July 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

[Aquamarine]

zorg1000 said:

Aquamarine said:

Hardware sales in isolation are meaningless. What matters is the macro----how healthy is the ecosystem, and how do the overall markets sell.

 

At the moment, Home Consoles are the future of USA retail, and Handhelds are almost dead.

3DS is unwell. It's technically alive hardware-wise thanks to fads and a few Nintendo IP, but as an ecosystem it's not healthy.

That's why historically I haven't been focusing on it.

 

Maybe this month will be different. We'll see.

Like I said, i get where you're coming from.

Not sure if i missed it, have you or anyone else released any numbers yet?

No.

CosmicQueso implied that 3DS had its best month out of any month in 2016, so you have a minimum for 3DS, but no benchmarks outside of that.