December 2014 NPD Thread! XBO, PS4, Wii U up! Many software up!

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Train wreck on 16 January 2015

With this months NPD we did not get the following:

No Nintendo 50 million 3DS announcement nor any Xbox 10 million announcement (don't know if its still "close").

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DerNebel on 16 January 2015

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With this months NPD we did not get the following:

No Nintendo 50 million 3DS announcement nor any Xbox 10 million announcement (don't know if its still "close").

It shipped over 10 million at the beginning of December, I think MS announcing a 10 million sold through number with their NPD PR would only diminish the impact of their US win, since Sony announced 18.5 million mere weeks ago.

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Train wreck said:
With this months NPD we did not get the following:

No Nintendo 50 million 3DS announcement nor any Xbox 10 million announcement (don't know if its still "close").

Doubt we will hear exact sold through numbers from MS for a long time, if ever. They will continue to announce shipped numbers to make sales sound better, which works given the amount of sites who report on sales inaccurately

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kopstudent89 on 16 January 2015

Decent for the Wii U, but looks like 3DS sales really slumped this year. Cue the New 3DS...

The recent are good solid numbers for December but it shows that December isn't probably as big as it used to with Black Friday madness. Basically it's been the Wii U playing the margins game vs the other 2 playing the quantity game, particularly XBO. With amiibos selling like hotcakes, Nintendo have actually turned a point financially. Nice to see.

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true_fan said:

The attach rates is why some companies don't mind being exclusive to XBOX. Despite ps4 having a 1 million+ install base lead a majority of the year, several games sold better on XB1 and there is still a ton of 360 support.

The lead is 500-600k. Only games that sold better on XB1 were CoD (exclusive deal) and Minecraft. I wouldn't call that "several".

Also, I'm pretty sure most publishers care about more than sales in the US. PS4 software sales are dominating XB1's worldwide. I can't remember one game which has sold more on XB1.

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jlmurph2 said:

thismeintiel said:

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thismeintiel said:

He's also forgetting some of games that had exclusvie advertising and bundles for the XBO, but still sold better on PS4. Even in the US. And once SE sees how much the PS4 has sold by the time Nov/Dec rolls around this year, they are going to seriously regret that Tomb Raider deal.

Like Destiny. But how much does that matter when 360 software on a MS advertised game ends up selling more than PS4 software. MS is still getting the money.

I'm sorry. Are we really talking about SW sales from one month compared to their LTD? Cause guess which one companies actually care about. And that 360 revenue isn't going to last the whole gen, is it? Nope. Maybe another year or so, when most people will be moving on and support for the system will be winding down.

No, I'm talking about for the year of 2014.

In which case Destiny sold more on PS4 due to a lot of bundles being sold.

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episteme said:

It's time for cream's pies

Handhelds:

I'm using very, very rough guess work here but either the 3DS did really bad this December or Vita/PSTV did pretty good. If VGC's numbers are to be believed (~908k) then my very very very rough guess work puts Vita somewhere in the realm of ~170k. On the other hand, if VGC's numbers for the Vita are true (~50k) then my very very very rough guess work put's the 3DS at a pitifully low 262k.

VGC's numbers have the 3DS taking up ~95% of handheld sales this month and according to the pie chart the Vita seems to have way more than 5%, it looks closer to say, 15-18%.

*EDIT* Looking back through the NPD thread on GAF someone calculated the angles on the HH graph and they put the Vita at 17.6%.

Not as bad as expected I think, unless 3DS did a lot worse than VGC shows

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