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[Aquamarine]

Just for reference, last June The Last of Us combined software SKUs launched very close to 1 million.


So:

June 2013 (launch) - Very close to 1 million
July 2013 - 170K


It'll be interesting to see how The Last of Us: Remastered compares to the original.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Just for reference, last June The Last of Us combined software SKUs launched very close to 1 million.


So:

June 2013 (launch) - Very close to 1 million
July 2013 - 170K


It'll be interesting to see how The Last of Us: Remastered compares to the original.

My bet 600-700K.

 

[metalslimer]

My bet 600-700K.

Do you mean combining July and August? Because I would be shocked if those were July numbers

 

[SDCowboy]

Dont know if the site is allowed but insiderp has TLOUR selling 1.5M copies in 24 hours. They have been pretty spot on with PS4 hardware numbers.

edit: I think TLOU is a legit system seller but I don't think we'll see the results until August NPD. On amazon, the PS4 is back all the way up to #4 right now. It's insane how this thing is selling.

 

[plainr_]

This is exciting. I actually made an effort to come up with my numbers this time around so I'm eager to see how close I get. Last NPD, I copy-and-pasted someones prediction and adjusted it with random numbers. ha.

 

[Chobel]

Just for reference, last June The Last of Us combined software SKUs launched very close to 1 million.


So:

June 2013 (launch) - Very close to 1 million
July 2013 - 170K


It'll be interesting to see how The Last of Us: Remastered compares to the original.

Around 300K I think

 

[EdReedFan20]

Do the NPD's come today?

Edit- Ooh. Yes they do.

 

[Cornbread78]

Should be very interesting, my Wal-Mart still sells 5:1 in favor of PS4 over XB1, so I'm wondering if that trend carries over. We also sold out of launch day copies of TLoU, so I'm wondering if we get any kind of number for it...

 

[Shadow_FFVI]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Do you mean combining July and August? Because I would be shocked if those were July numbers

No just July.

 

[Cornbread78]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

Pretty much to see if a full month of price drop and all the gift card deals at retailers that happened made a difference in sales, as well as the prospect of how well TLoU sold in it's short July window..

 

[LifEndz]

[360] 30k
[3DS] 60k
[PS3] 30k
[PS4] 250k
[WIU] 60k
[XB1] 140k

 

[Into]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

You are right, the hype isent the same. The only fun scenario would be if the Wii U somehow just barely outsold the XB1, if MK8 caught fire, and XB1 lost some steam. No way that happens, but at least that would be fun

 

[Monty Oliver]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

This is NPD though,.

 

[Welfare]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

I guess I'm looking forward to seeing what the One's weekly average will be.

 

[GhaleonEB]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

The XBO trajectory is going to be interesting. Last month, the price cut/new SKU basically got them back to the weekly sales rate they had prior to the price cut announcement. I'm interested to see if they sustain or build on it (relative to seasonality), or if sales droop again. Could be a rough place to be in going into the holidays.

 

[SwiftDeath]

The hype is not as high as it usually is. Maybe because we already know Sony hit 10 million worldwide.

What are you guys looking forward to? Seeing if the Xbox One price drop had a significant impact?

We have yet to see a true month of XB1 sales with the kinectless SKU that is not being affected by some temporary effect. The KL SKU was announced on May 13th with more than two weeks left in the May NPD tracking period which in my mind likely led anyone who desired a XB1 but had no interest in kinect to wait until June 9th when it was available and purchase it then. This effect would explain why XB1 sales in May were 77k which is incredibly low thus suggesting that June XB1 sales were likely artificially inflated by consumers who would've purchased it in May holding off to June

July will be the first month we get to see the true XB1 baseline more or less

I'm also intrigued by TLOUR sales and what PS4 sales are due to the 10M announcement. I get the feeling that the US|WW sales ratio has dropped from around 37% in April of this year to ~31% as of August. That's a very significant change of pace

 

[Ty4on]

The XBO trajectory is going to be interesting. Last month, the price cut/new SKU basically got them back to the weekly sales rate they had prior to the price cut announcement. I'm interested to see if they sustain or build on it (relative to seasonality), or if sales droop again. Could be a rough place to be in going into the holidays.

