April 2012 NPD 360 HW 236k, PS3 175k, Wii 91k

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Adinnieken on 10 May 2012

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Again I don't think Wii would be under 100k. As mentioned it did 175klast month, the month before that was something like 220k. I think it is pretty unlikely to see the console drop nearly 50% month over month. I could be wrong but that would make it the worst month it has ever had by quite some distance. The numbers year over year are down quite a bit but for the same month last year the wii did 172k.

You're talking about a system that's a month away from it's replacement being announced. Most people aren't going to buy a Wii right now unless they absolutely have a need to because they'd rather wait to see what the Wii U will offer. It's one reason why you don't pre-announce a new systems. It's called the Osborne Effect, it kills sales.

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Walkthrublazer3 said:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/11/npd-software-and-hardware-sales-way-down

"ony also released an NPD statement, though they didn’t provide any numbers. “According to the April NPD, the PlayStation ecosystem continues to grow with exclusive titles such as MLB 12: The Show landing in the top five SKUs. Digital-only titles, including Journey for PS3 and Escape Plan for PS Vita, helped to further bolster growth.” Nintendo declined to send an NPD report for this month in time for publish"

Nintendo refused to release NPD data according to IGN.

3DS must of had abyysmal numbers.

That's surprising, surely anything would've looked ok compared to the Vita.

Not really. The 3DS is $80 cheaper and due to being out on the market for a full year it has a lot more games. Mario 3D land and Mario Kart 7 saved the system last holiday, but they now look like they'r'e only keeping the system afloat instead of sailing full speed ahead. Nintendo probably didn't release they're numbers due to the risk of bad press from the media.

But hey, Nintendo should have released more games this month. Aside from spirit camera they're were no real big games and Spririt Camera had terrible sales 6.5K.

Oh I know all that, but the average viewer would not - they'd see the higher number (50-80% higher maybe, I don't know) and run with it; Vita is dead etc.

I suppose the flaw in my reasoning is that no official PSV numbers are released, so the 3DS sales on their own would look poor.

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smbu2000 on 10 May 2012

According to somebody at GAF:

Originally Posted by creamsugar:

PSP < ? < Vita < Wii < ? < 3DS < 150k < PS3 < 200k < 360

I believe you guys could figure out what is '?' stand for.

Originally Posted by creamsugar:

Sorry, DS seems better than Vita.

So...

PSP < 50k < Vita < DS < Wii < 100k < 3DS < 150k < PS3 < 200k < 360

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Zim on 10 May 2012

Over at Neogaf in their NPD thread there is a user who receives the NPD data. He often won't post specifics but will give outlines of things. I believe he has been vetted by the mods there as everyone accepts his data. He posted a little chart showing how the hardware compared to each other, but it was missing the DS. So someone asked where the DS would be and he replied above the Vita.

So his chart would be this:
PSP < 50k < Vita < DS < Wii < 100k < 3DS < 150k < PS3 < 200k < 360
I see Boutros kindly added up Chartz's April and there are some massive differences.
360 288 k vs NPD 236k
PS3 222k vs NPD <200k
3DS 181k vs NPD <150k
Wii 134k vs NPD <100k
DS 70k vs NPD PSV vs NPD So basically 360, PS3, 3DS, Wii all overtracked.

The PS3 and Wii being sub 200 and 100k respectively fits in with MS's statement that they sold 236k and had a 47% marketshare. As this statement means the combined PS3 and wii sales were 266k. Using these figures the Wii has to be between 67k and 99k. Meaning the PS3 was between 167k and 199k.

However most important is that the PSV and DS are totally messed up. If the 70K for DS is right then Vita is sub 70k.

Oh also thank you Thesource for explaining the difference regarding the games. Very good of you.

EDIT: Bah took so long writing the post others wrote it first lol.

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