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Forums - Sales Discussion - Is It Safe To Assume That Black Friday's Sales Weren't As Good As Expected?

 

It's already the following Thursday after Black Friday, yet neither of the Big 3 have released any sales numbers for Black Friday.  Now, while last year they didn't release any numbers, either, this was most likely only due to November being the launch months for PS4 and XBO, so stock was short for BF.  If we look the years prior, 2011 and 2012 (and probably before that), MS seems to usually release their PR on the Tuesday following BF, while Sony releases it on Thursday.  But, here we are, and no numbers. 

Could it be that sales weren't spectacular compared to other years?  Personally, I believe Nintendo's sales weren't horrible, but still nothing to write home about. I also find it telling that MS hasn't announced anything, as they stated sales were spectacular.  Could it be that they didn't win BF, and by a decent amount?  And what about Sony?  Were sales not as good as they hoped?  Or are they saving an announcement for this Saturday's PSX?



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i was expecting ms to say something tomorrow at TGA's and sony to say something saturday during the keynote



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I'll give it until after the awards show and the chartz.

There's been an all-around trend in Black Friday not being as profitable this year for various reasons.



Well, I will judge only after official numbers, ioi did say that BF sales are the hardest to track!



                  

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Well theres about 3 events coming up so theres still time. I think they all did great on BF, npd numbers will be released next week right



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I'll just wait until the end of the year.



ioi had mentioned that he was also expecting a statement, but we didn't get any. There is a good chance that no one really knows what they did. There is also the issue that sales were over several days and across different vendors. We are close enough to NPD where we might as well wait for the grand totals.



I work at corporate for a major retail company, and hardware sales (bundles specifically) were huge, much higher than last year. Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday were great for PS4,XBone and even Wii U.



Everyone's waiting for ioi to update the charts.



NobleTeam360 said:
I'll just wait until the end of the year.

Wow, you're really willing to wait that long?