I believe we already know it didn't do much. Most of April was affected by the announcement and most of June was affected by the price drop. Average both and we get the same weekly sales XB1 had before the price drop. To me that makes it clear that most of the boost in June were people delaying their purchase, pent up demand from May.

Average weekly sales in May and June = 30.4K
Average weekly sales in April = 28.75K

5 week months also make sales seem higher. 197k isn't a big increase from 150k.

 

[GhaleonEB]

I believe we already know it didn't do much. Most of April was affected by the announcement and most of June was affected by the price drop. Average both and we get the same weekly sales XB1 had before the price drop. To me that makes it clear that most of the boost in June were people delaying their purchase, pent up demand from May.

Average weekly sales in May and June = 30.4K
Average weekly sales in April = 28.75K

5 week months also make sales seem higher. 197k isn't a big increase from 150k.

Right, that pattern is exactly what I was describing. But data has a way of clarifying or cementing what we think we know. Seeing the June rate revert to ~April was quite revealing last month.

 

[bishoptl]

Looks like I missed it.

All I know is that according to my report, Xbox sold more consoles than everyone else.

PSvita is horrendously low.

OK, let's see it.

 

[FullMetaltech]

OK, let's see it.

Dam. Your gonna scare him now. I think he learned his lesson for today.

 

[Majmun]

What if his "reports" are correct? I think we should wait it out.

But if PS4 outsells the X1, then...yeah

 

[jryi]

Dam. Your gonna scare him now. I think he learned his lesson for today.

NPD threads are the wrong place to be cheeky. During my long junior career I have learned that...

 

[Various Artists]

OK, let's see it.

M..I..C.. See you real soon K..E..Y.. Why? because your about to be banned. M..O..U..S..E..

props to who ever gets the reference.

 

[vin-buc]

I think TLOU is a legit system seller but I don't think we'll see the results until August NPD. On amazon, the PS4 is back all the way up to #4 right now. It's insane how this thing is selling. In fact, it looks like both consoles could have a great august with both having two console SKU's in the top 15 right now.

Aren't those Xbox one sku's bundles coming in late October/November though? How indicative is that of a good august/September for xbox.

 

[Codeblew]

M..I..C.. See you real soon K..E..Y.. Why? because your about to be banned. M..O..U..S..E..

props to who ever gets the reference.

Unfortunately, I am old enough to have watched that as a kid.

 

[SDCowboy]

Aren't those Xbox one sku's bundles coming in late October/November though? How indicative is that of a good august/September for xbox.

Very good point. You're right. Ditched that part of my post, but I still think TLOU is a huge system seller. Not Destiny levels but still considerable.

 

[xValentine]

What if his "reports" are correct? I think we should wait it out.

But if PS4 outsells the X1, then...yeah

His "report" might say Xbox360 + Xbox One > All.

 

[panda-zebra]

OK, let's see it.

 

[jiggle]

When to start F5ing secret leak site

 

[Ndless]

Dam. Your gonna scare him now. I think he learned his lesson for today.

I am new here, and even I know to not mess around NPD threads. Still, honest mistake is honest.

 

[Shadow_FFVI]

Apart from Halo, Gears of War and now Tomb Raider, what else is there in Microsoft's chalkboard?

The list is getting smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if MS keeps buying big third party timed exclusives, but they're must be a limit to how much they can spend without pissing off some investors, right?

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Apart from Halo, Gears of War and now Tomb Raider, what else is there in Microsoft's chalkboard?

The list is getting smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if MS keeps buying big third party timed exclusives, but they're must be a limit to how much they can spend without pissing off some investors, right?

Sunset overdrive is still on the chalkboard.

 

[Aquamarine]

When to start F5ing secret leak site

Gamecrate is dead.

They put a new article back up for June NPD sales but it just tows the typical PR line now:

http://www.gamecrate.com/playstation-4-dominates-june-sales-npd-reports/

 

[Graphics Horse]

Gamecrate is dead.

They put a new article back up for June NPD sales but it just tows the typical PR line now:

http://www.gamecrate.com/playstation-4-dominates-june-sales-npd-reports/

Will you still be able to provide your magic numbers?

