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[baekshi]

OLED is still beind sold on a few stores.

I hadn't been able to find it in my area for months, even during christmas. I'm in NYc btw.

I bought my 2nd when amazon had got those very small quantity of limited white oled.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

Why did Vita get such a huge bump? In line with Wii U during Mario Kart launch month? How in the hell?

 

[Officerrob]

X1 will be fortunate to outsell the Wii U at this rate. What, exactly, do you think they'll be taking?

The X1 outsold the Wii U in a month in which they killed their own sales and the WiiU had a couple days of Mario Kart help. The X1 won't be outselling the PS4 next month, but lets stop with the "fortunate to outsell the Wii U" hyperbole too

 

[gotstrangepowers]

switch PS3 to Vita and switch Wii to PS3

 

[Pennywise]

Why did Vita get such a huge bump? In line with Wii U during Mario Kart launch month? How in the hell?

Borderlands 2 bundle.

 

[FZZ]

honestly im just saying that to counter a previous posters claim that it wont. no one can see into the future of these consoles so its silly to say it will or wont reach a certain install base.

Umm? No shit.

But why do you think these sales threads exist? It's to estimate and pinpoint how the sales of certain game and game platforms will hold up. And for investors to see if putting your money into a stock for a company will be viable or not. Henceforth why I made my own personal prediction.

 

[Orthogonal]

Either that or swap the 360, U slices. Hard to tell. Regardless they are very close so 360 is closer to 60K than 50K.

 

[RoKKeR]

So is consensus bone is doomed in here?

Watch Dogs split is interesting, Destiny is probably going to look something like that, if not worse. It's not the exclusive content that does it but marketing. Wonder how Evolve and CoD shake out this fall as those are the two MS has marketing deals with.

PS4 domination continues, great stuff from Sony. Glad to see there is one console that is really leading the way into this new generation. Not surprised about XBO's poor numbers in May and I'm not sure why anybody would be. They announced the price cut knowing full well May would be a throwaway month, June will be interesting. (though I doubt it'll be much better)

Biggest takeaway: PUBLISHERS PLEASE KILL CROSS-GEN!

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

But the other two major consoles are selling much, much worse than their precious iterations.

Wii is (which is expected), but Xbox One is still trending slightly better than PS3 did early on.

I fully expect the Xbox One to "get back in the game" in the US, similar to how the PS3 also had a turn around and started doing respectable numbers.

 

[StoopKid]

I think that has a lot to do with the long console cycle. I think both will see a severe drop off in sales from here.

So much crow will eaten during the fall.

 

[NavyPharaoh]

No PR spin from Yusef?

 

[CharminUltra]

Need Ouya #s plz. This is vital.

 

[creamsugar]

 

[Plinko]

Due to their love of shooting themselves in the foot.

And that has absolutely no bearing on this conversation.

 

[Owwari]

Welcome to GAF

NeoGAF? Can you stream that?

 

[phanphare]

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[Busaiku]

switch PS3 to Vita and switch Wii to PS3

It wouldn't make sense with 3DS and Vita included.

 

[Opiate]

But isn't the part of the audience that's being siphoned away the part of the audience that was only there last generation to begin with?

It started being born with late PS2 era games like Guitar Hero, blossomed last generation, and then got stolen away by Apple and Google this generation. If MS, Sony or Nintendo had been savvy enough, they would have been able to keep that large, growing, highly profitable market segment; they were not. It's not really an insult, though, as Apple and Google are two of the most competitive companies right now.

The important thing here is that last generation wasn't a "bubble" or anything. It isn't that the audience suddenly came and then just as suddenly went away; that would imply that they left gaming entirely. Instead, these gamers came... and then were stolen away from consoles by gaming platforms that are better at serving their preferences and tastes. Those gamers are still around, they just don't care about the Xbox One or PS4 or Wii U very much.

 

[Chinpoko_Master]

I have mixed feelings on these console sales. PS4 sales are OK but everything else is bad. I have a feeling that summer NPDs aren't going to be pretty.

 

[Shizuka]

Mind Zero, Borderlands 2 and Drakengard 3 next!

 

[Orthogonal]

Hmmm, now we got handhelds. Cream is sitting back and having a good laugh while we squirm.

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

And that has absolutely no bearing on this conversation.

Of course it does. They created undesirable products through design and cost. People just don't buy consoles just cause.

 

[Kuro]

I think a huge amount of people are waiting for the holidays to buy current gen consoles. There are barely any games coming out until the holidays too.

 

[Lexxism]

We got a new one with 3DS and PSV included

 

[VICI0US]

Why did Vita get such a huge bump? In line with Wii U during Mario Kart launch month? How in the hell?

new model released bundled with memory card and BL2

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

Borderlands 2 bundle.

