February 2014 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes March 10th

Meltdown for what? It's not like people were expecting WiiU to do any good last month.

actually now that I think about it, people were saying "Donkey Kong does better in the west than Japan anyway!" during Media Create
which is actually false, when you normalize for install base, unlike say 3D Mario or Zelda

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So it's market close (when NPD releases)...should just be a matter of time now (a few hours) until PR gets a chance to spin the numbers in their favour.

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Sub 100k number for XBO would certainly cause a mini-meltdown.

I will shoot back up for March though. Really not sure how it will do in the months after. I think it depends on how well Titanfall 360 does. Might stop people from getting an XBO.
 
So it's market close (when NPD releases)...should just be a matter of time now (a few hours) until PR gets a chance to spin the numbers in their favour.
 
So it's market close (when NPD releases)...should just be a matter of time now (a few hours) until PR gets a chance to spin the numbers in their favour.
"These are promising numbers. There aren't as many people out there buying consoles right now, but we are looking to the future. We have an impressive slew of games coming out in the coming months, so we hope to increase our sales even more going forward."
 
Someone give me an ETA for this shit going down.

Minutes? Hours?
Approximate countdown to Feb NPD Thread/Leaks etc.

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The countdown.
 
So it's market close (when NPD releases)...should just be a matter of time now (a few hours) until PR gets a chance to spin the numbers in their favour.

My guess, if they XB1 numbers are sub-100k or something terribad like that, expect talk about Titanfall pre-order numbers and/or arbitrary figures like number of zombies killed since launch.
 
When did the TF bundle first get announced? Was that in February? If so I think sales toward the end of February for the Xbone must have tanked.

My guess, if they XB1 numbers are sub-100k or something terribad like that, expect talk about Titanfall pre-order numbers and/or arbitrary figures like number of zombies killed since launch.

The number of zombies* killed is going to be huge due to PvZ: GW releasing on Xbox**.

* Zombies across both PvZ and DR3.
 
So it's market close (when NPD releases)...should just be a matter of time now (a few hours) until PR gets a chance to spin the numbers in their favour.

Hope total hardware numbers were good. January's weren't pretty even with PS4 doing reasonable

When did the TF bundle first get announced? Was that in February? If so I think sales toward the end of February for the Xbone must have tanked.

Announced Feb 24 so 5 days of Feb sales affected at most. What's more interesting would be if there were a signficnt number of returns in that period or the first week of march
 
9 trillion dollars worth of Titans have been destroyed in the past few days in Titanfall


Sony aint got shit on that number
 
Assuming Xbox has dropped or is flat from jan, the question of 'who wins feb' is more like 'who loses feb least badly'.

Will Xbox drop so far that even shitty supply from Sony can outsell it, or not?


That literally makes no sense.

Wouldn't people be waiting until March for the Titanfall bundle?

I think the bundle was announced feb 25th, so only 4 days of sales that might be impacted.
 
I'm giddy like a schoolgirl. NPD results is like watching an action movie and seeing all the casualties of war(fanboys) got at it, while all you can watch as it unfolds
 
I had all month to think of some catching jingle like the Adams family from the last NPD and I totally dropped the ball. Cannot top this

Their new console is flopping.

The resolution's dropping.

The crushed blacks are a'popping.

The Xbox family.
 
I'm going to get here in some hours, I think. If Bravely sold well, I hope people celebrate with the power of two thousand suns.
 
Is there a reason we expect Xbox to be sub-100k? That would be pretty damn bad.

Dont see that happening, January is the lowest month for a reason, it wont do worse than that

I think the sub 100k is just the most plausible way to get a shocking result that will bring this forum down on its knees. Either that or Wii U doing 500k+, but thats not happening
 
Is there a reason we expect Xbox to be sub-100k? That would be pretty damn bad.

I don't think there's any chance of that. Had the TF bundle been announced early in February, then I would say it's possible, but it was announced 5 days before the end of February.

I don't feel like the majority of purchasers are smart enough or patient enough to go and return their consoles and wait for the TF bundle, even if they heard the news.
 
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