February NPD: Dead Space 3 tops the charts
February was packed with new releases, and most managed to crack the top 10 sales for this month's NPD retail report.
February was packed with new releases, and most managed to crack the top 10 sales for this month's NPD retail report. However, while the charts may look rosy, NPD Group industry analyst Liam Callahan pointed out that 2013's new launches "performed worse than last year with unit sales down 30%." Apparently, this year's games couldn't compete with the likes of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Dead Space 3 topped the list, proving that Phil Collins should be more involved with the games industry. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance lands at number 5, in spite of (or because) being a spin-off game without Solid Snake. Seemingly-forgotten Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time also snags the number 9 spot.
Critically-panned Aliens: Colonial Marines also charted.
Unfortunately for Capcom and Ninja Theory, their excellent DmC: Devil May Cry dropped off the list, in spite of a strong debut last month.
Hardware sales are rather unsurprising, with Xbox 360 topping the charts for the 19th consecutive month. "New platforms like the Wii U and PS Vita demonstrated some momentum from the typical January hardware lull," Callahan said, without revealing actual sales numbers.
Here's the chart:
- Top 10 Games (New Physical Retail only; new releases bolded)
- Dead Space 3 (360, PS3, PC)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II (360, PS3, PC, Wii U)
- Crysis 3 (360, PS3, PC)
- NBA 2K13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC)
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3, 360)
- Aliens: Colonial Marines (360, PS3, PC)
- Just Dance 4 (Wii, 360, Wii U, PS3)
- Far Cry 3 (360, PS3, PC)
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (PS3, PSV)
- Madden NFL 13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSV)
Once again, be mindful that "these sales figures represent new physical retail sales of hardware, software and accessories, which account for roughly 50 percent of the total consumer spend on games."
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, February NPD: Dead Space 3 tops the charts.
February was packed with new releases, and most managed to crack the top 10 sales for this month's NPD retail report.-
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Wasn't EA disappointed with the sales of Dead Space 3? #1 on the charts wasn't good enough?
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Yup, they even canned an entire studio creating the sequel.
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What, I thought the studio was behind some mobile entries and not directly related to Dead Space itself.
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I thought i read here that they canned the team involved in Dead Space 4.
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The Dead Space franchise was never canceled. We never reported the original rumor because, frankly, it sounded very untrue.
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There were plenty of outlets that ran with Videogamer.com's story from an anonymous source before EA and developers in the studio commented, though. I think that says something about how edgy the game development employment / wind-down process has been getting, as well as how opaque publisher PR is.
Is it bad that one anonymous source triggered that many outlets linking and running with a headline? Yeah, but consider that a number of stories started this way, most notably when Jason West and Vince Zampella were fired from Infinity Ward, and that came from Patrick Klepek getting anonymous tips. A day later, Activision's 10-K filing essentially confirmed the termination of employment of West and Zampella.-
Heh, I hadn't seen this part of that yet: http://www.videogamer.com/news/dead_space_4_videogamer_com_statement.html
The information was provided to us by a trusted source: an individual whose identity we agreed to protect, but whose background and statements gave us valid reason to trust their claims. We contacted Electronic Arts UK PR at 12:31 GMT on Monday, March 4, to ask whether they could confirm or deny that Dead Space 4 had been cancelled, or provide any further comment on the future of the series. This is standard industry practice.
In response, EA's UK representative asked us whether we would be willing to hold the story until the following day, Tuesday, March 5, to provide the publisher with more time to get a response from its US team.
After initially declining EA’s request, we later decided that waiting for an official response from the publisher would be the best course of action. At 16:34 GMT we informed EA UK that we would be holding the story overnight - as per their initial request - in the hope of receiving an official response.
And then it gets crazy from there. Yeah, I know that the UK is 8 hours ahead of Redwood Shores, but EA UK PR needed to do a better job of shooting this down before it went to press and got linked by Eurogamer, Joystiq, etc. There's more to the gaming world than just California.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-05-ea-cans-dead-space-series-following-poor-sales-of-dead-space-3-report
Apparently it was all bullshit? I dunno but its a pretty good rundown of what we know happened.-
Thanks for this, I can't help but think that we won't be seeing anymore Dead Space anytime soon unless EA runs out of franchises to milk or shit on.
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