ITT, predict for the NPD January 2019 retail period (January 5-February 2, 2019) for U.S. hardware sales.
What is NPD?: NPD is one of the main retail tracking firms in the U.S., and also about the only one who specifically goes into detail on video games sales. This thread is to predict what the NPD hardware sales will be for the most recent month. NPD months are defined by the National Retail Federation (find calendar links here).
What do I win?: Bragging rights. We also keep track of predictions over the year and have an annual contest using "points." Still just bragging rights, but SalesEra followers have fun seeing how well we can do with it. See here for details on the point calculations.
Why are there still predictions when official NPD numbers are not released?
Prediction entries must be in and finalized by 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 12. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: January 5-February 2, 2019 (4 weeks, December was 5 weeks)
NPD Physical Results Release: [strike]Thursday, February 14[/strike] Tuesday, February 19 @ 4 p.m. EST (public thread with physical+digital posted on February 19th ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in January:
Usual January/post-Christmas lull before February surge
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
December's Resuts
December 2017 NPD thread
January 2018 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
What is NPD?: NPD is one of the main retail tracking firms in the U.S., and also about the only one who specifically goes into detail on video games sales. This thread is to predict what the NPD hardware sales will be for the most recent month. NPD months are defined by the National Retail Federation (find calendar links here).
What do I win?: Bragging rights. We also keep track of predictions over the year and have an annual contest using "points." Still just bragging rights, but SalesEra followers have fun seeing how well we can do with it. See here for details on the point calculations.
Why are there still predictions when official NPD numbers are not released?
Prediction entries must be in and finalized by 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 12. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: January 5-February 2, 2019 (4 weeks, December was 5 weeks)
NPD Physical Results Release: [strike]Thursday, February 14[/strike] Tuesday, February 19 @ 4 p.m. EST (public thread with physical+digital posted on February 19th ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[XB1] 200K [XB1] 200 thousand
[XB1] 200,000 [XB1] 200.000
[XB1] 200000 [XB1] - 200000Potential hardware impacting events in January:
Usual January/post-Christmas lull before February surge
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
December's Resuts
December 2017 NPD thread
January 2018 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
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