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Forums - Sales Discussion - September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

 

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xl-klaudkil on 19 October 2018

Wow didnt expect such huge numbers for ps4,october is going to be a massacre.



 

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Baddman on 19 October 2018

these threads are so annoying to read now i wish i could ignore users



Random_Matt on 19 October 2018

VGC estimates are so bad, no idea why people pay any attention to them. About time site just stopped bothering.



Miyamotoo on 19 October 2018
xl-klaudkil said:
Wow didnt expect such huge numbers for ps4,october is going to be a massacre.

Not necessarily, I still think that PS4 will also take October, but difference maybe want be so big like it was in September.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8904230



Sunstrider on 19 October 2018
kazuyamishima said:
I remember the people that said "waiting for the switch to have stock to destroy everything else"

Now they go with "waiting for the switch to release big games to destroy everything"

Yeah, like on any platform if their rival is winning, nothing is gonna change and it will never change, like I told you before, stay on the sidelines and eat your snacks.



             

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jason1637 on 19 October 2018

Really good sales for the Ps4.



MasonADC on 19 October 2018

People need to remember that ps4 doing amazing does no mean that the Switch did bad...



AngryLittleAlchemist on 19 October 2018
Kyuu said:

There's no doubt that the vast majority of us predicted the Switch to beat PS4 in NPD 2018; and this is on the very logical presumption that PS4 would get its long-overdue "permanent" pricecut before August (It didn't). All in all, we moderately overestimated Switch for reasons including Labo's potential and 2017's stock issues which made the demand for the foreseeable future look greater than it turned out to be. More evergreen games, the new model, and a price drop should liven things up, so my expectations for 2019 remain very high.

PS4 was underestimated mainly due to its age. Not many consoles peak on their 5th year, let alone without an official price drop. Nintendo's optimistic projection as opposed to Sony's pessimism also contributed to the poor predictions in general.

I actually predicted PS4 to be up year on year worldwide, but the basis of that was the permanent pricecut and Kingdom Hearts 3 releasing this holiday, I would have never thought PS4 can do so well without the aforementioned.

As for Switch, it's overperforming in parts of Europe and slightly underperforming in USA relative to my expectations. Can't comment on Japan since the handheld community is heavily reliant on a low price range. If Nintendo doesn't drop the price down to $150 at one point, then it wouldn't shock me if it it fails to outsell 3DS or even PSP.

Good comment. Although I would not necessarily say we overestimated demand for Switch. iirc Even with stock issues Switch shipped/sold 16.4 mil in first year versus 14.5 for PS4 first year. Or something like that. The problem is that this year just has the heavy hitters stacked in the last two months. Or at least, in my uneducated opinion.

 

By the way "then it wouldn't shock me if it it fails to outsell 3DS or even PSP" 

 

Didn't PSP sell more than 3ds? Shouldn't it be the opposite way around?



bananaking21 on 19 October 2018
Kyuu said:

There's no doubt that the vast majority of us predicted the Switch to beat PS4 in NPD 2018; and this is on the very logical presumption that PS4 would get its long-overdue "permanent" pricecut before August (It didn't). All in all, we moderately overestimated Switch for reasons including Labo's potential and 2017's stock issues which made the demand for the foreseeable future look greater than it turned out to be. More evergreen games, the new model, and a price drop should liven things up, so my expectations for 2019 remain very high.

PS4 was underestimated mainly due to its age. Not many consoles peak on their 5th year, let alone without an official price drop. Nintendo's optimistic projection as opposed to Sony's pessimism also contributed to the poor predictions in general.

I actually predicted PS4 to be up year on year worldwide, but the basis of that was the permanent pricecut and Kingdom Hearts 3 releasing this holiday, I would have never thought PS4 can do so well without the aforementioned.

As for Switch, it's overperforming in parts of Europe and slightly underperforming in USA relative to my expectations. Can't comment on Japan since the handheld community is heavily reliant on a low price range. If Nintendo doesn't drop the price down to $150 at one point, then it wouldn't shock me if it it fails to outsell 3DS or even PSP.

Did you really expect Kingdom hearts 3 to have a huge impact on PS4 sales? An even bigger one than Spiderman or RDR? Because the way you're wording it seems to Indicate that KH3 was going to catapult PS4 sales. Honestly I doubt it will have any affect at all. Maybe a slight bump that week in Japan.



Keybladewielder on 19 October 2018

Oh wow dat ps4 domination. The power of Spider Man is something else.