May 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software numbers up!

[Aquamarine]

Ryng_Tolu said:

Aquamarine said:

Think about it this way for Overwatch:

Overwatch sold 50-100K PC retail sales. That's HUGE for PC retail nowadays.

Since PC retail is such a small fraction of the overall PC market (less than 10%), you can project that for a title to achieve a whopping 50-100K at PC retail, it must have HUGE digital sales (at least >700K on PC digital in the USA).

Isn't 700K still very low? I think 1 million seem right.

Yes, 700K is just a bare-minimum baseline given 50-100K in PC retail.

1 million is another projection that's less conservative but still equally valid.

 

So in that case:

Overwatch:

361K console physical

120K console digital (assuming 33% digital console share)

50-100K PC physical

700-1000K PC digital

=

1.2 million - 1.58 million first month in the USA

 

Something like that.