ITT, predict for the NPD March 2018 retail period (March 4-April 7, 2018) 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. EDT on Tuesday, April 17th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: March 4-April 7, 2018 (5 weeks, February was 4 weeks)
NPD Physical Release: Thursday, April 19th @ 4 p.m. EDT (public thread with physical+digital posted 5 days later on April 24th ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in March:
Nothing particularly impactful?
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
February's results
February 2017 NPD thread
March 2017 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?
Trust me said:
ethomaz said:
Prediction entries must be in and finalized by 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 17th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: March 4-April 7, 2018 (5 weeks, February was 4 weeks)
NPD Physical Release: Thursday, April 19th @ 4 p.m. EDT (public thread with physical+digital posted 5 days later on April 24th ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
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 March:
Nothing particularly impactful?
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
February's results
February 2017 NPD thread
March 2017 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
