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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 Won October NPD (PS4 > NS > XBO)

JRPGfan on 20 November 2018
TheBlackNaruto said:
Wow very nice for the PS4! Still selling like crazy....looks like VGC was correct with the order it had for sales. I am really ready to see what Nov will look like now. Switch not bad but could definitely be a lot better. Xb1 up YOY so that is cool. All in all a good month for the big 3.

On reset era, people have talked about how well the Spiderman Bundle is doing.
Like PS4 might take november too.



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RetroGamer94 on 20 November 2018

Nice PS4 numbers. Realistically though, October would have been the only month really possible for switch to have come in third(which it wasn’t even close to being) with games like COD and Red dead on PS4/XONE coming out and preforming great on them. I got a good feeling that Switch will have a good holiday season.



DonFerrari on 20 November 2018
zorg1000 said:
DonFerrari said:

Where is Mr. Cliff when we need him?

Banned

perma? He doesn't show for me on search.

JRPGfan said:

Prediction tool:
1 - NS : 1.0
2 - PS4 : 0.26
3 - XBO : 0.24


What actually happend:
1 - PS4: 1.34
2 - Switch: 1
3 - Xbox One: 0.83


This month the prediction tools where waaaaaay off the mark.

 

also this:

 

PS4 might take november too.

Seems like people were really of mark (Switch 4:1 PS4 won't happen until near the end of gen imho).



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."

kopstudent89 on 20 November 2018

Switch will win December. I doubt it can win November though since PS4/XB1 bundles are much sweeter. It does need to sell a lot though



TheBlackNaruto on 20 November 2018
JRPGfan said:
TheBlackNaruto said:
Wow very nice for the PS4! Still selling like crazy....looks like VGC was correct with the order it had for sales. I am really ready to see what Nov will look like now. Switch not bad but could definitely be a lot better. Xb1 up YOY so that is cool. All in all a good month for the big 3.

On reset era, people have talked about how well the Spiderman Bundle is doing.
Like PS4 might take november too.

I saw that! Nov should be a CRAZY BIG month this year! For all of the big 3 again!



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Mr.GameCrazy on 20 November 2018
DonFerrari said:
Mr.GameCrazy said:

Wait a second. The Switch sold 12% less than last October!? It's losing momentum, guyz!!

Where is Mr. Cliff when we need him?

He'll be back this Friday. Hopefully, he won't freak out in the moderator thread over his ban like last time.



DonFerrari on 20 November 2018
Mr.GameCrazy said:
DonFerrari said:

Where is Mr. Cliff when we need him?

He'll be back this Friday. Hopefully, he won't freak out in the moderator thread over his ban like last time.

Thanks... I expect truly amazing posts from his against this drop from Switch. We had to wait 10 months for the cliff but it sure will come.



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."

RJ_Sizzle on 20 November 2018

Xbox had a LOT of promotions last month too, some the likes I've never seen with consoles and they still came up short. At least they're up YoY though.



Kerotan on 20 November 2018
colafitte said:

Everyone expecting Swith to obliterate PS4 this holiday season because what happened in December last year.....,are understimating PS4 again..., like always. Last year was last year, it had fewer stock and their main bundle was the failure Battlefront II was, XB X just launched and it was the first holiday for Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 DX and Mario Odyssey. Now PS4 have RDR 2, COD BOPS 4, Spiderman, GOW, ....and it seems there is a lot more stock.

In my opinion PS4 is bound to have a record November NPD possibly around 2M sales, probably selling aroun 500k more than Switch that month and in December I expect PS4 way up YOY, so yes, Switch will win December because Smash and Pokemon but the difference won't be enough to surpass PS4. I won't be surprised if PS4 ends selling more NOV+DEC combined than Switch...

 

 

edit: And by the way, Switch won't reach 20M, not even close....Switch is no Wii. If it ends with 17M it will be a success.

They just never stop underestimating the ps4 do they. Year 5 it's still full steam ahead year 6 will be the same. It has sold well at 299 all year. The console could sell for the next 5 years if they wanted. Only thing stopping it is the ps5. 

RJ_Sizzle said:
Xbox had a LOT of promotions last month too, some the likes I've never seen with consoles and they still came up short. At least they're up YoY though.

Microsoft always go hard with the promos whenever a big ps4 pusher launches. It must really eat into their profit margins having to aggressively promote the xbox everytime a game like spiderman or rdr2 launches that sells ps4 without price promotions. 



Megiddo on 20 November 2018
JRPGfan said:

Prediction tool:
1 - NS : 1.0
2 - PS4 : 0.26
3 - XBO : 0.24


What actually happend:
1 - PS4: 1.34
2 - Switch: 1
3 - Xbox One: 0.8

You're using current (pre Black Friday) November ratios for the prediction tool, not October's.

See the actual October numbers here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8912072

The tool was off, but not nearly as much as you are showing here.