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GribbleGrunger on 15 January 2016
DonFerrari said:

On gap reduction yes (although we can't confirm if your reasons to reduct reflect on RL occurences). But accept that you were doubting Amazon Accuracy. I'm sure Badley, Shadow and Insipid will remember it too.

I wasn't doubting Amazons accuracy to predict the winner. Why would I predict a 200k - 250k lead for the PS4 if that was the case? I was just saying Sony missed a trick on Amazon, although I did acknowledge the idea more people may well go to bricks and mortar stores. I still called a win based on Amazon and so obviously trusted Amazon's track record, but I reduced the gap from 300k - 350k because of the later performance of the Gears Bundle. Sony missed a trick and should have had a bundle to compete with it for the second half of the month. They relied entirely on the Star Wars brand but clearly (on Amazon) price won the day when people had no other choices.





 

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SWORDF1SH on 15 January 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
DonFerrari said:

On gap reduction yes (although we can't confirm if your reasons to reduct reflect on RL occurences). But accept that you were doubting Amazon Accuracy. I'm sure Badley, Shadow and Insipid will remember it too.

I wasn't doubting Amazons accuracy to predict the winner. Why would I predict a 200k - 250k lead for the PS4 if that was the case? I was just saying Sony missed a trick on Amazon, although I did acknowledge the idea more people may well go to bricks and mortar stores. I still called a win based on Amazon and so obviously trusted Amazon's track record, but I reduced the gap from 300k - 350k because of the later performance of the Gears Bundle. Sony missed a trick and should have had a bundle to compete with it for the second half of the month. They relied entirely on the Star Wars brand but clearly (on Amazon) price won the day when people had no other choices.

Don you know the rules, source or it didn't happen :p





poklane on 15 January 2016

YTD 2015

PS4 - 5740K (+23% YoY)
XB1 - 4940K (+13% YoY)
WIU - 1340K (-14% YoY)
Rounded to the nearest 10k
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192255897&postcount=1590



DonFerrari on 15 January 2016
poklane said:
YTD 2015

PS4 - 5740K (+23% YoY)
XB1 - 4940K (+13% YoY)
WIU - 1340K (-14% YoY)
Rounded to the nearest 10k
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192255897&postcount=1590

So we ended up with 23% up YOY... to bad the guys that were parading because X1 was up and PS4 down at the beggining of the year are mostly banned





duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 15 January 2016
SWORDF1SH said:
GribbleGrunger said:

I wasn't doubting Amazons accuracy to predict the winner. Why would I predict a 200k - 250k lead for the PS4 if that was the case? I was just saying Sony missed a trick on Amazon, although I did acknowledge the idea more people may well go to bricks and mortar stores. I still called a win based on Amazon and so obviously trusted Amazon's track record, but I reduced the gap from 300k - 350k because of the later performance of the Gears Bundle. Sony missed a trick and should have had a bundle to compete with it for the second half of the month. They relied entirely on the Star Wars brand but clearly (on Amazon) price won the day when people had no other choices.

Don you know the rules, source or it didn't happen :p

I won't be arsed to look at 1200 comments, and I could conceed him the victory, but you know the truth



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 15 January 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
DonFerrari said:

On gap reduction yes (although we can't confirm if your reasons to reduct reflect on RL occurences). But accept that you were doubting Amazon Accuracy. I'm sure Badley, Shadow and Insipid will remember it too.

I wasn't doubting Amazons accuracy to predict the winner. Why would I predict a 200k - 250k lead for the PS4 if that was the case? I was just saying Sony missed a trick on Amazon, although I did acknowledge the idea more people may well go to bricks and mortar stores. I still called a win based on Amazon and so obviously trusted Amazon's track record, but I reduced the gap from 300k - 350k because of the later performance of the Gears Bundle. Sony missed a trick and should have had a bundle to compete with it for the second half of the month. They relied entirely on the Star Wars brand but clearly (on Amazon) price won the day when people had no other choices.

Ok, if you insist... You never doubted Amazon accuracy to predict the winner.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

poklane on 15 January 2016

Italic added by myself

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2014 NPD Report: 4.66 million (including bundles)
December 2014 NPD Report: 2.84 million (including bundles)
2014: 7.50million (including bundles)


Call of Duty: Black Ops III U.S. physical retail sell-through:

November 2015 NPD: 4.89 million (including bundles) (up 4.9% compared to Advanced Warfare's November numbers)
December 2015 NPD: 3.44 million (including bundles) (up 21.1% compared to Advanced Warfare's December numbers)
2015: 8.33 million (including bundles) (up 11.1% compared to Advanced Warfare's 2014 numbers)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192269120&postcount=1827

And some people still say CoD is dead.....



Roronaa_chan on 15 January 2016

Impressive YTD on PS4 given it was launch price for 9 months
>6M in 2016 for sure



Kresnik on 15 January 2016

All these 3DS and WiiU niche software numbers and nothing for my beloved Vita :(



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naruball on 15 January 2016
tbone51 said:
Linkruleshyrule39 said:
Ouch Xenoblade X over tracked by heaps not to great sales in the US. Which is quite a shame seeming how good the game is

 

It is great sales actually. 

Agreed. I mean, there was a thread celebrating its successful sales after VGC released their estimates and I said that we should wait for NPD numbers and everyone started attacking me. Guess I was right about waiting, but still these are pretty impressive numbers all things considered. Since it seems like a good game with a lot of effort put into it, I'm glad to see it do well.