 

[Cess007]

I am new here, and even I know to not mess around NPD threats. Still, honest mistake is honest.

Yeah, i think he learned his lesson when other pointed to him how can you not post that kind of thing without data to back it up.
Anyway, OT, i'm really curious to see how TLoU Remastered performed. But to be honest, i don't think i did more than 600K so far.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Apart from Halo, Gears of War and now Tomb Raider, what else is there in Microsoft's chalkboard?

The list is getting smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if MS keeps buying big third party timed exclusives, but they're must be a limit to how much they can spend without pissing off some investors, right?

Phil Spencer said most 3rd party publishers are not interested in doing exclusive deals so I wouldn't expect many more games on the level on Tomb Raider.

 

[SDCowboy]

Yeah, i think he learned his lesson when other pointed to him how can you not post that kind of thing without data to back it up.
Anyway, OT, i'm really curious to see how TLoU Remastered performed. But to be honest, i don't think i did more than 300K so far.

You don't think TLOUR has sold more than 300k yet?

 

[Hoo-doo]

I predict some amazing sales for TLOU:Remastered, maybe even as a system seller.

It was strange seeing my entire Playstation friendslist turn into a huge TLOU lovefest on day of release.

 

[Cornbread78]

His "report" might say Xbox360 + Xbox One > All.

Which means we should be getting the MS PR very soon stating that XBox was the best selling platform for the month of July.

 

[RyanPierre]

Phil Spencer said most 3rd party publishers are not interested in doing exclusive deals so I wouldn't expect many more games on the level on Tomb Raider.

Where did he say this?

 

[Cess007]

You don't think TLOUR has sold more than 300k yet?

lol my bad. I meant 600 (damn mobile). Tho i'm just have no idea at all how much it will sell (i suck A LOT at predictions :< ) So, that's why i'm curious; honestly have no idea how much it sold ^^

 

[Shadow_FFVI]

Phil Spencer said most 3rd party publishers are not interested in doing exclusive deals so I wouldn't expect many more games on the level on Tomb Raider.

But what about my second question? It's obvious they have a budget for the Xbox branch, but it just seems to me, that Microsoft spends as much as they want to, in order to "win" as much market share as they can.

They're limited in terms of what the publishers are willing to go along with, not by budget it seems.

I thought that with the apparent dissatisfaction by some investors even before the Xbox One debacle, that they would restrain themselves of just throwing money at the problem, but instead be smarter and look for more long term solutions. i.e. not buying timed exclusivity.

 

[ramuh]

I predict some amazing sales for TLOU:Remastered, maybe even as a system seller.

It was strange seeing my entire Playstation friendslist turn into a huge TLOU lovefest on day of release.

This is what I want to see as well.

 

[SDCowboy]

lol my bad. I meant 600 (damn mobile). Tho i'm just have no idea at all how much it will sell (i suck A LOT at predictions :< ) So, that's why i'm curious; honestly have no idea how much it sold ^^

600k still seems incredibly low. I'd be shocked if it hasn't sold over a million by this point.

 

[Cess007]

600k still seems incredibly low. I'd be shocked if it hasn't sold over a million by this point.

That's why i don't do predictions, i really, really suck at them xDU Anyway, i hope it has got high sales; that damn game deserves it.

 

[Daemul]

Gamecrate is dead.

They put a new article back up for June NPD sales but it just tows the typical PR line now:

http://www.gamecrate.com/playstation-4-dominates-june-sales-npd-reports/

 

[SDCowboy]

That's why i don't do predictions, i really, really suck at them xDU Anyway, i hope it has got high sales; that damn game deserves it.

Agreed.

 

[metalslimer]

600k still seems incredibly low. I'd be shocked if it hasn't sold over a million by this point.

In North America alone?

 

[theDeeDubs]

Sorry if this has been posted but I've been watching Amazon daily throughout the day (don't hate I find it interesting) and the PS4 has hovered around 5-7 everyday, whereas the XB1 has been in the 30s and 40s mostly since Kinectless. Think it topped at 29 once. Don't see his reports being right or even close unless he means Xbox family. It might retain it's weekly though.