May 2013 NPD Thread!

[kopstudent89]

TheSource said:

kopstudent89 said:

TheSource said:

3DS should actually do pretty well in June, Nintendo said Animal Crossing accompanied a large spike (4x), and it's a five-week, not four-week month. So June should be 30, 30, 120, 50, 40 or whatever, 270k overall?

If you estimate PS3 at 90k (it was at 105k in April and moves in the same manner as X360 most times in terms of trends), and Wii at 45k (it's been running higher than Wii U), I have lifetime totals at:

DS - 53.0m+

Wii - 41.1m+

X360 - 39.0m

PS3 - 24.1m

3DS - 8.5m

Vita - 1.3m?

Wii U - 1.1m?

 

PS2 got to 46m, and PSP got to almost 20m (19.9m+) as far as I can tell.

Jeez, when was the last time a console hit 270k outside the holidays! Pretty good that!

March... X360 sold 261k in March 2013. Five week month though. 

In a normal year, 50,000 a week (200k in a four week month, 250k in a five week month) is pretty average. "Good" is 100,000 a week for four - five weeks, and Great to Historic is 150,000 or more. You sell 400,000 consoles a month for 10 months, you're at 4m, plus another 2.5m to come for the holidays (Nov-Dec), that's essentially what X360 and Wii did in 2010. A great year is 10 months at 600,000, with 3.6m over the holidays - what Wii / PS2 / NES / DS did at their peaks.

100k is quite excellent tbh no? DS and Wii really pushed the boundaries at their peak, but I'd think 70k/week is good. I think the 3DS will get pretty close to that by the time Pokemon releases. I think it will manage to shift 4 mil, 5-6 million can happen for it this year.