Also, you seem to be assuming that all Splatoon sales are physical.
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NPD November 2017: Call of duty WW2 #1 SW, PS4 #1 HW
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Also, you seem to be assuming that all Splatoon sales are physical.
You expect the 1X to match the months of hype and pre-orders it had in November? There's no way.
I think we'll see a considerable drop in December. November had a few months of pre-orders included.
Anyway, great launch for XB1X. I predicted 450K, so was pretty close.
In December, I'm guessing 250-300K for XB1X.
Whoa buddy, I think we should hold off on that assumption, and wait & see!
Thankfully we have actual evidence which shows switch owners are buying much more than just Mario and Zelda.
I think Benji said switch is doing good. But I'm not sure if that was for November.
Switch doing great. Unlikely for PS4 to be first unless sales pick up considerably.
And the main demographic isn't late 30s/early 40s either lol
Interesting. If Sony drops it back down I could see it picking up some slack.
December's always a great month for Nintendo though.
I know that, but Nintendo first party is what sells the most on the Switch. That's partly because the Switch doesn't have many of the heavy hitters (CoD's, BF's, GTA's and such).
Nintendo has went all out with their first party and released multiple heavy hitters. Not only that but they've all been highly rated and advertised heavily. 3rd parties basically haven't even shown up on switch yet outside of late ports. Im sure 1st party SW will always perform very strongly on switch but late ports were never going to compete with Nintendos big guns.
Yeah I always saw December as Nintendo month because their franchises are really strong on holidays.
World will stop spinning if PS4 loses December NPD: Confirmed.
Thing is Pro had next to no marketing when it came out or hype.
XBX had both so i think first month would be higher than the second .
What's slight mean here, percentage-wise? Less 5-10%? There was a long, drawn-out build-up to the console's release leading to unprecedented pre-order numbers with a limited edition machine, for those reasons I'm seeing a near 40% drop-off despite December silly season spending, so something in the region of 250k. $500 is pricey for gifting material. PUBG inclusion doesn't move the needle, it's a $30 download code, it's more of a PR/awareness opportunity than anything designed to entice someone to lift the box down from the shelf.
Yeah I'm really interested in seeing how F2P games perform on console, if we can get a look at that, even just relative to other MTX spending, it'd offer some interesting insight.
Should we rule out the chance that it'll also come with sweetner coupons at retail?
Probably. Maybe even likely as the Xbox One X had a bigger push prior release comparted to Ps4 Pro.
Stock will be a big factor, too as Ps4 Pro was supply contrained in December 2016.
We'll see. Could go either way.
I find 430k + decent. I was expecting a bigger launch, so i think December could perform a little better than i initially thought and the total for 2017 will be the same. Just less in November and more in December.
It's been a little too warm, and the fires have been super unfortunate.
Games should have a pretty good month though.
Are you saying the sun moves around the planet? I'm not sure.
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I wouldn't assume so, but an $80 high-profile tech gift wouldn't exactly be out of left field if it moved enough units to rank there.
the geocentrists were so sure about that too, we should've listened.
Gravity will take its second day off in its entire history to witness the NPD results. After which we will go hurdling into the sun. The last thing humanity ever witnessess is the most beautiful blinding sunset/sunrise ever. After which our solar system goes silent once again, waiting for the next sentient beings to evolve.
We'd better hope not. I've really gotten used to the day/night cycle.
Well I've seen mostly dwarf albino lost-Saharan-tribesman purchasing the Switch, so your anecdotal evidence is purely anecdotal and not fact.
With no gravity, you'd actually never run into the Sun. Instantaneous velocity vector is perpendicular to the normal of the radius of orbit of all planets relative to the Sun. Everything would just fly off into space in a straight line.
This includes the Sun, since the Milky Way would also dissociate in a similar fashion as the Black Hole would lose it's hold over everything.
I'm sure there's much more detailed financial reasons that we don't see, but one reason is probably competition. Enterbrain/Famitsu have been providing weekly numbers of some type since there were ever numbers to provide. If MC wanted to get a foothold in the tracking in Japan, they couldn't start off with charging for every bit of information. Now Enterbrain/Famitsu and MC also charge for more detailed analysis, used game sales, sales past the top 30/20 each week and past top 100 each year (love the Top 1000 charts out of Japan!), so it's not like they give everything for free. What they do give is great for weekly analysis, though.
One of the financial reasons is probably the cost of getting the data from a geographic region the size of Japan vs. one the size of the U.S. It probably costs more for NPD to get the data from store systems of a much wider area than Japan has. In the same vein, getting sales data for Europe as a whole would be more difficult than Japan, too.
In the end, I think competition is probably the biggest single reason, though. There really isn't an alternative to NPD for tracking U.S. sales. As such, they have great leverage over what they choose to provide or not provide.
Stupid inertia!
Actually it's a much simpler explanation. We don't "own" the data in the US, the participating publishers and retailers do. Therefore It can't be shared unless authorized.
Back in the day NPD would release tons of data including hw and sw figures. I'd do that again tomorrow if I could. Shrug.
We don't have a good representative sample of albino Saharan tribesman in our consumer panel. I'm beginning to get concerned about this.
Back in the day NPD would release tons of data including hw and sw figures. I'd do that again tomorrow if I could. Shrug.
We don't have a good representative sample of albino Saharan tribesman in our consumer panel. I'm beginning to get concerned about this.
The appeal of that battlefront 2 bundle will be determined by whether or not the public still thinks it's promoting gambling, hell I was asked about what microtransactions even meant by family in regards to Star Wars.
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There is a $249 1tb PS4. But yea, I'm expecting the PS4 to drop quite a bit.
Doesn't mean we can't run into someone else's sun! I hear those are big!*
*This all presumes we survive the explosion of our black hole because gravity took a day off. I have a feeling that our likely hood of surviving is actually fairly small, though it will take some time for us to find out that we were doomed.
Are there different ideas of ownership for sales data in Japan vs. the U.S., then? NPD reps have mentioned about the publishers allowing data to be listed before, and one of the companies backing out is probably the main reason that the HW figures stopped in 2008(?) or so. Just seems weird that the publisher would allow the data in Japan and not the U.S. unless there are different ideas of ownership for those numbers in the two countries.
The One X number seems pretty solid. Weren't some crazy people thinking it'd sell over 500K though?
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