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Forums - Sales Discussion - September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

 

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Kerotan on 19 October 2018
PwerlvlAmy said:
Some people getting a little testy in here. Please remember to keep it respectful guys.

and on topic: I figured this Sept would happen.Spider-Man surprised people when it really shouldn't have. Everyone should've expected this type of number at least for the month of Sept due to a high quality big exclusive like that

You know Amy, I was thinking the September numbers would be huge thanks to Spiderman but then i seen vgchartz estimates and I was like, meh maybe I was wrong. I'm sure they threw a few others off aswell. 



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COKTOE on 20 October 2018
xl-klaudkil said:
Wow didnt expect such huge numbers for ps4,october is going to be a massacre.

I'm expecting the pacing of Sony's 2018 E3 presentation to start becoming an issue around October, so probably not.



Replicant on 20 October 2018
COKTOE said:
xl-klaudkil said:
Wow didnt expect such huge numbers for ps4,october is going to be a massacre.

I'm expecting the pacing of Sony's 2018 E3 presentation to start becoming an issue around October, so probably not.

Good one



Qwark on 20 October 2018

Next month RDR2 and COD those are going to be huge, perhaps there is another NPD 400k+ month incoming for PS4. Whilst it is tracking behind 2017, it could have a better holiday season if they cut the price to €200-. Except for Japan the console is all but dead.



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PwerlvlAmy on 20 October 2018

I don't see RDR 2 giving PS4 big numbers like Sept numbers with Spider-Man. If it was exclusive I'd say guaranteed, but since its multiplatform, I don't see it.



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Keiji on 20 October 2018
PwerlvlAmy said:
I don't see RDR 2 giving PS4 big numbers like Sept numbers with Spider-Man. If it was exclusive I'd say guaranteed, but since its multiplatform, I don't see it.

I see a lot of people buying a PS4 thanks to RD2.



JRPGfan on 20 October 2018
bananaking21 said:
Kyuu said:

There's no doubt that the vast majority of us predicted the Switch to beat PS4 in NPD 2018; and this is on the very logical presumption that PS4 would get its long-overdue "permanent" pricecut before August (It didn't). All in all, we moderately overestimated Switch for reasons including Labo's potential and 2017's stock issues which made the demand for the foreseeable future look greater than it turned out to be. More evergreen games, the new model, and a price drop should liven things up, so my expectations for 2019 remain very high.

PS4 was underestimated mainly due to its age. Not many consoles peak on their 5th year, let alone without an official price drop. Nintendo's optimistic projection as opposed to Sony's pessimism also contributed to the poor predictions in general.

I actually predicted PS4 to be up year on year worldwide, but the basis of that was the permanent pricecut and Kingdom Hearts 3 releasing this holiday, I would have never thought PS4 can do so well without the aforementioned.

As for Switch, it's overperforming in parts of Europe and slightly underperforming in USA relative to my expectations. Can't comment on Japan since the handheld community is heavily reliant on a low price range. If Nintendo doesn't drop the price down to $150 at one point, then it wouldn't shock me if it it fails to outsell 3DS or even PSP.

Did you really expect Kingdom hearts 3 to have a huge impact on PS4 sales? An even bigger one than Spiderman or RDR? Because the way you're wording it seems to Indicate that KH3 was going to catapult PS4 sales. Honestly I doubt it will have any affect at all. Maybe a slight bump that week in Japan.

There are fans to the Kingdom Hearts series, and even though theres been some new games like 1.5 Remix, 2,5, and 2.8 a "real" main installment with a solid number has been along time coming. Kingdom Hearts 2 released back in 2005!  Its been 13 years.... I think it ll give a slight boost, in every region (not just japan). Theres fans that ll buy a PS4 for this game alone I think, so it ll push hardware (not massively though).



last92 on 20 October 2018
PwerlvlAmy said:
I don't see RDR 2 giving PS4 big numbers like Sept numbers with Spider-Man. If it was exclusive I'd say guaranteed, but since its multiplatform, I don't see it.

Well...there will be a boost. How much will depend on how sales will be distributed between ps4 and xbox one. But there's little doubt that ps4+xbox one will have a pretty nice jump.

Ultimately, the effectiveness of the marketing deal will determine how much of a boost the ps4 will have. But I'm totally expecting some kind of stunt by MS. I don't know, a price cut and a bottle of red dead redemption cologne or something like that.



Megiddo on 20 October 2018
Qwark said:

 Whilst it is tracking behind 2017, it could have a better holiday season if they cut the price to €200-. Except for Japan the console is all but dead.

It's behind 2017 NPD? Jeez with all these months where PS4 was up YoY I figured it'd be ahead at this point.



Nate4Drake on 20 October 2018
Qwark said:

Next month RDR2 and COD those are going to be huge, perhaps there is another NPD 400k+ month incoming for PS4. Whilst it is tracking behind 2017, it could have a better holiday season if they cut the price to €200-. Except for Japan the console is all but dead.

Sorry, what is dead in Japan ?  I think I didn't get your point, if any.



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