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Forums - Sales - NPD March 2014 Thread - PS4 #1 (371k), Xbox One 311k, 360 111k, WiiU ~70k, Vita close to 4 digits. Titanfall tops software

 

Did the NPD results surprise you?

Yes 379 53.23%
 
No 308 43.26%
 
Total:687
Dark_Feanor on 18 April 2014
lucidium said:
Dark_Feanor said:
However, Sony can´t just seat on the montain of PS4 sold and do nothing to improve the system and ad features to the console.

Your post is easilly summed up.

Dark_Feanor said:

Not sure if you genuinely believe what you're saying or are really just that painfully ill informed, it's as if the past month and a half news on update 1.70 didn't happen.

Because in the last 4 or 5 months what have we heard from Sony beside sales figure and lay-offs?

Well,  they annouced a  "remaster" of a last gen game and... what am I missing?

Hunn... don´t know, ask Nintendo for how that montain of Wiis help them when games and services are not in the pipeline. 



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the_dengle on 18 April 2014
GProgrammer said:
tbone51 said:

Yes both nintendo systems spot on kinda funny, PS4 massively undertrack and X1 overtracked.  Vita under 11k (Overtracked by over double actually almost triple!) @EB1994 "Pls Understand"

I was reading the last few pages, I've gotta laugh about this user tbone. Here he goes again talking about the vita. In a post about the wii U. Is that what, four times or five times 

He stands out because everyone else is continuing to pretend the Vita doesn't exist. He wouldn't be singling out the Vita at all if people weren't quoting him asking why he feels the need to include the Vita in his recap of all of the NPD results.



Dark_Feanor on 18 April 2014
Shadow1980 said:

Well, while we're still waiting on official PS4 and Wii U numbers, here's the XBO's first Q1 total compared to that of its predecessors:

Xbox: 403k
360: 603k
XBO: 711k

So, the XBO is still trending ahead of both. However, let's look at how they did each month of their first winter quarter:

Xbox

Jan.: 128k
Feb.: 139k
Mar.: 136k

360

Jan.: 250k
Feb.: 161k
Mar.: 192k

XBO

Jan.: 142k
Feb.: 258k
Mar.: 311k

For January alone, the XBO outsold the original Xbox's first January by 14k units and sold 108k fewer units than the 360 did its first January. Now February was a tax return boost month for the XBO (the PS4 was supply-limited and didn't get the same boost) and March gave us Titanfall and the reduced-price Titanfall bundle, which helped the XBO considerably. For whatever reason, neither the Xbox nor the 360 got a tax season boost their first Jan.-March quarter, and neither received anything like a temporary tax cut or special edition bundle or big system-seller. The question remains: "What happens when those Titanfall bundles dry up and MS is left with just the standard $500 SKU?"  That January number may have been a portent of things to come. With tax season over, could we see it drop back below 200k once the Titanfall bundle is discontinued? For the current quarter, the XBO needs to sell at least 793k to beat what the 360 did in Q2 2006, and with nothing to further stimulate sales, I don't see that happening.

Yes, they are realy in troble because the DD codes will end up soon, well they are only enouth for 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 combinations.

But any way, with or without the TF bundle sales will drop this summer... and the PS4 will also sell less.

That´s just the trend for the summer.

PS: On the side note, the January NPD was a realy odd figure if you put it on a graf, the only explanation was the lack of games on January.



M.U.G.E.N on 18 April 2014
Shinobi-san said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
This is embarrassing for MS. At least the PR was entertaining as usual


Ouch thats a bit overly harsh mugen..

Its not like X1 sales are bad


No i agree. X1 sales are genuinely good in the US. i'm not gonna say they are bad because the competition is doing much better (I am a big psp fan afterall! :D)

But the reason I say this is, this was a month MS has been preparing for ages now. Titanfall hype, bundles, unofficial price cuts etc. And the competition still outsell it by 60k. And this is in their strongest market too. The usual MS media schill squad was damage controlling saying NPD data is useless before the numbers came out too (Kevin Dent, Ben Kuchera etc). I can't see the execs at Xbox being too happy about the outcome

On the positive side as you said....Both next gen systems are doing great overall proving the nay sayers wrong each month. It bodes well for all



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tbone51 on 18 April 2014
the_dengle said:
GProgrammer said:
tbone51 said:

Yes both nintendo systems spot on kinda funny, PS4 massively undertrack and X1 overtracked.  Vita under 11k (Overtracked by over double actually almost triple!) @EB1994 "Pls Understand"

I was reading the last few pages, I've gotta laugh about this user tbone. Here he goes again talking about the vita. In a post about the wii U. Is that what, four times or five times 

He stands out because everyone else is continuing to pretend the Vita doesn't exist. He wouldn't be singling out the Vita at all if people weren't quoting him asking why he feels the need to include the Vita in his recap of all of the NPD results.


