March 2013 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes April 15

HD twins killed me this month!

How does the Overall top 50 for 2013 work? Is it just counting the best 2 out of 3 months for each poster? I assume so since I missed January's prediction, but am still decently ranked.
 
Congrat' to the winner!

And I'm happy again this month to be in the top 5 by units and for my points ranking even if I need to try harder to up my general ranking. PS3 fucked my order.

Edit: oh yeah, and lol.


50. Pachter 82.59
 
How does the Overall top 50 for 2013 work? Is it just counting the best 2 out of 3 months for each poster? I assume so since I missed January's prediction, but am still decently ranked.

Yep, it's just counting the top 2 out of the 3 months so far in the year per poster. It will stay n-1 until September, when it'll change to n-2. For the full year, only the top 10 out of 12 months per poster are counted. That way someone missing a month or two (or just having a really off month or two) doesn't greatly reduce their chances for the full year rankings. :)
 
Congrat' to the winner!

And I'm happy again this month to be in the top 5 by units and for my points ranking even if I need to try harder to up my general ranking. PS3 fucked my order.

Edit: oh yeah, and lol.

isn't top 50 out of hundreds pretty good?
 
Ah, I was waiting for this thread.

[360] 125,000
[3DS] 109,000
[PS3]113,000
[PS4] 408,000
[WIU] 102,000
[XB1] 516,000

Ideas behind sales numbers:

Xbox One
NPD results were for five weeks (unlike February's 4 weeks) - which puts it around 330K already. Additionally, March saw the launch of the heavily-hyped Titanfall as well as several price cuts. Prices as low as $399 were reported.
I expect the combination of Titanfall and pricedrops to cause a natural 60% increase in sales over the entire sale-tracking period, which puts it at 516K.

PS4
With the Japan launch behind us and PS4 back in full production (after a short break because of a Chinese holiday). My calculations have shown that Sony actually shipped 285K units to the US last month, slightly below the suggested 286.7K sold (which means: I believe last month's PS4 sales figure has been estimated slightly too high).
With inFAMOUS: Second Son, as well as continued demand, Sony likely shipped 100,000 to 150,000 additional PS4s compared to last month.
Sony will also profit from a small number of sales by customers who were looking forward to Titanfall, only realizing afterwards that Titanfall is not on PS4.

Wii U
Hooray, Nintendo will sell 100,000+ Wii Us - but only just. Nintendo, just like Sony, will also profit from a small number of sales by customers who were looking forward to Titanfall, only realizing afterwards that Titanfall is not on Wii U.

PS3/3DS/X360
Estimates based on very little information.

This is the 2013 thread, not the 2014 thread.

I think, NPD comes out on the 17th which is why a 2014 thread has not been made.
Crap.

For a moment, I did not realize that the year we live in was two-thousand-and-fourteen.
 
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