August Circana (NPD) 2023 Thread + Predictions

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Kyuu said:

CosmicSex said:

This comment doesn't make sense.  The PS5 sales were up... By how much isn't stated but we know its by double digits.  Revenue would be down 20% with the sale if all else was equal and the sale was all month (which it wasn't).   But Revenue was down only 1% which mean that the sales needed to make that up are up by at least 20%.  Growth is almost exactly representative of the price cut. 

It clearly sold less than 400k (or at best just over that), you predicted 550k so you should be disappointed.

I don't know where you got the 1% revenue decrease or double-digit unit increase from, but it's safe to say 400k was the roof.

Pricecut being temporary should have led to higher demand. And it being applied only to the standard version means the revenue cut per unit sold was less than 10% (and only for the period of the deal). PS5 signifnicantly underperformed compared to what we both expected.

Free money from the government is over and these console sales are gonna go back to the old days were they need to be heavily  discounted to sell. next year is gonna rough.