I demand more DLC.

@CosmicQueso said:

@2HeadedNinja said:

@iAmJohn said:

Still not a fan of the whole "Giant Bomb pretending NPDs are something worth talking about" thing.

jup, agreed. That stuff is just fanboy fuel.

Or, like, really important things for the industry to know.

Anyone who ignores NPDs, I hope they also ignore box office receipts. Especially considering that neither industry can be trusted to release their own internal numbers. They are both fundamentally flawed metrics, but incredibly important for anyone with a dime in the industry. (Which is why they can charge so much for the info.)

Anyway, I finished LA Noire this morning and glad I stuck with it through the final third without taking a break. I had heard a lot of opinions about the ending and I thought they stayed true to the serial drama aspect, even if it made the gameplay discombobulated. Future games like this will have a lot of lessons to learn from it.... Such as fuck Roy Earle.

i like how these things still dis-count digital distribution sales.

Glad that L.A. Noire has done as well as it has. You could say that this was expected since it has Rockstar on the cover, but anyone who saw any of the marketing for this game knew it wasn't a GTA style game so I hope this is a promising sign for this market.

Acting like sales don't matter is crazy. I'm not about to make it the masturbatory focus that's found on other parts of the web, but I find it interesting and I'm pretty sure others will, too.

That's a pretty good amount for being released two weeks into May.

HELL YEAH ZUMBA! FUCK YOU CALORIES!

It would have been 1 million if you had released it on PC. I woulda bought like 200k copies dawg.

Meh LA noir was mediocre i dont think it deservs to sell more than a million

I'm kinda surprised to see Brink do that well. The general reaction to that one seemed like one big "meh." Kudos to to the L.A. Noire team. It's a lovingly made, atypical game that deserves success.

Wait Lego outsold Portal 2?!

@CosmicQueso said:

@2HeadedNinja said:

@iAmJohn said:

Still not a fan of the whole "Giant Bomb pretending NPDs are something worth talking about" thing.

jup, agreed. That stuff is just fanboy fuel.

Or, like, really important things for the industry to know.

Or, like, not really because all those companies probably have good ideas of how their products are selling regardless of what NPD reports.

@Metroid545 said:

Wait Lego outsold Portal 2?!

For the month of May. Portal came out in April, so its not surprising.

Only near a million? I bet it was the xbox 360 version that sold more, I wouldn't be suprised.

Valve need to come clean and post some numbers. Not just "WE GOT OVER 60MIL STEAM USER ACCOUNTS!"

Seeing this makes me want to play LA Noire again lol

How is Just Dance 2 still selling, dosn't everybody already have that!

I wouldn't have expected Brink to be so high up on there! That's either impressive or depressing...hmmm hmmm.....

@CosmicQueso said:

@2HeadedNinja said:

@iAmJohn said:

Still not a fan of the whole "Giant Bomb pretending NPDs are something worth talking about" thing.

jup, agreed. That stuff is just fanboy fuel.

Or, like, really important things for the industry to know.

Those charts are pointless. For starters: Thats only US (and there are other countries besides the US out there), only consoles (yeah, I know, PC is dead) and do not include digital sales.

So thats just a fraction of the actual sales.

[edit:] A typo ... and: I'm pretty sure Witcher 2 has sold about 400 to 500k units until now. So if the top game is 900k shouldnt that be in there somewhere?

Still not a fan of the whole "Giant Bomb pretending NPDs are something worth talking about" thing.

Brink made second? How did that happen?

MK is still selling :) now where is my PC port?

@2HeadedNinja said:

@CosmicQueso said:

@2HeadedNinja said:

@iAmJohn said:

Still not a fan of the whole "Giant Bomb pretending NPDs are something worth talking about" thing.

jup, agreed. That stuff is just fanboy fuel.

Or, like, really important things for the industry to know.

Those charts are pointless. For starters: Thats only US (and there are other countries besides the US out there), only consoles (yeah, I know, PC is dead) and do not include digital sales.

So thats just a fraction of the actual sales.

[edit:] A typo ... and: I'm pretty sure Witcher 2 has sold about 400 to 500k units until now. So if the top game is 900k shouldnt that be in there somewhere?

It's the best publicly available sales information there is. You're right, Walmart isn't included nor is online sales, but I don't know about PC, I always thought it was. Could be wrong on that last point.

And yes it's culturally biased, but it's a good indicator of what games are selling the US, which is, if I'm not mistaken, a f**king huge market for video games. Digital retailers like Steam will never reveal their numbers, nor do they have to, but NPD is the best indicator of what boxed games are selling.

I think it's newsworthy, and I'm sure a lot of other people here do too.

Brink taking second place makes me sad.

MK is still selling :) now where is my PC port?

I have a feeling that L.A. Noire will probably be a consistent seller for the next few months. I imagine that the game has great word of mouth and a number of people I know (dudes who don't buy too many games in a year) seem to be buying it and enjoying it.

And here I thought GB was a different kind of website.

Down with NPD numbers, and down with misleading headlines.

Really surprised that Brink continues to do so well. Makes me wonder whether most people actually read game reviews before buying stuff??

It's not like it had any competition, is it?
 
The Witcher 2 wasn't going to outsell a multiplatform release and you won't get full sale numbers of it anyway. (Steam)

Surprised at how well Brink did, I don't know anyone who played it.