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Forums - Sales Discussion - Industry not dead after all - PS4, One, WiiU all undertracked! (NPD)

binary solo on 14 March 2014
DakonBlackblade said:
binary solo said:
Not dead, you're right, but still basking in the glow of pent up demand from an unusually long generation. Gen 8 will still be a lot smaller than gen 7. But it'll probably be big enough for at least 2 of the 3 to give consoles one further generation. After that though, the console as we know it is done.


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Germany.



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ICStats on 14 March 2014
binary solo said:
ICStats said:

Those Wii casual gamer sales are gone - they're not coming back to Nintendo and not going to Sony or MS either.

So yeah, the decline is completely a Nintendo thing.  Sony & MS seem strong.

Hmmm, Xb one will see lower market share and lower total sales than 360 in the long run (people hoping across to PS4), so strong is a relative term. And globally Xb one is doing terribly. The only console likely to see gen on gen growth is PS4. So actually the decline is mostly a Nintendo thing but also somewhat of a Xbox thing.

I agree, but thats more of a market share thing than a market shrink thing.



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AZWification on 14 March 2014
brendude13 said:
Good news all around.

V-V-Vita?

Who?  I only heard of the Vita.



                
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Alby_da_Wolf on 14 March 2014

Nice news, if the industry will be up YoY overall it will be a very good thing for everybody, HW producers, devs, publishers and, what concerns us the most, gamers.



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kirby007 on 14 March 2014

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Pavolink on 14 March 2014

Wii U undertracked?

OMG PS4 sold 200k more units than Wii U!
How can Nintendo let happen this?



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Enspire on 14 March 2014

Okay im gonna sound like a total noob but seriously what does NPD mean? i see it everywhere on here and I know it has to do with sales but what does it actually stand for and mean?!?



Dgc1808 on 14 March 2014

Wow. A huge difference for X1. Very nice.



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wary-wallaroo on 14 March 2014

So this means Sony's still doing a million a month. I'd say that's pretty damn good, 10 million by E3 seems completely doable.

The X1 is also did better than I expect in NA, though I still stand by my prediction that it'll collapse again in April. WW, it's not even funny, the PS4 will continue wiping the floor with it.



Kane1389 on 14 March 2014
DarkD said:
DerNebel said:

I'll just copy what I said in the NPD thread:

"wow this month was a total miss for vgchartz

BTW

NPD February 2007

360: 228,000 (or 161,000 if we want to use its first February)

PS3: 127,000

The industry is dying my ass."

So as several people have been saying: the console decline is completely a Nintendo thing


That was when the 360 and PS3 were still selling horribly.  Wanna throw the Wii numbers up there?  You're comparing it with the sell rates of failing consoles..  That was when developers were threatening  Sony because they were selling less than 100K units a month.   The Wii which won the generation with 100 million sales was selling over 200 000 units a week and almost a million a month.  Yes this is for the same time span, the first month of february after the console launched in december.  

If you compare the PS4 numbers to that right now, its doing absolutely miserably.  Either that or Sony is VASTLY underproducing...  The problem here is that they need not just some sales to support their console, but ALOT of sales.  


PS4 is outpacing the Wii significantly ...