Gamestop reports 360 sales double since price cut...

[johnsobas]

Magera said:
Well for sales to actually double and be recorded like this through NPD, the sales will have to remain at double every day for the entire month of recording otherwise it will not be recorded as double.

Let's say there are 30 days in the recording period. EVERY days sales are 50 so that would mean that over the full 30 days their should be 1500 sold.

However this is how it would be (Remeber, every day is supposed to be 50 sales)...

Day 1 - 100 sales
Day 2 - 100 sales
Day 3 - 100 sales
Day 4 - 100 sales
Day 5 - 100 sales
Day 6 - 100 sales
Day 7 - 100 sales (Report that sales have doubled)
Day 8 - 100 sales
Day 9 - 100 sales
Day 10 - 95 sales
" " "
" " "
Day 20 - 80 sales
" " "
Day 25 - 70 sales
" " "
Day 30 - 68 sales

Total sales: 2668 sales (Total doubled would be 3000)

So by this it would increase from 150,000 NPD to 266,800 NPD - Not exactly double but a much better increase in sales.

that's basically what's going to happen.  Sony said the PS3 had an increase of 138% sales from the price drop, and when NPD came out it showed an increase of 101% for the month.