How does the port of a year and a half old console game cause a bigger bump than Mario Kart?

 

[Busaiku]

It's hard to tell Wii U, Vita, and 360 apart.

 

[gotstrangepowers]

So much crow will eaten during the fall.

yes. Or January, when Batman is released.

 

[Curufinwe]

This is disastrous. Wow. That's a colossal market contraction.

If you ignore the fact the PS4 and Xbone sold way more in their first two months. But who's silly enough to... Oh.

 

[FZZ]

Wtf

This is too much.

I'm guess the left three from top to bottom are 3DS, One, U. And then PS4. And the rest are 360, Vita, PS3, and Wii.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

How does the port of a year and a half old console game cause a bigger bump than Mario Kart?

May 6th vs May 30th

 

[Louis Cyphre]

How low do the PS3 and XBox 360 numbers have to be before they drastically reduce the price?

 

[ZSaberLink]

so has the x1 finally overtaken wii u

It did the month of Titanfall iirc. Anyways, it already has though in the US.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Total new home consoles sales this month didn't even exceed Wii's number alone in May 2007. Add in the other two and you have total market contraction on the order of around 200k units.

It's only going to get worse from here on out. By next year PS3 was seeing a resurgence, Wii was really taking off, and 360 was finding a strong second place position.

 

[Orthogonal]

It's hard to tell Wii U, Vita, and 360 apart.

They are all within a few thousand of each other, so it makes sense. No need to split hairs, just gotta figure out the broad strokes.

 

[Chezzymann]

switch PS3 to Vita and switch Wii to PS3

Then where's the 3DS?

 

[lightning2k3]

Well, here is the biggest news this month, Vita is back to life, FPS bundle 56k.

I am late to the party but holy shiitttttt. Trampled all expectations!

 

[ironcreed]

Guess we're back declaring the video game industry is dead.

And it's right after a great E3. How depressing.

 

[PsychoSoldier]

The NPD thread is now a Professor Layton game.

 

[baekshi]

How does the port of a year and a half old console game cause a bigger bump than Mario Kart?

It didn't.

Vita OLED had been dried out for months.

 

[eddfromtheriver]

Xbone price cut didn't take effect here. Next NPDs will see the return of the king.

Nah the king is perched atop his rightful throne right now.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Segments going clockwise are presumably:

Wii
360
PS3
PS4
WIU
XBO
3DS
PSV

I.e. last gen grouped, current gen consoles grouped, current gen handhelds grouped.

I'd measure it but I uninstalled ImageJ.

 

[Kazerei]

How many picarats is this puzzle worth?

Also I'd like to use a hint coin.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Total new home consoles sales this month didn't even exceed Wii's number alone in May 2007. Add in the other two and you have total market contraction on the order of around 200k units.

It's only going to get worse from here on out. By next year PS3 was seeing a resurgence, Wii was really taking off, and 360 was finding a strong second place position.

Wii shouldn't really be included in the analysis, as that market was something completely foreign to either the 360 or PS3 audiences, largely, and has not been recaptured by the Wii U. They have moved on to mobile platforms.

I don't see how it's going to get "much worse" from here on out, when Microsoft has already taken some necessary steps to improve their situation in the US, and there's a huge amount of titles releasing in the fall that will usher in more current-gen adoption.

Then you have the impact of normal price drops, improving lineups, and last-gen die off.

There could ultimately end up being a slight contraction for the 360 + PS3 market, but current sales numbers (which have dwarfed the previous gen's early adoption numbers), don't indicate that at all yet.

 

[tranciful]

Are you people actually expecting Wii's success to carry over? The casuals came for a couple years and left after they got bored of Wii Fit. Wii was a bubble.

 

[FTF]

Segments going clockwise are presumably:

Wii
360
PS3
PS4
WIU
XBO
3DS
PSV

I'd measure it but I uninstalled ImageJ.

I agree with this answer

 

[kswiston]

Then where's the 3DS?

he's wrong anyhow, since Vita and Wii U were close.

 

[SwiftDeath]

All right everyone break out your protractors and turn to page 45 in your neogaf textbook

Today's activity involves decoding secret posts

 

[Aquamarine]

All right everyone break out your protractors and turn to page 45 in your neogaf textbook

Today's activity involves decoding secret posts

I absolutely love these decoding games! It makes the thread more enjoyable!

 

[Leatherworkstation]

Can someone clarify something for me?

How much of a difference potentially does the fact that Watch_Dogs came out on 27/5 make to bundle sales on PS4? When did this NPD window end?

Will next month be skewed by the bundles that didn't make it?