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[SwiftDeath]

Through the first seven months of 2014, total sales of Wii U hardware and software have increased by nearly 60 percent and more than 135 percent, respectively, over the same period in 2013.

I get ~81k for July for Wii U.

Interesting. Would mean I'm not far off if true

 

[Jimmyfenix]

i said 4th for tomodachi

 

[Welfare]

Through the first seven months of 2014, total sales of Wii U hardware and software have increased by nearly 60 percent and more than 135 percent, respectively, over the same period in 2013.

I get ~81k for July for Wii U.

Noooo~~~~

I would be 41k off Hope everything else is close.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

80k for WiiU......eesh

 

[ethomaz]

Another half hour at least.

37 minutes.

Naaaah it was time already... see the reports.

 

[Tobor]

80k for WiiU......eesh

The dead cat bounce is over.

 

[SDCowboy]

Naaaah it was time already... see the reports.

Is the results thread up?

 

[metalslimer]

Welp on the bright side, it didn't fall into the 50s or 60s. Unfortunately the rest of the year's lineup is pretty bad until Smash from a sales perspective.

 

[phanphare]

Rest of it

love how they count Pokemon twice rather than combine them

 

[Chobel]

Through the first seven months of 2014, total sales of Wii U hardware and software have increased by nearly 60 percent and more than 135 percent, respectively, over the same period in 2013.

I get ~83k for July for Wii U.

EDIT: there's no mention in the PR that Nintendo is using NPD numbers, though.

Good, I predicted 81k.

 

[ethomaz]

Is the results thread up?

It will be up soon... most month take 10 minutes after first report.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

I wonder how 3ds did.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Wouldn't that be a really horrible number for WiiU?

 

[phanphare]

Wouldn't that be a really horrible number for WiiU?

yuup

 

[SwiftDeath]

I wonder how 3ds did.

Tomodachi seems to have held well so I wouldn't think 3DS fell off a cliff

 

[Jomjom]

Wow the 90k average prediction may still be too high?!?! My poor Wii U. I still love it though.

 

[Shadow Broker]

Neogaf has a weird way of getting me hyped about random shit. Deep Down I don't care about NPD but damn it! I need to see them sales numbers!

 

[FullMetaltech]

So close for me. Had them at 78k.

 

[And_Gignac]

Wouldn't that be a really horrible number for WiiU?

Not "horrible" considering this month was 4 weeks of tracking instead of 5.

 

[Welfare]

Was there a shortage of MK bundles? Maybe MK is only selling to the existing userbase.

 

[metalslimer]

Wouldn't that be a really horrible number for WiiU?

Horrible in terms of actual numbers? Yes. It's not surprising though.

Not "horrible" considering this month was 4 weeks of tracking instead of 5.

Still had a big weekly drop.

 

[theprodigy]

Hmm, I don't know why, but I think the NeoGAF aggregate for the Wii U is a little low. Were so many people actually expecting the Wii U to already drop below 100k?

heh,about that

not that a ~10% drop in weekly sales should have been seen as too much

 

[Somnia]

Remember that list of 3DS games placements will be from the individual SKU list and not the combined SKU list we get from NPD... they won't be listed like that in the overall Top 10.

 

[CosmicQueso]

Wouldn't that be a really horrible number for WiiU?

Depends on how you look at it... much better than last year for the month, much better YTD than last year, not a huge % drop from June. Jeez, all things considered it isn't "really horrible" at all.

 

[B.O.O.M]

yuup

damn...wonder how the others did

Not "horrible" considering this month was 4 weeks of tracking instead of 5.

Even with less weeks these are still rather horrible numbers

Horrible in terms of actual numbers? Yes. It's not surprising though.
.

I'm surprised it's this low already. Expected a better hold

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Not "horrible" considering this month was 4 weeks of tracking instead of 5.

Nope it still horribly bad.

 

[Loris146]

Depends on how you look at it... much better than last year for the month, much better YTD than last year, not a huge % drop from June. Jeez, all things considered it isn't "really horrible" at all.

Unfortunately is very bad .

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

The numbers drop today, right?

 

[B.O.O.M]

Depends on how you look at it... much better than last year for the month, much better YTD than last year, not a huge % drop from June. Jeez, all things considered it isn't "really horrible" at all.

I think it just means it was even worse off last year. Not that it's not horrible now.

 

[BrokenIcarus]

Predicted 94k, not too bad I guess.

