March 2017 NPD: Two PS4 Exclusives in Top Five Spots

Horizon was obsolete as soon as Zelda came out.

I wouldn't know Ghost Recon or For Honor if they jumped up and bit me on the bum.

Yeah, I was wrong on this one. I assumed Wildlands would come out on top as a multiplat with fun sandbox co-op play. But I thought Horizon would come in 2nd. I thought Zelda would do well with a high attach rate (though not 100%+), but that it would be limited by platform install base. And I thought both would beat Andromeda even though it's multiplat, because of the tepid reviews and horrible word of mouth (bugs, animations, etc.).

Oh well, back to Horizon!

@adf86 At least Waluigi doesn't bring gameplay down to a screeching stop with cutscenes like Nathan Drake.

@get2sammyb You're so right. For all our analysis on "Buzz" and "reviews" its clear that people still buy with their hearts and not their heads. Almost no one talks about Wildlands online atm but it sold the most and eveyone would have thought ME:A wouldnt sell well due to all the negative word of mouth. Goes to show how much online forums and comment sections are really just small sample sizes of the gaming community.

@TrueAssassin86x Another random fact: Xbox One isn't selling bad at all. Doing better than 360, actually. It's just comparatively it looks bad.

And never talk down to another fanbase. I know Sony fans say they do it because it happened to them with the PS3 Vs Xbox 360, but that doesn't solve anything, just gives them a reason to carry it on when their time comes.

I'm sorry @get2sammyb I had to

@waluigifan1

On topic: that's crazy about Ghost Recon. We must all live in a bubble indeed. I don't think I've played a title in that series that I have actually liked, but good on Ubisoft.

Well, the fact that first party games are not including the digital sale figures, I'm astonished that HZD and The Show are in the top 5. Same thing about Zelda.

@waluigifan1 dude don't troll it's not cool or funny people just think you're a moron when they see comments like yours. I will say that since Zelda came out there's been nonstop articles on horizon on n4g as well as a few on kotaku,ign,polygon etc and a full length documentary just releasing so for it being forgotten about after Zelda released according to you it seems to be doing pretty well in coverage. Hell I see more about horizon nowadays than I do Zelda and that's impressive considering switch as nothing to talk about besides Zelda lol

@waluigifan1 oh look you trolling another highly acclaimed ps series in uncharted after just trolling horizon. Dude I don't know if it hurts you that Sony for the last twenty years has released the most critically acclaimed games according to metacritic which was one of the very few things Nintendo had over Sony but now that that's gone desperate fanboys like you are losing it

@TrueAssassin86x dude what fantasy world do you live in where the PS3 was weaker than the 360 lol. Seriously just drop it Xbox has never outsold Sony and it never will. Sony is just too popular worldwide and legendary and yeah ms has carved itself a nice little niche but no one cares for it like people do for Sony and Nintendo besides hardcore and crazy fanboys

Wow honestly expected Horizon to easily outsell Zelda. Genuinely surprised

@get2sammyb How can we be sure how well anything sells when it can be shipped/sold through?

Based on trends, which estimates anywhere from 25-35 million Xbox One's sold worldwide, that's nothing to scoff at.

But hey, it's all better than 13 million Wii Us and 2.4 Million Switches.

Guys - don't forget that Horizon lost out on all of its preorders for these numbers. It came out in the us on February 28th and didn't count for march.

In other news GTA5 still hangs around to see everyone coming in and leaving.

I'll avoid the other nonsense going on here and just say it's nice to see MLB The Show 17 on the chart. Sony's most underrated and underappreciated exclusive. It gets no coverage, no respect yet it's consistently one of, or sometimes depending on how said year's NBA 2K turns out, the best games released each year. But yeah, I know the general attitude of the internet gaming community is 'it's sports so who cares?' Is what it is.

Software sales up 24% year-over-year...wow!
Don't care for Ghost Recon or For Honor, but good on Ubi. 2 new IPs and they are the best selling games of the year. Hope their next IP is single player focused though.

Interesting observation- not a single XB1 full/console exclusive.
MS needs to pick up their slack. They can offer all the services they like, but you can't sell a games console without games.

absolutely loved Horizon and Zelda, and nearly 100% both of them. Haven't got chance to play wildlands and ME:A though..will probably wait for a price cut...

I just feel happy whenever I see nier automata on sales chart . 33 hour in the game and I still not reaching the ending, got the sardine troll ending though.

Btw, it's amazing that only 3 games from 20 games that shown in npd chart can't be played on ps4.

@Neolit NieR is worth the price. Loving that game as much as HZD.

Hmm Nier is slowly starting to make itself towards my purchase list even though I'm not into Platinum games normally. Glad it is doing well.

I do think most gamers are in a bit of a bubble when it comes to the majority of the gaming populace. The big third party publishers just have the marketing and brand power to push through sales in a lot of cases. I know non one playing either For Honour or Wildlands but then if I go to my local supermarket, those are the ones being promoted and not Nier or Persona 5 which are being held up as being game of the year material by the gaming community.

@TrueAssassin86x VGChartz estimate their numbers. They're not a reliable source in the slightest.

@Neolit honestly, I just saw a perfect opportunity to use a "Broken" Matt Hardy meme and had to jump on it. Nothing against @waluigifan1 or his/her opinion personally

@Rudy_Manchego I saw a review of Nier earlier today, and it convinced me. It'll be my next game after Horizon. Looking forward to it.

The Switch certainly seems to be popular, surprise to see Bomberman so high.

