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Forums - Sales Discussion - NPD January: X360 #1 270k, 49% share, PS3 > Wii = 281k Combined

Acevil on 09 February 2012
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
RolStoppable said:
Acevil said:
Seece said:
No Nintendo data ....

I just want 3DS data, out of curiousity.  Wii, Ps3, DS, and PSP data is going to be bad either way. 

Video games are officially dead, here comes the iPad.

Our last hopes rest on Microsoft's shoulders. May Kinect and the next Sesame Street game lead us towards a bright future.

if Nintendo was smart, they would include facebook, youtube, twitter, e-mail and all that apps, even an app-store because 3DS is capable, attack tablets with their own as they did attacked gaming handhelds

i think this is going to happen sooner or later, maybe PSV has got more tablet bonus features, like youtube on internet browser which is huge lack of the 3DS browser


Edit: My post had no relations to yours! :P

(Lack of sleep today)



 

amaral_slb on 09 February 2012

So Nintendo is not going to say anything?

We need Wii numbers to know how bad were the PS3 numbers. Give us numbers

Another thing I have to note, just because these numbers are terrible, doesn´t mean that consoles are doing as bad outside of US, people have to understand that this year BF was huge, so numbers after that are limited.



Argh_College on 09 February 2012
RolStoppable said:
Acevil said:
Seece said:
No Nintendo data ....

I just want 3DS data, out of curiousity.  Wii, Ps3, DS, and PSP data is going to be bad either way. 

Video games are officially dead, here comes the iPad.

Our last hopes rest on Microsoft's shoulders. May Kinect and the next Sesame Street game lead us towards a bright future.

Until Next Gen yes.. Market has peaked.



dark_gh0st_b0y on 09 February 2012
RolStoppable said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

if Nintendo was smart, they would include facebook, youtube, twitter, e-mail and all that apps, even an app-store because 3DS is capable, attack tablets with their own as they did attacked gaming handhelds

i think this is going to happen sooner or later, maybe PSV has got more tablet bonus features, like youtube on internet browser which is huge lack of the 3DS browser

Sarcasm is okay, but don't take it too far.

i know iShit won't kill handhelds but it's definitely taking some sales away, i know some cases...

some friends of mine, DS owners got iPad and they are telling me all the time how great the games are, many people got iPad in order to download and play $2 mini-games....



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

VGKing on 09 February 2012

"Xbox 360 will also launch entirely new ways to interact with favorite television shows with groundbreaking experiences like “Kinect Sesame Street TV”

Would love to see Microsoft say that with a straight face.

On sales: VgChartz huge overtracking. I am disappoint.



kitler53 on 09 February 2012
Jexy said:
Seece said:
Still, the January results are so poor that their validity should be questioned, says Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. From 2004 to 2011, January software sales have averaged $518 million, making this month's $355.9 million figure "just hard to digest," he says. "It also makes no sense that sales are below the level from 2004, when games were cheaper and the installed base of consoles was much lower. ... I don't know if the NPD is getting faulty data, but these numbers make no sense."


Did they leave out Walmart or something?  I mean... it is a ridiculous dip.  But then again... the real unemployment in this country and the lower wages and underemployed people are FAR higher than EVER.  So that may be really taking a hit on things.  I mean, Black Friday was the one big day and then... bubkis after that.  December was down, Jan is down... Maybe BF really was that one big day.

i have a job and plenty of disposable income and honestly, i haven't bought any video games since uncharted 3 back on nov. 1st.  it's not really money, i'm just jaded.  i think i just want the new gen to start already and nintendo is still far off while ms/sony are even further...



kitler53 on 09 February 2012

...also, shit looks impossibly bleak.



D-Joe on 09 February 2012

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/40227/Analyst_questions_validity_of_unusual_January_NPD_results.php
The group confirmed to Gamasutra, however, that Wal-Mart POS data was not included in the January report, and thus did not affect this month's software sales figures.

so NPD starting include Wal-Mart this month?



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drkohler on 09 February 2012
D-Joe said:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/40227/Analyst_questions_validity_of_unusual_January_NPD_results.php
The group confirmed to Gamasutra, however, that Wal-Mart POS data was not included in the January report, and thus did not affect this month's software sales figures.

so NPD starting include Wal-Mart this month?

NPD has always estimated Wal-mart numbers (with historic data, other means, and current trends). Still, the numbers are within 5% of exact sales, don't expect any magic additions to them.



enrageorange on 09 February 2012
D-Joe said:

· During the month of January, Xbox 360 held five of the top 10 U.S. console game titles including: “Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” “Battlefield 3,” “NBA 2K12” and “Just Dance 3.” (Source: NPD Group, January 2012)

Amazing! 360 version of skyrim outsold 360 version of MW3 this month! NPD also had it beating battlefield 3 for 2011 and yet vgchartz has battlefield 3 sell nearly 1mil more in the USA for 2011. I hope this means skyrim is undertracked but since actual numbers don't get released... it could very well just mean battlefield 3 and mw3 are overtracked.