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Forums - Sales Discussion - July 2018 NPD: Switch #1, Octopath Traveller #1 software, UPDATE

Errorist76 said:

It's almost as if great exclusives would sell consoles. Congrats to Nintendo!

 

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.

Name me one reason why X1 should've sold more than PS4 that month.

PS4 seemed out of stock online? same wasnt true for the Xbox One.
Thats why the prediction tool had the XB1 ahead of the PS4 for the month.



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Mar1217 said:
Chorlin said:
I wonder how is Bleszinski doing. You know, CLIFF Bleszinski, Ho ho ho.

I wonder what happened to him ?

He closed his studio, and fired people.... then took a break from developeing games right?
Dude still has tons of money, and at some point if he thinks of a new concept or wants to make another game, he ll probably give it another go?



XB1 actually fell pretty hard. If it was 250k last month then it sold 50k/week.

 

This month it sold <40k/week.

PS4 even worse from 75k/week to 45k/week. Not sure on the supply though.



Impressive numbers of hardware and software for Nintendo. This is going to be the second best year for the console, being the best one next year, so right now is the moment to sell historically well for Switch.

The disappointing number for PS4 could be the "tide effect" before a tsunami. This is just the calm before the storm for PS4 sales because of Sony building stock for Spiderman in September....maybe.

And Xbox One..., well, they're profitable I guess....



Impressive. Great sales for "Octopath Taveler" . This game is so beautiful :) Especially impressive are the great characters, the story and emotions, soundtracks, details and atmosphere :)

Also gratulation@best Games-Console. Maybe more than 30 million units, end of december ??! Its possible. In August "Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate", in october "Super Mario Party",  and many other big games in november and december, with "Super Smash Bros Ultimate" - Game of the Year 2018, thats sure! Fantastic time, good for us :)



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Stuart23 said:
So,when does the software list is going to be out?

Next week when we have official NPD report.



Switch start climbing from June and it will explode during Holiday season especially during December. I expect that August will be also YOY up for Switch.



So Aqua and Benji are starting to weigh in on things.

Aqua, as per her NeoGaf posts for June, is mentioning that there will be a lot of interesting things to talk about for this past month (July), PS4 Pro's are hard to find (definitely a stock issue) and that LABO is a flop.

Benji doesn't have insight on August since he had a child but mentioned that the release schedule for the summer for the xbox1 and PS4 has been weak (something I've been echoing here)



After that Nintendo Direct back in March, I didn't think Switch would win any months until Smash released. I'm glad that they've proved me wrong.



Train wreck said:
So Aqua and Benji are starting to weigh in on things.

Aqua, as per her NeoGaf posts for June, is mentioning that there will be a lot of interesting things to talk about for this past month (July), PS4 Pro's are hard to find (definitely a stock issue) and that LABO is a flop.

Benji doesn't have insight on August since he had a child but mentioned that the release schedule for the summer for the xbox1 and PS4 has been weak (something I've been echoing here)

How come Labo is a flop if it has sold more than 1.4 million already?I feel like either Aqua had a bigger expectation for the game, or he has been feed wrong information.Because I can see these numbers being dissapointing, depending on Nintendo expectations, but not a flop.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1