May 2014 NPD Thread!

[DonFerrari]

Aura7541 said:

Yakuzaice said:

Aura7541 said:

Fusioncode said:
Vita got an 1800% increase month on month. What the hell happened?

Borderlands 2 bundle actually did something. Also shows how VGC is totally whack.

The worst part is there was no real reason to be so far off on the Vita.  The Borderlands bundle came out the week before the standalone game.  VGC actually recorded sales for the week of the bundle.  Yet despite originally showing 42k+ sales when Borderlands was only available in the bundle, they showed ~2k hardware sales.

They did actually adjust it.  All the way to 5k.  How that made sense to ioi or whoever is overseeing these numbers is beyond me.

VGC's methodology is just terrible. Its numbers are dependent on a miniscule sample size of the market and past trends. In contrast, NPD actually buys access to sales numbers from major retailers and thus, their figures are way more accurate. I learned years ago to never, ever trust VGC numbers.

We know VGC is way off and the way they estimate... but to have a SW that is released ONLY IN A BUNDLE WITH THE SW outsell the total HW like 5:1+ is just moronic.