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April 2018 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, May 15th
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Thank you Magic Pork for providing the Good stuff.
Looks like exclusive games do matter.
And Xbox needs constant deals to sale big numbers. Probably why may is getting another temporary cut.
Hm?
All we know is that retail the Variety out by itself is behind far cry and GoW and above DK.
What's wrong with that?
Unless you know something
I don't disagree with your point but the X1 is also up YoY. Exclusives obviously matters but are at the end of the day a factor among others (price, services, 3rd party support ...).
Xbox isn't doing so good at all, but I think that they are building a solid foundation for next gen with all of their services and support, they "just" need the games and they can be competitive again.
I agree that without those exclusives all their effort won't mean much, they HAVE to provide it, but if they are indeed investing in first party studios right now and if they continue to improve all their services and eco system and to provide a great hardware, than they can seriously threat Sony next gen.
This gen is done, MS knows it, but next gen it's all open again.
Yes, I mentionned it. It is an important factor, just like exclusive games, services etc.
Very impressive for PS4. Xbox is up YoY but not my much, MS probably needs to do something about in the coming months, be it price drops or new game announcements.
Exclusives are a huge factor.
You can somehow manage and do amazingly well even if you don't have the best hardware or services or even a solid third party support (Nintendo?) but if your platform doesn't offer anything unique and great to play on, if it doesn't offer games you can't play on other platforms, than prepare to get your ass kicked.
I think his context of exclusives sell consoles is more so that PS4 did very well with an exclusive game in April with its 5th year on the market compared to Xbox where is needs constant discounts in order to stay competitive. PS4 has not have any (or very small) discounts this year. Not even temporary ones whereas Xbox has had some form of a major discount every month.
No I just see it as multibillion dollar companies yielding results each month by various measures they take to secure them (price drops, ads, exclusive launches).
If one gets better results while doing little to nothing and the other is working overtime and sells less, I see it as two very different results despite there being an "only 50-60k" gap.
The extremes that you guys go to saying "So you want the others to fail, I KNEW IT." is ridiculous and unbecoming when we should be discussing these things as objectively as possible
I have 3.27 million.
Wonder how much GOW sold. Cloud be close 3 million? I'm thinking about 2.5 million right now...
Their first party efforts won't have any effect if they all end up like SoT and SoD.
it is forbidden to create a thread about the leak ? It's annoying having to search for the post with the sales numbers.
The timing of your quote couldn't be more perfect, thanks ahhahahaha
The timing of your quote couldn't be more perfect, thanks ahhahahaha
So YTD in US+Japan, PS4 leads Switch by cca 250k, and Xbox One by cca 1.15 million.
lol, I was just making a joke about being annoyed at the notion that everyone could have a good month. it wasn't serious
Weird thing is it's locked but the thread isn't moving down the page for me.
I think this month neatly clears up the argument about whether exclusives can sell consoles. Obviously it's not the only factor (see Wii U or early days of XBO vs PS4) but it's a big one. Incredible performance for PS4 this month.
I never thought God of War would be a system seller, but there it is. It's also very clearly severely damaged XBO's new found momentum in the US this month too. Almost double Switch too.
I never thought God of War would be a system seller, but there it is. It's also very clearly severely damaged XBO's new found momentum in the US this month too. Almost double Switch too.
Appealing exclusives always will sell consoles, they just aren't more important than having the big third-parties games, but are without doubt a relevant differential in the market.
Stick to your day job, that "joke" was just a shining example of my first post in this topic and you proved it nicely lol
Thanks for this I thought Japan sales would help switch be over PS4. Makes me think despite lower shipments ps4 sold thru more consoles WW so far this year.
Thanks for that insight. What do you think is the main driver? Lack of marketing efforts or something else?
Yep at this point the big 3rd party games going to be on all the systems or most anyway .
So exclusives are a big plus to add to that .
What also good for Sony is there are entering next gen with exclusives they making selling more than even before .
They could be entering next gen with 5 exclusives that selling around 8 to 10 million which is something only Nintendo could do .
Why is it a problem if everyone is doing well lol
That's a shame. Why do you think this happened? What will the effects of this be going forward?
Explains why I keep seeing alot on shelves here lol meanwhile Switch keeps flying.
IMO, it was the price $70 for cardboard and techdemos made it a dud. If it were $30-$40, there would have been a lot more traction from families