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bananaking21 on 11 February 2013

when are NPD numbers coming in?



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Conegamer on 11 February 2013
bananaking21 said:
when are NPD numbers coming in?

On Thursday (14th February). 

For future reference, all NPD's come out on the 2nd Thursday of the month.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

bananaking21 on 11 February 2013
Conegamer said:
bananaking21 said:
when are NPD numbers coming in?

On Thursday (14th February). 

For future reference, all NPD's come out on the 2nd Thursday of the month.


thanks! and next month you will see a post of mine in a sales thread asking when NPD will release their numbers, i tell you buddy im certainly gonna forget what you just told me lol



Conegamer on 11 February 2013
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

"Drastically". Come on, Cone . Nintendo also showed us their numbers, so we know we aren't much off in Europe.

Eh, percentage-wise it's about 35-40%, so that is quite a big difference. I'd imagine it to be around 100k when all is said and done, so it's still pretty damn dire, just not as bad as we'd imagined. 



 

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Yakuzaice on 11 February 2013

To remind people of their December predictions

Wedbush / EEDAR December 2012 hardware sales estimates (change year-on-year):

360 - 1,700,000 (-2%) / 1,550,000 (-11%)
3DS - 1,140,000 (-29%) / 1,350,000 (-16%)
PS3 - 900,000 (-5%) / 950,000 (0%)
Wii U - 675,000 (n/a) / 600,000 (n/a)
DS - 600,000 (-7%) / 400,000 (-38%)
Wii - 500,000 (-53%) / 550,000 (-48%)
Vita - 300,000 (n/a) / 300,000 (n/a)
PSP - 20,000 (-92%) / 30,000 (-88%)
PS2 - 500 (-98%) / (n/a)
Total - 5,835,500 (-7%) / 5,730,000 (-9%)

Conegamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

The only facts we have are that the Wii U is overtracked in America for 2012.  Also overtracked in the UK and undertracked in France, overall overtracked in Europe.  These are just estimates in the OP that can be wildly incorrect.



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ninjablade on 11 February 2013
Conegamer said:
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

"Drastically". Come on, Cone . Nintendo also showed us their numbers, so we know we aren't much off in Europe.

Eh, percentage-wise it's about 35-40%, so that is quite a big difference. I'd imagine it to be around 100k when all is said and done, so it's still pretty damn dire, just not as bad as we'd imagined. 


look the post below yours, these numers atre just estimates, not official. the numers we have now are mostly official numers for wiiu.



ninjablade on 11 February 2013
Conegamer said:
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

"Drastically". Come on, Cone . Nintendo also showed us their numbers, so we know we aren't much off in Europe.

Eh, percentage-wise it's about 35-40%, so that is quite a big difference. I'd imagine it to be around 100k when all is said and done, so it's still pretty damn dire, just not as bad as we'd imagined. 

look at the post below yours these numers are not officail by any means, the number we have for wiiu is mostly officail.



AnthonyW86 on 11 February 2013
Conegamer said:
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
AnthonyW86 said:

Well even if these estimates are correct it's still not very good. Let's say Wii-U did 120k in January oppossed to the 80K VGChartz suggests, that still only adds about 10k a week tops. Wich means Wii-U was still only doing 50k a week worldwide, while the original Wii did about 250k a week in the same peroid after launch. As a comparison, even the PS3 did 60k-70k at it's lowest point in January after launch, and that was before it launched in europe and with a $500-$600 price tag.

All it's saying though is, that if the Wii U is so drastically undertracked in America, why wouldn't it also be the case in, say, Europe?

"Drastically". Come on, Cone . Nintendo also showed us their numbers, so we know we aren't much off in Europe.

Eh, percentage-wise it's about 35-40%, so that is quite a big difference. I'd imagine it to be around 100k when all is said and done, so it's still pretty damn dire, just not as bad as we'd imagined. 

Percentage wise it's a pretty big difference indeed, but that's the point. If something like 10k more a week makes such a big difference than that only showes how low sales really are. And it's not just the hardware, it's software aswell. We're talking 100k software last week on a 2,6 million install base. And over half of those sales are from NSMB and Nintendo Land. Even without Wii Sports the Wii was doing something like 400k software on a 4 million install base in the same time period. Same for PS3 and X360, about 1 piece of software per 10 sold units a week. I don't know wat Nintendo can really do at this point, maybe a huge discount on the royalties other publishers have to pay?



Pavolink on 11 February 2013

I don't think so. It will be sub 100k. Still a complete disaster.



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ninjablade on 11 February 2013
Pavolink said:
I don't think so. It will be sub 100k. Still a complete disaster.

my esimate would be 50-70k, if it got outsold by wii at the holidays, why should we expect better sales in jan