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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 15 May 2014

MS should've waited till E3 to announce Kinect-Less bundle. May is going to be atrocious.



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mornelithe on 15 May 2014
wick said:
Did people really not see this coming as soon as they announced the Kinectless SKU?

They were always going to be bad numbers after Microsoft suddenly dropped the undroppable, integral, core feature of their multimedia machine.

The Kinectless model was announced in May, not April.  April's numbers won't be effected by that announcement.  May and the first week of June, however, should.



episteme on 15 May 2014
naruball said:
episteme said:

Bundled copies don't count, even physical copies. Similar to Media Create, they never count NSMBU from bundles.

But Titanfall X1 still seems to be overtracked because ISS didn't chart in the NPD top 10 and sold more than TF.


Didn't they count Knack bundles?

Knack wasn't in the November top 10. Maybe the NeoGAF leaks include bundled copies.



eFKac on 15 May 2014
mornelithe said:
wick said:
Did people really not see this coming as soon as they announced the Kinectless SKU?

They were always going to be bad numbers after Microsoft suddenly dropped the undroppable, integral, core feature of their multimedia machine.

The Kinectless model was announced in May, not April.  April's numbers won't be effected by that announcement.  May and the first week of June, however, should.

But they wanted to cover the steaming **** that they already knew was releasing within 3 days. (April NPD)



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

naruball on 15 May 2014
episteme said:
naruball said:
episteme said:

Bundled copies don't count, even physical copies. Similar to Media Create, they never count NSMBU from bundles.

But Titanfall X1 still seems to be overtracked because ISS didn't chart in the NPD top 10 and sold more than TF.


Didn't they count Knack bundles?

I don't think so. Knack was at 90K < Knack < 100K in the November NPD and vgc has it at 221K.

My bad. I should have mentioned that I meant Media Create. 



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mornelithe on 15 May 2014
eFKac said:
mornelithe said:
wick said:
Did people really not see this coming as soon as they announced the Kinectless SKU?

They were always going to be bad numbers after Microsoft suddenly dropped the undroppable, integral, core feature of their multimedia machine.

The Kinectless model was announced in May, not April.  April's numbers won't be effected by that announcement.  May and the first week of June, however, should.

But they wanted to cover the steaming **** that they already knew was releasing within 3 days. (April NPD)

Oh yeah, fo sho, doesn't cover it up though lol :)



MikeRox on 15 May 2014
celador said:

People on Gaf saying Vita below 5K?


So depressing. :(

Borderlands will save it ;p



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wick on 15 May 2014
RolStoppable said:
wick said:
Did people really not see this coming as soon as they announced the Kinectless SKU?

They were always going to be bad numbers after Microsoft suddenly dropped the undroppable, integral, core feature of their multimedia machine.

Check for yourself:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=183084&page=1#


Perhaps you should be in charge of the VGChartz estimates Rol!!



 

 

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episteme on 15 May 2014
naruball said:
episteme said:

I don't think so. Knack was at 90K < Knack < 100K in the November NPD and vgc has it at 221K (EDIT: 221 was global).

My bad. I should have mentioned that I meant Media Create. 

Wait, I was wrong, 221 was global. Maybe the creamsugar leaks included the bundled copies.

Yeah, right, it's strange that Media Create counted Knack, but not NSMBU and Wii Party U from bundles... Famitsu does.

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eFKac on 15 May 2014
mornelithe said:
eFKac said:
mornelithe said:
wick said:
Did people really not see this coming as soon as they announced the Kinectless SKU?

They were always going to be bad numbers after Microsoft suddenly dropped the undroppable, integral, core feature of their multimedia machine.

The Kinectless model was announced in May, not April.  April's numbers won't be effected by that announcement.  May and the first week of June, however, should.

But they wanted to cover the steaming **** that they already knew was releasing within 3 days. (April NPD)

Oh yeah, fo sho, doesn't cover it up though lol :)


For some people it doesn't, for some it may. The kinectless sku positive news will be no doubt more widespread than the negative NPD numbers news. Maybe if there would be no Xbone news recently, the NPD news would be more widespread.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!