All three leakers all have direct access....CosmicQueso probably lives in California and works as an analyst or for some big publisher. John Harker probably works for Ubisoft, and Creamsugar probably lives somewhere in China and works for one of the firms that get data over there.

ZhugeEX is kind of like...a pseudo-leaker. Sometimes a leaker, sometimes relaying conjecture based on existing leaks.

I'm the only leaker who has an active relationship with The NPD Group, so everything I post is sanctioned and approved by them. That's why I don't bother with any of that obfuscation nonsense.

I'd wager that digital is also another reason why catalog sales have dropped at retail. Agree that being focused on the "latest and greatest" is probably the main reason but some publishers have talked about how they've had strong back catalog sales due to putting their games on digital distribution platforms. 

Can't remember who it was who said it but one publisher noted that as they released a new game in the series, sales of prior games on digital platforms saw sales increase considerably. 

(Also, I want to make a point that whilst I don't have access to NPD data. I do have access to other data from other market researchers.)

Not significantly below 35K.

Wanna know what new Nintendo release sold WELL below 35K and was DOA in the USA retail market?

Disney Art Academy....that title bombed hard.

Yeah, don't you have lots of inside data for the electronics industry? Like if you wanted to know the number of phones sold in markets and stuff like that?

I've always really felt consoles were about the newest and latest. PC is more for playing the same games / older games. MMOs, MOBAs, multiplayer survival, browser games, CSGO, TF2, Skyrim, Minecraft, Civilization, etc. in addition to a focus on emulation, Steam sales, the biggest games catalog, and so on. (obviously not saying PC can't be used for newest and latest, but seems that is only a very niche subset of PC gamers)

Also the adoption of digital and PSN sales will really help publishers continue to see a steady stream of income from old games that would have previously been mostly from the used market. 

Yup.

Oh that's interesting.

So we know it sold 251,000 unit first month, and was over 84,000 the second month. Now we know is "not much" under 35,000...

Is safe to say it's LT sales are AROUND 370K?

The million dollar question is.....

How many people bought TLoU twice?

Wow... I kinda suspected QB did bad but... still.

Starfox Zero... Im not surprised, the reveal trailer first shown for it got so much flack for its graphics, and people being put off by the motion controlls for it.

I have seen lots of pan-European GfK data points which agree with this assumption...it's not a phenomenon present exclusively in Chartz estimates...it's an actual fact. PS4 far exceeds Xbox One in pretty much all European countries.

Xbox One is a decidedly niche system. Going from a market leader to a niche system is a much more staggering decline for Microsoft because they aren't nearly as invested into the video game business as Nintendo is....they can afford to discontinue their video gaming division tomorrow and still thrive as a company. That makes it even more important for Xbox products to do well....when they're not doing well like this, I fear for the future of Xbox as a platform.