TWRoO on 15 December 2007
| kamil said: Last year's Numbers comparison: November 2006 NPD DS 918k Wii 476k (supply constrained launch) 360 511k PS2 664k PS3 197k (supply constrained launch) VGChartz Hardware data for the period 12th Nov 2006 to 03rd Dec 2006 (America): Wii 704,945 PS3 314,233 X360 726,625 Why the difference is so big? Even after adding 10% for Canada the difference is still 30-50% for this gen consoles. |
I think that may be a consequence of NPDs irritating method of allocating weeks into months.... Rol said that December is always 5 weeks for NPD, and Jan 2007 was unusually a 5 week for NPD too...... I assume the December 2006 NPD 5 weeks ended on the 31st of December, meaning that the week ending the 3rd December was included into December NPD.
Basically last years November NPD was in fact almost a week earlier than this years.... and so we should compare with these VGC numbers:
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Nov 2006 to 26th Nov 2006:
| Console | Wii | PS3 | X360 | DS | PS2 |
America NPD 2006 | 529,658 476,000 | 219,907 197,000 | 588,683 511,000 | 983,923 918,000 | 695,180 664,000 |
so in fact they are very close. (we could take 10% from VGC to account for Canada, but as it is November, with Thanksgiving it is usually less than 10% as i have just seen the Canadian NPD numbers for this November)
