December 2012 NPD Thread - 360: 1.4m, PS3: 600-650k, Wii U: 460k, 3DS: 1.25m

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VGKing on 10 January 2013

ethomaz said:

Seems like Wii U did less than PS3 in December at launch.

$400 Wii U: 460k
$600 PS3: 490,700

EPIC FAIL!!!

Yeah that's not good at all considering US is the Wii U's strongest region right now.

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TheSource on 10 January 2013

This was an incredibly horrible year for US Video Game Hardware:

Consoles 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Nintendo (All) 1.8m 6.5m 10.2m 9.6m 7.1m 4.5m 2.9m

Sony (All) 5.4m 6.5m 6.0m 6.1m 5.1m 4.8m 3.3m

Microsoft (All) 4.3m 4.6m 4.7m 4.8m 6.8m 7.2m 5.3m

Looks to me like the totals for 2012 were:

X360 - 5.3m

3DS - 3.7m (based on NIntendo's press release)

PS3 - 3.3m (assuming 700k in Dec)

Wii - 2.1m (based on Nintendo's press release)

DS - 1.8m (based on Nintendo's press release)

Vita + PSP - 1.5m ?

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ethomaz on 10 January 2013

VGKing said:

ethomaz said:

Seems like Wii U did less than PS3 in December at launch.

$400 Wii U: 460k
$600 PS3: 490,700

EPIC FAIL!!!

Yeah that's not good at all considering US is the Wii U's strongest region right now.

The things became even worst because I made a mistake with the Wii U price.

It's $350.

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pezus said:

enrageorange said:

pezus said:

enrageorange said:

360 down 450k. PS3 down 300k+... So both consoles are down even more so than thought from last year.

There goes that 76mil/77mil prediction that was made. Both numbers are clearly too high. New consoles are needed soon. Sales will collapse within a year or two.

NPD is really becoming irrelevent for software though. We know Halo 4 is ahead of Assassin's Creed III. Well now we know either one is overtracked or the other is undertracked. Great... Hopefully some numbers got leaked.

Wii U sales are really poor, especially considering they had a mega blockbuster title come out at launch and no supply issues only a week or two after launch. They need to release something that really wows the casuals or basically all their big core titles because with whats currently announced for 2013 things are only going to get worse.

No, did you forget the bundles?

Both games had bundles though!!!

Ah, right. But Halo 4 mostly had launch bundles though, while AC3 was hard-bundled with the 250GB PS3 (or was it 500GB?)

Halo 4 had a $400->$350 320gig bundle

Assassin's Creed III has a $300 500gig bundle.

The halo 4 bundle does appear to be sold out at all major retailers, online at least, but idk if was during december.

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Tallgeese101 on 10 January 2013

Oh my, awful stuff.

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Turkish on 10 January 2013

TheFallen said:
Well All I can say is what goes around comes around. The oh so many "PSVita sales, we need to talk " threads will come back to bite Nintendo fans.

Contumeliam si dicis, audies, if you speak abuse, you must expect to hear it. I got a few threads coming.