April 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1 (280k), Mario Kart: 550k

[Farsala]

Aura7541 said:

Farsala said:
Overall PS4 is up around 8% YoY and XB1 down 5% YoY.

XB1 has had a constant trend of doing poorly in the first 1/4 and 1/3 of the year and it only has gotten worse.

XB1 2014: ~826k ($500 kinect SKU)
XB1 2015: ~842k
XB1 2016: ~767k
XB1 2017: >731k

The March -> April MoM drop is also significantly worse this year than last year:

XB1 March 2016 = 241.5K
XB1 April 2016 = 167.6K
MoM % = -30.6%

XB1 March 2017 > 237K
XB1 April 2017 = 127K
MoM % = -46.4%

I don't know what assumptions can be made for the rest of the world.

But surely their strategy isn't working out that well for XB1 at least, who knows with windows.