Lol, i was updating the wiiu+vita numbers cuz at first it was vgc only numbers and the speculation, but hey wat can i do. Its not like i made a thread on it. (kinda is thread worthy now that i think about it)



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the_dengle on 18 April 2014
tbone51 said:
the_dengle said:
GProgrammer said:
tbone51 said:

Yes both nintendo systems spot on kinda funny, PS4 massively undertrack and X1 overtracked.  Vita under 11k (Overtracked by over double actually almost triple!) @EB1994 "Pls Understand"

I was reading the last few pages, I've gotta laugh about this user tbone. Here he goes again talking about the vita. In a post about the wii U. Is that what, four times or five times 

He stands out because everyone else is continuing to pretend the Vita doesn't exist. He wouldn't be singling out the Vita at all if people weren't quoting him asking why he feels the need to include the Vita in his recap of all of the NPD results.


Lol, i was updating the wiiu+vita numbers cuz at first it was vgc only numbers and the speculation, but hey wat can i do. Its not like i made a thread on it. (kinda is thread worthy now that i think about it)

You should make a thread for it, lots of people here seem to be very curious about your thoughts on the Vita's performance this month.

Nah, don't do that. We can continue discussing the Vita's ~10k sales in the United States during the 5-week month of March 2014 according to NPD right here in this thread. This is an appropriate place for that discussion, I'm sure other users won't mind it being brought up.



askel50 on 18 April 2014
Shadow1980 said:

Well, while we're still waiting on official PS4 and Wii U numbers, here's the XBO's first Q1 total compared to that of its predecessors:

Xbox: 403k
360: 603k
XBO: 711k

So, the XBO is still trending ahead of both. However, let's look at how they did each month of their first winter quarter:

Xbox

Jan.: 128k
Feb.: 139k
Mar.: 136k

360

Jan.: 250k
Feb.: 161k
Mar.: 192k

XBO

Jan.: 142k
Feb.: 258k
Mar.: 311k

For January alone, the XBO outsold the original Xbox's first January by 14k units and sold 108k fewer units than the 360 did its first January. Now February was a tax return boost month for the XBO (the PS4 was supply-limited and didn't get the same boost) and March gave us Titanfall and the reduced-price Titanfall bundle, which helped the XBO considerably. For whatever reason, neither the Xbox nor the 360 got a tax season boost their first Jan.-March quarter, and neither received anything like a temporary tax cut or special edition bundle or big system-seller. The question remains: "What happens when those Titanfall bundles dry up and MS is left with just the standard $500 SKU?"  That January number may have been a portent of things to come. With tax season over, could we see it drop back below 200k once the Titanfall bundle is discontinued? For the current quarter, the XBO needs to sell at least 793k to beat what the 360 did in Q2 2006, and with nothing to further stimulate sales, I don't see that happening.


Well maybe that means that this "tax season boost" is just myth? It seems that people are selectively applying this tax boost assumption to explain X1 sales.

As for "What happens when those Titanfall bundles dry up" don't forget that X1 has more potential for price reduction, they can unbundle kinect if they want. And also the strong sales of X360 are proof that the fanbase is there. They are just waiting for a lower price. It's similar to when people were buying PS2 instead of PS3 because the latter was very expensive.



M.U.G.E.N on 18 April 2014
ClassicGamingWizzz said:

man , that kevin dent is dumb...

btw :

yep he's a real clown. DId u see the ben kuchera drama? The dude got so mad at being calle out on gaf (it was me actually lol) that he went full mental. It was hilarious



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tinfamous12 on 18 April 2014

The Xbox brand is so strong. 360 still selling that much with a new high-end console on the market. I love it.



BeElite on 18 April 2014

Pff Vita solution is sooo simple.

just pack it in with every PS4, PS4 Vita free PSn game voucher one year of PSn+ for 599.99 and it will sale like cracki cream donuts.