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Forums - Sales Discussion - The OFFICIAL Feb 2007 NPD Thread

HappySqurriel on 15 March 2007

Monorojo said: The real question is if those who are buying PS2 will upgrade to Ps3. TalonMan said: That's the better question - don't assume that just because somebody buys a PS2 they are automatically going to buy a PS3. It doesn't work that way... ...just ask Nintendo.
A question which goes along well with that is when will developers stop supporting the PS3 if it continues to sell this poorly.



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Arsenal on 15 March 2007

Monorojo said: Remember when DS hit 57k in April of 2005? This reminds me of that.
Spin it up baby!



Diomedes1976 on 15 March 2007

Most analysts and previsions were PS3 around 200K consoles ,being off by 73K consoles seems too much .Well with X360 they expected 275Kand it has been 220K so thats 55K .....it could be but I will wait a bit .Last month bunkum came with some initial numbers that werent true and had to rectify some days later to give us the definitive numbers .



mrstickball on 15 March 2007

On second thought: The 360 numbers are actually pretty good. Not "OMG AWEZOME", but very consistant. The 360, like the Wii suffered from the less week in Febuary. Wii sold 435k units according to NPD last month. This month, it sold 335, 77% of it's last month total (or 3% down from last month minus the lost time). The 360 sold 296k last month (give or take), and sold 228k this month. That's 77% of last month, or 3%, exactly like the Wii. Therefore the 360 and Wii sold at exactly the same amount this month, give or take 1/2 a precent. Which is pretty good. We should see the 360 up next month, and maybe the Wii hold near-steady. PS3 is on another level.......Horrid..... You can't say "these people will eventually pick up a PS3 that got a PS2". No. The PS2 is doing so well because there is no cheap console solution. They might want a PS3, but they are buying Wiis, PS2s and 360s instead. Theres no way saying they'll buy the PS3 when it might not exist in 3-4 years when the price is decent (think Dreamcast)



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Mr. Sega on 15 March 2007

So, VF 5 is officially a bomb on PS3?



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TheSource on 15 March 2007

Diomedes that was because it was a five week month so the numbers were not final, but appeared to be near final. This is normal 4 week style. The numbers are closer to what Patcher had - he said 350k for Wii, PS3 was just over-estimated. I suspect the analysts based their estimation on checking the retail channels around when VF5 came out, which would make them think it sold that well consistently through the month



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kenta on 15 March 2007

How about software numbers, bunkum?



ranzchic on 15 March 2007

mrstickball said: On second thought: The 360 numbers are actually pretty good. Not "OMG AWEZOME", but very consistant. The 360, like the Wii suffered from the less week in Febuary. Wii sold 435k units according to NPD last month. This month, it sold 335, 77% of it's last month total (or 3% down from last month minus the lost time). The 360 sold 296k last month (give or take), and sold 228k this month. That's 77% of last month, or 3%, exactly like the Wii. Therefore the 360 and Wii sold at exactly the same amount this month, give or take 1/2 a precent. Which is pretty good. We should see the 360 up next month, and maybe the Wii hold near-steady. PS3 is on another level.......Horrid..... You can't say "these people will eventually pick up a PS3 that got a PS2". No. The PS2 is doing so well because there is no cheap console solution. They might want a PS3, but they are buying Wiis, PS2s and 360s instead. Theres no way saying they'll buy the PS3 when it might not exist in 3-4 years when the price is decent (think Dreamcast)
You forgot to factor in the constraints in supply for the Wii. The 360, not so much.



HappySqurriel on 15 March 2007

Monorojo said: Remember when DS hit 57k in April of 2005? This reminds me of that.
It was 70,000 units and it was the month immediately following the PSP launch ... The top selling game was Warioware: Touched which had been on the market for 3 months and there wasn't a single new release for the DS ...



Busaiku on 15 March 2007

Terrible Playstation 3 numbers. But way to spin up Sony's success Mono! The actual marketshare breakdown goes about: 54% Nintendo (980,204 systems sold) 33% Sony (598,074 systems sold) 13% Microsoft (228,705 systems sold) Nintendo has been doing amazingly since the launch of the Nintendo DS Lite. There's been no stopping them lately, anywhere.