January NPD 2018 predictions thread

[palou]

GProgrammer said:

palou said:

What concerns NPD software, one thing to consider is that NPD includes digital sales for everyone except Nintendo.

Its not going to make much of a difference with Nintendo software as their digital numbers percentage are generally far lower than the other Consoles. This has always been the case, I have no Idea why. Instinctively I would of thought being that Nintendo users are generally younger they would be more open to buying games digital and not physical look in the Old days.

Nintendo HAS reported an increase in digital sales.

 

However, that's not important - as we are trying to measure the accuracy of Amazon, in this case. It is natural for NPD to place other developers higher than Amazon, because by adding digital sales, those developers double their sales, which is not reported by Amazon.

 

Or rather, it *is* reported by Amazon, seeing as PS gift-cards are consistently 1 and 2.