 

[metalslimer]

Depends on how you look at it... much better than last year for the month, much better YTD than last year, not a huge % drop from June. Jeez, all things considered it isn't "really horrible" at all.

Well I mean last July the system hadn't had a big 1st party release in like 4 months. The first party lineup last year was Game and Wario and Lego City.

 

[Evenflow]

Nope it still horribly bad.

The 29k last July for Wii U was horribly bad. Have some perspective people. Sales have been more than doubled every month year over year since Kart launched...

 

[Jimmyfenix]

heh i said 83k for wii u

 

[Chobel]

The numbers drop today, right?

Yep

 

[NateDrake]

Still had a big weekly drop.

If 81k holds true, then Wii U went from a weekly average of 28k in June to 20k for July. That is a decent hold. Considering the console was selling 30k a month, MK8 has provided a great bounce.

 

[CosmicQueso]

I think it just means it was even worse off last year. Not that it's not horrible now.

Unfortunately is very bad .

I don't know what kind of expectations some are holding on to... that somehow it can come back to be a lead platform? It is what it is. This months numbers are okay given the demand curve to date. They're not bad or good, they fit right where they should. Are there a whole bunch of people who still haven't adjusted their expectations for this thing?

EDIT: Yeah I know the answer to that question.

I mean, 40k would have been "really bad"

 

[Welfare]

10 minutes left. So is Microsoft just done with PR, or does that come at around 6:30? Can't remember.

 

[theprodigy]

I don't know what kind of expectations some are holding on to... that somehow it can come back to be a lead platform? It is what it is. This months numbers are okay given the demand curve to date. They're not bad or good, they fit right where they should. Are there a whole bunch of people who still haven't adjusted their expectations for this thing?

EDIT: Yeah I know the answer to that question.

I mean, 40k would have been "really bad"

so you know

 

[jbug617]

Keighley says PS4 #1 and TLOU is #1

 

[SwiftDeath]

10 minutes left. So is Microsoft just done with PR, or does that come at around 6:30? Can't remember.

It can come anytime from 6 PM EDT to 6:30PM EDT although we haven't had the usual PR from them since April

Even in June when they did well they did a pre-NPD PR announcement the day before about doubling sales

I think we may no longer get anything from MS but we'll see

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Keighley says PS4 #1 and TLOU is #1

boom

 

[Chobel]

PS4 was #1 selling console in July, Last of Us PS4 #1 selling game per NPD.

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/500044142442201088

 

[metalslimer]

If 81k holds true, then Wii U went from a weekly average of 28k in June to 20k for July. That is a decent hold. Considering the console was selling 30k a month, MK8 has provided a great bounce.

Well I don't think we can completely contribute that boost to MK8 since Wii U hasn't been down that low since last year. 3D World, bundles, and MK8 have all improved the sales.

PS4 was #1 selling console in July, Last of Us PS4 #1 selling game per NPD.

I'm ready to eat crow on LoU.

 

[And_Gignac]

Nope it still horribly bad.

Nah. We are talking of 20% drop from last month. Not "horribly bad" in this context.

Of course, compared to even the GameCube the numbers are yes, bad and sad.

 

[Cess007]

Keighley says PS4 #1 and TLOU is #1

I wonder how big/small is the gap between the PS4 and the Xbox One.

 

[Jomjom]

10 minutes left. So is Microsoft just done with PR, or does that come at around 6:30? Can't remember.

If that one guy that posted earlier is right, MS should be releasing their PR soon bragging about how they came in first this month.

Edit: NVM guess that guy was full of shit.

 

[Blanquito]

I don't generally follow the results of the prediction threads. How close does the combined aggregate prediction tend to be against the actuals?

I had a decent reply with sources written up, but I messed up and lost it.

Essentially, the numbers are sometimes close and sometimes far away. For example, it looks like the NeoGAF aggregate for June for PS4 was way below the real result, but I think that's because most people forgot it was a 5 week report.

However, the next month the PS4 aggregate was pretty close to the real result.

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be too close of a predictor for a month.

However, you could let us know if the aggregate is close or not for this month...

 

[nelchaar]

PS4 top selling console. TLOU:R top selling game for July, according to Keighley on twitter.

 

[SwiftDeath]

 

[Gator86]

Keighley says PS4 #1 and TLOU is #1

I am pleased by this. Last of Us is fucking amazing.