July 2018 NPD: Switch #1, Octopath Traveller #1 software, UPDATE

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JRPGfan said:

Seems our In Progress NPD prediction tool was off by a bit.

In there was it:
Switch 1.0
XB1 0.5
PS4 0.34


But actual numbers (above by Miyamoto) says:
Switch 1.0
PS4 0.71
XB1 0.58


It got it right that the Switch won the month, but it greatly under predicted the PS4 sales, and seems to have over valued the XB1 numbers.

Im actualy abit surprised by the news, that the PS4 did as well as it did this month.
The online rankings for PS4's wherent great in july on amazon/bestbuy/gamestop ect.

I think the Xbox ratio is an acceptable margin of error, 0.50 vs 0.58, thats right in the same ballpark which is all i expect from the prediction tool.

As for PS4, it was way off, probably due the widespread Pro shortage online, now that some retailers are getting it back PS4 seems to be performing closer to normal.