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

[M.U.G.E.N]

RolStoppable said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

RolStoppable said:

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

Adding another point to the list:

3) The post you originally responded to was talking about Sony hardware, not the PS3 specifically. The PSP is not selling well, I think everyone would agree on that.

The PS3 isn't doing all that great either, considering all the things it had going for it since September of last year. Microsoft did almost nothing since then, yet the 360 is still outselling the PS3 comfortably.

While it's true that the PS3 numbers don't look bad when compared to previous numbers it pulled off, it's wrong to ignore the conditions under which those sales were achieved.

sorry but I think your ignoring some facts there also...the box was already cheaper back then, it was even cheaper with bundling and other offers in the past few months...the ps3 had no such thing while recovering from supply issues as well...it's a 20k something increase in HW in it's weakest region while in these conditions the xbox did better but still not as good as last year in it's strongest region...so agreed it's kinda wrong to 'ignore' the conditions...only of xbox