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NPD Sales Results for May 2015
- Thread starter Nirolak
- Start date
22.3m shipped until march. Q2 calendar year is weak, so, no.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Yes. Long term these consoles were built with reduction in costs in mind. The PS3 is still $250 plus new right now.
Good for Splatoon! Haven't played it yet (probably won't anytime soon) but people seem to be enjoying it and I always like Nintendo getting a new IP out there.
I'll also echo the surprise at Witcher PS4 outselling X1 with the marketing partnership MS had on that, wonder how they feel about that and if they're considering it a waste (or maybe it didn't cost that much?).
I'll also echo the surprise at Witcher PS4 outselling X1 with the marketing partnership MS had on that, wonder how they feel about that and if they're considering it a waste (or maybe it didn't cost that much?).
PS4 maybe will sell 100 million. I really doubt Xbox One can sell 60 million to reach 160m combined.
They won't have even shipped that many, let alone sold through that many.
I feel like everyone is really over estimating market size.
Personally, 150m max between PS4/One and Wii U come end of 2019.
Captain Smoker
Member
Just to add something to the "Nintendo underperforming" discussion. Edit: Saying, while it's mostly "their fault", we have a couple of million users lost by the other two companies.
SCE just had their worst hardware year since 1997.
Worldwide hardware shipments (doesn't include Game & Watch):
Only consoles:
Edit: Ignore the labels
Each month i see NPD this looks less and less likely. With Nintendo out of the picture I can see 100mil being the ceiling for both combined.
I wonder how much of the success of Splatoon and failure of Codename "Project" Steam is due to art style alone. The second both games were revealed people had visceral reactions to the art and character designs of each. Unconfined joy at Splatoon, disgust at Steam. Then the ridiculous amount of Splatoon fanart and attendant constant forum posts just seemed to build up this massive wave of hype that carried it home.
I mean, if Splatoon played the exact same but looked like Steam, would it have done half this well? I don't think so. Lesson learned: cute edgy squids and modern fashion = win.
I mean, if Splatoon played the exact same but looked like Steam, would it have done half this well? I don't think so. Lesson learned: cute edgy squids and modern fashion = win.
The lack of Vita any numbers this year makes portable numbers harder to predict.
The 3DS was in April up 65% for the year IIRC.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Well obviously. We have Witcher 3 & Splatoon against Watch Dogs & Mario Kart 8. What did people expect honestly?
AgentOtaku
Member
Congrats CDPR! (^_______^)
Are you trying to argue Nintendo isn't underperforming? Because both graphs show Nintendo doing pretty awful.
XB1+PS4+Wiiu first 5 months last year
2521500
subtract 1%
2496285
XB1+PS4+Wiiu first 4 months this year + 139K for XB1
2318200
Which means PS4 + Wiiu = 178K
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
If true, this means that consoles are no longer mass market gaming devices, they're luxury goods that people don't buy for themselves any longer but get gifted at holidays.
It also means they're not competing for general entertainment product dollars anymore, they're competing with whatever shows up on "Hot gifts for Him" lists annually.
Captain Smoker
Member
No I'm not.
Fact is, while Nintendo lost most of the sales, Sony lost a couple of million costumers too, Microsoft is the most stable historically.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Splatoon's marketing effort was extremely strong. Couldn't walk into a store that sells games without seeing that shit all over the place.
Witcher 3 is definitely deserving.
Witcher 3 is definitely deserving.
Took me a second look to realize the consoles/handhelds did not correlate with the lines they were next to
NO NO NO.
They mean all hardware sales, not just gen 8.
Learn to read.
The total number of hardware units sold will be over 4 million across PS4/PS3//PSV/One/360/Wii/WiU/3DS & others between January and May 2015.
Next gen hardware is stable. So likely Wii U and PS4 will be over 200k combined this month.
The Ninth Life
Banned
I still remember when Sony had sent CDPR some devkits.
Then they revealed their game on Microsoft's stage.
Look how far we've come.
Time flies.
Then they revealed their game on Microsoft's stage.
Look how far we've come.
Time flies.
SmartWaffles
Member
PS4 back #1, Splatoon #5, everything is normal.
3rdamention
Member
360 actually sold a little more jan-may 2007 than Xbox One jan-may 2015. We need to look at more recent periods to understand current situation.
Overall Xbox One had a record launch for the brand when 360 was very supply constrained.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Or one's a pick-up-and-play multiplayer online shooter and one's a realtime strategy game.
Magic Mushroom
Member
People tend to forget that PC gaming is booming, it's part of the industry as well.
Oh, I'm aware of that. I'm thinking the big FPS franchises, the CODs of the world. Nothing too serious, just a little light experiment to see if they can transplant the essence of the territorial control aspects into the existing engine.
Overall hardware (consoles + handhelds) are down 1%, 8th generation hardware is "stable" according to the analyst report.
timetokill
Banned
I think some labels are messed up on this graph
2 days of sales versus multi-platform sales over a month. Individual SKUs it's probably behind only PS4 Witcher 3/XB1 Witcher 3
Splatoon should chart again in June based off Amazon US sales. It's been the best-selling available game that's not on sale/pre-orders. It was out of stock for a bit.
Also on Nintendo's eShop a week ago it was the best-seller over the Nindie Bundle games, so it probably did at least 20-40k on the eShop.
Digital-Hero
Member
Amazing for a title that was traditionally PC and it sold the most on PS4. No publisher/dev regret there I bet.
Hardware units, as in all hardware units. Next gen specifically is "stable" like last month.
Edit: double beaten...
Chobel
Member
Found the same thing after doing the calculations, 196K to be precise.
creamsugar's pie is coming and we already have a baseline, so we just need to wait.
If they did, you could bet it would be a shipped number but that doesn't seem likely.
It did sell very well on PS4, however, since this only accounts for retail sales it is difficult to tell how it did wrt PC since most of those sales will be digital.
a Master Ninja
Member
This still surprises me to hear.
timetokill
Banned
I'm not up on my NPD data collection methods, but does NPD include digital sales, which would be the majority of PC sales?
Boombloxer
Member
Not really. Neither is at a real mass market price.
Sakura
Member
Wouldn't most of the Witcher's sales for PC be digital though, which I believe is not tracked by NPD?
The Ninth Life
Banned
Don't worry bruh, PS4 will take care of 160 million by itself.
Still $400 after that abysmal holiday and killing it.
Is this real life.
Why.
MS and WB
RespectThySole
Member
Eh not really insteresting honestly. I haven't seen much Xbox advertisement for TW3 at all. The FPS thing should be expected though since the biggest Xbox franchise is Halo so naturally a lot of shooter fans would gravitate towards that console.
Warner Bros published it in North America.
Captain Smoker
Member
Yeah, but they know how to make money know, therefore it's ok.
Dredd97
Member
actually we do know 1.3 mill WW as posted in the other thread
NPD doesn't track digital sales. What you should be surprised about is how the game was marketed by MS but still sold more on Sony's platform