April 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

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Teeqoz on 12 May 2016

ZhugeEX said:

Number 1 this month sold less than half what number 1 did this month last year.

Barely or by a fair margin?

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ZhugeEX said:

Number 1 this month sold less than half what number 1 did this month last year.

Wait a minute. WHAT

Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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ZhugeEX on 12 May 2016

software welfare, software.

By a bit of a margin.

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ZhugeEX said:

software welfare, software.

By a bit of a margin.

OK.

Read that the second time and it got worse. That makes sense.

Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

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Swordmasterman on 12 May 2016

celador said:

ZhugeEX said:

Who cares.

Software sales are what matter.

Nah, it's software engagement

What the hell is Software engagement ?, people developing games ?.

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ZhugeEX said:

Number 1 this month sold less than half what number 1 did this month last year.

Holy fudge....thats brutal.

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X1Gates said:

Quantum Break+price cut has sealed April npd for Microsoft. Although Amazon gave the ps4 the win the deals in other shops has given microsoft enough sale to sneak the win.

[Xb1]265k

[PS4]255k

Wat lol :)

QB + Price Cut and X1 fell YoY and lost the month. This year will almost certainly be down from 2015 in total as well, X1 was heavily front-loaded in a few key segments, but is rapidly running out of steam.

Initial launch hype and core fanbase made $499 in Xmas '13 pretty good.

$449 Titanfall bundle did pretty well in early '14, but still lost the month.

Initial DisKinect bundle sold well.

Firesale deals like $329 for Holidays '14 did well.

Outside of that, it's been pretty steady mediocrity and regression. X1 is headed for 35-55M LTD totals for X1 on the EXTREME low and high estimates, with a more reasonable probability of ending around 45-47.5M, so at least double WiiU totals, and no more than half of PS4 totals.

The rest of this gen is going to be pretty boring and predictable. X1 *may* win one more month in the gen, for Gears 4.

NPD will count Playstation VR as a plataform or as a ADD-on ? the console will launch the same month as Gears of War 4, if they count it as a plataform so there is no chance for Xbox One.

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ZhugeEX on 12 May 2016

JRPGfan said:

ZhugeEX said:

Number 1 this month sold less than half what number 1 did this month last year.

Holy fudge....thats brutal.

Not really.

Mortal Kombat X has mass market appeal where as Dark Souls III sells well but to an established niche of gamers. It does well enough to reach #1 but not well enough to be ranked among top selling AAA games.