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

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psrock on 15 April 2010

Euphoria14 said:
Let's kick it old school, shall we fellas?

360 didn't really beat PS3, it was a statistical tie!

Even with the shortage, the PS3 still tie the 360 in their home turf.

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haxxiy on 15 April 2010

FreeTalkLive said:

haxxiy said:
Everything overtracked...

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

It was clear for someone looking to the whole picture that I was talking about hardware alone sir. Consider my other post and the difficulty to edit anything at the time I posted it due to web traffic.

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Squilliam on 15 April 2010

postofficebuddy said:

Squilliam said:

Then its just confusing in general. I see no reason why VGChartz cannot give explicit U.S. numbers. I suspect the reason for the combination is that it gives a little more fudge factor for the numbers because they can always say the split between the U.S. and Canada/Mexico changes and it differs for different products.

I pointed out above, Canada and South America are definitely more heavily weighted for PS3 this month. Probably not enough to account for the discrepancy entirely but they almost certainly represent more than 87% this month.

Whether or not that is true, it would make a hell of a lot more sense to say U.S.A. + Other America than just lumping them into the one.

Tease.

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Khuutra on 15 April 2010

Any meltdowns at GAF? This all looks pretty normal.

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psrock on 15 April 2010

Khuutra said:
Any meltdowns at GAF? This all looks pretty normal.

They are fighting over the word " shortage".

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Khuutra on 15 April 2010

psrock said:

Khuutra said:
Any meltdowns at GAF? This all looks pretty normal.

They are fighting over the word " shortage".

That is so stupid I think my SAT scores dropped retroactively

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GOD OF WAR III* PS3 SONY Mar-10 1.10M 1
POKEMON SOULSILVER VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 1.02M 2
FINAL FANTASY XIII PS3 SQUARE ENIX Mar-10 828.2K 3
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-10 825.5K 4
POKEMON HEARTGOLD VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 761.2K 5
FINAL FANTASY XIII 360 SQUARE ENIX Mar-10 493.9K 6
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 457.4K 7
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-10 451.2K 8
WII FIT PLUS W/ BALANCE BOARD* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 429.6K 9
MLB 10: THE SHOW PS3 SONY Mar-10 349.2K 10

software, God of war and The show are way undertracked