Well the people who buy new consoles day 1 are presumably the same people who buy new games day 1.
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NPD Sales Results for May 2014 [Up1: Wii U Hardware]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Well the people who buy new consoles day 1 are presumably the same people who buy new games day 1.
LegendofLex
Member
I'd love to know how many units they shipped vs. sold.
UberTag
Member
Still want to back up this response from the prediction thread? Because those hardware numbers certainly don't strike me as good news.
We'll need next month to gauge whether this bounce has any legs.
Yup it goes from best to worst selling.
Dragonborn
Member
Yup, it sure is.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Splatoon = 6 digits for Wii U in June ( ≖‿≖
Sad thing is there are people who actually think "E3 hype" moves units.
Michael Armbrust
Member
Hopefully next month will give the Wii U the big MK8 bump.
I do like everyone here roclaiming Wii U as dead even though the analyst who reported the numbers started out by stating the console being up 90% YTD. Only in GAF hyperbole does a console that sees stronger sales YoY equate to the console being even more dead.
ChoklitCow
Member
Try going to buy a bundle. Just like Titanfall didn't move the Xbox One as anticipated by fans, it isn't going to be a savior by any means. But as someone who tried finding a decent Wii U bundle over the weekend, you can tell they are selling much more frequently.
I also don't see how 60-70k for a console in May over a year after it's release is a bad number, but maybe I am just misinformed.
Even if wii u gets to 150k next month , it will still be bad.
Yep, best selling platforms are left to right.
It was launch week where the majority of sales/boosts will be had.
Chobel
Member
Yes.
MrSaturn99
Member
Way to go, Kirby!
They been down since forever, didnt stop them from talking before. Probably putting the final touches
Karsticles
Member
Just because Smash gets delayed, that doesn't mean they can move Hyrule Warriors up. Maybe they thought late May for Mario Kart, July for Smash, and then September for Hyrule Warriors. Miyamoto seems to have a clear philosophy of "make the game right, not on time", and I think that's all we're seeing.
Sorry I wrote that unclearly. It's 60K for this May and 32K for last May.
This. June is the month to look forward for Wii U hardware numbers after MK8 and E3 hype.
Aquamarine
Member
No no. Nirolak has the statement in the OP correct now.
Hopefully in time for Zelda.
Jaded Alyx
Member
2 days. June is the month to take notice. Reggie recently said sales increased x4 due to the MK8 bundle. That's obviously not being represented here.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Wii U's hardware bump is slightly discouraging but one might see the end result in June.
postcyberpunk
Banned
Selling to Amazon confirmed.
And absolutely gobsmacked to find out about how NPD lists multiplay games. Thx for that info.
There's no gaps between the bars on a histogram. Sorry, got a stats exam coming up so I'm being a tad nerdy
There's no appreciable reason why a histogram should have no gaps between the different buckets, that's just a difference in the graphical representation.
The underlying statistical object is exactly the same: a histogram.
Keeping hope alive I see. We already saw the Mario Kart effect in Japan with hard numbers for the Wii-U. The bump in Japan was similar percentage wise to what it is for NPD. This may ruffle some feathers but this atleast shows Mario Kart 8 is not a system seller just a massive seller of software.
CosmicQueso
Member
May accounts for about 3% of total annual hardware sales... so let's keep some perspective here.
May 2014: 60K (up 85% from 32.6K)
May 2013: 32.6K (our estimate off pixel counting the Nintendo graph was 34K, but apparent it was a tad lower)
I had no idea. No. Idea.
Mario Kart has long legs since the series is one entry per gen/system. Pretty sure the game will chart next month too. We'll see though.
That would actually be pretty insane.
No it won't. Money will. Same as always.
TheRealTalker
Banned
so where not getting any other numbers are we
For software, yes.
Hardware however has a longer tail for system sellers. It typically kicks in after the word of mouth from the front loaded software purchases by existing owners.
Aquamarine
Member
28 days of tracking for Wii U, 2 days of tracking for MK8.
People are acting like the wiiu was not on store shelves for years already, what is waiting for next months npd going to do for the hardware sales? Anyone who wanted a wiiu an mk could have easily bought the console beforehand and picked up the game at release. 60k with one of the biggest releases this year is bad.
Pound_lb003
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Do we ever get the PS4 numbers nowadays? We didn't get last month's did we?
Yes, though it was enough for Mario Kart to move enough to get #2.
I'm guessing the bump will be split between the two months, but I'm not expecting June to move up to 100K or anything like that.
Keeps getting worse with each update.
Losing hope for it outselling the Xbone. I guess there's still a chance. That "price drop in June" announcement should have scared a lot of people away.
And there's no longer any doubt that the entire install base is made up of the core Nintendo crowd, and despite how small that install base is they buy a lot of Nintendo software.
KillerMan91
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I do like everyone here roclaiming Wii U as dead even though the analyst who reported the numbers started out by stating the console being up 90% YTD. Only in GAF hyperbole does a console that sees stronger sales YoY equate to the console being even more dead.
It doesn't matter even if it was up by 1000% if it still sells only 60k in a month. Only thing that matters is the actual numbers and not percentage increases.