The Official July NPD Thread (data for 4 weeks ending 8/2 comes @ 6:30 est)

[talkingparrot]

carlos710 said:

superchunk said:

shio said:

superchunk said:
meh, I don't care about over/under as compared to npd. They are only estimating as much as vgc is. You guys would be jumping all for vgc if the numbers were showing PS3 leading here and losing on NPD.

What I do care about is that ps3+360 < Wii. :)

Wii on to 50%!

seriously, shut up. You don't know what you're talking about.

 

Are you serious you little sob, let's look through our post histories to see who knows what they are talking about.

@you and leo-j

What the hell do you two think the entire idea of statistics and sales counting is? Estimation. Its all about getting as much "real" info you can and from that estimating out the remainder of the potential sales. Only difference is NPD has a bigger chunk of the "real" numbers and therefore has a good chance of being closer to reality. But, their estimation is still quite large as they don't have some of the biggest retailers, like Walmart. They could easily be off as much as VGC.

Do you all fail to forget last xmas when NPD's total sales were way too low for reasonable sales based on what the manufactures stated they shipped? Whereas VGC was pretty much right on with expectations? You all are just being fanboys and going with the answer that best fits your dreams.

As far as I'm concerned PS360 were equal last month and Wii destroyed them both combined.

 

 

So true, this is what matters here. What most people, developers and publishers are going to see is that the Wii once again beat them combined... with a nice representation in SW sales too, including a 170$ 3rd party game that was released late

 

The wii sells to extreme casuals.  Games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc.  Will sell in HUGE numbers.  However, games like GTA- Pshhhhhhhh.