February 2017 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes Tuesday, March 7th
GravityInsanity
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Sangetsu-II
Member
I wanna go to sleep but I wanna see MS Amazing PR Spin before that.
Hard to stay awake...
Hard to stay awake...
ethomaz
Banned
I guess I'm wrong but the article gone up last month late than what the time we are now.
Edit - Article is up PS4 won.
http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/09/f...on-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-february/
PS4 won
Article is as barebone as you can get.
Unless we get more details from MS there won't be much to discuss.
PS4 won
Article is as barebone as you can get.
Unless we get more details from MS there won't be much to discuss.
NO WAY! /s
Dash_Riprock
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...What a shock.
ethomaz
Banned
Just me of VentureBeat put Resident Evil 7, Nioh and Horizon Zero Dawn in the same month lol
Well, I don't know.
Where are all the "unstoppable inertia" people from last October?
What happened to 4K BR-UHD being unstopable? We got "Bruh'd!"?
Wasn't Jan-Feb supposed to "tell the story"?
/s
I know Horizon is technically going to be included with the March NPD, but would it be wrong to assume many people may have bought a PS4 in anticpation for Horizon? Especially after reviews. But it's more so the price drop that had the impact.
Shocking
If you buy a console for a game you would buy it together with the game, not a few days in advance.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
What happened to the guy who used to give us numbers? Didn't the NPD group allow him to do it?
theprodigy
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If early 2010s means gen 7 then that could be because of the Wii+Kinect combo...which obviously doesn't exist any more.
ethomaz
Banned
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-tops-xbox-one-in-february-2017-us-sales/1100-6448599/
Xbone is probably down yoy this time.
Xbone is probably down yoy this time.
So Xbox is down YoY then?
TheStruggler
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lmao they talking game hours now.....holyyyyy fuckkkkkk
Yep, no growth talk =down yoy.
ethomaz
Banned
Every time there where up they said so...
But I want to find the full MS PR first to confirme.
AmuroChan
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Thanks PR! I would not have guessed that total gaming hours are higher now than last year when there were less consoles out there.
ethomaz
Banned
Why you not followed your own thinking
I changed my XB1 prediction because mine was low compared with most here.
Well its about time, there was no way it was going to keep up since xbox one scorpio is on its way.
BoxManLocke
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I mean, hours played can be an interesting statistic if the jump is really significant, but 11% is as unimpressive as you can get. It actually looks bad IMO.
Ah I love MS PR. Their PR guy always manages to find something positive to highlight
ethomaz
Banned
I guess it is more result to not having games to hold the UP state created by S.
Unless the console was 50 bucks cheaper a week or 2 before
and I honestly don't see much changing until maybe the Scorpio releases.
Jimmyfenix
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game hours
now i have seen everything
now i have seen everything
beau_beaumont
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Not sure that's true. Some people like to spread out the cost over a few paychecks. Either way, there were plenty of reasons to get a PS4 in February.
To be fair the PS4 was $250 for two weeks and the promo ended the weekend right before Horizon came out. Not to mention there is plenty to play on the PS4 and many may have thought it was a good time to jump in. Income Tax came in for a lot of people.
MS needs to release more games plain and simple that would give gamers a reason to jump in.
I have a One S but mainly because I am a fan of the big 3 (Halo, Gears, Forza). Outside of those franchises MS is not giving many compelling reasons to grab a X1.
Ps4 killed them this month with both Nioh and Horizon being released to excellent reviews and hype.
I have a One S but mainly because I am a fan of the big 3 (Halo, Gears, Forza). Outside of those franchises MS is not giving many compelling reasons to grab a X1.
Ps4 killed them this month with both Nioh and Horizon being released to excellent reviews and hype.
DriftingSpirit
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But it did fine from E3 last year up to December. The X1S obviously helped quite a bit with that but I think it is more Xbox typically not doing hot during the first few months of the year.
I think it has more to do with MS not doing great this time of year. Add to the fact there has just been way more buzz for the PS4 and Switch. And you get this situation we have now. And I really don't see the situation changing all that much in the near future.
Agreed. I've talked about this in the past but I'll say it again -- people buy consoles for a variety of reasons and not necessarily around the same time as the biggest games of the month.
I have a friend who bought a PS4 in November. Guess what game she bought it for? If you picked Call of Duty, Battlefront, Tomb Raider, Titanfall, or Final Fantasy, you guessed wrong. The primary reason she got a PS4 was for
Berserk and the Band of the Hawk. I never even heard of that game before she told me what it was. It also apparently came out a few weeks ago in February which is 3 months after she bought the system. Obviously just one of millions of people but we shouldn't get too caught up in thinking that February PS4 success has to be due to games that came out in February. It's much more complicated than that.