The Official May 2010 NPD Thread (Data for May 2-May 29)

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RolStoppable said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

RolStoppable said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

Why? :S they are still up YoY by a nice amount

It's easy to talk about growth when you are working off of a very low base.

I don't get it..in it's strongest region the xbox has around 40k lead...both the xbox and ps3 had an increase of 20k or so...ps3 was 130k vs xbox 175k a gap of 45k last year...the gap has decreased and that is also not a 'very' low base...if then the xbox had a low base also..

or am I misunderstanding something here?

Yes, you are misunderstanding two things:

1) What I was refering to is the YoY growth of the PS3 you mentioned in the post I responded to. Before the Slim and price cut the PS3 was doing terrible in 2009, so it's no surprise at all that it's up YoY at this point.

2) "The gap has decreased.", that goes only for the gap by which the PS3 gets outsold by the 360 monthly. In overall sales though, the 360's lead is still growing, so the gap is increasing every month. Sony just doesn't lose by as much as they used to, that's all.

Less worse than they used to is still = a good thing

I said that to a comment saying the ps3 is doing 'horribly' on HW which is BS....it's doing just fine, with almost no major exclusive releases it still has an increase YoY, no matter what the reason is, it's not a horrible, it's actually good

I just think that the 'analysts' sometimes jump the gun here...NPD themselves said the ps3 has increased healthily...so the bottom line is NO, it's not selling HORRIBLY in it's weakest region