November NPD: Modern Warfare 3, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted 3 sales

Check out first month NPD sales for Modern Warfare 3, Uncharted 3, and Assassins Creed Revelations.

[ForROME]

Not bad for Uncharted but given its dev value, I was hoping it would break a million

[happyface]

didn't sony try to make it look like this game sold millions on the first day?

whoops

[harrisk954]

It sold millions World Wide and shipped almost 4 million on its first day

... but, obviously in your limited worldview, NPD represents the whole world.

[evilunklebud]

NDP is not the world..... Blah blah blah.

Who gives a crap anyway?

[JokesOnYou]

yeah, I thought UC3 would of done better given the great press from UC2, still any improvement on UC2 sales is a success for UC3.

MW3 is a beast, 9 mil in the US alone in 1 month, daaayum!...thats 3 or 4 times the lifetime WW sales of some other notable games. lol, I remember not too long ago there were quite a few here who swore BF3 would actually sell better, no really, not all but a vocal minority were making such claims and then....reality.

AC3 sales are surprising, I didn't expect it would do that well considering the heavy competition as of late....never the less well deserved. I'll pick it up myself soon.

[4Sh0w]

In this thread there was a bunch of question about sony's statement on UC3 sales
http://n4g.com/news/884340/...

Now for all those who were saying there's no difference between shipped and sold you are totally wrong and this is a big example why, because any company can flood the retail channel up front and say hey we "sold" this many copies but the question is how many are on store shelves, vgchartzs gives a rough estimate of consumers sales, and npd gives a more reliable figure of sold to consumer sales that is much more important and reliable than shipped to retailer #'s because sold to consumer dictates actual demand for that product, while shipped only projects expectations which may or may not be met, no doubt retailers will take 3.8 mil up front because even if the initial sales expectations are not met up front the game will no doubt at least reach its predecessors lifetime sales in the future if nothing else because the install base is larger. Also 3.8mil sold to consumers in 1 day or hell even 1 month, definitely means it will sell many more millions over its lifetime and at full price vs 1mil sold at full price, then price drops for the other 2+mil to get them off store shelves, which is important to devs. Now looking at these sales figures puts sony's initial statement in perspective because historically the US usually accounts for about half of WW software sales alone and given that UC3 only sold 700k in the US for its entire 1st month vs the 3.8mil worldwide sony said sold in just 1 day were sold, there is no doubt those figures were more PR fluff and nowhere close to actual consumer sales, which is important for the reason I mentioned above.

[IRetrouk]

kinda see what youre saying but at the same time the ww shiped numbers are probably true, oh but the part about americans sale being half of ww numbers is flat out wrong, do some digging, check gt5s numbers.

[SDF Repellent]

I really hate to be the one that say "I told you so, Uncharted did not sell 3.8 millions in one day!!" but...wait?, Oh, I was the one that said" I told you so!" http://n4g.com/news/884340/...

[jetlian]

for shooters and uncharted as a whole half is about right for usa. GT5 is a racing game which most americans could care less about

To ND credit they were trying to make their mark. Activision claimed 9 million day 1 didn't happen, EA claimed 10 million week one. didn't happen. Bethesda claimed 7 million it too didn't happen.

Most were going for bragging rights and to prove their worth

[4Sh0w]

There are exceptions to every rule, racing and soccer traditionally do better outside the US, jrpg's and eccentic games do well in Japan the rest including UC majority of sales come from US.

[EVILDEAD360]

Uncharted 3 actually did good..

The problem is Sony had the bright idea of releasing their star franchise in the middle of the game they thought would push PS3s (BF3) and the true #1 selling franchise on the PS3 (COW:MW3)

If I was Sony I would have released UC3 in early October and dominated the PS3 dollars. But, I said the same thing last year when they missed the opportunity to give Little Big Planet 2 holiday dollars as well.

I always shake my head at the people at Sony who schedule the PS3 game releases.

Salutes Skyrim's position on the charts..

It'll be interesting to see what Zelda ends up with in December

Either way..alot of games had a great holiday..December is upon us..

Evil

[Boon Tarkas]

Ya, they did. And as to why you have disagrees ...juveniles.

