May 2014 NPD Thread!

[Vena]

Yakuzaice said:

Vena said:

Which is why I said it didn't make sense at all to work with the numbers we're working with. As I said at the very end of my last statement, given the numbers we're looking at and if the numbers are as we're hypothetically breaking them down, then the WiiU moved next to nothing in the days following the TWO days that the bundle and MK8 was on the market.

So you're basically arguing that Reggie, with his quote in June, was talking about only two days of May, and that the WiiU sold nothing in the subsequent days of the first week in June.

And just to be clear, I am not trying to argue that WiiU sold some phenomenal numbers or that its even been saved, but that these numbers and the info from Nintendo don't seem to gel unless we make some weird statements or hard cuts to numbers. Hence why I keep saying to wait till June's numbers.

No, I'm arguing that he was referring to the last week of May.  Using the same tracking weeks that NPD/VGC use.  The numbers gel pretty well like that.

If you don't believe these numbers then waiting until June won't really do any good.  We are unlikely to get official numbers from Nintendo unless they do really well.

I doubt he'd be referring to the last two days as the "last week of May", the quote we're talking about was with regards to MK8 and the WiiU. Two days are not a week no matter how we spin it, and the whole discussion on this comes up well after the first week of June was already over (as it came from E3).

It doesn't flow logically to me. Two days is not a week, and the original quote and article on Polygon was about the week following its release... coming out on the second week of June. (Also I'm pretty sure we don't have actual numbers even from NPD, we have an estimate based on the 85% statement. All we know, seemingly concretely, is that the MK8 bundle sold 25k+ and sold out.)