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Forums - Sales - The Official July NPD Thread (data for 4 weeks ending 8/2 comes @ 6:30 est)

I think whoever the person was who said there was a PS3 shortage needs to come out now and say "Sorry my bad i got it wrong" like a man rather then a mouse who goes around banning people who questioned wether he was right or not (which he did apparently), i mean this is 2008 not 1938....

Well done to the PS3 i think that is very good and well 360 not sure what to say, maybe next month :)



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VGC SW figures as always in recent months are damn close to NPD which is amazing because we get those figures every week.



DMeisterJ said:
Oh there will be some spin.

When our resident spinner from down under wakes up, the spin will make you dizzy.

 

Yeah but that may take some time we need somthing to entertain us....



Former something....

Kenology said:
RE: NPD number altering:

I remember some guy from NPD really trashing VGChartz on the GAF or somewhere on the net. They really seem to hate VGChartz. ioi was talking about it one day too. I know the repercussions for such an action would be devastating for NPD. But one has to wonder sometimes...

 

1) They still wouldn't do it.  They just have a really bad PR Guy.

2) If they did do it they would probably get away with it.  With no one to counteract what they would say.


Seriously though... it's like playing russian roulette.  You probably won't lose, but if you do your screwed.



DMeisterJ said:
Oh there will be some spin.

When our resident spinner from down under wakes up, the spin will make you dizzy.

 

I'll do it for you:

I saved our boys some time.



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psrock said:

I'm devasted, what happened to the price cut, NPD is wrong, wrong i tell you. 360'S were flying off Amazon this month. IT went up 345678777% i think.

 

Yay, a meltdown ;)



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superchunk said:
shio said:
superchunk said:
meh, I don't care about over/under as compared to npd. They are only estimating as much as vgc is. You guys would be jumping all for vgc if the numbers were showing PS3 leading here and losing on NPD.

What I do care about is that ps3+360 < Wii. :)

Wii on to 50%!

seriously, shut up. You don't know what you're talking about.

 

Are you serious you little sob, let's look through our post histories to see who knows what they are talking about.

@you and leo-j

What the hell do you two think the entire idea of statistics and sales counting is? Estimation. Its all about getting as much "real" info you can and from that estimating out the remainder of the potential sales. Only difference is NPD has a bigger chunk of the "real" numbers and therefore has a good chance of being closer to reality. But, their estimation is still quite large as they don't have some of the biggest retailers, like Walmart. They could easily be off as much as VGC.

Do you all fail to forget last xmas when NPD's total sales were way too low for reasonable sales based on what the manufactures stated they shipped? Whereas VGC was pretty much right on with expectations? You all are just being fanboys and going with the answer that best fits your dreams.

As far as I'm concerned PS360 were equal last month and Wii destroyed them both combined.

 

 

So true, this is what matters here. What most people, developers and publishers are going to see is that the Wii once again beat them combined... with a nice representation in SW sales too, including a 170$ 3rd party game that was released late



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Guessing from NPD numbers, it's more likely that PS3 outsold the 360 worldwide in July too.



negitoro said:
Guessing from NPD numbers, it's more likely that PS3 outsold the 360 worldwide in July too.

 

Pretty much definite, unless the 360 had a boost in others for no reason, which is extremely unlikely.


Edit: Hey, that makes my prediction earlier in this thread correct! :)



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trestres said:
What will MS say this month in their usual post NPD spin? Stay tuned!

They didn't say anything last month.

I guess they decided to stop spinning.