May 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software numbers up!

[Mazzy]

RolStoppable said:

Aquamarine said:
Also another interesting thing ZhugeEX said:

"New software released in May made up 51% of total software sales."

This is emblematic of the current state of the retail industry. Everything at retail is focused on the latest and greatest....catalog sales continue to weaken as the years go by.

This isn't good news for companies like Nintendo who base their entire business plan around building a catalog that sells-through throughout the entire generation.

That fact is the result of Nintendo hardware doing badly, not a reason for Nintendo to worry about the future. All it takes for that trend to reverse is that Nintendo's next generation hardware has stronger monthly sales which will inevitably result in higher sales of older Nintendo games which in turn will improve the slice of total software sales.

Likewise, your Pokken fact is a cause of the same issue. So the game sold less than 35k units in its third month, but that number is higher than Wii U hardware sales for the same month. How many 3+ months old games manage to do that? My guess is hardly any.

Yeah, Nintendo just needs to catch lightning in a bottle again, no biggie. And if they fail, well they'll just have record low sales, but eh, no problem for Nintendo.