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February 2018 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, March 13th
- Thread starter donny2112
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That's a very nice thing.
And I appreciate it's for trying, and not actually for doing anything. Appropriate, really.
It'll be pretty interesting if Switch actually takes this month.
Tax returns should provide a notable boost for PS4 and X1, and Switch has had nothing in particular going on for Jan or Feb, so it would have to be doing pretty well on its own strength now. Beating Xbox especially would be impressive here considering the lower price point.
Tax returns should provide a notable boost for PS4 and X1, and Switch has had nothing in particular going on for Jan or Feb, so it would have to be doing pretty well on its own strength now. Beating Xbox especially would be impressive here considering the lower price point.
Is there a particular reason I'm missing as to why tax returns are only applicable to the PS4/XB1 and not the Switch?
The Switch is still a sought after item.
What reason is there that PS4 and XB1 would benefit more from this than the Switch? XB1 might get a noticeable bump because it had a discount, but PS4 and Switch are at their regular price, so I wouldn't see why one would benefit more than the other.
I think the reasoning is that it used to be that Nintendo consoles were often bought more "for the family" (or that was at least the explanation why PS and XB did better when there were tax returns). I don't know if this reasoning was actually correct, but even if it was, I think it is no longer necessarily the case with the Switch.
No they don't, but we have this metric player, that covers that.
Game Pass will be like digital.
Complementary and growing the pie to some extend and slowly increase over the years. So maybe 10% of players are Game Pass subscriber now and 30% in 2 years.
You get the pictures.
The NPD group is trying to get digital spend beyond just game sales. So MTX and DLC stuff, too. I assume this would not include subscription revenue, as you can't know what games the customer plays and downloads and how much you attribute to a specific game of that revenue. (Similar to hard bundle game copies) But additional spend on those games would be at least covered.
NPD is still fine.
We track spending on the subscription via our consumer panel, but no we do not track or report on game pass downloads.
Both Microsoft and the publisher of the game downloaded can do so, however.
He's leaked stuff before
https://www.resetera.com/threads/aa...one-outsold-ps4-usa.15938/page-5#post-3194466
forgot if it was right or not...
https://www.resetera.com/threads/aa...one-outsold-ps4-usa.15938/page-5#post-3194466
forgot if it was right or not...
That shows PS4 first or I'm reading it wrong? Also MHW top spot again.
No and by a significant margin too.
I guess that one guy that said tax returns would favor PS4 was right.
Yeah up 38% it said in the post.
That's likely almost all down to Switch and SNES Classic, but maybe also a light bump in the other consoles.
Seems possible.
did anything happen for ps4 this month? Or just MHW pushing HW.
Cause 30% seems a lot. If Switch did like 230k, ps4 would be 300k
PS4 got Shadow of the Colossus and Dynasty warriors last month but I'm pretty sure those games wouldn't be moving a lot of consoles.
So honestly I'm really not sure myself. I'm really surprised at the results haha.
The ranking is on a per platform basis, so MHW has its ps4 and XB1 version ranking separately, for example.
guess we'll see how SOTC did.
but dang, huge for PS4
standard....I forgot the acronym lol
but it's each individual platform of the game.
For intance, Instead of GTAV, it'd be:
GTAV (PS4)
GTAV (Xbox 1), etc. So it's not combined.
Not combined Switch exclusives rank higher in revenue. If it were an individual SKU chart.
But combined GTAV as a whole might be higher.
I was dead wrong with my predictions!
I am honestly amazed that despite the fact that the Xbox One S had a two week $50 drop across all of their bundles ($229 and $279 respectively), they still couldn't go toe to toe with the PlayStation 4 at $299.
And the PS4 version of Monster Hunter: World at the top whilst the Xbox One version is below two year-old Switch games slightly boggles the mind.
Despite barely coming second and being the cheapest console by a significant margin, especially during the tax returns, I just cannot see what they can do from here on out, now that they are back to price parity with both the PlayStation 4 and Switch...
Interesting Times Ahead™
I am honestly amazed that despite the fact that the Xbox One S had a two week $50 drop across all of their bundles ($229 and $279 respectively), they still couldn't go toe to toe with the PlayStation 4 at $299.
And the PS4 version of Monster Hunter: World at the top whilst the Xbox One version is below two year-old Switch games slightly boggles the mind.
Despite barely coming second and being the cheapest console by a significant margin, especially during the tax returns, I just cannot see what they can do from here on out, now that they are back to price parity with both the PlayStation 4 and Switch...
Interesting Times Ahead™
Either way I feel like physical sales are more prominent on switch versus the other consoles.
Also ps4 had no sales that I can remember in February. MH doing work!
And Xbox charted above Switch as well, It is giving both of them a boost.
It's getting more popular day by day. Like PUBG started slow and kept going - Fortnite is doing the same as well.
I feel like where everyone was expecting Xbox One X would be leading to PS4 owners getting an Xbox for their third party games, the opposite is actually happening... or at least in bigger numbers. The Xbox users finally have enough of the lack of exclusives and are getting PS4s as their second console.
Otherwise I have no clue who these people are that are still buying PS4s for "full price" in the US.
They patently cannot do anything to reverse or change their relative positioning. But that has been the case since launch. They launched appallingly and lost 360 players like me to the PS4. Whilst I did get an XB1 down the line and now an X, many didn't,
However, its been clear for a long time that the disastrous launch is slowly but surely being turned around by MS. They won't overtake the PS4 as simply two years headstart is hard to turn round as it is, let alone when you have only recently re-doubled their gaming efforts and re-focussed into the market. MS are looking to next gen and the future.
Having said that, they will end up selling 50M XB1's or more. And that is remarkable given their utterly catastrophic launch and horrible first year where every media outlet dunked on them.;
Their sales performance seems to be on the rise right now, and as they can reduce the price of the X I think they can maintain this trajectory. I suspect the recent talk of new projects will be with a serious eye on next gen launch now.
Except the cool kids on the first page :)
I guess my Xbox Numbers Are way Low Though Lol
