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NPD Sales Results for May 2014 [Up1: Wii U Hardware]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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What a weird question to ask. Before that he asks "Will the Wii U ever outsell the Xbox One or PlayStation 4?"
lol.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I've never denied that MK8 wouldn't have an effect, I think Nintendo's first party efforts are powerful enough that pretty much all of them (at least the big name stuff like Mario and Zelda) will cause a bump, I wonder what the sustainability is though. That is where I have doubts. If sales quadruple in June and then normalize in July and August and until Smasn Bros, does that really mean anything for the long term prospects?
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I'm so confused about Wii U right now 
7DollarHagane
Banned
Consider too that the family market is not buying consoles in May. When the holidays roll around having that Mario Kart bundle on shelves will be important to system sales.
I don't know why any family with kids who might have considered the WiiU and now has kids that are interested because of Mario Kart would buy it in May vs waiting for it as a christmas gift. I think it'll do quite well later in the year too along with Smash Bros.
I don't know why any family with kids who might have considered the WiiU and now has kids that are interested because of Mario Kart would buy it in May vs waiting for it as a christmas gift. I think it'll do quite well later in the year too along with Smash Bros.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Has WiiU actually sold better than the GC in one month yet?
which would be a big chunk of those console sales.
I'm leaving it up to someone with more info and more sales calculation experience to draw the relevant US info out of it. I think the numbers from Japan are probably out there already.
edit: 450,000 is the US in 3 days
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudley/2014/06/11/e3-nintendo-boss-on-wii-u-beating-xbox-and-playstation/
If the 18% attach rate applied to US sales as well as worldwide, that would mean
2.347 million Wii U (source )
2347000 * .18 = 422,460 sales of Mario Kart 8 in the US were to previous Wii U owners
450,000 - 422,460 = 27,540 sales of Mario Kart 8 in the US were to new Wii U owners in 3 days
Arkam
Member
I am very curious too.
Just TODAY I have had three more friends post on FB about getting a WiiU.
Either I personally know everyone who picked up a WiiU in that last week or its going to get a decent bump next week. I really want to know what this real world buzz translates to.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Probably closer that the market Amazon Germany represents on the US retail market...
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Kirby made the top 10. That seems to be pretty good for a non-Mario 3DS game.
SwiftDeath
Member
Yes sorry it's YOY increase from May 2013. My mistake
Ah my mistake then. I would be curious to know Amazon's marketshare in Germany although I'm certain it's much less.
In the US though Amazon has a signficant portion of US retail even if it is less than 10% and shouldn't be so easily dismissed
There is value in statistical inference from within-product, within-retailer time series data like Amazon publishes.
Aquamarine
Member
As of April 2014 NPD....nope.
Every single month GameCube beat Wii U...in most months by quite a significant amount.
GameCube LTD as of April 2003 - 4.01 million
Wii U LTD as of April 2014 - 2.35 million
Relaxed Muscle
Member
These Amazon statistical predictions have been more wrong in the past than right, I remember that month were Xbone was supossed to surpass PS4, because is was the 1# selling product on Amazon...
Don't have to say sorry. I was the one who misread your post. I read "much like" as "unlike", my mistake.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I think it's really important that Nintendo push holiday sunday insert flyer advertising at retail for holidays and get some aggressive bundles that give a lot of value at $250 or $300 vs the $400 next gen options that don't offer any games and have expensive subscription services.
I think they are in a good position to sell a lot of software this holiday and with the right prices/bundles be competitive with XB1 and be a more attractive family alternative as a holiday gift.
I think they are in a good position to sell a lot of software this holiday and with the right prices/bundles be competitive with XB1 and be a more attractive family alternative as a holiday gift.
yeah it was
I just feel like Reggie would have deflected a bit more if he didn't know something that we don't. he's certainly capable of better PR spin than "wait for the June NPDs"
I'm not expecting massive numbers next month or anything I just find his response interesting
They are running a little late, I mean they DID announce like 'we are dropping kinnect' they shouldn't be shocked by the numbers they got.
But if Microsoft does not release the numbers, how do we know Sony won this month?
Amazon data was almost always discarded in sales threads until the last month or so. I'm not sure what changed, or why. Not sure I dig it though.
I believe that was December, when the Xbox One did outsell the PS4
I'm unconcerned with how faulty some people's logic is; You can make terrible inference with fantastic data.
My point is that it's a valuable source of information, not that all inference taken from it is good.
It has been and will continue to be interpreted incorrectly, since it not only does not give actual numbers, but also has a fluid background algorithm that actually generates the rankings with lag.
But that's not the point. The point is that the within-product, within-retailer time series variation that the Amazon rankings give us can be valuable for some statistical inference.
Because NPD already told us
Dragonborn
Member
Are you seriously comparing one store to Amazons best seller list? It's certaibly not perfect but for Hardware it hasn't been wrong this gen. Every time the PS4 is on top, it wins NPD. In Dec, the X1 won which was also reflected in Amazons list
HanShotFirst
Member
Decent Wii U sales. It will be interesting to see how long they'll be up YOY.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
SwiftDeath
Member
That's always disheartening to see but I guess dems the brakes :\
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Well deserved. The game is a masterpiece.
It's always like this. As a European I never get anything from staying up late, but if I go to bed I can read them the next morning with a cup of coffee.
7DollarHagane
Banned
It really is a fantastic game and i'm glad to see it selling well. One of my favorite 3ds titles now.
The GameCube also had its evergreen titles out sooner than the Wii U.
Melee launched a month after the console was out.
The only month the Xbox One has beat the PS4 on Amazon is December; which happens to be the only month the Xbox One outsold the PS4. The November rankings is bugged due to the changes with Amazon listing the PS4 as an launch edition.
crazygambit
Member
It's right there in the OP? PS4>PS3>PSV.
Jimmyfenix
Member
As i said Nothing can beat March NPD. NOTHING
ethomaz
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gigantor21
Member
I'm only expecting Smash to do anything big for the console.
The others will do more to sate existing owners than drive new sales IMO.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Sony hasn't been specific on numbers since PS4 launch. It's not surprising that they're content with the narrative being "we're number 1" vs "we're number 1 by X units" because it's really not a huge drastic difference every month. It looks bigger when those small victories accumulate and you're 1 million ahead, etc.
cyber_ninja
Member
Nope, there was no spin yet;Larry is looking for something to spin as we speak.
SDCowboy
Member
Right but usually there are percentages leaked so the numbers can be guessed from that.
What's your take on Reggie's statement about the 400% in weekly sales? Does he refer to the first week of June? Does he make some kind of strange week (Friday to Thursday) from launch? Because a 48k week in June wouldn't be that bad.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
It might be work for the biggest seller each month, but I don't think is really that useful to track small variations in the 20-40 positions....
digoutyoursoul
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His chair ?
