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Forums - Sales - The Official September NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST ~4 hours from now)

Zucas on 16 October 2008
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas said:
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas loves his "haha"

 

Damnit how many times do I have to say this. It's a freaking habit. I don't even know when I say it. Just comes naturally in there. Can't help it haha. See.

 

*Goes off to count "haha" in Zucas post history*. .............................. ?5 hours later

 

Thousands trust me.  Not to mention at another site where I'm closing in on 40,000 posts over 3 yrs you'd be dead before you found them all haha.



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SpartanFX on 16 October 2008

huh i winnnnn,,,,
the difference between PS3 and 360 is about 100,000 not 200,000



 

 

 

Dianko on 16 October 2008

Shouldn't North America be +15% or so of NPD? I was under the impression that Canada was about 10% of the US market, and Mexico about 5%.



Yakuzaice on 16 October 2008
mrstickball said:

Comparisons:

 

Item NPD + 10% VGC North America Estimated Differential
Nintendo Wii 750,000 655,000 -95,000
Nintendo DS 590,000 667,000 +77,000
Xbox 360 385,000 429,000 +44,000
PSP 262,000 269,000 -7,000
Playstation 3 255,000 246,000 -9,000
Playstation 2 190,000 166,000 -24,000
Star Wars TFU 360 670,000 592,000 +78,000
Wii Fit 570,000 547,000 -23,000
Rock Band 2 360 395,000 485,000 +90,000
Mercs 2: WiF X360 330,000 354,000 +24,000
WiiPlay 265,000 300,000 +35,000
Star Wars: TFU PS3 355,000 280,000 +75,000
MkWii 380,000 280,000 +100,000
Star Wars: TFU Wii 240,000 280,000 -40,000
Madden 09 X360 240,000

200,000

 -40,000

Your +/- in the software aren't correct.

 



mrstickball on 16 October 2008

In comparing NPD to VGC (assuming that NPD was/is right):

Big Winners (VGC was great on):

PS3
PSP
WiiFit
Mercs 2 X360

Big Losers:
Wii
DS
Star Wars: TFU
MKWii

Ultimately, VGC loses out yet again versus casual titles that are hard to track sales trends for.



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Zucas on 16 October 2008
mrstickball said:
In comparing NPD to VGC (assuming that NPD was/is right):

Big Winners (VGC was great on):

PS3
PSP
WiiFit
Mercs 2 X360

Big Losers:
Wii
DS
Star Wars: TFU
MKWii

Ultimately, VGC loses out yet again versus casual titles that are hard to track sales trends for.

Unfortunately casual and some mainstream games are very complicated when it comes to trends while core games are very easy.  I have a general idea of how they'll sell but their are just too many trends to suggest what each will go on.

 



blazinhead89 on 16 October 2008
Zucas said:
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas said:
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas loves his "haha"

 

Damnit how many times do I have to say this. It's a freaking habit. I don't even know when I say it. Just comes naturally in there. Can't help it haha. See.

 

*Goes off to count "haha" in Zucas post history*. .............................. ?5 hours later

 

Thousands trust me.  Not to mention at another site where I'm closing in on 40,000 posts over 3 yrs you'd be dead before you found them all haha.


lol, Good for a laugh. We all have strange habits. haha ^^

Squilliam on 16 October 2008
Zucas said:
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas said:
blazinhead89 said:
Zucas loves his "haha"

 

Damnit how many times do I have to say this. It's a freaking habit. I don't even know when I say it. Just comes naturally in there. Can't help it haha. See.

 

*Goes off to count "haha" in Zucas post history*. .............................. ?5 hours later

 

Thousands trust me.  Not to mention at another site where I'm closing in on 40,000 posts over 3 yrs you'd be dead before you found them all haha.

Now that was uncalled for! You're taunting him now.

 



Tease.

FishyJoe on 16 October 2008
Dianko said:
Shouldn't North America be +15% or so of NPD? I was under the impression that Canada was about 10% of the US market, and Mexico about 5%.

 

It depends on the platform. The Wii does pretty well outside of the US for a number of reasons. Other platforms may have lower percentages due to the fact they weren't released in certain countries, their price points are too high or lack of interest perhaps due to piracy.



Griffin on 16 October 2008

I'm pretty upset we overtracked the 360, i was hoping we had undertracked the system. The 360 had massive deals going on at BestBuy/Future Shop when the price was cut. You had a $200 or $300 system with two new/great games, if the 360 could not sell great with these kind of deals then it has some problems.