March 2011 NPD Thread of ME3 Sales in Red/Green/Blue, Vita last seen flying away!

[hdinred]

So the 360 sold 944k while the ps3 sold 236k on Mass Effect 3.

That's pretty shocking, although I guess the series history and ties to your previous save file are a big part of that.

[Onslaught X]

Seriously, are we just guessing at Vita numbers? Are there no reports available?

The 200-225k number is supposedly true. If it were to be, that's actually a pretty solid number for the Vita.

That's pretty shocking, although I guess the series history and ties to your previous save file are a big part of that.

Also, Western RPGs have skewed super heavily on 360.

[Godstar]

Seriously, are we just guessing at Vita numbers? Are there no reports available?

From what I heard, it's doing not so good in Japan, land of handhelds, so doubt it's doing much better here.

[thejnc]

From what I heard, it's doing not so good in Japan, land of handhelds, so doubt it's doing much better here.

Not doing well in Japan at all. PSP is still outselling it.

http://kotaku.com/5901658/the-ps-vit...ind-of-screwed

The PS Vita Has Seen Better Weeks. Now, It Looks Kind of Screwed.
You know things are bad when your old portable is beating your brand new one. This week, Sony's PS Vita sold only 8,931. The PSP sold 14,804 units. The good news, I guess, is that Sony makes both handhelds. The bad? The newly released PS Vita continues to nosedive in Japan. This week it sold less than 10,000.


That's worrying! In comparison, the 3DS moved 72,115 units—not bad for a console that people thought was D.O.A. last year.

Rolling out new hardware is incredibly difficult. The PS Vita, like the 3DS, is an impressive piece of hardware. The 3DS finally has a nice line-up of games to keep players happy—and to entice new 3DS owners. These are growing pains, for sure, and the games are slowly trickling out. But Sony better turn things around, before the rot starts to set in.

[Onslaught X]

Not doing well in Japan at all. PSP is still outselling it.

http://kotaku.com/5901658/the-ps-vit...ind-of-screwed

Still lacks a killer app in Japan. The 3DS hit some rough times too prior to its price drop and subsequent releases. E3 will be important for Vita.

That said, just because it isn't doing well in Japan doesn't mean it's not doing better in the U.S., because like I said, the word is that the Vita did over 200k in March.

[CorruptedDragon]

Hah, one of the few games my fiancé loves to play.
That and Lego games of course, has batman II already preordered on 360 (yes, she was a bona fide MAD when I met her)

Good to see "Operation Mole" is going according to plan infiltrating the SDF high command.

I like the lego games too

[chipvideo]

Hah, one of the few games my fiancé loves to play.
That and Lego games of course, has batman II already preordered on 360 (yes, she was a bona fide MAD when I met her)

So is she still MAD?

Certainly, prefers the controller layout (against my logical persuasions).

I see sacrifices for yourself when you get married.

[Badger3920]

I see sacrifices for yourself when you get married.

Or just do what analog does with rushgirl; get her her own console and put it in a far away room

[gamma626]

Well, there goes Silent Hill.

[Bane]

Well, there goes Silent Hill.

It's for the best right now. No one seems to be able to do the series justice since the original team broke up. I say let the series lay low until someone comes along with a great take and reboot it with something that knocks everyone's socks off again. I truly think the series can attain the heights it had with 1-3 again but Konami doesn't seem to know how to do that right now.

The tricky part of all this is Konami not just giving up and never revisiting it.

[Televator]

It's for the best right now. No one seems to be able to do the series justice since the original team broke up. I say let the series lay low until someone comes along with a great take and reboot it with something that knocks everyone's socks off again. I truly think the series can attain the heights it had with 1-3 again but Konami doesn't seem to know how to do that right now.

The tricky part of all this is Konami not just giving up and never revisiting it.

I subscribe to this idea.

[gamma626]

Silent Hill Downpour was great actually. The problem was with the budget. They couldn't do half the things they wanted to do, or spend the money to re-work the things they realized didn't work. Konami essentially killed that one itself.

Be honest, how many people here actually played downpour?

[twonunpackmule]

I liked the Wii game. It wasn't perfect, but I liked it. I would have love to have seen it expanded and tweaked. It definitely was a nice step in the right direction for "adventure games." Though, I could agree that as a Silent Hill title it was a little weak. Still a solid attempt at a game though. Really dug the idea behind the puzzles.

I won't be buying Downpour until it is cheaper.

[Ergo-Proxy]

Silent Hill Downpour was great actually. The problem was with the budget. They couldn't do half the things they wanted to do, or spend the money to re-work the things they realized didn't work. Konami essentially killed that one itself.

Be honest, how many people here actually played downpour?

I didnt play downpour, but I am willing to.
But if they took Homecoming's route, I understand why some may consider it a weak title in the series.
After the Silent Hill movie the games tried to incorporate elements from the motion picture and added few more "westernized" elements of horror which can be pretty shallow sometimes and dont fit well to the Silent Hill world.
Each game also had its own set of monsters and threads depending on the character's past and background. But the movie mixed elements from various installments and so did Homecoming.
For example the Pyramid Head's appearance in Homecoming was totally unnecessary, He was a unique character with a special role in 2. In Homecoming he was placed to satisfy the movie crowd or to make it more commercial. We also saw monsters from Silent Hill 2. And those masked dudes from the movie
Konami was a genius with the series. The abnormal didnt have to be so obvious and explicit. The eerie feel of something lurking existed throughout the world. You could feel it even though you couldnt observe the evil directly with your eyes at all times.
You could feel that something disturbing is hidden deep within the town's history, and the monsters werent simply evil boogermen from hell. They conveyed some form of pain, torture and suffering that the town's residents endured or even the main protagonist may endure.
The Silent Hill reboot incorporated some pretty nice elements but killed the original feel with its shallow, fast paced and repetitive elements too.

Which Silent Hill is Downpour more similar to?

[Bane]

Silent Hill Downpour was great actually. The problem was with the budget. They couldn't do half the things they wanted to do, or spend the money to re-work the things they realized didn't work. Konami essentially killed that one itself.

Be honest, how many people here actually played downpour?

Not buying it until I get get it for $30 or less. My point stand though, the series used to really have an impact on the industry and it simply doesn't anymore. I think it can be that again but Konami needs to wait for someone with great ideas to come along. The series needs to rest for a while.

Really it seems like you wouldn't need a big budget to make a great SH game. The first few had a rather minimalist approach. Goes back to that whole "the best horror is what you don't see" thing.