The Official March 2010 NPD Thread (Data for 5 weeks ending Apr 3 2010)

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SaviorX on 15 April 2010

darthdevidem01 said:

Sorry but it had to be done:

Reporting Period: 2/28/2010 through 4/03/2010

PlayStation 2 118.3K
PlayStation 3 313.9K
PSP 119.9K
Xbox 360 338.4K
Wii 557.5K
Nintendo DS 700.8K

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psrock on 15 April 2010

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I guest we can put to rest FFVSXIII going multiplat.

Yup definetely, this has proven PS3 can carry a mainline FF, since it matched FF12's First NPD by itself.

But we would lose MSFT advertisement though. They had commercial everywhere for FXIII.

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darthdevidem01 on 15 April 2010

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darthdevidem01 said:

psrock said:
I guest we can put to rest FFVSXIII going multiplat.

Yup definetely, this has proven PS3 can carry a mainline FF, since it matched FF12's First NPD by itself.

But we would lose MSFT advertisement though. They had commercial everywhere for FXIII.

Ok BUT if it was PS3 Exclusive could have had a Kevin Butler FF13 commercial = MUCH better marketing than what MS gave FFXIII (Kevin Butler >>> Leona Lewis)

So it could have worked in its favour especially cus I'm sure SONY would have marketed it it BIG time

BUT I do think the 360 sales are BIG enough to make sure we never get a exclusive Mainline FF ever again.

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Zipper on 15 April 2010

Why do I have a feeling God of War 3 is under-tracked?

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FreeTalkLive on 15 April 2010

haxxiy said:
Everything overtracked...

For a lot of the games, VGChartz had LOWER numbers than NPD. Look at Pokemon or NSMB Wii, for example.

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ksv on 15 April 2010

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Hyruken said:

Ok then time for the nasty stuff

        VGC                      NPD              Difference
Wii - 577k                    557k             20k Overtracked (3% over)
360 - 416k                    338k             78k Overtracked (19% over)
Ps3 - 394k                   313k             81k Overtracked (21% over)
Psp - 142k                    119k               23k Overtracked (16% over)
Ps2 - 74k                      118k               44k Undertracked (60% under)

The PS2 is infact severely undertracked by a significant margin. Wii is spot on with a 3% variance whilst the Xbox 360 and PS3 are just slightly outside of the acceptable margins which I call as around 15%. The PSP closer.

Which means both 360 and PS3 are not selling anywhere near the high numbers currently VGC has them acording to NPD. I find that most interesting as we are lead to believe on here the demand is high, especially for the PS3.

Ok I have made adjustments using the rough VGC = .90 for NPD comparison formula. Im editing the % now.

You just used the 90% formula on numbers that were already reduced. So your first post was correct, VGC had huge overtrackings for March.

See the NPD preview, clearly, these are US-estimates: http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=7761

It's also stated clearly in TheSource's first post in this thread.