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Nov NPD Hardware and Software INCORRECT NUMBERS! GAF ON LIFESUPPORT!

hadareud

The Translator
Dante said:
Could be that the PSP is over a hundred dollers more in cost.

Maybe. Then again a couple of months ago that didn't people expecting the PSP to crush the DS and the DS to never outsell the PSP in the US again.
 

Dante

Member
Oh and so much for the PSP ownage Nintendo fans have been hinting at for November. 250 dollar portable keeping pace with a 130 dollar portable. Bodes well for the future

That aspect is continually ignored by the nintendo faithful here.
 
Well I guess I didn't do horrible, but still I did pretty bad. :lol

1. PS2: 635k (off by 89k)
2. GBA: 560k (off by 332k)
3. NDS: 442k (off by 61k)
4. 360: 370k (off by 38k)
5. PSP: 323k (off by 36k)
6. GCN: 291k (off by 13k)
7. XBX: 217k (off by 26k)

Off by 595k, that is horrible! :lol GBA sales really fucked me.
 

Razoric

Banned
hadareud said:
Maybe. Then again a couple of months ago that didn't people expecting the PSP to crush the DS and the DS to never outsell the PSP in the US again.

Yes, yes... a lot of overzealous sony fans said that MONTHS ago. I thought the ntard revenge trolling was just about over?
 

Ironclad

Member
Holy crap, those GBA numbers are absolutely insane. GC numbers aren't too bad either. I would see them increase next month as well, especially due to the Mario Party bundle.

PSP and NDS are neck-and-neck it seems. I wonder how AC will affect the DS numbers.

Low Xbox numbers are too be expected but the 360 numbers are not bad at all. I would have loved if the Gamecube numbers were higher though. :lol
 

human5892

Queen of Denmark
thorns said:
Apparently Call of Duty 2 on Xbox 360 sold 260,000 :O
It's a good game for sure, but I also wonder if part of those sales were due to those pre-rendered commericals shot to look like gameplay. It worked with FF7!

Mrbob said:
Oh and so much for the PSP ownage Nintendo fans have been hinting at for November. 250 dollar portable keeping pace with a 130 dollar portable. Bodes well for the future.
I'm no Nintendo apologist and I know this is a tired line, but I really do think that the two are going after mostly different markets. I don't think one's success or failure will necessarily impact the other.
 
Dante said:
That aspect is continually ignored by the nintendo faithful here.

In all fairness, the PSP is a lot more than a portable gaming device. If anyone would suggest Nintendo was going to really CRUSH them this Christmas, they'd be making a fool of themselves. The allure of portable movies/music/games for $249 is in some ways a much better value than a $129 system that only plays games. It all depends on what it's being bought for.

Now, I'd imagine the DS software sold porportionally better than PSP compared to the nearly 1:1 hardware ration this month.
 

hadareud

The Translator
Razoric said:
Yes, yes... a lot of overzealous sony fans said that MONTHS ago. I thought the ntard revenge trolling was just about over?

I'm not an Ntard, does this make it an impartial revenge trolling then? :D
 

Mrbob

Member
I'm disappointed by the 360 HW numbers though. If this is all they could muster should have waited till spring 2006 w/ HD DVD drive and launch the system instead of cripplilng it in 2008/2009 with a standard DVD drive. Well we'll see if this happens but it is something I'm worried about with 360.
 

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Hey bunkum, since you got the November HW numbers is there any chance you can get the October PSP HW number? Thanks for all of this and for what you'll post tomorrow.
 
Mrbob said:
I'm disappointed by the 360 HW numbers though. If this is all they could muster should have waited till spring 2006 w/ HD DVD drive and launch the system instead of cripplilng it in 2008/2009 with a standard DVD drive. Well we'll see if this happens but it is something I'm worried about with 360.

I was gonna make a post about the possibility of Microsoft upgrading to HDDVD in the future for the 360, but I realized what a stupid idea it would be. I just figured I'd let out that awful idea now so I don't somehow have it again and not realize my mistake.

