Twilight Princess HD and Pokkén Tournament Perform Well in US NPD Charts

If they would give me cross buy for all the SNES games I have on Wii U VC already I would strongly consider upgrading to the New 3DS XL from my regular 3DS XL

Yeah... I still regret paying the price I paid for Zelda - Twilight Princess HD.

What games even came out for 3DS last month that would boost sales of the hardware? Its so late in the game that I think most everyone who wants a 3DS already has one, and the games coming out now are just preaching to the choir.

However, I think the Vita may be a part of the combined decline of the handheld market in North America. Vita has always (and unfairly) underperformed... but I noticed the three Best Buys I frequent out here in the Seattle, Washington area all dismantled their Vita sections (within the past month and a half) and no longer sell games, hardware or accessories for it. I wonder if further decline of Vita sales were affected by that.

The 3DS hardware drop isn't really too surprising. Last March it was still riding the N3DS + Monster Hunter + Majora's Mask train. Nothing came out for the 3DS in March so the only thing it had to keep selling it was more people picking up Fire Emblem.

@IceClimbers I shouldn't be laughing at this.
But I can't stop it.
Send help

wants Twilight Princess HD/Pokken...but needs a new hard rive for Wii U, lol Ugh. TwT

Comparing 3DS sales in March 2016 to 3DS sales in March 2015 is a bit skewed, as the 3DS was riding the New 3DS launch momentum. YOY comparisons should be more appropriate for future months as the impact of last year's New 3DS launch lessens.

TP is standing on it's own with some of those heavy hitters, like Far Cry Primal!

Both awesome titles we have been playing a lot of Pokken Tournament at my house , I hope they release some DLC for it .

@ikki5 No game is worth that price when you already bought it and enjoyed it. Even if there were more differences but certainly not to get more pixels/polygones on the screen.
(same goes with Squaresoft and other companies)

The 3DS is already near the end of its life. The last remaining games like Pokemon should give it a hearty, temporary boost, but at this point Nintendo needs to do a long overdue permanent price drop (at least by 40% for the New XL) to keep the 3DS going past its expiry date (aka next handheld's release).

@IceClimbers Nice. @JaxonH come take a look at post #5.

Congrats to Nintendo for milking TP, well done. Now please put all that profit to good use and give us Zelda U/NX. I said please.

Wow.... Street Fighter V crashed and burned. What should have been the game that made me regret getting a Xbox One made me grateful I picked the system that had Killer Instinct.

As for Nintendo, good results! Pokken Tournament is an awesome game! One of the best fighters I have ever played.

So Street Fighter V's LTD sales in the US are ~268k. It did ~205k in February, so it did about 63k this month. Pokken Tournament did ~251k in it's debut month, and therefore did better than SFV in it's debut month. Crazy.

Twilight Princess HD did ~308k.

Just because it's sales related, Shovel Knight has sold over a million units and Wii U/3DS made up 46% of its total, Steam accounted for 32%.

http://yachtclubgames.com/2016/04/feat-unlocked-one-million-copies-of-shovel-knight-sold/

Wii U hardware might have missed its goal for end of year figures as its 20% down on last March with 66k sold. We know it's down in Japan you and I can't imagine Europe is picking up the slack.

Twilight Princess did incredible. It hit 1 million sales in a month.

@IceClimbers Can I ask....where do you get these sale figures?

I got Twilight Princess HD and sold Twilight Princess (Wii), but it's quite impressive how many copies a slightly enhanced port at a premium price has achieved.

@dholcombe I agree, it's outrageous that Nintendo is charging for a second time for a 3DS digital copy of a game you have already purchased on Wii U, and they know that because 3DS and Wii U share the same purchase history. I have a New 3DS but I haven't bought any SNES game. I only paid €1.50 for each of them on Wii U because I already bought them on Wii for €8, and now Nintendo wants me to pay €8 again??? No, thanks.

@Socar NeoGaf. Same place @Peach64 got the 66k number for Wii U sales I imagine.

Both Twilight Princess HD and Pokken Tournament? Now that's impressive!

If Nintendo of America would actually release the standard New 3DS in the North American market, unbundled and with more colors besides white, that might boost end of life sales and probably cause a temporary sales surge. I and a couple of others that I know would definitely jump on the standard model.

It says something about the Playstation brand that when I saw PSe under NBA 2K16, I tried to remember what hardware it might be referring to, instead of realizing it was a typo for PS3. Took a few seconds.

