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

tombi123 on 14 August 2008
zexen_lowe said:

Sony's spin:

Jack Tretton, president and CEO of SCEA had this to say: "Our year-to-date sales growth of 99% for the PS3 reaffirms that consumers are indeed embracing PS3 as their entertainment hub-of-choice with its feature-rich offerings like Blu-ray and our recently announced video delivery service. With an unmatched software line-up that includes LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: Confrontation, Resistance 2 and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, and the anticipated launch of our new 80GB PS3 model, we're confident in a strong second half of the year and look forward to quickly addressing any inventory shortages due to the transition."

 

Not to much spin. Microsoft have gone quiet since the Wii overtook the 360



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Squilliam on 14 August 2008
ssj12 said:
Squilliam said:
blazinhead89 said:
Gobias said:
talkingparrot said:
Squilliam dies.

 

Fixed.

 

lolololol, This is F##ckin Epic, Wheres Starcraft & Squlliam & Mrstickball with their 360 damage control lolololol,

Damage control? Pffft it was awesome numbers for the Xbox360. 200k is almost 100% more than 100k.  

and 220k is 10% better then 200k =P

 

I think your maths are wrong.

220k is not a real number!

 



Tease.

HyperionFF on 14 August 2008
zexen_lowe said:

Sony's spin:

Jack Tretton, president and CEO of SCEA had this to say: "Our year-to-date sales growth of 99% for the PS3 reaffirms that consumers are indeed embracing PS3 as their entertainment hub-of-choice with its feature-rich offerings like Blu-ray and our recently announced video delivery service. With an unmatched software line-up that includes LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: Confrontation, Resistance 2 and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, and the anticipated launch of our new 80GB PS3 model, we're confident in a strong second half of the year and look forward to quickly addressing any inventory shortages due to the transition."

 

Could you give us a link to the source and full commentary? Thanks =)



Jlmadyson on 14 August 2008
epicurean said:
I tried saying something was up when the PS3 was selling like crazy on amazon and this site was reporting it was doing terrible. Everyone said "amazon doesn't mean anything", but the complete discrepency between the two just didn't add up.

How many posts of "NPD is wrong" are going to come now?

 

 VGC is only off about ~11k a week for July for the PS3 compared to NPD not all that much in the scale of things. However, I still believe NPD could be off the mark as much this month if not worse. The real question is the 360 however.



Stats87 on 14 August 2008

I don't really care which console sells more, however, I do find it funny that the PS3 outsold the 360. (because of all the "talk" that was happening on this site during the past couple weeks)



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chenguo4 on 14 August 2008
Squilliam said:
ssj12 said:
Squilliam said:
blazinhead89 said:
Gobias said:
talkingparrot said:
Squilliam dies.

 

Fixed.

 

lolololol, This is F##ckin Epic, Wheres Starcraft & Squlliam & Mrstickball with their 360 damage control lolololol,

Damage control? Pffft it was awesome numbers for the Xbox360. 200k is almost 100% more than 100k.  

and 220k is 10% better then 200k =P

 

I think your maths are wrong.

220k is not a real number!

 

 

Squilliam, you're awesome.




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Deviation59 on 14 August 2008

Most people seemed skeptical when the sudden drop in PS3 numbers occurred and the sudden spike in 360 numbers occurred - unless this scenario fit what they wanted to see.

We were assured that the PS3 was facing shortages even though there was no evidence of this whatsoever.

When I saw the NPD numbers I just started laughing my ass off and I'm already losing it again.

LOL fucking LOL.



Smeags on 14 August 2008

PS3 fans acting like giddy schoolgirls...

360 fans are still playing Braid...

and Wii fans not disappointed...

Classic VGChartz.



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Gobias on 14 August 2008
Jlmadyson said:
epicurean said:
I tried saying something was up when the PS3 was selling like crazy on amazon and this site was reporting it was doing terrible. Everyone said "amazon doesn't mean anything", but the complete discrepency between the two just didn't add up.

How many posts of "NPD is wrong" are going to come now?

 

 VGC is only off about ~11k a week for July for the PS3 compared to NPD not all that much in the scale of things. However, I still believe NPD could be off the mark as much this month if not worse. The real question is the 360 however.

 

Come on, at least Squilliam is admitting he was wrong (in his own weird little way). You can't blame it on NPD, we all know you're a 360 fan and it hurts but you have to accept it.



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FinalEvangelion on 14 August 2008

Squilliam is taking it with humor I see.

At this point, the PS3 vs 360 contest is more of a measuring contest. Virtually, every third party HD title will be multi-plat for the rest of this generation.



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