January 2015 NPD Thread! Hardware estimates up!

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Lightbeyondnemesis said:

No you are not...ps4 is near 20 million and is still 399, of course it was down, compared to other consoles that got privce cuts way before..YOIu dont have a clue what you are talking about. PS4 sold way faster then consoels before not named wi, of course it hoit satiuration faster.

He wants to spread doom for PS4 even if it is already at 20M, which is a pretty good number. People claiming it won't get at 100M at this pace are being beyond ridiculous too. PS4 getting behind PS2 was expected too, it had to happen eventually unless PS4 would do 160M+ what isn't going to happen since it actually has competition.

His view of the NPD was way more positive in December and November, while X1 was on top.

We can't take a single month as a trend. We have the current total numbers. That's a trend, that's a result that came with more than a year of sales. Taking a single month, in a single country as a more respectable source of market health instead of 1 year of global data is simply insane.

A tiny timeframe isn't a good source of information. We could compare the MGS4 launch month on PS3 with the same month for PS4 (supposing we had a month with no big game) and PS4 would look bad. The aligned month to month comparison still suffers with the fact that PS3 and 360 had price cuts while PS4 hadn't. More than that, X1 got a 150 bucks price cut and stole market share from PS4 in the US.