November NPD

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Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Wonder why Fallout 3 isn't on the list. Another list I saw had it at #12. If it sold only 375k on 360 in Oct. and say ~250k in Nov. that has to be considered rather disappointing.

That's not disappointing at all. It was released for PC and PS3 too you know.

(EDIT) I swear there were no posts between mine and Twobit like 5 seconds ago :|

[AladainAF]

Yeah I think Fallout 3 shipped more than 4.5 million in its first week.

[Araxen]

November's Best-Selling PC Games Revealed - Shacknews


1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King / Blizzard / $36 (Average)
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Ed. / Blizzard / $50 (Average)
3. Call Of Duty: World At War / Treyarch / $50 (Average)
4. Spore / EA Maxis / $48 (Average)
5. Fallout 3 / Bethesda / $49 (Average)
6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest / Blizzard / $34 (Average)
7. The Sims 2 Deluxe / EA Maxis / $19 (Average)
8. Left 4 Dead / Valve / $48 (Average)
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $21(Average)
10. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 / EA LA / $49 (Average)
11. World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $18 (Average)
12. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Exp. / EA Maxis / $19 (Average)
13. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy / Her Interactive / $20 (Avearge)
14. EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey / Sony Online Ent. / $40 (Average)(Average)
15. Far Cry 2 / Ubisoft Montreal / $50 (Average)
16. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack / Blizzard / $29 (Average)
17. BioShock / 2K Boston, Australia / $14 (Average)
18. Spore Creepty & Cute Parts Pack / EA Maxis / $19 (Average)
19. IGT Slots: Little Green Men / Masque / $20 (Average)
20. Assassin's Creed / Ubisoft Montreal / $11 (Average)

[Lost Ranger]

Ugh Spore? What a terrible game

[Szlia]

PC game sales manage to be more depressing than console game sales!

[Caliane]

Those sale numbers are a little weird.
They don't show numbers to give a better idea of what is really going on.
I'm pretty sure steam and other direct dl are NOT included.
Wow and Wow:CE being 2 spots skews it weird.

A number of those are sales, including Spore, even though its lists and average of 40.

But after that yeah. It's kindof sad which games are being bought retail.
Wheres Sins of a solar empire?

[Lenardo]

What i think is meant by megablockbusters - the lack there of- for the Wii is

Third Party AAA megablockbusters.

the reason is, because the only AAA games released exclusively for the Wii have been Made by Nintendo, no third party- as of yet- has released an AAA exclusive Title for the platform. the quality third party exclusives for the wii have not been big budget made by the best dev team.

that will come in 2009/2010- with monster hunter 3, the next Tales "mothership" game, DQX, maybe the conduit, maybe spyborgs (we have not heard anything from this game since the announcment). i have read that there are a few potential AAA IP's in development by 3rd parties exclusive for the wii, but they haven't been announced yet.


and overall the wii does have- world wide- higher 3rd party software sales than the 360- has since last christmas i believe.


december is going to be interesting this year:

will the ps3/psp/ps2 have a YoY increase/descrease?
will the 360 continue its good sales with a ~10% increase like november
will the wii break the all time record for a december? will it sell(ship) more than 3 million wii's?
will the ds continue IT's pace?

etc...

[Kragg Goremaw]

This makes me so sad, 33k units for the whole month. What else do PS3 owners have to buy this holiday season that they can't pick up this gem?

[Antoine]

littlebigplanet

oh wait

[Kragg Goremaw]

Which didn't do stellar either, selling something like 346k since it's release. I think LBP problem is the time of year it was released. these companies need to understand that the year has 12 months, it's possible to sell something outside of the flooded holiday time if it's going to be a quirky niche title.

This is why we get rehashes and sequels all the time, le sigh.

[Ronne]

I don't buy the time of month argument for LPB. It's an indie platformer game, I don't know that it would be a million seller under any market conditions. It's a cool little game, but quiet, cute games like it, while still fine games, don't really market to the GoW/Madden/Halo college-frat-guy market that accounts for the bulk of sales.

[Del]

Originally Posted by Kragg Goremaw

This makes me so sad, 33k units for the whole month. What else do PS3 owners have to buy this holiday season that they can't pick up this gem?

Niche game with absolutely no marketing sold like niche game with absolutely no marketing.

Did you buy it or are you part of the problem too? I bought it.

The fact that you need to be a shooter, a really big name sequel or a Nintendo game or else you won't sell like gangbusters these days is about as big of a problem as the Wii imo, but I won't get into that. I just hope Sega manages to make some kind of profit on this game.

[meStevo]

Some Gamasutra analysis of the console wars, with pretty graphs - Gamasutra - NPD: Behind the Numbers, November 2008