Diablo III sells 1M at retail, Max Payne 3 hits 400K in May - NPD

http://www.gamespot.com/news/max-payne-3-ships-3-million-xcom-delayed-6378114 ??

Both Max Payne 3 and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier "underperformed", though both got good reviews. I'm seeing a pattern here :P.

I loved the previous two installments of Max, but what I've seen of latest sequel, didn't convince me enough to buy it. I'm having a blast with D3 though.

Max Payne is a good game from what I have seen. It seems this report was a lackluster since they did not include the PC ports of Max Payne 3. So perhaps the PC gamer's bought more copies on PC then on consoles, so hopefully this changes a few things ifnot at least the sales increase. 

If someone likes mature games they don't get a Nintendo product, it's just the way it is. Look at playstations exclusive heroes, u got the god of war dude, the kill zone foul mouths, the evil electric civilian killing guy from infamous. Look at Nintendo, you got all the Mario cartoon happy dudes. The wii had (very) slightly better graphics than the ps2 generation and I bet the wii u will have only slightly better than the current gen, while Microsoft and Sony will have a big step passed the current fen Nintendo only goes slightly better than the previous gen, leaving them behind and unable to keep up meaning companies will have to seriously downgrade their games to release it on Nintendo, Nintendo is holding the industry back.

MP3 was awesome! I loved it and finished it three times already. Rockstar is a company i hold in high esteem, while, after the Diablo 3 debacle, Blizz will never see another cent from me. 

A game selling 400k units in one month in one country is seen as under-performing?  WTF!

People keep watching sales slip and cry "the sky is falling!", but this is just a typical of the tail end of a console generation.

Next console generation will bring with it more eye/mind-blowing graphics and experiences, and with it an increase in sales.  Same story, different gen.

Sales don't mean quality. Hell, Operation Raccoon City sold tons of unit and it's not half the game MP 3 is. The same goes for Diablo III, I'd even take ORC over it any day of the week.

Max Payne, I believe, sold exactly the way it was going to.  It sold to those who were fans of the game and very few others.  Those who had never played the game (or played it SO long ago it is a fuzzy memory), like myself, just were never given a reason to pick this one up.  It may be a good game, heck it might be GREAT, but I cannot see investing $60 in it at this time.  Let the price drop to, say, $29 or so and I will most likely get it.   As for Diablo III, I cannot buy a game that requires me to be connected online ALL the time, I just won't do it for ANY game...EVER.

mp3 may have under performed but i don't think his figures are right a couple weeks ago i read something that was quite the contrary to this. if true then it's very sad cause mp3 was incredible. also glad to hear diablo 3 is doing so well blizzard deserves all of their praises.

The sad part of the month to me was that The Game of Thrones was released on the same day as Diablo and max P. This is a title (gameof Thrones) that should have been and could have been better than the 4.5 -6.5 it is beong given by reviewers. Atlus should have made sure the title was a quality product BEFORE it was released. They are ans excellent company with a great track record but Thrones and The Cursed Crusade a few months before it , tarnish it's image.

   Imagine if we would have had 3 STRONG TITLES being released on the same day. How different the discussions would be.

I like when good games "under perform", makes me feel like I own a game that will become rare in the future. But on topic, Diablo 3 is a more hyped game, it was "successful" because of it's name. All the fans of Diablo 2 wanted this game for years. Max Payne 3 was a game developed from the ground up, it didn't use the name to sell itself. MP3's sales are from solid gameplay fundamentals, go look around the web and on forums about how "well" Diablo 3 was developed.

The consoles are now long in the tooth and like every console generation cycle, the market is flooded by many b grade titles rushed to market because they are easier to develop for and sony, microsoft, nintendo are giving publishers discounts on licensing to their consoles.

Also developing tools and physics engines are also now cheaper.  We need the next generation of consoles, there will still be plenty of old games for this current gen systems but with competition from ps4 720, u, the games will hopefully be thinned out.

the new franchises like gears of war, uncharted, assassin greeds games will not be made until the next gen starts. gaming is recession ( im sorry GOOD games are recession proof, publishers and devs miss the old days where any crappy game will sell well.   

That is pathetic....since Diablo 3 is so utterly shallow and Max Payne 3 is pure gold :/ guess it wasn't free roam enough for the 10 year olds that matter the most.

it must be me , I played both and much more prefer Max Payne and of course

 older and intelligent ! MAX PAYNE RULES , CAN YOU DIG IIIIIIIIT ? LOL

 PS: I think that MP3 had 400k pre-orders in may ! Max's first games were out before

 the little yuppies even stopped sucking their thumbs ! LOL

I really hope it comes to the ps3 or 360.

http://www.vgreleases.com/ReleaseDates/all-5-2011.aspx?OrderBy=sortdate

 L.A. Noire wasn't up against anything that major.

Max Payne on console was released May 15.

Max Payne on PC was released June 1.

PC sales wasn't even counted. Also seems like a half assed report only giving the game 15 days to sell. 400k isn't bad when you're only counting half a month and not on PC where the series started.

im sure Max Payne 3 sold a lot more through digital sales.

There's a big discrepancy between the Diablo III sales numbers reported by Cowen & Co. (1 million) and Blizzard (3.5 million).  Do digital sales and worldwide sales--neither of which are represented by the NPD--really account for that many sales, or is something amiss?

I'm also really sad to see Max Payne 3 "underperform."  I guess that going up against Diablo III wasn't the smartest move on Rockstar's part.  It's certainly not an issue of quality.

Poor sales for Max Payne probably had to do with the $60 asking price for 9 hour game.  Last time I waste my money on that.

I still have yet to get my copy of Max Payne. Dang bills! Hopefully I'll add it to my game library at the end of this month. That and Dragon's Dogma.

I thought MP3 sold more units, I'm sure I read something contradicting this statement before...

Sad to hear about MP3's low sales,the game deserves better.Haven't managed to pick up the game yet,but will do so in the next few days,getting the PC version.Also,I really hope the sales improve over the following months...

And on the topic of PC,does this 400k number counts PC copies sold so far,or is it console only?

diablo looks OK, i'd prefer to play dawn of war though

Harsh blow for Max Payne 3. Maybe it sold better in other regions? Still less than 50% of LA Noire sales and a bigger marketing campaign can't be good.

Diablo 3 was underwhelming, Max Payne 3 sucked and was just a cutscene with two hours of gameplay...yeah May gaming was really bad. Not buying anything else until the end of the year.