@ShogunRok Their estimates are often pretty close though. They get sales data from certain retailers and through experience, they are able to extrapolate the actual sales data. Or at least, close enough, take the numbers with a 10% margin and they're pretty accurate.

Ubi$oft must be laughing all the way to the bank. I guess this proves they can rake in the money without AC.

Switch should really get GTAV. Mindbogglingly how it still sells and a ton of portable copies could be sold.

@get2sammyb Wrong about what?

@Octane Hmm I might be sold on it, still got to get on with Zelda and not get distracted by other games! This is a cracking year for games.

@Rudy_Manchego Indeed it is! And I still have to get Gravity Rush and Nioh too. Mario Odyssey later this year, another Uncharted game, maybe Detroit and/or Spider-Man?

@Octane Yep, I haven't got Resi 7 yet, have MK8 on pre-order, I want FarPoint, UC:Lost Legacy, RDR2, Nier, Little NIghtmares, Mario Odyssey. I need more money and more time!

horizon was much more popular in europe than it was in the US. 1st week sales figures had horizon beating ghost recon (on all formats combined). maybe if they'd replaced aloy with a marine/commando/military grunt and the bow with an assault rifle, it might have sold better...

I love Horizon, such a good game! It controls well, the story is compelling, and the world is beautiful.

regarding VGchartz - their UK data is accurate, at least as far as software goes. afaik, it's also accurate for germany, france and japan. i assume their WW estimates are based on a trend analysis/calculation that involves quite a bit of guesswork. say sony announces 50m sales, and it's known that 18m sales are in the US, and 22m in europe, and 4m in japan.. that leaves 6m for everywhere else, so pretty much a 14% uplift is applied to all numbers til another official figure is given. i think part of the problem in estimating XB1 sales is that compared to NA and the UK, everywhere else seems almost negligible.

@Rudy_Manchego I already own MK8

Mario Odyssey will be the system seller for me, and I'll get ARMS and Splatoon 2 when I get the Switch too. Of course, provided they have interesting stuff coming in 2018 as well. A Metroid or Pikmin 4? I hope they're coming...

I'd love to try RDR2, but with all those open world games this year, I don't know if I have the time.

@get2sammyb not to mention 10% of 28 million is 2.8 million that they could be off by? That would put it well below the 360 in sales. Plus depending on scorpios release date they have what a year left in sales? So 35million tops.... Thats half of 360s total sales

@get2sammyb I think sites like this attract real gamers and by that I mean people who enjoy many types of games and unique experiences as opposed to just shooting or Fifa as the increasing majority seem to do. I thought Horizon would be higher but as you say this may not include downloads and I guess it doesn't help when everyone buys 2 copies of Zelda whether they own a Switch or not 😃

@get2sammyb Okay, let's get this sorted. I didn't say they're 100% accurate, and most people know the numbers can be off by a small margin. Did Horizon sell exactly 158,273 copies in the week of March 18? No of course not. It could've been 140,000, or it could've been 160,000. One thing is sure, it's not 50,000 and it's not a million either. The estimates are close enough to compare sales data. It just gets redundant when you're talking about the thousands and the hundreds. Like, Nier sold 54,435 copies on the PS4 in the same week, and LEGO Worlds sold 54,407. Did Nier outsell LEGO Worlds? Yeah, nobody knows for sure. But their actual sales were probably pretty close.

So when @BLP_Software suggested the Xbox One is selling better than the 360? The answer is probably, there's a small chance it isn't doing as good, but it's pretty close either way. Sales data of software also back this up. Xbox One versions generally sell around 50% of what the PS4 versions sells (that's true for most western games at least). So their estimate of 29 million for Xbox One. I think that's pretty likely. Maybe it's 27, maybe it's 31, but either way, it's pretty close to the 360 sales. And of course, VGChartz isn't the only one that tracks sales. SuperData reported Xbox One sold an estimated 26 million units up until November last year. It all adds up.

@NintendoFan4Lyf
I'm a little surprised myself. I figured Mass Effect would grab one of the top two spots. It was a pretty well-liked franchise among the Xbox fanbase and Xbox One hasn't had a ton in the way of games this year that would detract from it but I think some of the controversies - for lack of a better word - surrounding its development didn't help.

@get2sammyb Yeah, but the difference is that they're not ''just'' guessing. They get actual data from retailers. By that logic we should also disregard all public polls because they're just estimates and don't represent the entire population. Like I said, provided you can accept a small margin of error, their numbers are pretty close. I'd love to see anyone else try and guess next week's numbers and see if they're anywhere close though, and repeat that for the remainder of the year.

But anyway, I digress, it was about the Xbox One sales in the first place. And I think we can all agree with BLP that those are around 25-35 million units at this point, in line with the 360.

@get2sammyb Those polls weren't necessarily wrong though. The polls in the UK were close, it could've gone either way. But that just proves that there's always a small margin of error. The polls in the US were even closer, they predicted Clinton would win by 2-3%. Turns out, she won by 2.1%, blame the US election system for their backwards way of electing their president in the way it does.

Don't ask me, I'm no representative of VGChartz!

25-35 wasn't my estimate, but that's an extremely safe guess. I'd even go as far and say it's between 27 and 31 million, more like a normal distribution with a σ of a million. Yes, there's a margin of around 4 million, but like I said, it's close to the Xbox 360 either way, and that was the original point.

@get2sammyb
People upset because it's not a PlayStation bashing article on a PlayStation-specific website. I'm getting really tired of seeing the bullsh*t both here and Nintendo Life. I'd say the dumb needs to start being reigned in but there's only so much a limited number of admins and mods can do.