April 2014 NPD Thread!

[DonFerrari]

Kasz216 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

kopstudent89 said:
So it's Wii U's chance to redeem itself really this month. Needs to at least match the levels of PS4/XBone this month (though both aren't doin that well really)

lol i love posts like this. sellng 4x as much as wii u and 2x xb1 isnt doing well lol

Eh,  Using the sole competition as the barometer for success can be troublesome.

If  run a 30 minute mile, and beat an old person and a dude with 1 leg by 2X and 4X I wouldn't say I was doing well.

 

The PS4 number isn't that bad....  buuuut if you look back a couple pages on the prediction League.

 

Only 4 guesses under 199K.

46 above 199K

 

That's clearly below average as far as performing vs expectations.

Not as bad as the Xbone which completely undershot all expectations but there you go.

When compaired vs itself, the number is somewhat dissapointing.

 

It's just a really weak month for all consoles.  The question is... why?

We all know the numbers weren't great, but we can't say they were exactly bad without putting in context that a lot of console were sold in the launch, maybe it acelerated to soon and now it will lag a little to then enter the normal sales curve.