NPD only covers the US but it also states X1 is the top seller in the UK. I assume that means PS4 is on top in Europe? The race is far from over, both consoles have only been a year!
NPD Sales Results for November 2014 [Up3: NPD Data Error, AC:U #5]
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NPD only covers the US but it also states X1 is the top seller in the UK. I assume that means PS4 is on top in Europe? The race is far from over, both consoles have only been a year!
soundscream
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Don't lie, troll or be disrespectful. The secret to never getting banned from GAF, its not that hard.
The point is just that there is more to Nintendo and the Wii U than nostalgia. Their games are undeniably amazing and the best or among the best in the industry - which of course drives those few sales that exist for their home console.
ProvenDeadly
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"November's PS4 sales of 800k + consoles added to the lead that the console has gained, continuing it's rampage as the fastest selling console of all eternity"
4.5 what for CoD? Any chance I could get a PM for the source ?
Well people are talking US since this is the NPD. You could make a UK thread, we just do not know numbers for that.
That's because they could afford to back then.
Their situation today is far different.
they never say the number when they win and you want them to say it when they lose? lol
HORRORSHØW
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Mass Effect
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More like 700K
Maximilian E.
AKA MS-Evangelist
Interesting times..
However, it must cost MS a bit as well in order to have these kind of deals.
Xmas could be a close call.
Anyways, mandatory symbolism:
On breaking Sonys streak..
MS: "If it bleeds, we can kill it"
However, it must cost MS a bit as well in order to have these kind of deals.
Xmas could be a close call.
Anyways, mandatory symbolism:
On breaking Sonys streak..
MS: "If it bleeds, we can kill it"
How and when is the global data revealed? Again sorry I'm new to this
ProvenDeadly
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Well it's not like we are strictly talking US sales in here, that's all I'm saying.
the company as a whole wasn't life support at that point. they did lose a lot of money for years on the ps3 though.
the design of the ps4 was to avoid having that happen again but now they have the rest of sony corp acting like cement boots.
I thought their lead was only 800k before November. I don't follow sales closely though.
Mass Effect
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Grimløck;142952905 said:
They do cover Canada (don't know about Mexico) as well.
You will have to rely on platform holders to release global sell through figures, and that happens when they feel like it. Or if you like you can look at shipment numbers from the company's financial reports.
Seems pretty unlikely.
Wii - 981K
Xbox 360 - 770K
PlayStation 2 - 496K
PlayStation 3 - 466K
=2.7m
This month current gen consoles combined for roughly 2.3m. There's no indication that the 360+PS3 sold anywhere close to 400k to make up the difference. Keep in mind that this was a supply constrained Wii as well. The console market is definitely contracting this gen, it will be very apparent next month as there is no way the console hardware is going to get close to 2007 December. Comparisons will probably continue to get worse after that.
At this rate of growth, the Wii U will have a 1 million sales November in 2029. Not to shabby.
Nightengale
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Well, they lowered the price after they reduced the losses per console.
So, still making losses, but dropping the price didn't increase the losses.
I think I read earlier 360 > wiiU this month so they may have gotten to 400k indeed. Maybe Im wrong tho. It's been a long thread
Americanmushroom
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Are there numbers? Or are people making them up?
I have a 3 month return window from the second hand store I bought it from 2 weeks ago here in Japan so I still have some time left to think it over. We shall see. It'll all boil down to just how much I end up enjoying Smash me thinks. It's been pretty awesome so far.
Ohhhh that's what DPE was. What the he'll does DPE stand for? Lol
But yeah cheers!
RedAssedApe
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co-marketing, dlc first, and the brand being associated with xbox last-gen. best version was on 360 last-gen, also people locking into xblg subscriptions, etc.
but yeah. there was evidence that pre-orders were in favor of xbone so it doesn't come as that much of a shock. i think ghosts xbone eventually surpassed ps4?
i expect sales to be pretty close though.
AstuteClass
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It was 1,150k I believe.
It's funny, though. I've been in these threads all year and it's so nice to suddenly see an army of new names in here, and that they all seem to be particularly sanguine about this result and posting stupidity like Sony is on life support, etc.
Well, the gap between the 360 and Wii was ~300k before this month and the 360 now has a higher LTD than the Wii. So 360+PS3 certainly could have sold close to 400k.
I think you looked into that "nostalgic gamer" thing way more than that poster who actually made the post did, which tells me you're incredibly emotional about this company. Everything else in your post is subjective, and calling yourself the most "quality conscious gamer" is just kind of sad. I would expect that kind of childish emotional attachment to a company from the literal children over at gamefaqs, albeit with more spelling/grammatical errors, not from one of the supposedly older/adult nintendo connoisseurs.
Go back one letter. D=C and so forth.
I want to know too. 400k of difference from xbone and ps4 where coming from? Just to understand.
And_Gignac
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Your Nintendo hater act is getting really old.
RedAssedApe
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well we get japan data every week i think. then npds once a month. i'm not sure about europe or the rest of asia. i think people just estimate the rest based on whenever sony does a world wide announcement or if the different region Sony's make some kind of official announcement? for example I think at PSX they had a counter that seemed to imply that they had sold around 14mil worldwide.
i'd have to defer to someone else though. there are a ton of people who participate in the npd threads who would know much better. i just pop into the threads that have drama in them
Using the pie charts and the information at hand.
Eh, they still sold 800k without losing god knows how much money in the process. No price cut yet, even.
The nostalgia argument is annoying, though, and it's been a thing since the N64 days. Only Nintendo becomes a nostalgic brand after 3 consoles, no one else.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
Huh? Everyone was expecting MS to take the month.
We hve trustworthy sources who gave us pie charts for current gen consoles. The Nintendo press release gave us the Wii U numbers, and we were able to deduce the rest.
Mmm seems too much high to me. We can have a resume to this calculation?
So PS4 still is 7-800k ahead. Depending on whether MS continues selling Xbone at as big a loss as they are now, Sony may have to react.
Did it? I'm guessing there's some info somewhere in thread that I missed.
bigbaldwolf86
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I wake up to find out that CBoaT hijacked the thread and has been banned? I'm assuming we have no solid numbers yet but some good estimates?
Congrats to MS on the win. They really did all they could to try and make it happen.
Congrats to MS on the win. They really did all they could to try and make it happen.
I am not calling myself "the most quality-conscious gamer", I just wrote that i found the "nostalgic gamer"-expression reductionist, and wrote that quality-conscious "might be" another just as good description, since their games have an undeniable high.quality.I was not saying that I am (or nintendo-fans in general) are the most quality-conscious, that would indeed be ridiculous, and if you read it that way, it just shows that I am not the emotional and gamefaqey of us.
Edit: I am definitely open to the fact that I may have "looked into that way more" than what he meant, and it wasnt really directed at him, but the general sentiment that you often see here and elsehere, that Nintendo is all about nostalgia, when they in reality are so much more.
If we know a rough count of what the WiiU sold (based on their PR), then one can use the pie chart to estimate what the other wedges sold.
Make sense?
Hah! Wow yea I'd never have figured that out looking at it. Yeah now I feel like an idiot