cod had a bundle though.  either way NPD will be very interesting. 

PS4 13.5 million shipped end of Sept. +6 weeks must be at least 15.5M shipped id sell through is 14.4M so 2 million shipped in 6 weeks. Production has definitely ramped up.

Amazon is not an authority on sales. Its used to measure trends. Its effect is even less so when considering software sales.

COD could just sell more over the counter than it sells online. And I would expect this to be true of all games, especially those that have midnight launches at retail stores and those that command an audience like COD. Why wait for a game to come in the mail when you can just go to your store at night?

Besides, do you really think more people would have gone out to buy a remaster than a brand new game in a very very popular franchise just a few days from eachother?

Indeed.

According to Amazon the order of CoD skus from most sold to least should be 360,PS4,Xb one,PS3. Which I doubt anoyne would believe is true. So the order in which games appear on amazon best sellers is not a definitive predictor of the nationwide situation.

As was demonstrated in the Oct NPD thread Amazon was pretty good at predicting which games would be in the top 10 (8/10) but it was not good at predicting the order of the top 10.

Given CoD has been more popular in the USA on Xbox than Halo since the 2008 (the last Halo game that outsold a CoD game released in the same year was Halo 3 vs the original Modern Warfare) it should come as absolutely no surprise that AW will sell more than MCC.

I see SO is dropping away in a fairly standard fashion which suggests legs won't be especially long. 500K lifetime in the USA looks to be a reasonable target. UK 100K will be a very good achievement. Can the rest of the world give it 400K+ to crack the million (at retail)?

Well that was a lot faster then some have predicted, I think black Friday Sales are going to be Crazy.

I remember someone saying its impossible for X1 to not outsell PS4 during halo week, i think it was gastnondorf, should have make a bet


By thé way, do your think PS4 total sales by thé end of thé year will be higher than X1 total sales by thé end of 2015 ?

There was a thread about that and now, its more ans more likely

If MS has a little success that means automatically that Sony are relaxing ... Don't ask me.

You think early December will have similar sales as W/E 15 Nov? With ACU having a disappointing start across all platforms I expect the Holiday lift to push early december sales well beyond mid Nov. If you look at the last few years the first 2 weeks of Dec have typically had sales of 1.5-2:1 over the 2nd week of November. I don't expect PS4 to sell 1 million per week in the first 2 weeks of Dec, but I do expect it to sell notably more than 500K. Actually selling 500K this week strongly indicates PS4 will have at least one week over 1 million in December, possibly 2. PS3 never has a >500K week in any November aside from BF week. Its best non-BF November week was in 2009 at 432K.

4M for December is a stretch no doubt, but I think >3.5M is quite likely. It is a shame LPB3 is looking like a bit of a flop for the family audience. That's 2 holidays runnning where the kid friendly game on PS4 has fallen flat. Sony needs to sort its shit out in that department for 2015, Tearaway Unfolded might be be that game. On the plus side is that Xb one has nothing to offer in that department. So either Wii U will benefit or a lot of the family-friendly dollar will go elsewhere (mobile) this holidays.

EA released a PS2 version of Fifa 14, so don't expect cross gen titles to completely disappear next year. Of course PS2 is a freak of nature, moreso than Wii, so we can probably expect almost no cross gen releases in 2016, aside from Fifa probably.

Finally numbers & adjustments! PS4 beasting, XOne eating, WiiU starving, lol. Although I got to tip my hat to MS, I didn't expect the XOne to surpass the WiiU this year at all.