Video Game Sales Thread

[Cute Pikachu]

I'd like to take you and give you a fair margin...

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[Aura7541]

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  October 2015 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes November 10th

Ahhhhhhh. I'm so tired.

It's only going to get worse.

Sigh. I'll add more later.

Messy. Very messy. We still have halo bundles left... Lots and lots of the game sold. It did very well. Impressive indeed. (Some shocked people left our midnight release line when they found out about no couch co-op. I was like... Come on, this isn't new news...)

Hardware? I'm still trying to check more national districts. In at least the 3 I've checked so far, ps4 > xb1. Not by immense margins, mind. But still. Leading.

But I mean. That price cut has been really nice to them.
 

[Xevross]

#22 XBO Halo LE (-1)
#24 PS4 Uncharted (-1)
#29 PS4 SW LE (+1)
#39 PS4 TLOU (+1)
#47 PS4 Destiny (+1)
#50 PS4 COD (-1)
#97 XBO Gears (-2)

Bolded does not count towards October NPD.

I think the monthly paints a much clearer picture. Looking at this alone, PS4 is on top. However once you consider the pre orders for the halo bundle and that there are probably quite a few xbo bundles just outside the top 100... its not so simple

[Aura7541]

I think the monthly paints a much clearer picture. Looking at this alone, PS4 is on top. However once you consider the pre orders for the halo bundle and that there are probably quite a few xbo bundles just outside the top 100... its not so simple

Going off of Abdiel's assessment, the PS4 appears to have outsold the XBO (including preorders) in Best Buy. Of course, we can't conclude that this is representative of the entire market as Best Buy only constitutes a fraction (bigger than Amazon, though) of the marketshare.

[Legend]

#22 XBO Halo LE (-1)
#24 PS4 Uncharted (-1)
#29 PS4 SW LE (+1)
#39 PS4 TLOU (+1)
#47 PS4 Destiny (+1)
#50 PS4 COD (-1)
#97 XBO Gears (-2)

Bolded does not count towards October NPD.

I think the monthly paints a much clearer picture. Looking at this alone, PS4 is on top. However once you consider the pre orders for the halo bundle and that there are probably quite a few xbo bundles just outside the top 100... its not so simple

Yeah the 100+ bundles could really screw with the month. There are so many of them!

[Xevross]

Going off of Abdiel's assessment, the PS4 appears to have outsold the XBO (including preorders) in Best Buy. Of course, we can't conclude that this is representative of the entire market as Best Buy only constitutes a fraction (bigger than Amazon, though) of the marketshare.

Yeah, I'm thinking that PS4 has just edged it but NPD is going to be the most interesting one in a long time

[Aura7541]

Yeah, I'm thinking that PS4 has just edged it but NPD is going to be the most interesting one in a long time

Even if the PS4 loses October, the margin will likely be small. It will definitely not be as large as the 600K gap from last November.

[Legend]

Even if the PS4 loses October, the margin will likely be small. It will definitely not be as large as the 600K gap from last November.

Well October is a smaller month too

[ethomaz]

Yet to get any numbers or stats on Halo's launch. Hopefully in the next few days we get something.

You know what... they released previous Halo number in the next day after release... the numbers are not good for Halo level hype.

[Xevross]

Even if the PS4 loses October, the margin will likely be small. It will definitely not be as large as the 600K gap from last November.

I thought the gap was about 400k in November?

[Aura7541]

I thought the gap was about 400k in November?

Oh whoops, I confused the holiday gap with the November gap >_<

[ethomaz]

Ahhhhhhh. I'm so tired.

It's only going to get worse.

Sigh. I'll add more later.

Messy. Very messy. We still have halo bundles left... Lots and lots of the game sold. It did very well. Impressive indeed. (Some shocked people left our midnight release line when they found out about no couch co-op. I was like... Come on, this isn't new news...)

Hardware? I'm still trying to check more national districts. In at least the 3 I've checked so far, ps4 > xb1. Not by immense margins, mind. But still. Leading.

But I mean. That price cut has been really nice to them.

[Xevross]

Black Ops 3 is doing very well on COMG. Gained 5 points today for a total of 90 with 8 days left

[Legend]

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  October 2015 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes November 10th

Originally Posted by N.Domixis
 
 

 
 probably wasnt anyhting special, or are waiting for more sales.

 

I don't know. It was a big fudgin' seller. Still sold an absolute monster of copies in our stores. We just didn't get the same momentum around the bundles themselves for the hardware side of things. It was the standalone game we had moving big numbers.
 My private observation has been that it really does seem like most of the major Halo audience has found reasons to acquire the system at some point leading up to this point. Whether at launch, just due to knowing the title is coming (These are the diehards, they saw a Halo 5 announcement at all and were instantly on board), then the fans of MS's first party stuff that were sold on Gears or Forza, etc., then the Titanfall pick ups, and then the MCC push.
 Halo is still a big dang franchise. And it did really dang well, as far as I can tell. Just didn't seem to overwhelm the sudden friggin' storm of holiday frenzy that a price cut setting in just as the holidays getting started seems to do. The timing of that drop was perfect, honestly. It hit right as things are fairly quiet, so shoppers aren't really wary about hitting most stores, as the lines aren't bad, but all our prep for holiday shoppers are largely in place with the new queuing formats, etc. so it's all optimized.
 I checked another few districts before I headed home tonight. It looks like across the country, most Best Buys are following that trend, where the PS4 is leading the XB1 for October. How much varies. Sometimes its higher, sometimes its a lot closer, but it is still generally a lead of some kind. There also seems to be a lot of the Halo bundles still available. To put in perspective... In over 50 stores within a 400 mile radius, none of them were sold out of the Halo bundle. None.
 

[ethomaz]

Halo bundle too expensive.