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Forums - Sales - 6th Generation NPD Comparisons! (WiiU Vs Gamecube and Xbox One vs Xbox)

Augen on 18 June 2014

Shadow1980 said:

For some inexplicable reason, the PS2 sold an ungodly sum in March, even more than it did in December. There were no real huge system sellers. Tax season might explain it, but that would be the single biggest tax season boost ever that I'm aware of. Does anybody know if the PS2 was supply-constrained in its early months?

It was deifnitely supply constrained.  I pre-ordered mine a year in advance and when Sony cut shipments in half even I was unable to get one at launch.

I also remember Onimusha:Warlords coming out in March being one of the first "show off" games for the new system.  I guess it was similar to Infamous: Second Son a bit in that respect.



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Eddie_Raja on 18 June 2014
Shadow1980 said:
torok said:

Seece, you should do a PS4 vs PS2 one too, could be interesting.

Edit: Sorry, didn't saw your warning on the 1st paragraph about the PS2 NPD numbers... If I find something I will post here.


Here's the PS2 vs. PS4:

For some inexplicable reason, the PS2 sold an ungodly sum in March, even more than it did in December. There were no real huge system sellers. Tax season might explain it, but that would be the single biggest tax season boost ever that I'm aware of. Does anybody know if the PS2 was supply-constrained in its early months?


I believe it was.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

fedfed on 18 June 2014

I didn't know WiiU was so behind GC. Yes GC and XB were a failure back then... it is funny how history changes history.

and to who said PS4 will barely break 100mil... i say good luck, and I hope so... but no console will get near that number anymore...



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Intrinsic on 18 June 2014
bubblegamer said:
I don't think WiiU will ever catch up to the GameCube and there is a real chance X1 will stay under XB. Looks like PS4 will barely break the 100 million as well. The market is just smaller these days, probably because last gen consoles are not out for the count yet, PC's are much better for gaming than they were 10 years ago and casuals are harder to attract because of all the mobiel devices that could be gamed on.

I disagree. Last gen, there were 260M in sales between the PS3/360/Wii. And that being the most expensive console generation ever. You still can't get a PS3 for under $200 and its been 8yrs. Now lets assume that a whopping 30% of that number are to people who buy more than one console for any reason, we still have around 182M in sales split between the PS3/360/wii.

If the XB1/WiiU don't do more than a combined 50M worldwide by the end of the gen, then the PS4 will by default sell over 100M. And I am inclined to believe that prices will drop a lot faster this gen, cause if MS keeps losing, then they will keep dropping tehir prices, which in turn will force sony to drop theres too. Last gen, price drops were slow and far between cause sony just couldn't bring the cost of the PS3 down fast enough.

That aside, I don't see the wiiU breaking more than 25M worldwide by the end of this gen and I think the XB1 will do around 45-50M



hunter_alien on 18 June 2014

The GC actually did 11 million LT in the US... that was actually far better then I remembered. Yeah, the WiiU has absolutely no chance of catching up with the GC in the US or EU. Maybe Japan? But even that looks questionable at the moment.

The Xbox did pretty strong numbers to, no wonder it had momentum in the 7th gen



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Max King of the Wild on 18 June 2014

Xb1 will definitely pass OGXB. Wii U will continue to struggle to make it to 20m.

Seece - Can you also add in GC and OGXB sales till the end of the year?



Seece on 18 June 2014
Max King of the Wild said:
Xb1 will definitely pass OGXB. Wii U will continue to struggle to make it to 20m.

Seece - Can you also add in GC and OGXB sales till the end of the year?

Yeah sure.

 

  Month Xbox Gamecube
Jun-03/02 8/20 265,000 124,000
Jul-03/02 9/21 154,000 127,000
Aug-03/02 10/22 137,000 100,000
Sep-03/02 11/23 173,000 165,000
Oct-03/02 12/24 239,000 254,000
Nov-03/02 13/25 468,000 754,000
Dec-03/02 14/26 1,033,000 1,163,000


 

Seece on 18 June 2014

And here is last years WiiU sales to compare (for a rough guide)

June - 42,000
July - 30,000
August - 32,000
September - 91,000
October - 50,000
November - 220,000
December - 481,000



 

Max King of the Wild on 18 June 2014
Seece said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Xb1 will definitely pass OGXB. Wii U will continue to struggle to make it to 20m.

Seece - Can you also add in GC and OGXB sales till the end of the year?

Yeah sure.

 

  Month Xbox Gamecube
Jun-03/02 8/20 265,000 124,000
Jul-03/02 9/21 154,000 127,000
Aug-03/02 10/22 137,000 100,000
Sep-03/02 11/23 173,000 165,000
Oct-03/02 12/24 239,000 254,000
Nov-03/02 13/25 468,000 754,000
Dec-03/02 14/26 1,033,000 1,163,000


I don't see Wii U touching any of those. XB1 will probably lose June... Why so high for OGXB? Probably be 1:1 till Nov then XB1 will smash Nov sales with BF alone.



ExplodingBlock on 18 June 2014

Xbox catching up...