NPD: The Witcher 3 Topped Software Sales in May

[Amaror]

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The baby in Cerys' arms was clearly crying, and she'd evidently snatched it in view of the jarl's guards to encourage pursuit. She hands it to Geralt, Geralt tosses it in the oven and casts Quen on the door so nobody can open it and fights off (brutally murders) the jarl's men. Jarl collapses in defeat, Cerys and the old guy reveal the baby Aki was safe all along. This is where it gets a bit weird - did Cerys carve a hole into the back of the oven so that they could pull Aki out before he was hurt, or was Aki in the old man's arms the whole time behind the wall? If so, who was the baby in Cerys' arms and why was it crying if it was fake? Did Geralt actually throw a peasant baby in the oven to fool the jarl and the hym into thinking it was his?

Ah ok. I have the answer:

Spoiler

I tried it once without throwing the baby in there and Cerys then reveals that she found a secret back door to the oven when She and Geralt were both in the House and Geralt was one room over. Basically she got into the next room and pulled the baby out before it could be harmed by the warmth. That's why Cerys and the Priest came out of that direction to fool the hym.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

"I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the four million gamers worldwide who bought The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt..."

Hashtag You're welcome, Marcin Iwinski! (accent implied there) I would usually take this time to humbly mention how necessary I was to your victory, but today is a friday and I don't care anymore, so if i could just take all of the credit and be on my way, we can both get back to having a wonderful pre-weekend.

Captcha: points dont matter. Oh captcha...you're so cute sometimes.

Edit: GTA V still in the charts? Have not all the humans bought that game already yet?

 

[ForumSafari]

Spoiler

The baby in Cerys' arms was clearly crying, and she'd evidently snatched it in view of the jarl's guards to encourage pursuit. She hands it to Geralt, Geralt tosses it in the oven and casts Quen on the door so nobody can open it and fights off (brutally murders) the jarl's men. Jarl collapses in defeat, Cerys and the old guy reveal the baby Aki was safe all along. This is where it gets a bit weird - did Cerys carve a hole into the back of the oven so that they could pull Aki out before he was hurt, or was Aki in the old man's arms the whole time behind the wall? If so, who was the baby in Cerys' arms and why was it crying if it was fake? Did Geralt actually throw a peasant baby in the oven to fool the jarl and the hym into thinking it was his?

I have to admit that straight after this quest the first thing I did was double back and try to find out what happened because I had a horrible suspicion that this was what we'd done.

 

[Dragonbums]

Pretty impressive that Splatoon made top 5 despite being a new IP surrounded by much more established and popular IP's from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

I think it's actually incredibly impressive Splatoon made top 5 when it only had 2 days of sales tracking for this chart, it was released right at the end of May, so it made number 5 without even half a weeks worth of sales; which is astounding given it is a Wii U exclusive.

I'd be interested to see what Wii U console sales look like for the last few weeks.

I know that it moved consoles in Japan, and I know that it has a bundle here in NOA. I believe the Canadian retailers branch stated that preorders for Splatoon almost matched that of MK8 close to release and it sold more than half that (or exactly half.) at retail.

But yeah, aside from Destructoid a lot of people are downplaying the fact that Splatoon, charted 5th and came out 2 days before May tracking was done. This isn't even counting for digital sales where quite a lot of people downloaded the testfire and the majority of them then put a preload/preorder in place right after.

It's already got a pretty decent competitive scene, and I heard that Twitch players are going crazy over it.
Yeah, we are definitely seeing a follow up to this game, and a lot more support from Nintendo.

I really don't know if it moved console sales. (outside of Japan.) but it's been shown that Wii U owners have a high attach rate for games that are deemed really good, and no doubt a pretty hefty userbase of current Wii U owners have bought the game. Or plan to in the future.

 

[Metalrocks]

well done CD. but i still wait for a extended edition as it was with part 2. also, would be cheaper. have to sit on the money.

I don't think an EE is likely this time around. Keep in mind that both TW1 and TW2 received some severe criticism at launch and the EEs were primarily ways to address the worst issues (like the dearth of character models in TW1, or weirdly structured tutorial in TW2). Now that everyone and their mum is singing TW3's praises, the best you can hope for is probably a bundle with all the 16 free and 2 paid DLCs.

It definitely will get cheaper though.

lol. dont get me wrong. i certainly dont expect a extended edition this year. im not that unrealistic. just i know that a huge DLC is coming up, so i expect at some time (as you have mentioned) the whole bundle that would have everything included. and certainly a fixed version at that.
plus, the price should be lower too. so i think that it could be some time next year. i can wait for that long.

 

[Dragonbums]

I got the first book (The Last Wish) just this morning and started reading straightaway, because I also own Metro 2033, which was translated by somebody who apparently didn't know what metaphors were and I was concerned Sapkowski might be similarly mistranslated. My fears were not justified - the version translated by Danusia Stok (I don't know if there are other official versions) works perfectly.

I hope it's a good read! I'll check it out later on Amazon and see the price. Hopefully they have a Kindle version. I was told though that the games start to deviate from the books (not in a bad way it seems.)