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Forums - Sales Discussion - July 2014 NPD Thread! PS4: 187k, XBO: 131k, Wii U: 81k

TheSource on 14 August 2014

Mario Kart had some impact...but I think it's more along the lines of a big spike in week one, and then MK adding 5,000-8,000 a week to the Wii U baseline in the weeks after week one. The Wii U being bundled / "more of a value" proposition is a large part of why it's up this year vs. last year. Having more games always helps too.



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Cheebee on 14 August 2014
the_dengle said:
Last July the Wii U was under 32k. This past April it was under 50k.

Clearly Mario Kart has had no effect?

None whatsoever, clearly.

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TheSource on 14 August 2014

It's pretty minor.

Wii jumped from 400k to 700k in Feb 08 to March 08 with Smash, and then stayed at 700k+ a month. Then from March to April Wii went from over 700k in five weeks (over 140k / week) to over 700k in four weeks (over 175k / week). 

Wii U went from 15k / week in May to 28k / week in June. The Mario Kart boost is essentially 40% of what it was on Wii.



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Soundwave on 14 August 2014
the_dengle said:
Last July the Wii U was under 32k. This past April it was under 50k.

Clearly Mario Kart has had no effect?


Kinda overstated to be honest though. 

The Wii U's monthly average last year was about 47k ... the Wii U looks to be headed back towards 60-65k territory in fairly short order here. 

Last July was an outlier even for the Wii U ... it was like the last month of an awful 7 month long drought period where NSMBU and Nintendo Land were the only two major games available for the system (Pikmin 3 would finally launch in August 2013 to break the drought). 

The net gain seems to be a 1 month boost followed by a return to sub-GameCube numbers. 



Aerys on 14 August 2014

83k for Wii U is good no ? Near from X1 in US ! It could really sell more with Europe and Japan



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DonFerrari on 14 August 2014
steverhcp02 said:
DonFerrari said:
steverhcp02 said:

But it is a fact that it did. One game sold so much that it inflated the sales of a single console. This can't be ignored when youre talking about comparing software sales across multiple consoles. The fact it is a single title, remaster is irrelavent to the discussion. One title vastly sold a lot of copies and is only on one console, it will skew the numbers for the month dramatically. that is all. I don't understand what is being argued here.


What is being argued is that TLOUR didn't sold by itself the same as Mk8 and all other SKU in MS and Ninty portfolio... it probably weighted for like 10% of sales, maybe 20%.. but that doesn't make all others dwarves or Sony 50% marketshare in SW irrelevant.

So you agree. But I imagine everyone arguing with me is somehow offended I didnt do a dance and taunt people passive aggressively or something? I never used the word irrelevent either. Why does every discussion have to be this dramatic all-or-nothing with us or against us battle here?


I didn't take any offense... and I agree with you that the month is slow? Yes, but that is no reason to discredit 50% marketshare... but yes you don't need to parade.



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gooch_destroyer on 14 August 2014

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jnemesh on 14 August 2014
DonFerrari said:
jnemesh said:
4k1x3r said:
DonFerrari said:


Are you implying that a remaster selling enough to be 1st place is the greatest part of PS4>X1+WiiU in USA even with Mk8 and other Multiplats??? It didn't sold 1M by itself.

Exactly what he said.

This downplaying is ridiculous...


I thought TLOU:R was "just a crappy remaster that won't move hardware and that no one will buy"?  :)


Well if the "useless" TLOUR get the first position what to say about the other games??? And the excuse about being 1,3 or 4 month older for selling less isn't good because TLOUR is 12 months old.

Easy!  I bought the game and love it!  I was just pointing out comment from certain others around here



leo-j on 14 August 2014

incredible.. simply incredible.. sony is returning to its PS1 days...



 

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the_dengle on 14 August 2014

Comparing MK8 impact to MKWii impact does not show that Mario Kart 8 only increased sales for one week. We are looking at a 160% increase over last July versus a 40% YOY increase in April. What forces if not Mario Kart have caused such an increase?