November 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware estimates in the OP!

[3sexty]

SWORDF1SH said:

3sexty said:

Ok that's heaps better. My opinion based theories were contingent on ifs and buts, and beginning signs of a gradual decline rather than a fall of a cliff so to speak - yeh so not quite as dramatic.  Then it appears that neither of us can explain the November NPD anomaly - falling short of any far fetched or stupid theories as you would like to put them. Maybe that was just a freak month for unknown reasons? Who knows and Dec may see a reverse trend? Regarding PS Now I did make a comment about that previously - up a couple of posts.

 

Your theory isn't stupid but basing it on one month of NPD is what I find silly.

As for why the month is down, it could be a number of reasons but as mentioned in a previous reply to you, last year was insanely good for both Playstation and Xbox so being down from last year isn't necessarily bad when last year was so good. 

The reasons it could be down are lack of bundles for PlayStation, Cyber Monday and December could pick up some of the slack, CoD losing popularity, Halo is better at selling Xboxs than Gears or this year's software line up is less compelling than last year.

Ok the COD bundle factor is a really good point.  That sold like crazy last year.  Insanely popular.