February 2014 NPD Thread! PS4: 285k, XBO: 258k, Wii U: 82k

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Soundwave on 13 March 2014

Dark_Feanor said:
Man, imagine if Microsoft swallow their pride and take a small loss pricing the Xone at 449 or 439, it would be insane.

Yeah I think MS' best move now would be to go to $449.99 in April/May sometime with Titanfall bundled. Maybe even throw in Killer Instinct (starter pack with a few characters) too.

That would effectively render Sony's price advatange as trivial IMO.

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mii-gamer on 13 March 2014

Yeah the Wii U ain't that bad (relatively speaking). Looks like we are not going to get a Seece thread this month

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TomShoe on 13 March 2014

Soundwave said:

Dark_Feanor said:
Man, imagine if Microsoft swallow their pride and take a small loss pricing the Xone at 449 or 439, it would be insane.

Yeah I think MS' best move now would be to go to $449.99 in April/May sometime with Titanfall bundled. Maybe even throw in Killer Instinct (starter pack with a few characters) too.

That would effectively render Sony's price advatange as trivial IMO.

I doubt they'll do that this early in the game. Xbox is still selling well even though it's not pulling PS4 numbers. If they lose the March NPD however, things may change.

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jonathanalis on 13 March 2014

"With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold more hardware than any other home console platform"
ps4=285
xbo=258
so, x360>=27k

was x360 undertracked?

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JoeTheBr. said:

Talal said:

JayWood2010 said:
BenVTis biigger continues to be correct. Idc about all this ethomaz business, BenV isnt biased and he continues to be right when he says or hints at things for us.

He can be wrong too. He was wrong about the Wii U.

Yeah he's mostly wrong.

You wish

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Ive been off before. Majorly off. Im also on plenty of times. At least i give you guys stuff but no instead Joethebro says im wrong guys so just ignore any input that I give you

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Madword on 13 March 2014

Soundwave said:
Titanfall beta started in Feburary too, so that might have been a motivator for getting some extra people on board in Feb.

Yeah it's so difficult to figure out where the lift might have come from and if there was more PS4 stock how much (if) higher that might have got.

So we have :

1. Titan Fall Beta

2. Tax Returns

3. Jan sales had larger number of returns affecting numbers

4. Feb is usually better than Jan in sales?

So all of those are valid possibles for raising the number of sales.

Question - are tax returns still happening in March, is March usually lower than Feb in terms of sales.

Whatever happens in March, tis going to be fascinating... it would be easier if it was easier to work out, but I kinda like the excitement of not really knowing haha.

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celador on 13 March 2014

Thought there was going to be a wider gap this month and a close run next month.

All the pressure is on Microsoft to win March now.

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Seece on 13 March 2014

mii-gamer said:
Yeah the Wii U ain't that bad (relatively speaking). Looks like we are not going to get a Seece thread this month

Sorry to burst your bubble ...

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Blood_Tears on 13 March 2014

BenVTrigger said:

JoeTheBr. said:

Talal said:

JayWood2010 said:
BenVTis biigger continues to be correct. Idc about all this ethomaz business, BenV isnt biased and he continues to be right when he says or hints at things for us.

He can be wrong too. He was wrong about the Wii U.

Yeah he's mostly wrong.

You wish

And your little weird crusade against me is bizzare. I get along with virtually every member on this site and you constantly disagree with me for no reason.

Ive been off before. Majorly off. Im also on plenty of times. At least i give you guys stuff but no instead Joethebro says im wrong guys so just ignore any input that I give you

Since your here now, Can I ask what do you think of this weeks USA numbers on the front page for the 8th? People are saying they look off because PS4 is so low. Have you noticed more uptick thus far this month for X1 then PS4?