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yo_john117 on 14 October 2011

PS3 and 360 are doing pretty good!



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cyberninja45 on 14 October 2011
RolStoppable said:
cyberninja45 said:

Well according to that Nintendo PR statement from
http://nintendoeverything.com/75878/nintendo-responds-to-september-2011-npd-data/
(this is the original source of all those npd sales reports i believe.)

3ds sold 260,000 units for the entire month of September in the U.S.
So thats ~60k a week. So this means Japan Sales of the 3ds were almost the same as the U.S. and Europe have been outselling 3ds by ~20k weekly. This is unprecedented.
So which means if u were to adjust the sales figures weekly for the past month it would look very odd compared to other regions to say the least.

To me the only way to make sense of this is to call BS on that "PR" statement and the 3ds actually sold 360,000 as reported here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/13/september-npd-madden-gears-dead-island-are-hits/2#comments

This makes more sense because I would assume to overtrack by ~>120,000 is not possible. Unless something is really wrong with vgchartz.

1) September was a five week period for NPD, so that's 52k units per week for the 3DS.

2) postofficebuddy already pointed out that handhelds selling better outside of America is not unprecedented.

3) Nintendo's press release not only mentions the 3DS sales, but also the total for all three of their active platforms. So it's 100 % safe to say that 260k is the actual number for 3DS sales and the Joystiq article contains a typo.

4) VGC has been off by a lot before, including this year's infamous overtracking of Wii and DS lifetime sales where VGC's reported sellthrough for one of these two platforms exceeded the amount Nintendo shipped.

Hey can u link be to the original press release, I've been looking but the one on nintendoeverything seem to be the  origin for the other news outlets.

 

( oh and vgchartz has been this of before? even with 360,000 they still overtracked by ~30K I believe.)



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cyberninja45 on 14 October 2011
RolStoppable said:
cyberninja45 said:

Hey can u link be to the original press release, I've been looking but the one on nintendoeverything seem to be the  origin for the other news outlets.

 

( oh and vgchartz has been this of before? even with 360,000 they still overtracked by ~30K I believe.)

The original press release is the one posted on nintendoeverything. Right at the bottom it reads "Source: Nintendo PR". 3DS sales for September were 260k.

And yes, VGC has been way off before.

Thats the thing, that source is not an actual link to anything. They usually have clickable links. 

So is this really the original website for all the other  outlets, well it was for neogaf I think.



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Jay520 on 14 October 2011

700,000 opening for Dark Souls!

Impressive! It should hit one-million next week.



Andrespetmonkey on 14 October 2011
spurgeonryan said:
Ssliasil said:
PS3...b ack on top of the console race $$



It is interesting how 360 dominates in the west, but then in Japan the PS3 catches up in sales over there. It seems it all depends on whether the 360 or the PS3 is more popular each week in EMEAA that decides who is on top for the week.

hmm... I'd say 360 dominates in only North America. PS3 sells more in EMEAA most of the time (this includes europe, also the west :P). 



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loy310 on 14 October 2011

Where is the software?



Laurel Aitken on 14 October 2011
postofficebuddy said:
klaudkil said:
you do now NPD is usa only


Is 3DS even officially available in Latin America?


In Mexico it was officially available the same day it was in the US.

And after the price cut it's been selling quite well here.



Moren on 14 October 2011
trunkswd said:

Watching this graph... hurts my Nintendo heart....



Andrespetmonkey on 14 October 2011
spurgeonryan said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
spurgeonryan said:
Ssliasil said:
PS3...b ack on top of the console race $$



It is interesting how 360 dominates in the west, but then in Japan the PS3 catches up in sales over there. It seems it all depends on whether the 360 or the PS3 is more popular each week in EMEAA that decides who is on top for the week.

hmm... I'd say 360 dominates in only North America. PS3 sells more in EMEAA most of the time (this includes europe, also the west :P). 

When I say west, I mean America. Didn't you know Americans still think we are the center of the universe?

xD



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hatmoza on 14 October 2011
trunkswd said:

Weekly Sales Analysis is up. Click here to check it out.

Preview:

Look at that sexy green line making a comeback :3



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