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Forums - Sales Discussion - May 2012 NPD - Diablo III:1m; X360:160k; PS3:124k; Wii:71k; 3DS:113.5k; PSV:~54k -

megaman79 on 14 June 2012
Train wreck said:
So for the month of may 2011 the 3DS brought in 24.1 million dollars in revenue with no price cut and really no games.

The month of may 2012, with a lower price (40%), 2 main line mario games, 3rd party out the ass, a peripheral, hardware revenue dropped to 19.8 million dollars, selling only about 20k more units

That's truly scary.

Nintendo need to really seriously consider their marketing for the 3DS.



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Sal.Paradise on 14 June 2012
Train wreck said:
So for the month of may 2011 the 3DS brought in 24.1 million dollars in revenue with no price cut and really no games.

The month of may 2012, with a lower price (40%), 2 main line mario games, 3rd party out the ass, a peripheral, hardware revenue dropped to 19.8 million dollars, selling only about 20k more units

That's truly scary.

Wow, starting to think the price drop wasn't the best move...although the expanded userbase may come in handy for the software sales. 



TheSource on 14 June 2012

Hmm...some more fun while I'm at it:

Wii in 67 months - 39.4m - 39.5m --->  PS2 was at 39.7m in 86 months / 39.2m in 85 months - so Wii is still 18 months ahead of the PS2 pace.

X360 in 79 months - 34.1m ---> PS2 was at 34.1m in 70 months, so X360 is only about nine months behind the PS2 pace....although over the past two months it has actually fallen to the PS2 monthly pace again and may drop below it soon over the course of a year.



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Train wreck on 14 June 2012
Sal.Paradise said:
Train wreck said:
So for the month of may 2011 the 3DS brought in 24.1 million dollars in revenue with no price cut and really no games.

The month of may 2012, with a lower price (40%), 2 main line mario games, 3rd party out the ass, a peripheral, hardware revenue dropped to 19.8 million dollars, selling only about 20k more units

That's truly scary.

Wow, starting to think the price drop wasn't the best move...although the expanded userbase may come in handy for the software sales. 

Im thinking the same thing I wish there was a  breakdown of software per system (which im sure there is internally at NPD) but i think software sale totals were down collectly 32% last month to 255 million, so i think the expanded install base is not buying new games, even though more are available to the 3DS (and to all systems frankly)

Software declines despite 2 relatively new systems in the 3DS and Vita (no one buying software for either)

and the main software in the top 10 have had their drastic price cuts lowering overall software revenue



VicViper on 14 June 2012

From neogaf trusted last month leaker "creamsugar"

Vita < 1/2 3DS

 

So:


360: 160K
PS3: 124K
3DS: 113.5K
Wii: 71K
PSV: >50K, <56.8K



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Nsanity on 14 June 2012

Vita 50K to 56.8K?



VicViper on 14 June 2012

So...

360 - Overtracked by ~80k

PS3 - ~50k

Wii - ~23k

3DS - 43k

Vita - 20-26k

 

What's the point really?



VicViper on 14 June 2012

This is good news for Nintendo (and Vita if 3DS number is wrong)

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/14/may-npd-reactions-160-thousand-360s-sold-sony-sees-strong-res/#continued

Nintendo sold 285k systems in may.

"Update: Nintendo has weighed in with a statement of its own, announcing that the company sold "more than 285,000 units of portable and console hardware" during May. Nintendo's 3DS was the only console that didn't suffer a year-over-year sales decline for the period, according to NPD analyst Anita Frazier."

Obviously the DS did not sell 100k. Something is wrong in Nintendo numbers



Train wreck on 14 June 2012
VicViper said:

This is good news for Nintendo (and Vita if 3DS number is wrong)

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/14/may-npd-reactions-160-thousand-360s-sold-sony-sees-strong-res/#continued

Nintendo sold 285k systems in may.

"Update: Nintendo has weighed in with a statement of its own, announcing that the company sold "more than 285,000 units of portable and console hardware" during May. Nintendo's 3DS was the only console that didn't suffer a year-over-year sales decline for the period, according to NPD analyst Anita Frazier."

Obviously the DS did not sell 100k. Something is wrong in Nintendo numbers

So im guessing the DS numbers need to be broken down since the DS and DSXL had price cuts



TheSource on 14 June 2012

The original DS is still doing OK - and there was a price cut in May.

285k...

71k for Wii

113k for 3DS

104k for DS.

That makes total sense to me - I had the original DS at maybe 60k-80k in April.



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