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

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poklane on 12 March 2015

gooch_destroyer said:

Damn that's good!

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Burek on 12 March 2015

binary solo said:

They are severely undertracked. Look at NPD's 10th placed game (MH4). It's sales are 290K phys+digital. I am going to assume digital sales are not large on 3DS (could be wrong). VGC has the 10th placed game at a mere 122K. VGC has done a lot of game undertracking this month, and it means they are not too far off with The Order, because the Order Phys+digital >290K and the whole top 10 is somewhere in between 290K and 515K. The Order could easily be 280K phys + 20K digital for 9th place. And you can hardfly complain that VGC has badly overtracked The Order. So it's time to let VGC's numbers for the Order take a rest, they are within margin for error, so they are fine.

All is fine.

Except I think that those Nintendo numbers are the only ones that combine phys+dig, and that the NPD chart (as usual, and as it is explicitly stated) shows only retail sales. Nintendo added those numbers themselves.

So, while The Order is not very overtracked, it still might be under 290K (physical only, with no concrete idea on digital). The Order still did very well...

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binary solo on 12 March 2015

thismeintiel said:

binary solo said:

poklane said:

TechnoHobbit said:

The Nintendo PR sates the 3DS was "the top-selling hardware platform in the United States in February". So Sony must mean PS4 was the top console.

Edit: Ninja'd. Multiple times I'm guessing, that's what I get for going off discussion from a few pages back.

I'm guessing that Nintendo took the 3DS family as a whole and Sony didn't.

Correct I'd say. Now somone do some friggin' digging and find out what 3DSXL Aug 2012 * 1.3 =?? and we will have the minimum number for PS4 NPD!!! Since we know N3DS contributed the largest share of 3DS sales for the month, and PS4 claimed "top hardware", it means .

plskthks.

Lol, I think you meant PS4>N3DS>3DS. Or 3DS Family>PS4>N3DS.

Nope, I mean 3DS>PS4>N3DS>unN3DS. But the unN3DS is redundant because we know that and it isn't relevant to any attempt to calculate PS4 numbers, unless someone gives an actual N3DS:unN3DS split

At present we know PS4>280K (upper end of Xb one possible sales I think). 280K = 71% of 3DS total. N3DS=largest proportion of 3DS total. But we don't know if N3DS < or > Xb one.

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Angelv577 on 12 March 2015

I'm glad ps4 won another NPD in the console department. Well done even after all the bad press one exclusive had during February.

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gooch_destroyer said:

At least AF is finally being fixed. Dying Light is a great example and now AF16 on PS4. Seems like the problem is a result of quick ports where developers focussed on the XBOX One and ported to the PS4 using Direct X Emulation (which is less optimized). At least people are aware of the issue now. I'll take your GIF and raise you one.

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ethomaz on 12 March 2015

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Wait, N3DS can play games the un-N3DS can play? That would explain why NPD is tracking them differently.

N3DS can play new games for N3DS only... 3DS not... both can play 3DS games.

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Ryng on 12 March 2015

NewGuy said:
WiiU should be ~94K, not 98K

Wii U increase MORE than 20% comparet to last yaer. More =/= equal

+20% can be even 21/22 %.

Wii U in 2014: 131,500

Wii U in 2015: 159,000/160,000

So, Wii U is at 97k/96k

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Lawlight on 12 March 2015

All in all, good on Nintendo to find a strategy to prolong the life of their handhelds and getting people to buy them again. It may be dodgy but, hey, it works for them.