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Forums - Sales Discussion - February 2015 NPD Thread! 3DS: 395k, PS4: 342k, XBO: 276k, WiiU: 96k

binary solo on 12 March 2015
Turkish said:
razeredge said:
Talal said:


Found it very odd too. "They know my account and my identity so I'll ban my account, but I'm still gonna leak" Why wouldn't they fire her over this? She confessed that she will still be leaking. She's an odd character. Anyway I hope we will still get leaks one way or the other.

 

somebody on gaf posted about it:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=155266252&postcount=499

 

"NPD has to draw strangely arbitrary lines to keep their business model going, so it's not that far a stretch. What's the point in paying them for numbers if you can't use them in limited ways? Being able to share them and inferences drawn from them with a limited audience is part of what makes subscribing to the information worthwhile in the first place. So you can't ban that outright without losing all of your customers. They're stuck trying to limit disclosure to the public instead, which is where the forum becomes a clear violation they can clamp down on.

Presuming they don't know what other channels Aquamarine has in mind makes it impossible to claim any specific infringement. It's not like they can claim they need to see all private correspondence without pissing off their subscribers. So while it seems like Aqua is courting more trouble it's also obvious he likes to irritate the NPD at every opportunity so this is consistent, too."

 

 

it seems like she likes to deliberately piss off the npd group, but they can't do anything about it if it's private.

 

"continue leaking on the secret base" could mean like giving numbers to internal chase employees who happen to be on gaf. it could mean anything and npd can't demand to know all private uses of their data. seems like they can only do things when it's public, like when it's posted on gaf or here.

It still doesn't make sense because she doesn't pay for the NPD data, her company does, the company shares the info with their employees (her), she wants to share that info with 3rd parties (favored gaf members) who aren't employees of the group that pay for the subscription (JP Morgan).

The way she is sharing it from now on is like meeting up with a gamer friend for coffee and telling him/her the numbers in a private converstation. It might be technically breaching a ND agreement but no one is ever going to know or be able to enforce it. Leaking the numbers directly on gaf is like taking out an ad in a newspaper telling people the numbers, or telling people how to find out the numbers for free. Clearly something that NPD and Chase can find and trace back to the leaker and bring the house down on her head.

Pretty easy to understand really.



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Mythmaker1 on 12 March 2015
poklane said:

PS4 was #1 hardware in February NPD.

Sony says PS4 "was #1 in hardware and software sales in February" according to NPD

I have to assume they split the 3DS and N3DS. Otherwise...things will be odd.



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tak13 on 12 March 2015
Sh1nn said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
TheObserver said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
One time Sony have said that PS3 was the best seller console in the US during September NPD of 2013, but it have only sold more than the XB360, the real winner was 3DS.

Any way, possible that PS4 have won, but as for now is not confirmed.


You have a link for that?


" #1 console"  

Now he said "#1 hardware"

HA...ha!

Where is the difference?3DS is a console too...

He should had said home console then...;)



Ryng on 12 March 2015

Humm, so PS4 is at nearly/above 400k?
Or at least, VGC said 360,000 for 3DS... (if have outsold 3DS)



ethomaz on 12 March 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:
Humm, so PS4 is at nearly/above 400k?
Or at least, VGC said 360,000 for 3DS...

I think VGC is overtracking 3DS even if it was the #1.



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Aura7541 on 12 March 2015

Interesting that the PS4 beat the 3DS despite the launch of the n3DS.



Teeqoz on 12 March 2015

So the numbers Nintendo gave were actually shipped?



Ryng on 12 March 2015
ethomaz said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
Humm, so PS4 is at nearly/above 400k?
Or at least, VGC said 360,000 for 3DS...

I think VGC is overtracking 3DS even if it was the #1.

Definitive PS4 is undertracked, i alway say so... just hope that 3DS is not huge overtracked (if it is).



binary solo on 12 March 2015
cycycychris said:
eh, outsold the New 3DS... I'm skeptic they aren't putting a spin on this...

Geoff Keighly saying it directly on twitter implies not Sony PR spin. Keighly will be getting numbers directly I'm thinking, and he has no reason to ignore 3DS when it comes to announcing #1 hardware. If Keighly was only thinking home console I would have expected hium to tweet "PS4 #1 home console in Feb NPD".

It's still possible the early announcements are "forgetting" about 3DS because the buzz really is all about PS4 vs Xb one. But since it's not just Sony PR claiming #1 I am leaning towards the unexpected result of PS4 > 3DS.

Unless PS4 sold a shit ton more than we expected (how could it since VGC has the PS4 LTD at 20.2 million in exactly the same timeframe as Sony so there would only be tweaks to the country balances rather than having to find a few 100K of extra sales), that suggests N3DS didn't do so well as we thought; which is not too great for Nintendo.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

poklane on 12 March 2015

Top selling retail games of Feb: Majora's Mask 3DS, Evolve, and Dying Light. The Order at #9.