PS4 Won May NPD ( PS4 > NSW > XBOx)

[DonFerrari]

Miyamotoo said:

DonFerrari said:

So just to help me understand them... the use of stock shortages to justify last year not outselling PS4 was bogus as saying this years sales are good because they are about same as last year?

Again, last year sales were good in any case and despite stock problems, fact that Switch could sell better with better stocks dont change point that Switch had good numbers in any case. If you still don't get I cant really help you.

 

On other note, sales for second May on market:

PS4 - 153k (Trade-in Deal)

XB1- 140k (Halo: MCC Bundle)

Switch - 167k (Hyrule Warriors, DKTF legs)

So you could say 2018 Switch sales were good (without comparing to 2017), and do 2017 without excusing stocks, that is the point.

You can't have the argument two fold, "2017 we didn't sell great because we had stock issues, but 2018 is good because we sold equal to 2017". It is, 2017 and 2018 had good sales, period.

LethalP said:

Mar1217 said:

Except Xbone had so much discounts already that I don't think it'll do much with the numbers. People will expect to get it even cheaper now so they'll wait.

This is a limited time sale in response to PS4 days of play. The Xbox One doesn't regularly sell for $199, it's going to move units. The PS4 is $50 more expensive even in a sale so it might loose to X1. If anything the Switch should have done the same, it might even be last this month. If not then I don't know what the fuck MS will do for X1 at that point, if even being $100 cheaper than Switch won't push it above in the US of all places.

I don't think 199 X1 will beat PS4 for sure. I actually think that even at this price point it is more probable for it to stay third than win, even more if it is in a month that the others receive major exclusives.

flashfire926 said:
XBO:
2014 - 77k
2015 - 140k
2016 - 107k
2017 - 109k
2018 - 145k
PS4:
2014 - 197k
2015 - 153k
2016 - 207k
2017 - 187k
2018 - 223k
NSW:
2017 - 165k
2018 - 167k

Stolen from resetera, sales for the month of May for every year. This is the best month of May for all three consoles, as you can see.

So GoW made everyone get their best May =p

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

So just to help me understand them... the use of stock shortages to justify last year not outselling PS4 was bogus as saying this years sales are good because they are about same as last year?

What are you even arguing about? Its not an either/or situation.

Last year had supply issues but sales were still good and this years sales are good.

I'm arguing exactly the person doing an either/or.

If you say 2018 sales are good because it is similar to 2017 then you shouldn't be excusing 2017 on stock. Because saying 2017 would be bigger with more stock, then 2018 isn't good since it only done equal 2017 because 2017 had stock issues.