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Forums - Sales Discussion - USA SW / WW Hardware - week ending 14th June

Nothing stops the 3DS...now I am a little bit sad that I don't play with mine so often. But I think for the Wii U it was a good week because the Xbox One stayed behind it.



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Im more disappointed at PS4 sales than the weak Xbone price cut effect to be honest, even tho I know VGC always under tracks PS4 here. It needs japanese games NAOW



Kane1389 said:
Im more disappointed at PS4 sales than the weak Xbone price cut effect to be honest, even tho I know VGC always under tracks PS4 here. It needs japanese games NAOW


Yeah they need something japanese to boost that chartz.



GribbleGrunger said:

Sorry, but I don't believe these numbers at all. Last month the PS4 was overtracked by 50k in America and this week it sold 100k (according to VGC). So how the hell can it have been 'reduced' to 8.1m? At the worse is should be STILL 8.2m.

the hardware chart is out but the graphs at the first page are only updated a few days later.



Angelv577 said:
Is Mario Kart 8 a bigger system seller than a $100 price cut? I prefer to wait for July NPD.


the bump in the US was big, its above ps4 in NA. thats well new.  waiting for npd numbers will not help us. the xbone isnt selling well in europe and isnt out in japan, that why the wii u  outsold it.



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down adjustments again for ps4

new week chart up, but ps4 down from 8.2 to 8.1
fit much better now.



Of course summer is a time of slow sales. But year-on-year comparisons to past summer months are not encouraging. I do not like the trend here: a big reason why PS4 and XBO are ahead of the previous gen is how front-loaded the sales were.

Having said all that, of course Holiday seasons are the real acid test for this generation. If they do gangbusters during Christmas period, all is well. If there is sustained year-on-year drop there too, it is time to get worried.



DarkFury said:
Of course summer is a time of slow sales. But year-on-year comparisons to past summer months are not encouraging. I do not like the trend here: a big reason why PS4 and XBO are ahead of the previous gen is how front-loaded the sales were.

Having said all that, of course Holiday seasons are the real acid test for this generation. If they do gangbusters during Christmas period, all is well. If there is sustained year-on-year drop there too, it is time to get worried.



You're looking at this the wrong way. You can't compare first summer sales of current-gen consoles to PS360 sales from  summer 2010. At that point, PS and Xbox had established libraries of must-have titles, which neither PS4 or X1 had at the moment (but they will). A much more apt comparison would be comparing first summers. Example: comparing PS4's first April/May weekly global numbers (usually when the summer slump starts hitting), to 360 during IT'S first April/May, PS4 sales are doubled on average. For PS3 it's even worse. Hell, PS4 has doubled weekly global sales of 360 from its April/May in 2007 as well. Next year? Sales for both cranked up due to more and better games. This has N O T H I N G to do with the health of the industry (which is excellent..... just look at game sales/industry revenue for May) and everything to do with historical trends and game availability. Watch Dogs was not a huge system seller (although I think it DID move units; I suspect its one reason why PS4 did so well it's first April compared to PS360's first), nor was it must have (but it sold gangbusters).  Wait til the REAL system movers hit, as they always do. Have you SEEN the game release schedule for fall 2014 to 2015? The hype for titles like Destiny is real. It's gonna be a madhouse.



Horrible week overall, with just 3DS above 100k and even the home console leader below 100k, but good for XBOne, up 70% I guess due to kinectless version launch. Good PSV, up together with the aforementioned XBOne and also PS3 and XB360, and this is curious, because PSV has a small SW boost, XBOne has kinectless launch, but both PS3 and XB360 SW are down, what took their HW up?
Finally, a good note, although on a small scale, for Wii U, that despite down from MK boost manages to stay above XBOne despite the latter's boost.



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So when does June 21 go up?