November Circana (NPD) 2023 Thread + Predictions

[Shadow1980]

XtremeBG said:

Shadow1980 said:

No. That 50M+ figure for the PS2 is for North America. As in the whole continent, Canada, Mexico, etc., included.

NPD numbers, the focus of this thread, are strictly for the United States.

Okay. Where is that figure taken from ? I can't find the exact US PS2 numbers.

Here's the yearly figures, rounded to the nearest thousand:

2000: 1101k
2001: 6223k
2002: 8574k
2003: 6394k
2004: 4609k
2005: 5525k
2006: 4695k
2007: 3943k
2008: 2503k
2009: 1800k
2010: 750k
2011: 213k
2012-13: 273k

TOTAL: 46,603k

It takes some digging to find old NPD numbers, but I've had this data for a very long time, probably close to a decade now.

I discovered that the 46.7M figure was a slight error on my part, as I had apparently put 4.7M as my 2004 figure rather than 4.6M. I have that fixed now. It is worth pointing out that older NPD data apparently may have some slight errors, and not all sources agree 100%, so that lifetime total may not be exact, but close enough. It's not going to be like a million off or something huge. Probably no more than 300k lifetime. For example, a Wedbush report claims 46.4M lifetime as of Dec. 2013 (when NPD stopped tracking the PS2), and as you can see above some other data some have collected show something entirely different. But they're all very close.

This means that the Switch only needs to sell another ~3.6M to match the PS2 lifetime in the U.S., something it should accomplish before the end of next year.

Last edited by Shadow1980 - on 15 December 2023