November 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware estimates in the OP!

[3sexty]

SWORDF1SH said:

3sexty said:

Sorry you have not answered the question i asked you. Your thoughts please?

'too many positive sales increase factors on both side of the fence (Particularly sony with pro/vr/slim all aligned at the same time pretty much) that failed to deliver its killer blow just before christmas. So what do you make of that. Sony should have annihilated that month. Tell me why didnt they?' I'll laugh with you when you have a well considered repsonse to this :)  PS I really think people use the lingo or whatever you call it 'LMAO' way to conveniently when they are really annoyed or pissed off...I mean it would just be easier to be honest and tell me that you are annoyed..I would appreciate your honesty.

Cheers mate!

I am annoyed by the lack of common sense. You got me.

But that LMAO was genuine. How can anybody claim doom with one NPD which covers only the US. I find it extremely funny. Do you make these claims everytime a NPD is down YoY? Jan '15 NPD , PS4 down 30%, consoles doomed. Sept '15 NPD, PS4 down 210k, consoles doomed. 

And I have answered your question about Pro, multiple times. Pro increased sales worldwide, PS4 had its best Black Friday week Worldwide ever in the history of Playstation and sold over 50M to consumers and on its way to selling more than last year.

You obviously want to concentrate on one market and one month to help you squash all those puzzle pieces together to make you picture. 

This is an NPD thread (not worldwide) and my question relates to why (if true) did the PS4 only manage a 100k lead over XBOX One when it had 3 steller factors all lined up: A) PS4 Pro launch, B) psvr, and C) a cheap ps4 slim (all released within a space of nearly a month) when xbox had literally nothing in this regard and its xbox one s factor was as far back as August.  Again, if true dont you think that is of concern going into Dec and into the new year for the U.S market.  The Nov NPD should not been a virtual tie given playstation's steller performance and momentum over the preceding 36 months. I'd be interested to hear you thoughs, And before you come back with but the pro was never meant to be a console mover etc, please consider the huge window of preorder sales in the months leading to the pro release. This alone should have had a smashing effect. but again only 100k diff??