February 2015 NPD Thread! 3DS: 395k, PS4 342k, XB1 276k, WiiU 96k

[ethomaz]

How was ps4 last year again?

285k

269k the exactly number.

[Dr. Pezus]

It's still coming Soony.

yea it was delayed to sept

[Max King of the Wild]

I remember someone from polygon say ps4 winning Jan wasn't surprising since xb only had a price cut for half a month. Well... Full month this time and some pretty good promotions through the whole month... Still didn't win

[Raven]

March could be huge for PS4. Final Fantasy Type-0 looks like it's selling big on PS4 and Bloodborne looks like it will drive a lot of sales as well. Hardline should help pad console sales for the month. If PS4 did 342k off of The Order, Evolve, and Xenoverse I see no reason why it can't go over 400k with Type-0, Hardline, and Bloodborne.

[Raven]

I remember someone from polygon say ps4 winning Jan wasn't surprising since xb only had a price cut for half a month. Well... Full month this time and some pretty good promotions through the whole month... Still didn't win

That was Arthur Gies. He's the biggest known Xbox fanboy among major video game websites. He was even catching hell from other journalists before the generation started for how hard it must be for him to praise Microsoft during all their screw ups.

[Max King of the Wild]

March could be huge for PS4. Final Fantasy Type-0 looks like it's selling big on PS4 and Bloodborne looks like it will drive a lot of sales as well. Hardline should help pad console sales for the month. If PS4 did 342k off of The Order, Evolve, and Xenoverse I see no reason why it can't go over 400k with Type-0, Hardline, MLB and Bloodborne.

don't underestimate mlb. I told tons of people last year who just brushed it Off. It had a big impact last year and I expect another decent one

[Max King of the Wild]

That was Arthur Gies. He's the biggest known Xbox fanboy among major video game websites. He was even catching hell from other journalists before the generation started for how hard it must be for him to praise Microsoft during all their screw ups.

Yup. That was him. Retailers promoted xb hard in Feb too. You only heard about amazon because those were ridiculously crazy but target had good ones going for it too.

[Dr. Pezus]

Apparently Vita did 60k in Feb? Can anyone confirm?

Definitely smells like adjustment month if so

[Raven]

don't underestimate mlb. I told tons of people last year who just brushed it Off. It had a big impact last year and I expect another decent one

To be honest, I completely forgot about The Show.

[Max King of the Wild]

Apparently Vita did 60k in Feb? Can anyone confirm?

Definitely smells like adjustment month if so

no such thing as adjustment months. Just people making shame up. Think about it, every console just conveniently undertracked all caught conveniently during the same month?

[Dr. Pezus]

no such thing as adjustment months. Just people making shame up. Think about it, every console just conveniently undertracked all caught conveniently during the same month?

They might have missed something in the previous month. Their only way to fix LTD numbers is to adjust in the months afterwards.

OT: Best Feb EVER for XB1 sounds hilarious

[ethomaz]

Apparently Vita did 60k in Feb? Can anyone confirm?

Definitely smells like adjustment month if so

Vita or Vita TV was 50% off in most retailers in US in February.

Yeap... you could buy Vita TV @ $49.

[Legend]

Apparently Vita did 60k in Feb? Can anyone confirm?

Definitely smells like adjustment month if so

30k for tv and 30k for vita.

It's not that dead!

[Max King of the Wild]

They might have missed something in the previous month. Their only way to fix LTD numbers is to adjust in the months afterwards.

OT: Best Feb EVER for XB1 sounds hilarious

No. It doesn't happen that way.

[Dr. Pezus]

Let's see:
Zelda MM 3D is likely overtracked on VGC
Smash WiiU LTD sales are still overtracked (>1.5m including digital but VGC have it at >1.6m without digital).
Smash 3DS LTD sales are still overtracked (>2.1m including digital but VGC have it at >2.2m without digital)