May 2026 Circana (NPD) Thread + Predictions

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trunkswd 7 hours ago

G2ThaUNiT said:

"PlayStation hardware units fell to the lowest for the month of May since May 2000" bro WHAT?!?!? Worst month for PlayStation since the end of the PS1's life cycle????? Xbox results are expected, but seeing how quickly PlayStation sales have plummeted is a much more dire sign of how bad things are gonna get. Rather, already getting.

PS1 sold ~42K in May 2000. There were stock issues for the PS1 at the time.

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XtremeBG 7 hours ago

trunkswd said:

JRPGfan said:

I watched a AGN video with the X post collecting the stuff said by mat about May data.
One of the points was "Xbox Hardware sales were the lowest ever recorded for a may month"

Is that true for our data points too?
Like if you go back throughout the history of xbox hardware, and look at all may months.... is this one the lowest ever recorded?

We don't have OG Xbox numbers, but other than that yes, Xbox Series X|S sales are the lowest May for Xbox hardware. Mat specifically says Xbox, which means he is talking all Xbox hardware sales in May combined. Ie. X360+XOne combined in a single month.

While the main system maybe ? 360 did 47k in May 2014 and 5k in May 2015

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trunkswd 7 hours ago

XtremeBG said:

trunkswd said:

We don't have OG Xbox numbers, but other than that yes, Xbox Series X|S sales are the lowest May for Xbox hardware. Mat specifically says Xbox, which means he is talking all Xbox hardware sales in May combined. Ie. X360+XOne combined in a single month.

While the main system maybe ? 360 did 47k in May 2014 and 5k in May 2015

Combined the Xbox One and Xbox 360 sold 137.7K in May 2014 and 145.5K in May 2015. That is what Mat is referring to when he says Xbox hardware.

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XtremeBG 7 hours ago

trunkswd said:

XtremeBG said:

While the main system maybe ? 360 did 47k in May 2014 and 5k in May 2015

Combined the Xbox One and Xbox 360 sold 137.7K in May 2014 and 145.5K in May 2015. That is what Mat is referring to when he says Xbox hardware.

Wow, You just wrote it in the post I quoted .. I am not focused .. Need some sleep. Pardon me.

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tak13 2 hours ago

NS1 has an increase in sales by 7k units ?
Intersting.
Looking forward to next month report.
Aren't sales higher then than they are in May?
Plus a full month of Ns1 price being kinda higher in Japan...

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