Damn much better than I thought. Yay for the game industry, sucks for my ranking. Impressed by the Switch with just Kirby.
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March 2018 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, April 17th
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Yeah. For some reason I used last years PS4 and XBO sales as base (as welfares excellent comparison post has those in second page) and then just calculated yoy drop and rise but it seems last years figures are not completely accurate and it's indeed much more accurate to use Switch as a base as we have solid accurate figure for that from Nintendo themselves.
March is 308k, February was 280k. Do we have a number for January? January would need to be >= 318k to match or exceed last year's Q1.
Yes Kirby you friken beast!
Also great month for hardware overall!
Surprise Swich did Over 300k.
So Sinc eKitby sold more than MLB what's that mean at least 300k?
Also great month for hardware overall!
Surprise Swich did Over 300k.
So Sinc eKitby sold more than MLB what's that mean at least 300k?
And a dozen math teachers, somewhere, suddenly hang their heads with a feeling of failure they can't quite place. And it all comes from this thread.
I blame my gym teachers for telling me to give 110%
It had a collector's edition or something?
Second march comparison between different systems:
GBA: 832k
Wii: 721k
PS2: 362k
PS4: 330k
Switch: 308k
XBO: 229k
3DS: 225k
X360: 199k
GC: 165k
Xbox: 165k
WiiU: 70k
For some reason I can't find 2006 march sales of Nintendo DS anywhere but if I remember right they were about ~200k.
GBA: 832k
Wii: 721k
PS2: 362k
PS4: 330k
Switch: 308k
XBO: 229k
3DS: 225k
X360: 199k
GC: 165k
Xbox: 165k
WiiU: 70k
For some reason I can't find 2006 march sales of Nintendo DS anywhere but if I remember right they were about ~200k.
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When they read the following post? :)
Dammit! I underestimated the PS4 by 50k. Anyway, congrats SIE.
XBC2 did 280k. For Star Allies to reach that it would need to more than double the number triple deluxe did on 3ds. Definitely not impossible, but quite difficult to achieve. I think Kirby will be around 250k for March, so slightly below XBC2 and around what Arms did iirc.
Why just to Sony? All three companies sold well, with just an 18% difference between all three. All the will most likely surpass 1 million units moved come next month as well.
What's actually wrong? The math itself or the basic assumption behind the whole calculation?
I interpret as revenue
MLB>Kirby
Units
Kirby>MLB
No digital though but it's safe to say both did well digitally.
Remember that this "chart" does not include digital sales.
The sales gao between the ps4 and xbox continues to increase.
Does Microsoft include digital? Sea of Thieves sounds like a title that would be majority digital as rank it pretty high?
Argh... ffs! I'm forgetting that every damn month.
Just some people waking up too early to do simple math. He's not gonna tell us if the numbers are right or not of course.
They will yes.
As will be the case for titles like MLB
Hopefully Nintendo joins the digital leaders panel at some point as well
Not necessarily. Kirby was below MLB in revenue when combining all SKUs, but it may be ahead in sheer units. The other data point - that Kirby sold more than the biggest MLB sku - makes this more likely, but definitely not certain of course.
What's confirmed is:
MLB > Kirby for revenue
Kirby > biggest sku for units
What's unconfirmed:
Kirby > MLB or MLB> Kirby for units of combined SKUs
All of this is only for physical, of course.
All we know is Kirby SKU is the 3rd best selling SKU by revenue. MLB has more than one SKU. MLB is ahead by revenue when you combine all the SKU. A
nd could also be ahead by units . We don't know
All there consoles doing great. I was pretty close with my prediction, but I went too under on XB1.
Switch still doing great, but hasn't quite matched any of PS4's March's so far. I guess the lack of big software is a part of that.
Switch still doing great, but hasn't quite matched any of PS4's March's so far. I guess the lack of big software is a part of that.
I got to say congrats to sony, aren't they the most conservative when it comes to price cuts this year?
But anyways seems switch won't be sweeping the year like I expected. Seems switch and ps4 will be duking it out for first throughout the year.
"It doesn't matter if you win by a mile or an inch, winning is winning!"
But anyways seems switch won't be sweeping the year like I expected. Seems switch and ps4 will be duking it out for first throughout the year.
Looks like a pretty solid March. All systems are pretty close in sales. Far Cry 5 was definitely beasting. Kirby looks to have broken out. MLB is all hits, no strikes.
Yea, I'm inclined to say that PS4 holds the advantage until we get Smash or the next big Switch game.
Can you give us a MoM percentage for Switch? I would REALLY love that.
Digital hasn't been released yet. I'd imagine the majority of that would be digital.
Why would the majority be digital? Is the 20-30% digital assumption not true anymore?
Nice, its always good if many people underestimate everybody.
Strong market continuing to be strong is good for everybody.
If i read somebody else correctly before, currently Switch is down YoY by about 45k units right ?
If so, that should melt relatively quickly once this years Q2 (with labo and plenty other games) goes up against Q2 of last year, which had heavy supply issues right ?
Strong market continuing to be strong is good for everybody.
If i read somebody else correctly before, currently Switch is down YoY by about 45k units right ?
If so, that should melt relatively quickly once this years Q2 (with labo and plenty other games) goes up against Q2 of last year, which had heavy supply issues right ?
Yes, but GamePass downloads isn't counted in the charts I believe.