NPD April 2018 Thread - Dad Jokes are Back!

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Dr. Pezus

May 18, 2018, 05:34 PM Last Edit: May 22, 2018, 10:55 PM by Dr. Pezus
Hardware sales in the US was largely flat YoY in April, and software sales was down approximately 10%, but bear in mind that sales in April 2017 was boosted by the Switch. The PS4 got off a significantly stronger start compared to other consoles thanks to Sony's God of War. All eyes are now on the Switch's software lineup from 2Q.

The relative sales volumes of game hardware was:
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PS4: 1.92
Switch: 1
XBox One: 0.79
3DS: 0.41
YoY
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PS4: +58%
Switch: -39%
XBox One: +20%
3DS: -3%
On the software side (digital not included):
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Top sellers were God of War, Far Cry 5, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Dr. Pezus


Using the YOY comparison I get

PS4: 326K
NSW: 171K
XB1: 132K
3DS: 66K

Dr. Pezus

May 18, 2018, 05:45 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2018, 05:49 PM by Dr. Pezus
YTD
PS4: ~1.3M (+7%)
NSW: ~1.03M (-13%)
XB1: ~980K (+34%)

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So we might get Labo price cuts then? Because those things take a lot of shelf space.  

Legend


Cute Pikachu

Labo did bad.
Not spinning it.

DK TF according to Benji did fantastic so that is reassuring.
Another Wii U port that blows out the original's sales lol

Switch had a comparable April to the Xbox One and PS4's Second April.
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Switch Software Sales Guide:
http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=5895.msg218699#new

Dr. Pezus


the-pi-guy

GoW: "legs of a god"
Labo: "less than retailers expected by wide margin. "

Dr. Pezus

GoW: "legs of a god"
Labo: "less than retailers expected by wide margin. "

In may

the-pi-guy


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Dr. Pezus


Xevross

Tuesday!

Final GoW predictions? I'm saying 2m+
Hardware boost was monumental for April. WW first week sales were over 3m, so two week sales probably around 4m. Yeah, 2m sounds right for NPD. That's rather insane, more than double U4.

Legend

Hardware boost was monumental for April. WW first week sales were over 3m, so two week sales probably around 4m. Yeah, 2m sounds right for NPD. That's rather insane, more than double U4.
3 mil included digital though right?

Xevross

May 18, 2018, 09:06 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2018, 09:08 PM by Xevross
Lol dang I just noticed XB1 is so low but still up 20% YOY. Last April really was a woeful time for it.

Thought more about GoW. Uncharted 4 sold around 3 million worldwide by the May NPD tracking period (about 1 and a half weeks). US was around 900k, so it sold 2.1m elsewhere. God of War in the same time will be around 4 million, we know its not quite as popular as U4 elsewhere/ only just as popular, so it probably is around 2m.

3 mil included digital though right?
It included digital for U4 too with the 2.7m sell through, and that was 900k NPD. With GoW selling over a million more, I think its safe to say it will be at least quite close to 2m without digital. If digital is massive it might fall to 1.5m.

NPD tracks digital now anyway, so it doesn't matter. With digital I think it'll be above 2m in the US.

Xevross

May 18, 2018, 09:20 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2018, 09:23 PM by Xevross
This is also the first time PS4 or XB1 have broken 200k in April. Just shows how big this month was for PS4.

Edit: actually its the second time, I was lied to.

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