September NPD TK Context

Okay, now I’ve had some time to look back and reflect at the pieces I know of the NPD puzzle to add to my earlier post.

Tekken 6 did not chart on NPD’s top 10 when it came out either. I guess I still expected TTT2 to do so because T6 was on a chart for October sales and TTT2 for September. Unfortunately, NPD no longer gives numbers so unless you happen to find the info elsewhere, you mostly only know a rank nowadays. There used to be numbers for titles in the top 10 at least. TTT2 not charting doesn’t actually say much, such as if it did better or worse than T6 or even Soul Calibur 5. SC5 did chart, however, that was for sales in January so the competition usually isn’t as strong (though FF13 came out the same day as SC5). I tried finding out the numbers by searching for NeoGAF’s February 2012 NPD thread, but it’s just not coming up on any Google results, and I can’t search the forum myself since my account is still not approved, assuming they have such a feature.

Someone did happen to post that T6 for PS3 was ranked #16 for PS3 and did between 113K and 150K. Mind you, that wasn’t particularly good for T6 back then either, it’s just hard to say where TTT2 falls, such as mildly disappointing or really disappointing…but probably in some variation of disappointment. I think. More info might come out at later time such as a fiscal report from Namco.