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loy310 on 16 July 2014

100% month to month, what more can you ask for. Goes to show how ridiculous the PS4 is selling in comparison.



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RealGamingExpert on 16 July 2014

That doesnt sound very good....
But then again 'more than double' could mean quite a lot.
Still holding my expectations really low.



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fireburn95 on 16 July 2014

Less than PS4 in June lol?
That's rough, because there's no way they'll win july, with the last of us out towards end of the month.
August will also benefit from the last of us a little.
Then september favours playstation again with destiny bundles.

Man americans just aren't budging.



gergroy on 16 July 2014
sully1311 said:
gergroy said:
why are there so many people bad at math in this thread?
77 x 2 = 154, not 144...


Fixed.

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fireburn95 on 16 July 2014

Didnt xbox one sales reduce by alot in may because of the early price cut announcement. So 100% more isn't that too impressive of a jump



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mornelithe on 16 July 2014
RealGamingExpert said:
That doesnt sound very good....
But then again 'more than double' could mean quite a lot.
Still holding my expectations really low.

Not really, all it means with absolute certainty is that it didn't sell more than triple.



DonFerrari on 16 July 2014

Why put internal data the day before NPD? Preemptive so they don't need to report the loss to ps4? Or maybe NPD will be lower than their estimative (which count retail schedule = shipped and not disclosed sold through method of counting, because june shipping will be higher than may even if just to make new Sku available and well stocked)?



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prinz_valium on 16 July 2014
Arkaign said:
CGI-Quality said:
DD_Bwest said:
wtf where did you guys go to school? 77+77? lol cmon you should know this (its not 144)

Thought I was alone when saw 77+77=144. :P

Either way, double, is double. May not be 360 levels, and it may not beat the PS4, but it did something.


Double a 4 week month with a 5 week month + considering May was widely regarded as a 'throwaway' month due to the VERY early pre-announcement of the $399 SKU, actually is pretty terrible.

Compare the weekly sales to April. If 160k is correct, nothing has changed beyond about ~10%.

If it also turns out that most of the bump was accounted for in the first few days (pent up buyers who waited out May for the $399 SKU availability), then July could be considerably worse. At or below the ~28k/week of April again. In a 4 week month, means ~112k.


to be fair

the 5 weeks of npd tracking includes still one week without the kinectless sku and horible low sales ;)



sully1311 on 16 July 2014
fireburn95 said:
Didnt xbox one sales reduce by alot in may because of the early price cut announcement. So 100% more isn't that too impressive of a jump


Yep, ~77k in May.



Arkaign on 16 July 2014
CGI-Quality said:
Arkaign said:


Double a 4 week month with a 5 week month + considering May was widely regarded as a 'throwaway' month due to the VERY early pre-announcement of the $399 SKU, actually is pretty terrible.

Compare the weekly sales to April. If 160k is correct, nothing has changed beyond about ~10%.

If it also turns out that most of the bump was accounted for in the first few days (pent up buyers who waited out May for the $399 SKU availability), then July could be considerably worse. At or below the ~28k/week of April again. In a 4 week month, means ~112k.

I'm taking the grass is greener approach. :)


32,000/week in the US is good?

If that keeps up, the gap will be 1M+ pretty damn quick (Destiny boost upcoming, Amazon shows preorders are massive for that, so we should see a ludicrous September from built-up sales combining with the usual buyers). 

Basically the best case scenario is this :

There was ZERO pent-up demand for the $399 SKU, what happened was purely new baseline achieved of 32,000 week.

Why do I say that? If there was a demand bubble on June 9th for the $399 SKU, and a lot were sold (like everyone seems to agree on), then the actual numbers are probably closer to this :

Week 1 (pre-$399) 15,000

Week 2 ($399 week) 75,000

Week 3 25,000

Week 4 22,500

Week 5 22,500