Circana (NPD) US Sales April 2024 - PS5 (#1 for both) NSW (#2 units, #3 dollar) XBS (#3 units, #2 dollar) / Stellar Blade #1, Sea of Thieves #4
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I can’t wait for the mental gymnastics on why Stellar Blade flopped despite the hard data.
There's no flop, just that #1 in this month is not as large of a number as previous months.
It still charted at #16 YTD which is very good for a game of its genre and the fact it's coming from a new studio(at least to the worldwide audience).
Some estimates have Xbox at 100-105k. Six thousand units away from the five digit thousands. And that’s in its strongest market the US.
New IP... it didn't put the world on fire but the sales seems to be fine in NPD at least.
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Stellar Blade had one week of sales, so a little bit of context needs to be applied here. It did great and its release window was timed perfectly to allow it to shine.
Ronin seems to have held up fairly decent too.
Should be interesting to see how Helldivers 2 fare next month given everything.
Ronin seems to have held up fairly decent too.
Should be interesting to see how Helldivers 2 fare next month given everything.
What I’m saying is it didn't flop. Whoever expects Ragnarok or Spiderman numbers are delusional. The game is a AA new IP.
Xbox to dip below 100k this summer, these are late Xone life numbers
it was free ps plus monthly game, they always shoot to the top of engagement. Which is why engagement is a stupid metric
That made up ranking is not useful...
It has the same issues we are point with MAUs from MS.
I haven't kept up with the months, is May a weaker console shipment month than April in the last few years?
If it is, it could go down below 100k especially considering more bad news with Xbox closing the Bethesda studios happened at the beginning of that month.
Prototype bros catching strays
It did less than 236k in NPD April 2012.
But it was only retail.
BTW it debut killed the franchise because Prototype sold 600k at retail in debut NPD... Prototype 2 was a big flop.
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Prototype bros catching strays
He really had to tweet something to take away from the game huh? Funny how he failed to point out it had one week of sales.
Did buddy ever downplay starfields sales compared to Skyrim?