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Forums - Sales - November Circana (NPD) 2023 Thread + Predictions

Shadow1980 on 16 December 2023
Shtinamin_ said:

Wow you two! These are just wonderful! Thank you! This information is really cool to see

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Do you happen to have old data regarding worldwide weekly/monthly sales? Im trying to make a master document for myself (and for anyone that wants it as well, its on an Excel sheet) concerning lifetime sales (and ive recently included the regions as VGChartz has, and graphs). Im just trying to make it a bit easier to find all the information for myself so that way I don't have to roam the eternities of the internet looking for data that might not be correct. Ive been using VGChartz data for a lot of the console sales info but anything before 2004 is difficult.
Any help would be appreciated

When the Big Three give out their worldwide figures, it's always shipments, not sales, and it's always done on a quarterly basis, never monthly or weekly. None of the major trackers track global sales. You have NPD tracking U.S. sales monthly and Famitsu tracking Japan sales weekly. We occasionally get monthly or yearly numbers from various trackers for Europe (e.g., GfK), but the data is spotty. The best you're going to get for weekly/monthly worldwide figures is VGC.



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CosmicSex on 16 December 2023

I had predicted the lowest Nov for Xbox. Looks like I was right on the money. It's definitely the lowest 4th November. It's interesting to see everyone's reaction to the Xbox sales but Microsoft has been telegraphing this for the last few weeks. Consoles sell by themselves in December. No one drops the prices by $100-$150 a weeks after Black Friday. That's not a thing. It was obvious that Xbox had basically cratered and Microsoft was taking emergency measures.



DonFerrari on 18 December 2023
Shtinamin_ said:
ShadowLink93 said:

This is what i have, data sourced from retro archive threads on Installbase and Neogaf.

* Estimate as of 30 November, 2023

Shadow1980 said:

Here's the yearly figures, rounded to the nearest thousand:

2000: 1101k
2001: 6223k
2002: 8574k
2003: 6394k
2004: 4609k
2005: 5525k
2006: 4695k
2007: 3943k
2008: 2503k
2009: 1800k
2010: 750k
2011: 213k
2012-13: 273k

TOTAL: 46,603k

It takes some digging to find old NPD numbers, but I've had this data for a very long time, probably close to a decade now.

I discovered that the 46.7M figure was a slight error on my part, as I had apparently put 4.7M as my 2004 figure rather than 4.6M. I have that fixed now. It is worth pointing out that older NPD data apparently may have some slight errors, and not all sources agree 100%, so that lifetime total may not be exact, but close enough. It's not going to be like a million off or something huge. Probably no more than 300k lifetime. For example, a Wedbush report claims 46.4M lifetime as of Dec. 2013 (when NPD stopped tracking the PS2), and as you can see above some other data some have collected show something entirely different. But they're all very close.

This means that the Switch only needs to sell another ~3.6M to match the PS2 lifetime in the U.S., something it should accomplish before the end of next year.

Wow you two! These are just wonderful! Thank you! This information is really cool to see

٩(ˊᗜˋ*)ﾉ


Do you happen to have old data regarding worldwide weekly/monthly sales? Im trying to make a master document for myself (and for anyone that wants it as well, its on an Excel sheet) concerning lifetime sales (and ive recently included the regions as VGChartz has, and graphs). Im just trying to make it a bit easier to find all the information for myself so that way I don't have to roam the eternities of the internet looking for data that might not be correct. Ive been using VGChartz data for a lot of the console sales info but anything before 2004 is difficult.
Any help would be appreciated

Shadow have a treasure trove of worth data, tables and graphics



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