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Forums - Sales Discussion - November NPD 2018 Thread

Its reasons like this that so many insiders stop giving data over the years, assholes on forums attack them anytime they give out tidbits that are only 99% accurate or dont line up with their personal preferences.

Benji, MatNPD & Magic Pork are currently our only look into US sales data and all three of them have expressed hesitance to share anything on forums because people are constantly hostile towards them when things dont go their way.

 

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I suppose for the whole holiday period Switch sales could exceed 9 millions units sold (with the huge Smash boost) and 11 millions shipping, so with already 5 millions shipped since march, the 20 millions shipping goal doesn't seem too high



Intrinsic said:
Miyamotoo said:

No you missing point of discussion, point was about deals, PS4 official price point is $299, so going from $299 without game to $199 with one brand new game is far better deal than going from $299 without game to $299 with one game thats 1.5 years old game and port.

 

Talking about price cuts, PS4 actually had price cut in its second October to $350 (so less than 2 years on market), and in November of that year was selling for $350 with one game, Switch still has launch price point.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/08/ps4-price-drop-announced-for-north-america

And my point is that the NS is still under 2 years old. And this is only its second holiday season. Its price of entry is also lower than the price of entry for the PS4 at the same time in its life. It shouldn't need deals like what the PS4 is currently employing to sell well. And it selling as well as it is selling isn't a big deal cause its performing as well as any well performing console before it. Even the XB1 is putting up god numbers this month. 

You say the switch still has its launch price.... it took sony 3 years to get to the current switch launch price. 

That don't have anything with my point that PS4 did had better deal than Switch, so I dont see why replied to me on first place?

Fact is that Switch still has launch price point while PS4 did had price point in less than 2 years on market, point that PS4 had higher launch price point that Switch dont change that fact, different type of consoles/different value of consoles, I mean 3DS had lower launch price point that PS4 and yet had price cut to $170/180 only 6 months after launch.

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What people failed to see here is, Sony needs to ship a free latest game like Spiderman with a huge price cut in order to win in a unit for this month while Switch takes the revenue.

December is looking very ugly for PS4 and probably will be in the last place behind XBX1



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LGBTDBZBBQ said:
What people failed to see here is, Sony needs to ship a free latest game like Spiderman with a huge price cut in order to win in a unit for this month while Switch takes the revenue.

December is looking very ugly for PS4 and probably will be in the last place behind XBX1

Ugly is an overstatement, even if its 3rd and sells like 800-900k in December, that is very good for a $300-400 console that is 5 years old.

PS4 December

2013-860k

2014-1065k

2015-1580k

2016-1570k

2017-1080k

2018-~850k

Nothing ugly about those numbers.



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zorg1000 said:
LGBTDBZBBQ said:
What people failed to see here is, Sony needs to ship a free latest game like Spiderman with a huge price cut in order to win in a unit for this month while Switch takes the revenue.

December is looking very ugly for PS4 and probably will be in the last place behind XBX1

Ugly is an overstatement, even if its 3rd and sells like 800-900k in December, that is very good for a $300-400 console that is 5 years old.

PS4 December

2013-860k

2014-1065k

2015-1580k

2016-1570k

2017-1080k

2018-~850k

Nothing ugly about those numbers.

Ugly in comparison to competitors. For example, if Switch managed to sell 2 Million while PS4 only 1 Million - 900K.  

Nearly 1 Million difference is going to be nasty. 

It's like leading all the way from the start until the final lap in Mario Kart and getting blue shell a few millimeters away from the finish line. 



tbone51 said:
Resetera talking that mess about us lol. Benji if your reading this, dont forget not everything is a shithole of a forum here lol. You could say the same about every place on the interent if thats how you feel ;)

All Internet forums are a mess these days... actually to be fair, VGChartz is actually not bad.



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Train wreck said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

Why? He was right

He was right like Quickrick is right.  You can't bat .000

In what alternate dimension are the two even comparable? One just predicted Switch to lose all the time, while the other has access to actual retail data.



LGBTDBZBBQ said:
zorg1000 said:

Ugly is an overstatement, even if its 3rd and sells like 800-900k in December, that is very good for a $300-400 console that is 5 years old.

PS4 December

2013-860k

2014-1065k

2015-1580k

2016-1570k

2017-1080k

2018-~850k

Nothing ugly about those numbers.

Ugly in comparison to competitors. For example, if Switch managed to sell 2 Million while PS4 only 1 Million - 900K.  

Nearly 1 Million difference is going to be nasty. 

It's like leading all the way from the start until the final lap in Mario Kart and getting blue shell a few millimeters away from the finish line. 

ONLY...1 million lol......As Zorg said no matter how you slice it there is nothing ugly about those numbers....especially for a 5 year old console. Not sure what people are expecting lol but Sony seems very content.



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