March 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

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Sprash on 14 April 2016

RolStoppable said:

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Bodyguard? just wanted to inform you that in the last couple of weeks the ps4 was the most popular video game system in japan or is that wrong? Did I made a mistake :/

You made me curious, so I checked the most recent Media Create thread. The 3DS was #1.

That aside though, BraLoD's post on the matter in the Famitsu Most Wanted thread was full of questionable wishy-washy reasoning. Of course it was going to get mocked.

By media create yeah, but famitsu and dengeki have the ps4 as #1

don't worry at least you know now that the ps4 is the most popular gaming system in japan and that bralod was right^^ something like that happens to everyone so don't think to much about it :D

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Blood_Tears said:

RolStoppable said:

You made me curious, so I checked the most recent Media Create thread. The 3DS was #1.

That aside though, BraLoD's post on the matter in the Famitsu Most Wanted thread was full of questionable wishy-washy reasoning. Of course it was going to get mocked.

No actually, Media Create has 3DS on top but Famitsu as well as Dengeki have PS4 on top for last week.

Media create is the superior tracker so.... Yea doesn't really Matter if Famitsu and Dengeki say otherwise. Both Sony and ninty use MC numbers for their hardware.

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uran10 said:

Blood_Tears said:

No actually, Media Create has 3DS on top but Famitsu as well as Dengeki have PS4 on top for last week.

Media create is the superior tracker so.... Yea doesn't really Matter if Famitsu and Dengeki say otherwise. Both Sony and ninty use MC numbers for their hardware.

I ask myself everytime what numbers are the most likely to be correct, can you provide a link with a clear statement that media create is superior? would be great.

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poklane on 14 April 2016

PS4 actually up YOY! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=201005196&postcount=186
Strange for Sony to not mention it.

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uran10 said:

Blood_Tears said:

No actually, Media Create has 3DS on top but Famitsu as well as Dengeki have PS4 on top for last week.

Media create is the superior tracker so.... Yea doesn't really Matter if Famitsu and Dengeki say otherwise. Both Sony and ninty use MC numbers for their hardware.

Nah it does matter because the others cover stores that media create don't and visa versa.

2 trackers > 1 tracker

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Kerotan on 14 April 2016

poklane said:
PS4 actually up YOY! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=201005196&postcount=186
Strange for Sony to not mention it.

They're so #humble dammit!

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tbone51 said:
Pokken might outsell sfv by every region at this rate. Lets see if pokken did 200k first

It's WELL over 200K.

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Kerotan on 14 April 2016

RolStoppable said:

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You mean the latest mediacreate / Famitsu / Dengeki thread and 2 of the 3 trackers gave the ps4 yet another win.

Guys, my initial response to BraLoD wasn't meant to turn into a drawn out discussion. Definitely not from my side and I am sure that BraLoD wasn't interested either, because he has already had enough of it.

We could go into semantics for everything, but in the end it would be sales discussion of the Japanese market in a thread about the USA. There's really nothing to gain from such a discussion and there are a lot of things that speak against having such a discussion.

A serious reply from Rol?!

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Sprash said:

uran10 said:

Media create is the superior tracker so.... Yea doesn't really Matter if Famitsu and Dengeki say otherwise. Both Sony and ninty use MC numbers for their hardware.

I ask myself everytime what numbers are the most likely to be correct, can you provide a link with a clear statement that media create is superior? would be great.

When looking at their Wiki you get

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Create

Media Create competes with Enterbrain's Famitsu and MediaWorks' Dengeki PlayStation in the market for providing Japanese game sales data. Because there are three different tracking firms, there will always be three different sales numbers for any software and hardware title. Which company to trust is a matter of debate, as none of the three major trackers are ever 100% accurate and whoever tracks the highest amount of sales for a given title fluctuates.

Nintendo cites Media Create sales data during its conferences and presentations.^[2]