It's crazy I can get a bundled 1X (albeit with FO76) for the same price as a regular PS4 Pro at most US retailers.
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January 2019 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, February 12th
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It's crazy I can get a bundled 1X (albeit with FO76) for the same price as a regular PS4 Pro at most US retailers.
considering this January '19 4 weeks is (1/6 through 2/2) comparing to January '18 5 weeks (12/31 through 2/3)...does it make sense to just divide by the number of weeks to get a comparable figure? January '19 loses a meaningful post holiday week...I would think that week is pretty strong...not sure if anyone has an opinion on this calendar shift stuff...
Looking at Japan and US Nintendo's revised 17m hardware target looks like it was very, very conservative.
Yeah if they keep the same increase YoY, they're easily clearing at least 18M.
Depends how much of the holiday shipment remains in the channels to sell. If they overshipped then 17m figure could remain wise, though I suspect they end up closer to 17.5-18m for the FY.
We dont know how much of what they shipped in q3 is still in stores.
That's an incredible performance by Switch. It's up YoY despite this Januuary being a week shorter!
I'm so bad at this game. Since I'm not American I think I can defend myself, but the first time I overpredicted everything, and now I underpredicted everything except for Xbox. :)
Switch numbers are great. Ps4 too. Sony can easily cut the price $50 if they lose more momentum to last year and that will help counter it. Xbox is just shocking. They need a late gen ps3 style redemption to regain momentum but it just ain't happening.
Because it's fun!
Holy shit MS have so much less momentum at the tail end of this gen compared to last. Sony hold the aces heading towards next gen and could potentially extend their lead with the ps5.
Lol. You must know that if you do not give the exact numbers to within 3 decimal points it doesnt count.
Also it's great to see you in these threads. Hopefully now that the end of year craziness is over, you and Matt get the respect you deserve.
Holy shit at that stellar PS4 performance.
It had no Price cuts or promotions or game releases in january. Expected it to be much lower than that.
February should be much better for PS4 with tax refund season and Days Gone.
It had no Price cuts or promotions or game releases in january. Expected it to be much lower than that.
February should be much better for PS4 with tax refund season and Days Gone.
It's the effect of Mario Party in October, Pokèmon in November, Smash in December and Mario in January. 12 months ago Switch had nothing in January and November, only Xenoblade 2 in December. The last big seller was Odyssey in October.
I think Smash played a big part, but the other titles helped too.
Great for Switch and PS4. Going to be rough year for XBO.
I mean January had KH III and RE2. Two big releases and KH III also had limited Pro edition bundle.
I mean January had KH III and RE2. Two big releases and KH III also had limited Pro edition bundle.
Depends who I say something nice about
"Hey Switch did great!" - Nintendo fanboy
"Hey this Playstation game broke a record!" - PS4 fanboy
"Hey I really like Game Pass and think it's a good thing for the industry" - Xbox fanboy
It had KH III and RE 2 actually, but yeah, I don't think these games means much for hardware sales this late in their lifecycles. Unless they were responsible for PS4 not be down YoY.
Uff... missed by 30 with my PS4 prediction... Switch and One missed only by ±4 is excellent... :)
Man SalesEra was indeed very quiet this month, heh. Very strong performance for Switch but I am a little bit worried that it might lose a bit of steam in February considering there is not much going on software wise. Maybe Smash + NSMBUDX will keep the momentum alive till the end of March.
Continuous flow of evergreen software releases that keeps selling months after release. That's all the strategy behind the Switch.
Crazy to think PS4 is $299 in it's 6th year .
I mean who saw that coming .
Going to be interesting going into to next gen since the price allow Sony some options .
I mean who saw that coming .
Going to be interesting going into to next gen since the price allow Sony some options .
Sounds like something a sony/nintendo/microsoft fanboy would say tbh. I'm on to you.
2018 is like every January except it had its 5th week which was a February week. 2019 keeps that same setup so this is actually the most favorable January of the generation besides 2018.
Nintendo maintaining that strong momentum from the holidays. It feels like it could be a massive year for Nintendonin terms of both hardware and software with their release schedule. Especially if there are revisions or a price drop.
Next gen is literally anyone's game. Sony can very easily lose whatever lead they hold.
It really shouldn't be a controversial statement to say that current gen performance does not dictate next gen performance. We've seen plenty of evidence against that notion.
I think with the Pro/X out there, these big releases have a larger impact on hardware than we might normally expect for late gen consoles. As we saw with a lot of the big releases last year, people are pretty inclined to upgrade from a base model and software like GoW & Spiderman were big drivers for that.
thanks...just seemed like, last year in January you had that juicy week of 12/31 to 1/6 (imagine strong with gift cards) while this January you get 1/6 to 1/12 which seems a bit worse...
Nothing wrong with that statement. Wii to Wii U, 360 to Xbox One. Both saw dramatic drops while they were in dominant posiyion before.