appeals to your customers, design, execution, marketing, and the success of the prior iterations providing the foundation for even greater success. The proportion that each of those contributed is a matter of opinion.
Really really strong sales for everybody.
Wonder why the spike?
I remember a big spike last February, which I attributed to income tax returns, but this pales even it.
These are PS2 in it's heyday numbers, for all three consoles!
Again I have to wonder why these corporations would look at next gen with such strong sales. I see no real reason. Even Wii seems ok really, except in Japan.
We'll see how much numbers weaken in upcoming spring non tax return months.
Some tidbits.
If the xbox 360 sells within 160k units (It could be 160k less) of the wii in march it will be the first full 12month period where the 360 has been ahead. If the 360 sells 414k or more they will pass 7 million for a one year period for the first time as well.
At its peak the Wii was sold nearly 11 million in a 12 month period, it is currently under 7 million (just ahead of the 360).
Peak 12 month US sales figures
Wii 10.9 million (Feb 09)
360 6.9 million (current)
PS3 4.9 million (through aug 2010)
If the xbox 360 sells within 160k units (It could be 160k less) of the wii in march it will be the first full 12month period where the 360 has been ahead. If the 360 sells 414k or more they will pass 7 million for a one year period for the first time as well.
At its peak the Wii was sold nearly 11 million in a 12 month period, it is currently under 7 million (just ahead of the 360).
Peak 12 month US sales figures
Wii 10.9 million (Feb 09)
360 6.9 million (current)
PS3 4.9 million (through aug 2010)
I'm not sure this is being emphasized enough to me these are phenomenal hardware sales; no qualifiers needed but when you add recession + the hardware prices it paints an even brighter picture...for hardware. For software, we [the industry] need to do better, with Microsoft in a powerful position in the US I believe some marketing and advertising dollars and maybe some hush money (towards publishers) should be spent on something akin to a "New $49.99 price! (39.99 Kinect)" and eschew a hardware price drop (maybe). I'm not one for awaiting sales stagnation or precipitously decline before making another bold move. If the hit to revenue and/or profit is drastic but hardware price reduction is not then I would want to take the first mover position ahead of any Nintendo or Sony cuts which may seem counter-intuitive given how strong sales are HW and SW but either of those cuts pre-slim YoY and I think Microsoft could have continued YoY growth.
[I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot as this was a serious stream of consciousness post]
+3rdeded
Why was it closed? Leave it open and leave the comparisons in the generic motion control thread.
Because it makes sense to how one thread for each game so discussion doesn't get messy. We don't have "racing games" and chuck all GT and Forza and NFS talk in there as it'd get muddled. We don't have "sports games" and mix it up. That doesn't make sense. If people want to talk about a game, it makes sense for that game to have its place of discussion. I don't understand why everyone wants to just mix all the discussion into one place, although suggestions are there's so little to talk about at the moment it's just a light topic that's more about the Kinect experience at the moment.
I've reopened it. Go knock yourselves out.