As for those disappointed with the 360's #s, wasn't it announced prior to launch that shipments were gonna be ridiculously low? I can understand being upset with the shipment, but the actual sell-through has got to be very close to 99% (outside of retailers getting off on being withholding).
 

donny2112

Member
Ganondorf>Link said:
Well I guess I didn't do horrible, but still I did pretty bad. :lol



Off by 595k, that is horrible! :lol GBA sales really <got> me.

You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol
 

GDGF

Soothsayer
Forgotten Ancient said:
If anyone would suggest Nintendo was going to really CRUSH them this Christmas, they'd be making a fool of themselves.

Nah, that kind of ownage is reserved for Japan. In America, Nintendo's just going to have to be content with the NDS just outselling the PSP. I'm sure they're more than proud of their GBA sales too, though :) [/bastard]
 

Mrbob

Member
I wonder what percentage of PSP sales were from the Giga Pack. From what I've been reading the $299 Gigapack has been selling out everywhere. If Sony had shipped more there could be even higher PSP sales. Even more impressive.
 

Liquid

Banned
Mrbob said:
I'm disappointed by the 360 HW numbers though. If this is all they could muster should have waited till spring 2006 w/ HD DVD drive and launch the system instead of cripplilng it in 2008/2009 with a standard DVD drive. Well we'll see if this happens but it is something I'm worried about with 360.

for 1 it woulda added to the price and for 2 no one knows where the hell the whole BRD/HD DVD thing is going. Yeah space space space blah blah blah. 2 or 3 discs sets arent gonna hurt if it comes to that. MS has tons of time to catch up with shipments. look at those software tie in numbers. The games are there and IMO they arent ever as good as whats coming next year. as long as the hardware flows with the great software releases MS will have their sales in place by the time ps3 gets here.
 

Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
Mrbob said:
GBA numbers are actually down around 20 percent year over year. Kiddies get GBA for Xmas. If anything perhaps GBA sales cut into DS sales.

Oh and so much for the PSP ownage Nintendo fans have been hinting at for November. 250 dollar portable keeping pace with a 130 dollar portable. Bodes well for the future. :)

You seem to be very anti Nintendo ever since the specs were announced. Or was I just not following your posts closely enough?

Yes, yes... a lot of overzealous sony fans said that MONTHS ago. I thought the ntard revenge trolling was just about over?

Oh, so Pro sony people are "fans" and pro Nintendo people are "ntards"? Mature indeed. :lol
 

Lindsay

Dot Hacked
la la la!

I told ya all GBA was still king now and forever~

Can't wait to see the POKé Emerald sales I bet they got a nice boost from this!
 
donny2112 said:
You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol

I call foul, Scotch obviously copied me. :)
In fairness I think the GBA killed a lot of us, would love to see a breakdown between SP and Micro.

Fantastic software sales for the 360, shame there wasn't enough hardware to go around and hope people with just games get to pick one up in December.
 

Pimpwerx

Member
Damn, looks like GBA fuckowned a lot of people in the prediction thread this month. :lol I guess there's more life left in that pony than I thought. Impressive. Probably the only impressive thing this month IMO. PEACE.
 
donny2112 said:
You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol

What place was I in? :lol
 
donny2112 said:
You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol

6th huh? Well I guess GBA put us all in a corner and fucked us! :lol
 

Max^Samp

Member
Market Share
Code:
Company		11-05	11-04	

Sony		30,4%	20,8%
Nintendo 	52,1% 	57,9%
Microsoft	17,6%	21,3%

Total sales -10,9%
 

Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Max^Samp said:
Market Share
Code:
Company		11-05	11-04	

Sony		30,4%	20,8%
Nintendo 	52,1% 	57,9%
Microsoft	17,6%	21,3%

Total sales -10,6%
November 2004 had 2,871,303 total HW while November 2005 had 2,981,650 total HW. That looks like it went up to me (thanks to 2 new pieces of HW).
 

