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Forums - Sales - August 2014 NPD Thread! PS4 - 190k, XBO - 160k, Wii U < 60k, PSV < 6k

Azerth on 12 September 2014
Leadified said:
XBO numbers aren't too bad with all things considered, I'm curious to see how September will be like.


probably higher then this month but still below ps4 which will have a monster month



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ice on 12 September 2014

Good numbers for Xbone and PS4! :)

Wii U pls :/



vivster on 12 September 2014
fatslob-:O said:
I am going to be real here ...

The PS4 isn't exactly what I envisioned it's performance to be since it's falling below expectations of how a market leader should be performing.

Sub 250K in North America for some months isn't "ideal" for a leading console. Perhaps just accomplishing the right moves isn't enough to muster up to the standards.

Sony is going to need to do something about this ...

They will. And it's called "the holidays" and "the early next year" and "every subsequent month after that".

3 very solid business strategies if you ask me.



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Iamdavirus on 12 September 2014
thismeintiel said:
fatslob-:O said:
I am going to be real here ...

The PS4 isn't exactly what I envisioned it's performance to be since it's falling below expectations of how a market leader should be performing.

Sub 250K in North America for some months isn't "ideal" for a leading console. Perhaps just accomplishing the right moves isn't enough to muster up to the standards.

Sony is going to need to do something about this ...

Before you start talking like that, maybe you should wait and see how Sept-Dec plays out.  These past few months have had the Destiny bundle siphoning off sales and PS4 may have a great holiday.  I also agree with one poster in here, the fact that Sony and MS (MS partly due to low demand) were able to produce consoles more quickly allowed for them to keep up with demand much better than with their previous launches, which made for much larger launch numbers.  Numbers for other consoles that would have been shifted to the spring/summer months when they could have finally had enough units on shelves.  So, their launch numbers would have been lower than the PS4/XBO, but their spring/summer months higher.  Overall, the PS4 will be fine.  If sales do drop low enough, Sony will just hack $50-$100 off the price and sales will greatly jump, again.


Exactly, why people fail to even consider this blows my mind.......



Welfare on 12 September 2014
sidmeiernintifan said:
IIRC Wii U sold 82.5 in July, + 59.7

That is 142.2 in the USA for July and August
And according to media create they sold 95.228 in those 2 months

that is 237428 in the USA and Japan for July and August
Europe and rest of the world is a mystery.

And they have one month more of sales before the quarter is over. In the last quarter they shipped 510.000 Wii Us if I recall correctly. 6.68 millions in total

I do think they have passed the 7 millions mark.

Yeah by September 31 they should just cross 7.2 million Shipped. Wii U could actually be at 6,700,000 right now.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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TheWPCTraveler on 12 September 2014
fatslob-:O said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
Wii U sub-60k? Well, that's just...sad.

So much for "not overtracked"...

Looks like you'll have to backtrack your other post ... 

Yeah, I know. The one time I come out with a 60k prediction, the Wii U underperforms by a few hundred...



 
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johnsobas on 12 September 2014
CosmicSex said:
Soundwave said:
CGI-Quality said:

Again, I need you to provide me the ireffutable info that says the PS2 hit 10 million by Aug 17, 2001, or you're just wasting everyone's time.

LOL, stick to that belief if you want, but if you actually look at the factors behind the launches, PS2 is pulling ahead in North America beating the PS4 soundly for several months in a row and absolutely trouncing its Japanese numbers. 

The PS4 is just hiding behind the fact that it had a less staggered launch, so its total to date looks more impressive than it actually is. It's definitely not selling like the PS2, it's horrible in Japan and faltering in North America. 

190k for a first August for a market leader is nothing to write home about, it's quite weak. 

I'm pretty sure if I dig around I can find more specific numbers but PS2 was at 30 million+ by May 2002:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/technology/14GAME.html

So I'd say it's safe to say they were at 10+ million by August 2001. 


So much blatenly wrongness.  The PS2 is not pulling ahead of the PS4.  You are violently wrong lol

http://www.gamepur.com/news/13730-ps4-sales-outpacing-ps1-ps2-and-ps3-massive-margin-full-breakdown-revealed.html

PS2 took 13 months to reach 9 milion

PS4 took 9 months.  

 

It took an additional 6 months (19 months total in Sept 30, 2001) to for the PS2 to reach 20 million. From there it took an addition 8 months to get to 30 million (27 months total in May 2002).

There is no way you can extrapolate that far in the future and say the PS2 is pulling ahead.  You only know that the PS4 is trending ahead at this point. 

Lets at least try to be right.  

the PS2 was only out in Japan for 9 months...



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Leadified on 12 September 2014
Azerth said:
Leadified said:
XBO numbers aren't too bad with all things considered, I'm curious to see how September will be like.


probably higher then this month but still below ps4 which will have a monster month

I don't really expect it to top the PS4 except for maybe November. NPD numbers should increase for a while now, for all consoles so that's some good news.



fatslob-:O on 12 September 2014
Iamdavirus said:

More garbage..no, the sales are lower because they were able to sell million more at launch...if ps3 and 360 sold millions more because of more supply and satisfied hardcxore demand faster, there sales would also be lower faster especially during summer.....this argument makes zero sense.

 

Supply and demand how does it work?

 

Ps4 sales will go up big now....It is also just 1 month with NO releases........cherry picking months means nothing, overall sales do.

Is that you, FlamingWeazel ? Who ever it is I don't need this drivel or your antics included ... 

Face it! For a market leader the PS4 is underperforming and nothing will change that according to the data so for that I mostly agree with Soundwave on this part. 

This isn't "cherry picking" FYI. 250K or above is what anyone would expect from a leading platform ... 



Iamdavirus on 12 September 2014
fatslob-:O said:
Iamdavirus said:

More garbage..no, the sales are lower because they were able to sell million more at launch...if ps3 and 360 sold millions more because of more supply and satisfied hardcxore demand faster, there sales would also be lower faster especially during summer.....this argument makes zero sense.

 

Supply and demand how does it work?

 

Ps4 sales will go up big now....It is also just 1 month with NO releases........cherry picking months means nothing, overall sales do.

Is that you, FlamingWeazel ? Who ever it is I don't need this drivel or your antics included ... 

Face it! For a market leader the PS4 is underperforming and nothing will change that according to the data so for that I mostly agree with Soundwave on this part. 

This isn't "cherry picking" FYI. 250K or above is what anyone would expect from a leading platform ... 

The DATA shows the opposite.........your post makes NO sense... it will do 250 k easy, it's best years are ahead.... Again, if ps3, 360 had millions more to sell up front it's sales would have tapered off more in the summer.....supply and demand, something you fail to grasp...

 

Again the data, ttoal sales show ps4 is one of the fastest selling console s ever, and your posts is going to foolish soon. The dat you are looking at 1 or 2 random months is useless, overall sales show a different story. Hitting 10 mill faster then anything except the wii is outstanding by any metric...