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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Official May 2009 NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST)

gebx on 11 June 2009
LeandroBaffa said:
may is 4 weeks too....june is 5 weeks...remember....march, june, september and december are 5 five weeks, 3 on 3 months

what calendar are you guys using??

May is 5 weeks

Friday May 1st to May 3rd (1 week)
Monday May 4th to May 10th (2nd week)
Monday May 11th to May 17th (3rd week)
Monday May 18th to May 24th (4th week)
Monday May 25th to May 31th (5th week) (edited)

Monday May 1st to June 6th ( 1st week of June) (edited)

 

 

If NPD is counting there weeks Sunday to Saturday than see below.. it also has 5 weeks

 



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dolemit3 on 11 June 2009
NJ5 said:
How to find out how many weeks those numbers refer to?

I thought it was only the last month of each quarter which had 5 weeks.

The coverage is between May 3rd and May 30th.



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darthdevidem01 on 11 June 2009

from next time NPD should say how many weeks they count



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NJ5 on 11 June 2009
dolemit3 said:
NJ5 said:
How to find out how many weeks those numbers refer to?

I thought it was only the last month of each quarter which had 5 weeks.

The coverage is between May 3rd and May 30th.

So 4 weeks as I thought.

 



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shio on 11 June 2009
Star Scream said:

YOY comparison:

 

Wii -57.12%
PS3 -37.23%
360 -6.22%
PSP -44.93%
NDS +39.97%
PS2 -11.83%

 

 

 

 

Horrible for Wii, PSP, and PS3 - excellent for DS.

Is console gaming dying?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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dolemit3 on 11 June 2009

The Wii sales should be up next month thanks to Wii Sports Resort. The PS3 sales comparison to June 2008 aren't gonna be pretty.



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gebx on 11 June 2009
dolemit3 said:
NJ5 said:
How to find out how many weeks those numbers refer to?

I thought it was only the last month of each quarter which had 5 weeks.

The coverage is between May 3rd and May 30th.

 

Yeah, its 4 weeks.. its explained here

 

http://www.thesimexchange.com/blogpost.php?post_id=341

Martin at NPD explained to me that this actually is not an NPD invention but the retail industry’s standard calendar. “Retailers track and report their data on a weekly basis, with each week running from Sunday through Saturday. When they calculate monthly sales, they add up the weeks - since they historically didn't have daily sales data available, they didn't actually calculate the exact month's sales (e.g. June 1st to June 30th), they just add up the nearest 4 or 5 weeks, depending on the month.”

“The official retail industry calendar has March, June, September and December as 5-week months, with the rest being 4-week months. And since a year is slightly more than 52 weeks, every few years there's a "leap year" declared and one of the months gets an extra week to keep the retail calendar's months roughly in sync with the regular calendar. This past February was a 5-week month for that reason, which made year-on-year growth comparisons for that month a bit biased.”

 

I'm glad to know that retail industry created there own calendar...



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NJ5 on 11 June 2009
dolemit3 said:
The Wii sales should be up next month thanks to Wii Sports Resort. The PS3 sales comparison to June 2008 aren't gonna be pretty.

Sony will probably cut the price pretty soon anyway (if they intend to reach - or come close to - the 13 million target).

 



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darthdevidem01 on 11 June 2009

@NJ5

surely thats why they will wait for the holidays

Looking at xbox 360 sales now compared to the holidays tells me, it will have an important effect then

Nobody's gonna go & buy a Ps3 for $399 in june......no-one



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Star Scream on 11 June 2009
NJ5 said:
dolemit3 said:
The Wii sales should be up next month thanks to Wii Sports Resort. The PS3 sales comparison to June 2008 aren't gonna be pretty.

Sony will probably cut the price pretty soon anyway (if they intend to reach the 13 million target).

 

 

I wouldn't bet on it - they have 16 million target for PSP as well, both unrealistic methinks...