April 29th, 2007 NA

[johnsobas]

Diomedes1976 said:

ioi said:

Diomedes1976 said:
I dont trust the new weekly data . If this was to be believed the PS3 would dip around 100K for the month and the Wii would go to 400K .I doubt this is happening ,the PS3 has stabilized around 130K and the Wii is gradually lowering its sales not skyrocketing them . I predict a massive change of the american data of this site the same day NPD issues their numbers .

Diomedes, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts more and more annoying. You seem to be on a constant vendetta to try and challenge the numbers on the site despite being continually proven wrong.

I don't understand your latest line of thinking - it has already been answered but I will re-iterate. Feb was a 4 week month for NPD, 130k sold average of ~32.5k per week. March a five week month, 130k average of 26k per week. Why would sales in April be expected to go back up? I think we'll be seeing NPD figures for PS3 in April of well under 100k and our figures are suggesting around 25k per week across all of NA at present. Wii sales were down at 50k for a few weeks (tracking very close to Japan sales) but larger shipments in the last couple of weeks have pushed sales back up. Again, this comes from the data we have been given and is also supported by anecdotal evidence - there have been large Wii shipments the last two weeks.

Pokemon DS and increased DS shipments, 360 Elite, PSP price drop. What exactly are you disputing here with the data?

Despite being continually being proved wrong ??

 

I doesnt want to be rude ,but I told you the weekly data for march  couldnt be like that and you had to massively change it after NPD released their data just two days later .You continue to tell me for Wii shipped=sold for every region when there is absolute evidence for me thats not true simply going to any store and seeing large groups of unsold wiis  .March was five weeks nominally ,but it had 30 days all the same.You have had to lower the X360 numbers at least 5 times .I would say you are proved continually wrong ,not me .At least you change the numbers once they real ones by NPD or media create  comes and thats good ,but dont play retroactive games with me not because you have the good data of march now you had it when you posted it (must I remember you the 366K X360 you attributed to MS for march?or the 400K Wiis ?) and with april it will happen just the same .You are saying the PS3 will drop way beyond 100K for april and the Wii approaching 350K-400K ,I am disputing you that claim just because its not what we have been seeing for last months with the PS3 stabilizing and the wii reducing its sales somewhat .I dont want to dispute with you but if this page will turn into a wii-fans comedy with the lower PS3 estimations possible for weeks and the higher for Wii I dont see the point posting until you put the definitive data(i.e until NPD gives their data ) .For example you had one of the latest weeks at PS3 18K consoles sold for many time ,with people posting about how bad that was ....then that data is fixed to 33K consoles for the week so nearly the double and all that posting  is absolutely futile .Whats the point arguing about speculative numbers that will be changed in two or three weeks in a significant way ?You told your sources could track about 2% of the market ,to see that kind of real-time data I could go always to the Amazon page and see how their articles are selling .I liked it more when you didnt play the analyst so much and sticked to confirmed data .

Are you trying to dispute that march NPD data was for 5 weeks?  What are you saying?  I realize March was a 30 day month but NPD tracks for 5 weeks, 1 of those weeks goes into april.  If you didn't know that, you need to stop arguing, because you're obviously uninformed.  PS3 sold 26k a week for march NPD on a 5 week, that means if it sold exactly the same for april it would sell 104k.  PS3 sales have gone down every month since launch, and it appears that will continue, plus in march PS3 had a couple major releases, and in april they only have an old game called F.E.A.R.  It is highly probable that PS3 will sell less than 100k.

The evidence is there that Wii shipments are up, from people saying that they see many wiis in the stores, and itrackr.  Plus the fact that Nintendo was obviously waiting for the fiscal year to be done before sending big shipments, it all makes sense.