The Official NPD September Thread (5 wks ending Oct 4, 2009, Data in 3 hrs)

[steverhcp02]

psrock said:

heruamon said:

steverhcp02 said:

heruamon said:
The numbers are ALOT closer than I would have expected...

Well VGC was spot on with the 360 and VGC had the difference correct but totals low for the PS3 and Wii.....what exactly is closer....its not 360 an dPS3 because thats a larger margin than we would have expected based on Bretts numbers?

Care to elaborate?

I was thinking about the Wii and PS3...I expected it to be a little wider...Wii cut happened on the first.  As for the 360 and PS3...it's about where I expected it to be...the 360 dropped it's price to match the PS3, but other than Halo ODST at the end of hte month, there wasn't much catalyst to boost sales, whereas PS3 had the hype of the Slim's launch.  We will have to see how things shake out in Oct, but November and December are going to be the month of deals...

Why were you expecting a bigger gap, what info are you using. This site showed they were close all month. The only thing I see is both console being slighly undertracked but keeping about the same gap.

Why is it the people who questioned and predicted the least from the Slim are the same acting like the Wii overcame something. This is the first time the PS3 has done this, let go of the hate for once.

Exactly this sites main debates revolve around PS3-Wii-360.

NPD had the same as VGC for 360 and the ratios for Wii and PS3 the same. The only thing that is "surprising" if you could even say that is the volume of PS3 and Wii, which are good for the industry and videogame fans as its creating more parody in the states, at least in terms of PS3 to 360.....since the Wii pretty much just eats PS3 and 360 sales and shits them out for nintendo in the form of money.