May NPD thread! PS4 152k; XBO: 139k; WU: 43k; 3DS 97k

[DonFerrari]

Tachikoma said:
DonFerrari :
Regardless of the sales performance on a given month for either console, the purpose of a monthly statement is to give the brightest possible outlook for your product, you can call that spin if you wish but every company, not just Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, do it, it's a universal approach to buffering a not so great month with positives about your product, whether or not they give numbers is irrelevant.

jlmurph2 :
Please refrain from referring to other users as being "bitter" it adds nothing to the discussion.

yes, that was what I pointed out. When the sales are good ms just go direct about it, but 12-14 out of 19 times this gen they covered with spin (at least this one isn't mind blogging).

 

If last year may had been at least decent or similar to April I wouldn't say anything about it being a spin (regardless of gap from ps4). But use 81% growth was used to give a false sentation of incredible growth when in fact it was just an ordinary month with weak numbers (probably to everyone), the growth just seems fabulous because they sabotaged may 2014 immensively with dekinected.

 

Have I said they can't or shouldn't? Nope, just called a spade a spade. Not sure why so many disagrees.

 

Sony winning or losing NPD just give breafy "thanks for month lead" or "thanks for cummulative lead". Nintendo Just comment their numbers with highlights the important parts. But don't say all months 3DS won against Vita. Every company spin, but only ms have obsession with spinning to look like they won.