April 2014 NPD Thread!

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trixiemafia86 on 16 May 2014

Where's dark_feanor and TheDrill?
one of the golden posts in this thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6312194

OT: VGC fails hard again. It was expected this time though.

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Dannythegamer on 16 May 2014

PS4 is doing a good job, but without historical sales. Yes, PS4 sales are good, but not amazing or extraordinary sales. XO is standing with very low sales at the moment. Sales below expectations of Xbox One, make it look amazing sales for PS4. which is not currently the case.

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small44 on 16 May 2014

oniyide said:
does anyone still think having a kinect less SKU is a bad idea?

No because nobody care about Kinect,casuals are happy with xbox360+kinect and hardcore gamers never care about it.

Hardcore gamers now could buy one with a lessser price

PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

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Dannythegamer said:
PS4 is doing a good job, but without historical sales. Yes, PS4 sales are good, but not amazing or extraordinary sales. XO is standing with very low sales at the moment. Sales below expectations of Xbox One, make it look amazing sales for PS4. which is not currently the case.

Is ps4 below xbox360 and ps3 first april if it's not ps4 sale are really extra-ordinary

PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

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kirby007 said:

Happy with 5th!

But VGC 33rd out of 50. Sheesh

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small44 said:

Dannythegamer said:
PS4 is doing a good job, but without historical sales. Yes, PS4 sales are good, but not amazing or extraordinary sales. XO is standing with very low sales at the moment. Sales below expectations of Xbox One, make it look amazing sales for PS4. which is not currently the case.

Is ps4 below xbox360 and ps3 first april if it's not ps4 sale are really extra-ordinary

Xbox 360
April 2006 - 295K
April 2007 - 174K
April 2008 - 188K
April 2009 - 175K
April 2010 - 185K
April 2011 - 297K
April 2012 - 236K
April 2013 - 130K

Xbox One:
April 2014 - 115K

Perhaps because the new consoles (ps4 and XO) still fail to attract its core-hardcore gamers consumers of previous systems. Reasons - Too many cross-gen titles. Shortly variety of titles, price. Maybe Consumers are pleased with PS3 and Xbox 360. Who Knows. The biggest problem is the bad economic environment. Consoles are not essential services to the population. Long /medium term, the sales of new consoles will stabilize in lower levels that previous consoles from the previous generations.

Edit: Already posted in a post above, sales of the PS4 are inferior to their predecessors.

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kirby007 on 16 May 2014

The Console ranking is Based on the known NPD numbers,

BUT THE NEXT CHART IS PURE SPECULATION

fun to see nevertheless, it is the possible data for the handhelds

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celador on 16 May 2014

Shadow1980 said:

However, the XBO will likely have another bad month for May, and I have a feeling that it might struggle to beat the original Xbox, which sold 572k its first spring quarter. Assuming May is equal to or less than April it could go into June with 200-230k units, meaning that in order to match the 360's first spring the Kinect-less SKU will have to push sales to over 560k, nearly five times the sales from April, making June represent a significant majority of sales for the quarter. To even match the original Xbox's first spring, the XBO would have to sell at least 340k in June, nearly triple April's tally. There is precedent for a price cut tripling sales from the month before it went into effect, interestingly enough with the original Xbox, which saw sales in May 2002 increase to nearly three times what they were in April 2002. However, that's an outlier, and price cuts usually have more modest effects on sales.

X1 failing to match the original Xbox in first spring quarter is pretty poor, especially given the amount of temporary price cuts already and giving away a major exclusive. 340k in June just from the Kinectless sku launch is fantasy, and is probably worse value for money than the Titanfall bundle was. If it had another massive exclusive with it then perhaps it could reach those figures, but it doesn't. The original Xbox saw a massive increase due to a $100 price cut. The new sku is $100 cheaper than the Titanfall bundle, but is arguably not better value, which the original Xbox undoubtedly was after it's price decrease.