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

[heruamon]

steverhcp02 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...

Yeah thats what people keep saying, but how is it surprising when VGC numbers for the same period were also 30k plus in the PS3's favor?

This isnt surprising, what gives with this rationale?

My only surprise is the Wi and PS3 aggregate is higher, so the penetration for the month shows more growth over the 360, which surprised me since VGC was spt on with the 360.

 

Nintendo's action and statments...they fiercely denied a Wii's price cut...like 3 days before the cut, so it seemed like...and this is only from my perception...that they got some early data, and thought...CRAP...we need a price cut, pronto!  Anyway...I simply thought VGc's numbers were higher for the Wii, and a bigger gap was going to be the case.  The other surprise is that the 360 eeeked out higher Y-O-Y numbers, in the face of the Slim's launch...