Minecraft does not include the Wii U version?

And how about GTAV...still selling like hotcakes, despite its already gigantic sales total.

Zelda's slot is impressive and shows how popular the brand remains.

@Caryslan
KI is awesome. I also feel the same way about SFV, although I am getting a ps4 on may 10th for Uncharted IV, so I may pick it up still..once it hits $20 and is fully fleshed out.

@rjejr

Justice...

@IceClimbers That is soooo beautiful !!!!

@ThomasBW84 I don't disagree. 3DS sales have definitely been slowing for a while now, but February and March 2016 YOY NPD comparisons will be skewed against it no matter what.

@rjejr
Lol. Well said. I have nothing against a company milking those who are happy to be milked. Business is business.

I care about the fans that don't want to be milked.

A better result for Pokken than SFV? Not surprising.
Wii U sells for JUST 1st party content.
Argue Namco's position (a major partner in bringing Smash 4 to the competitive scene), but Pokémon has never featured on any other console, handheld or otherwise, than Nintendo.
SFV is a niche game, being sold on a system with 10x the options the Wii U presents.
I'd venture that SFV sold more PS4s than Pokken sold Wii Us.
And I'd echo these exact sentiments when concerning Twilight Princess HD.
The NX is coming, maybe this year maybe not. But Nintendo has less than 6 months to sell it to consumers.
They're playing with fire, and Star Fox failing to crack the NPD listing for April will reflect that.
Take the 8 non-Nintendo titles in this list, add-in Ratchet and Clank (a game that the vocal minority doesn't acknowledge, but the cost-conscious and brand favoring majority is going to buy) and DS3, and Nintendo will find themselves in yet another 'low month'.
Consumers demand options.
I've seen it, pretty exclusively over the last 5 months.
Our receivers have noted that Nintendo stock arrives at 15 to 20% the rate of X1, 12 to 16% the rate of PS4.
You probably won't see first party games sell in the tens of millions on those systems though, so Nintendo will continue to make money as long as their games are selling.
Sony and MS are trumping Nintendo there, what with the 'console surcharge' still in effect.
I don't think Nintendo sells enough 3rd party software to consider it's long term effect, and maybe they don't consider the impact that's taken on their bottomline, but Sony and MS push 3rd party bundles and they listen to their demographics.
It might sound like semantics on the outside looking in, but Nintendo needs to do something before E3 to retain consumer trust and interest.
The recent reveal and release of My Nintendo seems to have fallen flat and no information has been shared on the mobile front outside of positive Miitomo download numbers.
Zelda is slowly fading from relevance, and I'm becoming concerned that Nintendo may have devalued the franchise to the point that it fails to draw interest in it's next home console entry.
From my viewpoint, one that has shifted closer to the frontlines of the retail war, Nintendo has lost their pivot as a leader in cutting edge technology and fun, rewarding experiences.
The shelf life on many of these mainstays (whether new additions to existing series' or new IP) has expired.
To be frank, the online infrastructures are infantile in direct comparison to their contemporaries and none of this bodes well for Nintendo as we head further into the 2017 financial season.
I'm sorry for the overt negativity shown, but Nintendo doesn't have many reasons to extend either the Wii U or 3DS lifespans and these last 6 months are stark evidence to that claim.
If not for their substantial floating assets, I'd push for an acquisition by a Samsung or even a merger with an LG. As it stands, Nintendo is in for a very humble 2nd and 3rd Quarter.

@Hotfusion "milking those who are happy to be milked."

Well to clarify, I never said Ntineod was milking it's fans, just the game - Zelda TP on Gamecube, on Wii, and now on Wii U. That's 3 consoles in a row with the same game, not a sequel or a reboot or a reimagining, the same game on 3 consoles for $50 each, not a $20 VC game. . That's the definition of "milking" to me. Worse than COD which at least has a "new" game every year. Imagine if "COD: Modern Warfare" came out every year, just with minor differences, for $50.

Fans can buy the game if they want, that's up to them, but Nintneod putting out TP for the 3rd time, while not releasing Zelda U which was due out last year in 2015, that's worse to me than what Nitnod fans accuse the other companies on other consoles of doing. Though all those AAA titles on PS4 w/ only minor upgrades form PS3 was bad as well, I know Ntinod just used to hold themselves to a higher standard, but those days are long gone.