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Forums - Sales Discussion - March NPD 2019 thread

Ps4 is still selling well at $299 but it definitely needs a price cut if Sony want to improve its sales. Don't think sony care at this point. It is still selling very well WW.



Im curious about nintendo's forecast for switch in this 2019 fiscal year.



Wow! Awesome sales for Switch! Not sure if it had any big releases during March.

From my memory it almost had 2million for US + Japan alone for Q1?



Pocky Lover Boy! 

Swtich lead have been quite steady this year.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

I am glad my pessimism was wrong. All consoles did better than I predicted, but they are still a bit low when combined.



update hardware leaks.
Any leaks about software i missed?



thismeintiel said:
Marth said:
Switch: 383k
PS4: 253k
XB1: 221k

YoY
Switch: +24%
Ps4: -29%
XB1: -26%
thismeintiel said: 

NS - 350K
PS4 - 275K
XBO - 210K

Hmm, not too far off this month. Looks like those $249 XBO bundles are doing alright in brick and mortar, because XBO has little presence on Amazon recently.  Which really makes me wonder, what the hell is even the point of the discless version. You're getting much less  for the same price as a normal XBO. If it had a 4TB HDD, then ok, but it doesn't.

It's for the holidays probably. MS said that they will keep a $50 differrence in MSRP and last Holiday the S was going for $180. They probably want to hit that $130 pricepoint for the late gen buyers.



jason1637 said:
thismeintiel said:

Hmm, not too far off this month. Looks like those $249 XBO bundles are doing alright in brick and mortar, because XBO has little presence on Amazon recently.  Which really makes me wonder, what the hell is even the point of the discless version. You're getting much less  for the same price as a normal XBO. If it had a 4TB HDD, then ok, but it doesn't.

It's for the holidays probably. MS said that they will keep a $50 differrence in MSRP and last Holiday the S was going for $180. They probably want to hit that $130 pricepoint for the late gen buyers.

And not only the holidays. MS keeps having $50 off-1 week promotions pretty every month.

And that without taking into account that we are talking about MSRP here. And since the regular X1S pretty much always can be found for $249 if you look around, I would assume in a couple of months you'll be able to find the SAD edition for around $199 pretty easily.



jason1637 said:
thismeintiel said:

Hmm, not too far off this month. Looks like those $249 XBO bundles are doing alright in brick and mortar, because XBO has little presence on Amazon recently.  Which really makes me wonder, what the hell is even the point of the discless version. You're getting much less  for the same price as a normal XBO. If it had a 4TB HDD, then ok, but it doesn't.

It's for the holidays probably. MS said that they will keep a $50 differrence in MSRP and last Holiday the S was going for $180. They probably want to hit that $130 pricepoint for the late gen buyers.

I guess that makes sense.  Personally, I would spend the extra $50 and get the 4K drive, and all the benefits that comes with.  Anyway, you would think with them keeping their sales of $249 for the regular S SKUs going, $199 would have been a much better price.  As it is, this thing isn't even going to cause a blip when it releases.  It's not even in the Top 1,500 Hourly for video games on Amazon.



thismeintiel said:
jason1637 said:

It's for the holidays probably. MS said that they will keep a $50 differrence in MSRP and last Holiday the S was going for $180. They probably want to hit that $130 pricepoint for the late gen buyers.

I guess that makes sense.  Personally, I would spend the extra $50 and get the 4K drive, and all the benefits that comes with.  Anyway, you would think with them keeping their sales of $249 for the regular S SKUs going, $199 would have been a much better price.  As it is, this thing isn't even going to cause a blip when it releases.  It's not even in the Top 1,500 Hourly for video games on Amazon.

If I didnt have a Xbox One already I'd probably would get the digital edition if it were $50 cheaper because I only have like 6 physical games and i own them digitally also anyway. I rarely buy physical games and I know lots of people who are the same.