Topic: Official Sales Thread

[Mop it up]

Nice to see Fire Emblem Awakening holding on to a top spot. Does anyone know how those sales compare to previous games?

[Ceric]

Nintendo can't be disappointed in that week.

[Tamazoid]

Nice to see Fire Emblem Awakening holding on to a top spot. Does anyone know how those sales compare to previous games?

These are some numbers I found on Neogaf for Japan. I don't know how accurate they are.


20/04/90 [NFC] Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - ? / 329.000
14/03/92 [NFC] Fire Emblem Gaiden - ? / 325.000
21/01/94 [SFC] Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem - ? / 776.000
14/05/96 [SFC] Fire Emblem: Holy War Story - 228.578 / 429.763 (498.000 from sinobi)
28/08/99 [SFC] Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 - 30.104 / 158.695
29/03/02 [GBA] Fire Emblem: The Sealed Sword - 126.267 / 345.574
25/04/03 [GBA] Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword - 109.429 / 265.286
07/10/04 [GBA] Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - 146.026 / 246.719
20/04/05 [GCN] Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - 100.357 / 156.413
22/02/07 [WII] Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 73.337 / 171.924
07/08/08 [NDS] Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon - 147.704 / 252.309
15/07/10 [NDS] Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem - Hero of Light and Shadow - 147.045 / 247.248

[Luigi Dude]

The way Awakening sales are going, it's on track to being the 2nd best selling game in the series in Japan.  If it's legs hold up, it could actually get close to Mystery of the Emblem.  Either way, it's a huge success since it's the most popular game in the series in over a decade.

[Enner]

NPD April '12!
http://www.gamespot.com/news/prototype-2-tops-dismal-april-sales-6376131

APRIL 2012 US GAME SALES
OVERALL DOLLAR SALES
Total consumer spend (rentals, used sales, digital estimates included): $1 billion
Total retail sales: $630.4 million (-32%)
Non-PC hardware: $189.7 million (-32%)
Non-PC software: $292.1 million (-42%)
Total software: $307.2 million (-42%)
Accessories: $148.6 million (+1%)

TOP 10 GAMES FOR APRIL 2012
Title (Platforms) - Publisher
1. Prototype 2 (X360, PS3) - Activision
2. Star Wars Kinect (X360) - Microsoft
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360, PS3, Wii, PC) - Activision
4. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 (X360, PS3) - Electronic Arts
5. NBA 2K12 (X360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, PC) - Take-Two
6. The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition (X360) - Warner Bros.
7. Mario Party 9 (Wii) - Nintendo
8. Mass Effect 3 (X360, PS3, PC) - Electronic Arts
9. Just Dance 3 (Wii, X360, PS3) - Ubisoft
10. MLB 12: The Show (PS3, PSV) - Sony

Good on The Witcher 2 making it up there.

[broodwars]

Well, there's nothing surprising on this NPD list except how radically different it ended up compared to the "rumored" NPD list posted earlier in this thread.  The most striking things I see is just how many games on this list I do not have any interest in whatsoever.

As for the Witcher, I've been very reluctant to pick up that game because my completionist gaming style would demand that I play the first Witcher first.  I don't like playing games on my laptop, and I really don't have time for two massive RPGs right now anyway.  Maybe I'll play it someday, but for now I'd really rather play something else.

[Ymeegod]

I miss the ole NPD, you know the ones with numbers .  Not a word about Xenoblade at all.

[nickmitch]

I read that Xenoblade wasn't reported because it's a retailer exclusive.

[TJ Spyke]

I wouldn't believe that. Especially since GameStop gives their numbers to NPD.

I do think it's possible it jut didn't make the Top 10.

[BeautifulShy]

Yeah that is what I have been hearing too Nickmitch. Also to add on that what other games have been retail exclusive and they haven't shown up on the NPD. If they have shown up what could be the reasons for that? Few that comes to mind. Chibi Robo:Park Patrol for the DS at Walmart. Soul Bubbles for the DS at Toys R Us. Those are the ones that come to mind off the bat. Any others other then Xenoblade?

[TJ Spyke]

IIRC, those two games sold terribly (especially Chibi-Robo). Supposedly Xenoblade sold around 100K, and I think it's more than possible that MLB 12 sole more than that.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Supposedly the top selling game in the NPD is less than 236k.

[Ymeegod]

Actually that's xbox units sold not software, NPD didn't post an single number for software sold, instead it stated that the highest selling software this month didn't sell more than April 2011 7th place game which was Just Dance 2 and since we don't have that number we can't compare it to nothing other than Prototype 2 sold less than JD2 (april 2011) and more than Michael Jackson (april 2011) sales. 

The exact quote "Last April, the top seven titles outsold the top-selling title this year".  236K is only mentioned in terms of xboxes systems selling.

[TJ Spyke]

According to http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/index.php/2011/05/12/april-2011-npd-u-s-hardware-and-software-sales-data/, the #6 game in April 2011 sold 236K. If true, and that the #1 game this year sold less than the #7 game from last April, then indeed the #1 game this year sold less than 236K.

[NWR_insanolord]

A clarification: we got word from NPD that they don't list sales for retailer-exclusive games, so Xenoblade wouldn't be on there regardless of what it sold.

[TJ Spyke]

That is stupid of them. When a album/single is retailer exclusive, Billboard still counts it in their charts. NPD should do the same.

[UncleBob]

Billboard compiles music sales data for general consumption.
NPD complies sales data for business/retailers.  Walmart doesn't need to know how much of a GameStop exclusive sold (you'll note, NEVER does NPD break down the sales data by retailer).  GameStop and Nintendo know how much it sold, and that's all who need to know.

Individual chain sales data is VERY confidential information.  This is why Walmart refused to work with NPD for so long.

[Chozo Ghost]

We don't need to know, but we want to know. That's why NPD should tell us.

[NWR_insanolord]

I have to wonder if NPD even knows. If this is their policy, I doubt GameStop gave them any numbers for it. UncleBob's right here, for the audiences NPD is intended for it's not necessary to report that. If Nintendo or GameStop wants people to know (which they definitely will if it sells exceptionally well), they'll tell them themselves.

[TJ Spyke]

NPD collects sales information for companies like Nintendo, so why change that?

[Chozo Ghost]

(which they definitely will if it sells exceptionally well)

But if the game does sell exceptionally well wouldn't that be an embarrassment to Reggie and NoA who didn't even want to bring the game over at all? If it would be embarrassing to him then maybe he wouldn't want anyone to know that it did very well.

[Stratos]

I have a bad feeling that we won't hear a peep from NOA about how Xenoblade performed.

[NWR_insanolord]

NPD collects sales information for companies like Nintendo, so why change that?

Nintendo already knows how much it sold.

(which they definitely will if it sells exceptionally well)

But if the game does sell exceptionally well wouldn't that be an embarrassment to Reggie and NoA who didn't even want to bring the game over at all? If it would be embarrassing to him then maybe he wouldn't want anyone to know that it did very well.

If that happened they wouldn't ignore it, they'd just spin it in a way that made it look like this was their plan all along.

[TJ Spyke]

NPD collects sales information for companies like Nintendo, so why change that?

Nintendo already knows how much it sold.

They know how many they shipped to GameStop. Nintendo already made their money, whether GameStop sells the copies or not.

[NWR_insanolord]

I would imagine it was part of the contract between the two companies that GameStop would tell Nintendo how many copies they sold. Hell, from what I hear Nintendo has more precise sales tracking methods than just about anyone else in the business.