Teddman

Member
You really have to see the crowing Reirom is doing over at OA. He's attributing the November success of the DS and GBA to the "am cry" reference in Mario & Luigi 2. :lol
Reirom said:
NINTENDO WON MORONS

WOW MARIO AND LUIGI HIT TOTAL
NINTENDO AND REIROM LANGUAGE AM UNSTOPPED
 

GDGF

Soothsayer
Teddman said:
You really have to see the crowing Reirom is doing over at OA. He's attributing the November success of the DS and GBA to the "am cry" reference in Mario & Luigi 2. :lol

:lol Reirom makes for a crazy Nintendo fan. It's like if the Super Friends invited Bizarro to join them, or something.
 

Max^Samp

Member
Fuzzy said:
November 2004 had 2,871,303 total HW while November 2005 had 2,981,650 total HW. That looks like it went up to me (thanks to 2 new pieces of HW).
November 2004

GBA - 1,117,175
Xbox - 708,097
PS2 - 695,876
DS - 479,695
GCN - 350,155

total: ~3,350k

EDIT: you probably missed DS sales (2871+479 = 3350)
 
A few comments on HW sales
-------------------------------------

1) Holy shit on 360 tie ratio. That is gargantuan. Don't give me bundles. Bundles work because consumers make them work. It's also the case that almost no B&M retailers forced bundles. I'm floored. They sold more software in their first month than any system in history (US NPD).

2) Boo to Microsoft on the crappy number of HW units available. They really, really have missed a huge advantage they had. It's certainly not completely lost, but it's a huge shortfall from what they were envisioning earlier this year.

3) GBA is not that incredible, IMO (923,664 / 1,198,489 / 1,186,667 / 1,117,175 were the sales the past 4 years in November). Still, it's a bit higher than I thought as I thought DS would be higher and eat into the GBA sales more.

4) Sony should have dropped the PS2 price to $129. Period. 546k is pathetic for it's sales in November. Now, they're going to do it at a time where it won't have nearly the same impact.

5) DS sales are disappointing IMO, and PSP sales are impressive (again,IMO based on expectations). The DS is almost half the price and had MKDS come out and Nintendogs. Perhaps we'll see a bounce in December for the DS.

6) Xbox is dead. And there are PLENTY of units on the shelves. Consumers have abandoned it for the 360.

7) The Gamecube is also incredibly disappointing. 280k is it's lowest total in December, ever. By a big amount. ( 647k / 425k / 751k / 350k were it's sales the past 4 years)

8) Overall, though it's quite amazing that the market is able to support 7 platforms at once. There has NEVER been anywhere close to this many platforms viable at one time.
 

Amir0x

Banned
Jesus tapdancing christ, wtf. Only 332,121, Microsoft? Is that your plan? Fuck.

PSP = I'll try to be optimistic and say 350k

PSP = 359,772

NDS 515k?

NDS = 381,619

GCN is gonna be totally flatlined, 265k

GCN = 278,284

Xbox is gonna be doing well on shortages of 360, but still not spectacular. Let's make it funny, at 360k.

Xbox = 191,320 (bomba)

GBA... 825k

GBA = 892,438 (I can't believe I even got remotely close)

PS2, hm, 675k

PS2 = 546,096 (tsc tsc)

360 = 412k

360 = 332,121 :(
 

heidern

Junior Member
donny2112 said:
You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol

Awww man, I was only 92,000 off victory of which 267,438 came from the GBA which by far saw the biggest percentage increase in sales this month even though there was a lack of releases. Oh well, even if I didn't win, at least Nintendo and VIP shareholder Gahiggidy did :)
 

Chi-Town

Member
sonycowboy said:
4) Sony should have dropped the PS2 price to $129. Period. 546k is pathetic for it's sales in November. Now, they're going to do it at a time where it won't have nearly the same impact.

