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Forums - Sales Discussion - July NPD 2020: Switch 340K, PS4 150K, XB1 17k (rip)

Link_Nines.XBC on 14 August 2020

BotW close to being back to the top 10 with just physical sales, the power that that has.



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Barkley on 15 August 2020

RolStoppable said:

Could be a change in reporting methods. While not relevant for the software top 20, NPD changed a general metric (video game software became video game content, second paragraph in the article).

https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/14/july-2020-npd-paper-mario-and-ghost-of-tsushima-have-strong-debuts/

Maybe the software top 20 previously included microtransactions, but now doesn't anymore. If that was the case, then it would hit GTA V significantly on a revenue-based chart.

Yeah you'd have to think it was something like this, though all previous months have clearly listed that the revenue is based on full game sales only, same as this month.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has suffered the same fate.

GTA May RDR May GTA June RDR June GTA July RDR July
Top 20 2 6 4 6 ? ?
Top 10 PS4 2 10 3 9 ? ?
Top 10 XBO 2 ? 2 ? ? ?

For GTA V and RDR 2 to both completely drop out of the top 20 and top 10 for each platform this month is bizarre to say the least.

GTA V was the third best selling game on PSN for July 2020, you'd think with that it should be in the top 10 PS4 games.

No idea what's going on tbh.

It's almost like this month they forgot Take 2 exist. Last month they had 4 games in top 20. (GTA V, RDR2, NBA 2K and Borderlands 3) this month they have 0.

Take 2 are completely missing from the top 20 and the top 10 for each platform.

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Eagle367 on 15 August 2020

Wonder how much hardware switch sold. Last time we found out Vgchartz was underreporting switch sales so who knows, could be even more crazy this time



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Barkley on 15 August 2020
Eagle367 said:
Wonder how much hardware switch sold. Last time we found out Vgchartz was underreporting switch sales so who knows, could be even more crazy this time

Actually VGC was slightly overtracking the Switch in the USA when we got NPD figures last month. Switch was like 15k-ish overtracked and PS4 by about 100k. Can't remember XBO.

The Switch was adjusted up recently after the shipment figure from nintendo was released, not the npd.



Eagle367 on 15 August 2020
Barkley said:
Eagle367 said:
Wonder how much hardware switch sold. Last time we found out Vgchartz was underreporting switch sales so who knows, could be even more crazy this time

Actually VGC was slightly overtracking the Switch in the USA when we got NPD figures last month. Switch was like 15k-ish overtracked and PS4 by about 100k. Can't remember XBO.

The Switch was adjusted up recently after the shipment figure from nintendo was released, not the npd.

By last time, I meant the last update. That was the shipment figures, not NPD



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Ryng on 15 August 2020
Barkley said:

Actually VGC was slightly overtracking the Switch in the USA when we got NPD figures last month. Switch was like 15k-ish overtracked and PS4 by about 100k. Can't remember XBO.

According to the #1 ERA prediction, not NPD figures, there's a big difference.



Eagle367 on 15 August 2020
Ryng said:
Barkley said:

Actually VGC was slightly overtracking the Switch in the USA when we got NPD figures last month. Switch was like 15k-ish overtracked and PS4 by about 100k. Can't remember XBO.

According to the #1 ERA prediction, not NPD figures, there's a big difference.

ERA? And also please specify whether it's ovettracked or undertracked> and by how much?



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Ryng on 15 August 2020
Eagle367 said:
Ryng said:

According to the #1 ERA prediction, not NPD figures, there's a big difference.

ERA? And also please specify whether it's ovettracked or undertracked> and by how much?

I was just repling to Barkley who said the "last NPD report", when really what he used was just the #1 prediction on ERA.

You can use that and compare it to others predictions on ERA, but not use it as "concrete" numbers.



Eagle367 on 16 August 2020
Ryng said:
Eagle367 said:

ERA? And also please specify whether it's ovettracked or undertracked> and by how much?

I was just repling to Barkley who said the "last NPD report", when really what he used was just the #1 prediction on ERA.

You can use that and compare it to others predictions on ERA, but not use it as "concrete" numbers.

Ok so the only concrete thing we'll have is when Ninty reveals the info upto September in their next quarterly update plus of course Japan numbers. It;s great that Ninty reports numbers even when they are as bad as Wii U sales and sad that Microsoft hides them.



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Intrinsic on 17 August 2020

From Era

Switch 340k
PS4 150k
XB1 17k

I think Xbox is in a far worse state than most think.