August 2015 NPD Thread! PS4, XBO, Wii U estimates up!

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jason1637 said:

JRPGfan said:

but isnt halo 5 like right at the end of the month? like the 28th or something?

Uncharted collection is out early in October. I see that month being close, with the ps4  barely edgeing it out.

 

The battle is nov & dec.

Uncharted bundle isnt doign well on Amazon while Halo bundle was in the top 10 during the week it was announced. Alos the Halo hype will push sales before it launches.

A remaster collection vs a brand new Halo...in the USA? No contest man, Halo wins every time. I don;t see the UC collection doing much more for PS4 than Gears Ultimate did got Xb one in August. According to Amazon the Halo 5 bundle is out 20 October. Given it's a digital copy you can get the hardware early and then the software becomes downloadable on the 27th. In any case a game like Halo only needs 2 or 3 days of the NPD month to have the large bulk of its effect. Heck within the first 24 hours Halo will do huge numbers.

The question will be, as Gribble says, what the winning margin will be. If Halo doesn't push Xb one to have a realy big lead over PS4 for October then that is not going to be a very good look for Xb one's prospects in the USAfor the remainder of the generation. IMO 2015 is the last year when MS can hope to reverse things and become the biggest selling console in the USA. If PS4 still has a lead come 1 January 2016 I think you can safely say PS4 will end the generation on top in the USA. At the outside, you could give Xb one until March when UC4 comes out to establish itself as the permanent number 1 console.