[GoToTheOptionsMenu]

The guy who thinks NPD accounts for the world sales must have this daydream running in his head all day.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[sikbeta]

@happy

They said ww shipped you low life troll

U3 did great, November has the bigger and best seller games of the year, COD, Skyrim, AssCreed (which keeps growing sales wise), BF3 which holds up great against COD and Batman:AC that keeps up there with the big ones and deserves it

[Boody-Bandit]

4Show
You do realize that shipped vs sold doesn't mean a bit of a difference to the publisher / manufacturer of the product, don't you? I'm going to wager a guess the answer to my question is no.

Once the distributor "purchases" the product from the publisher or manufacturer it is considered sold by the publishers / manufacturer. In other words they already made their bank.

Products are not given to retailers and etailers on consignment. They pay the publishers / manufacturers and distributors for said product.

Also nobody is flooding anyone with anything. These publishers and manufacturers know what the probable demand is for their products. Just like the distributors and retailers are not going to blindly purchase products not having a clue as to whether or not they will be able to move them.

When are those that argue over sales numbers going to understand this? I will never understand the logic, or lack there of, when it comes to the numbers game. Who gives a shit what a game sells as long as the games we enjoy make enough money to warrant further support and probable sequels for said games?

The most boring part of E3 and other gaming shows is when they talk numbers. Save that for your share holder meetings and just bring on the games.

[guacman88]

u3 sold 200,000 more than u2 in first month in usa thats great for the series. the sales for each game just keeps getting bigger

mw3 is a beast again what else is new wait until ww figures come in and you will see that all the games did great especially if we go by these numbers

[StarWolf]

http://n4g.com/news/884340/...

LOL, look at the first comment getting 130 disagrees.

[IRetrouk]

worldwide vs america

[wages of sin]

IRetrouk,

So what you're saying is that it takes the rest of the world combined to match America in the gaming world?

Now that you've made that clear I can care even less what someone in Europe thinks about NPD numbers. It's funny how it's people like you who complain about this every freaking month, yet no one here in the states seems to care.

@LX,

You're exactly right. That's what it boils down to.

[AmaZinG]

Uc3 sold 1.2M 1st week and probably close to 2M WW in November...

Good sales.

[awi5951]

1.7 million 360's sold in the US in November thats crazy.

How is xbox selling so much without a price cut the price is never going to go down like this. How much money is Microsoft making each 360 sold now?

[ZippyZapper]

I know that's just the US with Christmas is coming up.

[Biggest]

Don't really need to cut price when you're already cheaper than the competition.

[Silly gameAr]

Wasn't the 199 dollar models busted down to 149, plus like $50 gift cards or something. Plus free XBL cards, I'm sure selling those wasn't to hard to do.

[Boon Tarkas]

what competition?

[Killzonegamer84]

Wow, i havent visited this site in forever. So video gaming is still popular?! Video games are so boring now. Same crap every year.

[ZippyZapper]

Did you remember the password to an old dup account?

[TheFallenAngel]

Well the fanboy battles are not as what they used to be. People still get in internet arguments for things that they don't even make money of. Videogames are not boring though.

[TheFallenAngel]

I didnt get Uncharted 3. maybe down the road, but i did got MW3.

[ginsunuva]

I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences to your loss.

[Bundi]

You mean condolences for all that time he has LOST enjoying himself with a game he considers fun??

[Darkfocus]

no condolences for a that time he lost playing a game that is less fun, has a lesser story, and lessor graphics to UC3

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Sony said 3.8 mil SOLD on first day Lol

[Grip]

they just pull these number from their @$$

[xfrgtr]

WORLWIDE!!!!!!
npd is for the US!!!!!!!

[aquamala]

So you still think it sold 3.8 million worldwide on day one when npd shows 700k sold in the whole november in us?

[OMGitzThatGuy]

@aquamala
Exactly what I mean

[Sevir]

Popular their game nd franchise is! have a look at this interview and then wake up to a nice humble pie! http://thesilentchief.com/2...

Yes the ENTIRE FRANCHISE HAS TOPPED 13 million Globally! Go figure which one has sold how much!

[hadouken007]

More kerosene on the fire please.

[baodeus]

man that is some serious selling power of the MW franchise, every year no less.