Interesting when you consider they did 695,876 last November with shortages and 546k this year with ample supply.
 

olimario

Banned
THREE PILLARS OF NINTENDO >>> MS + SONY
GBA + NDS + GAMECUBE >>> XBOX + XBOX 360 + PSP + PS2
1552341 >>> 1429309
 

Amir0x

Banned
Oh, just wanted to make sure this person ate crow:

[url=http://www.ga-forum.com/showpost.php?p=2348179&postcount=42]Liquid[/url] said:
i'm only gonna say that besides 360 numbers are gonna be low all around. i'm thinking sub 250-300k for ps2. There are literally STACKS of these things at stores going unmoved.

:lol :lol
 

ioi

Banned
Damn, I was 691k off, too high for DS (503k) and too low for GBA (613k), I really don't know how GBA continues to rack up such high sales, I don't care what anyone says but for what is supposedly a dead console, another 900k is just immense!!!
 
donny2112 said:
You were still 6th best! This was a horrible month for predictions. :lol

Code:
Frankfurter	372,576
heidern		464,338
Scotch		529,338
Chibbi Brady	529,338
Leondexter	531,978
Ganondorf>Link	594,770
AniHawk		594,794

Frankfurter was closest on hardware. Congratulations! :)

I was over 1.1 million off and still wasn't last. :lol

Hey,

I was only 576,008 off :lol (I know I'm not qualified for the overall contest).

But, I did pretty damn well on the handhelds.

Code:
Format          Prediction          Actual           Delta
GBA                 730,000         892,438         162,438
PS2                 680,000         546,096         133,904
X360                450,000         332,121         117,879
NDS                 370,000         381,619          11,619
PSP                 350,000         359,772           9,772
XBX                 330,000         278,284          51,716
GCN                 280,000         191,320          88,680
Totals            3,190,000       2,981,650         576,008
 

ioi

Banned
sonycowboy said:
Hey,

I was only 576,008 off :lol (I know I'm not qualified for the overall contest).

But, I did pretty damn well on the handhelds.

Code:
Format          Prediction          Actual           Delta
GBA                 730,000         892,438         162,438
PS2                 680,000         546,096         133,904
X360                450,000         332,121         117,879
NDS                 370,000         381,619          11,619
PSP                 350,000         359,772           9,772
XBX                 330,000         278,284          51,716
GCN                 280,000         191,320          88,680
Totals            3,190,000       2,981,650         576,008

wait a bit, you got your XBX and GCN the wrong way round...
 

olimario

Banned
So does Nintendo officially win this holiday season? Iwata's three pillars seemed to be a good idea.

THREE PILLARS OF NINTENDO >>> MS + SONY
GBA + NDS + GAMECUBE >>> XBOX + XBOX 360 + PSP + PS2
1552341 >>> 1429309
 

Grimmy

Banned
Did Microsoft shoot itself in the foot? I'm not trying to be anti-XBox at all, but the release of the XBox 360 inadvertently had really hurt the sales of the XBox, even when the earlier console probably could have sold around 4-500k this month had the 360 not come out. Now, with massive shortage of the new console and the figures for the older one dropping off dramatically, it seems like overall hardware sales for the company will be really low - not a good thing, IMO.
 

GDGF

Soothsayer
In Nintendo's recent financials, didn't they say that they were expecting less NDS's sold and an increase in GBA's sold over their previous estimates? That's why their people get paid for this :lol
 

cvxfreak

Member
My predictions were:

PS2: 740K
GC: _________ (waiting for bundle numbers, if not gotten, then I'll come up with something)
XBOX: 190K
360: 415K
GBA: 900K
NDS: 440K
PSP: 360K (very unsure about this)

I almost got GBA right. :lol

And fuck you all, I got the PSP right. :lol

And Xbox... :O

Didn't guess for GC, but DS, PS2 and 360 threw me off. :lol
 
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