Here is a note from Sony 2007 earning report:

"beginning with Q1 FYO7, the method of reporting hardware and software unit sales has been changed from production "shipments" to recorded "sales". It is just a change in the wording that is all.

MS and Sony do not track sell to actual customers, and that is where NPD/gftrack, vgchart...etc...comes in. MS and Sony do pay good moneys for these information for purpose of trending, scaling on how they are doing and how to improve their businesses.

[Bundi]

And this is why shipped numbers do not mean squat. Bu bu bu they aren't just sitting in shops, people are obviously buying them. . .obviously they aren't. Not in the US anyway, not in November anyway. I'd say they still haven't sold half of what they shipped to date.

[frozenheartshukla]

WORLD WIDE... NPD is only the U.S.
It sold millions World Wide and shipped almost 4 million on its first day

... but, obviously in your limited worldview, NPD represents the whole world.

[Boon Tarkas]

As far as sales go the US is the whole world. Everybody else is just gravy.

[aquamala]

Fanboys still believe uc3 sold 3.8 million on first day? Isn't it clear that's a shipped number and not sold?

[Sevir]

Lets ask NaughtyDog's Product and Sale's manager the exact sales figure because Somehow they are wrong... Right? /S

http://thesilentchief.com/2...

[gypsygib]

And Battlefield 3 is nowhere to be found. I just bought the game 2 days ago but the controls are extremely loose, it's really weird...and bad.

[spektical]

bf3 feels right.. mw3 feels like im on steroids.

[Captain Tuttle]

Uncharted 3 deserves better sales. It's a shame that MW3 most likely outsold it on the PS3

[guacman88]

I just thought about something there is about 1.5 million uc3 in america right now because if you bought a ps3 in november (sony sold about 900,000 units) then you got u3.im guessing about 700,000 of those units were the uc3 bundle. i dont know if they count bundle sales and as you can see uc3 is a console seller in america based off those numbers just imagine worldwide numbers of ps3 sales and uc3 standalone disc thats crazy definently sold better than 2 which is great. Another thing whats up with theses shipped vs sold numbers people are arguing about.the people who say when sony shipped 3.8 and it dosen't matter after that because they got paid for 3.8 million are right because they dont get paid for consumer sale through. and for the people who say uc 3 sold this amount are right too because that is what it sold to consumers and sony gets none of that money.soo both sids of the argument are right why cant you people see thaton this site.

[GameTavern]

But how did you figure 700k of those were Uncharted bundles?

They have inFamous bundles, Resistance bundles, I believe LittleBigPlanet was bundled a lot on Black Fri and Move bundles.

[guacman88]

because those were the ones in the store that replaced infamous 2 bundles at 299. and besides i said about so i wouldnt have to be direct. and that was the bundle that came out in november right.

[aquamala]

Most of the ps3 sold in nov had to be the $199 160gb with 2 games, why would anyone get other bundles?

[guacman88]

Ohh Yeah i forgot about that deal. still though that was one day and im pretty sure that deal was at the end of the month but uc3 bundle came out nov 1. but yeah the game still sold more than uc2 and i seen a article that uc3 just passed 2million in america but yeah i forgot about that deal

[Papertiger]

uncharted 3 had its highest sales release ever in the series, and 360-centric fools are in here are somehow trying to twist it into some sort of negative and with only U.S. numbers at that. How desperate and ridiculous can you get??

If you want to play by the numbers route, look how your precious forza 4 did in the states....Pathetic.

[Game3s]

You miss understand, they (the ones you call 360-centric fools) are simply saying sony announced that 3.8m copies of uncharted was sold on day 1 and NPD proves that things are not like that, sony even went on to clarify that it is actually shipped copies and not sold after awhile, there is a source for this but i don't remember the site so go research.

[Mastarace]

UC3 sold poor,it should have easily sell 1 million. uc2 made it the 2nd biggest franchise sony has. the subway marketing and all and somehow it didn't do it.

[Ippiki Okami]

and skyrim. I got the platinum for UC3 the first week and played multi-player for a few days until skyrim came out. I haven't played UC3 since and yes I know it has awesome co-op :(

[joex]

Xbox 360 1.7 million million in november!!