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NPD Sales Results for November 2015 [Up3: Combined Hardware For PS4 + XB1 + Wii U]
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dead monkey uk
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Are the PS4 bundles not due to go back to $350 around today? If so they will likely come back in stock with the updated price.
Someone give this guy a loose tag!
? I'm not following you here.
If they are selling all the stock they were able to put out that's not really "loose"ing sales that's them selling through everything they could. It's what they were able to produce and ship. If they were able to burn through the backstock that some of the insiders were talking about that would be impressive and not at all an indication they were going to "loose" December.
The idea that they under shipped is pretty ridiculous to begin with seeing as how, from all the data we have this far this gen, their shipments and sell through figures have been impeccably managed up until this point. Not to mention there would be absolutely nothing to gain from under shipping. What possible reason would they have to do that?
DC1
Member
Hi Noobie.
Trust the wisdom of commerce and competitive capitalism that Sony is prepared.
Sony and most retail outlets have anticipated the Star Wars (merchandise and affiliated product) spike since the exclusive marketing deal was originally pondered in the shower of the mail clerk that also delivers the paper to Eric Lempel.
Outside of a supply manufacturing constraint due to hardware components, selling out of the Star Wars PS4 bundle is a good problem to have.
It is a hard nut to crack.
1) parents are very price sensitive when buying toys for children. How do you sell them on a premium console and $60 games?
2) kids don't care about quality. Mobile has free games. Parents can buy a tablet for $50. How does a dedicated hardware manufacturer compete with that?
3) Nintendo already dominates the market that is left. How do you take away some of their market share?
I think the unfortunate truth is that kids videogames are migrating to mobile and are going to be f2p or made by advertising agencies--with the exception of one or two things, like minecraft, that can sell themselves as educational childhood development tools.
slavesnyder
Member
Before November NPD we had the narrative floating around that Microsoft did not want to get marketing rights for COD and Battlefront because they had their own big FPS in Halo.
Do you still thing this was the reason both went to Playstation?
If so...
Do you still thing this was the reason both went to Playstation?
If so...
It's still not sold out yet? Damn, they must be losing December.
Before November NPD we had the narrative floating around that Microsoft did not want to get marketing rights for COD and Battlefront because they had their own big FPS in Halo.
Do you still thing this was the reason both went to Playstation?
If so...
To be fair we also had the narrative that these companies are flocking to Sony and hiking up their skirts and Sony wasn't buying them
The truth is likely somewhere in between
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
slavesnyder
Member
I don't say it's true.
Just want to hear opinions. You are always wiser afterwards. There were good arguments to stick with Sony (market leader, international appeal, no exclusives, especially no FPS). Only wanted to know if it was an active decision by MS or by the publishers.
My guess is a little of both.
Sony was more aggressive this year to get FPS
Due to marketshare/etc the price tag for Sony was probably lower than for MS
And I'm going to make an assumption that despite the flack he gets on here there probably is a kernel of truth regarding Spencer's comments on first party development . Dangerous I know
the price tag required for battlefront or call of duty was a business decision when you factor and they already had Halo. None of us can say if it was a good one or bad one yet because we don't know the dollar amount involved or how it will all play out.
Edit: by the way for the record since you're mentioning November NPD, I think the price parity have as much or more likely more of a factor then the marketing deals
Yep, Sony is being complacent because they offered the Battlefront bundles at $299 and now those bundles sold better than expected even though they had lots of stock according to retail insiders here. Oh, how arrogant of Sony to steal Microsoft's time to shine.
"if" this and "if" that. Let's just wait for NPD Dec. I'm sure PS4 will win
NeloAnjelo
Member
The Uncharted Bundle now says in stock on the 25th Dec. While the StarWars bundle says in stock on the 21st Dec.
Give us that stock Sony. The film is out this week!
Give us that stock Sony. The film is out this week!
Man Util Dawn has done quite well for itself, better than it looked at launch!
Combined with EU numbers I'm hoping Super Massive and Sony are happy with sales. Seems word of mouth/YouTube was a key driver with time.
Is uhhh, Noobie a walking meme I missed at some point??
He made an entire thread where he called Sony's 1st party developers 'lazy' etc, so draw your own conclusions.
It could just be Amazon playing up. A couple of hours ago it was in stock when moments before out of stock.
Anyways, Amazon isn't the only place that has the console at $299. But I don't live in the US so what's the stock level like in other retailers? (pseudo-Abdiel batsignal)
It would not necessarily be a bad idea for Sony to have priviledged the retail stores as opposed to online for supply, when this close to Xmas and the movie release tbh.
Would be interesting to have our retail insiders chime in about stock levels, but they are certainly during this period.
Would be interesting to have our retail insiders chime in about stock levels, but they are certainly during this period.
slavesnyder
Member
If the kid wants his Star Wars Playstation and it's not on Amazon, daddy will drive through the whole district to get one.
It's Christmas after all.
Primethius
Banned
Neat, I have a bat signal
It's always so perfect.
If I wrote a noobie.py script the output would look just like this post.
No, that's LTD.
serversurfer
Member
#letloosethesales
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
But aren't sim racers as a whole struggling in NA? I mean yeah, GT6 should've had a PS4 version at launch or by now, but how much better would it have done even if it did? Just assuming the entire sim racing genre has greatly depleted in selling power in NA, like I've seen some other posters say from time to time.
Also don't count out UC4 debuting at 1 million or slightly above that. The bundle's really helped give the series more exposure, as has TLOU.
Hopefully if the extremely strong PS4 advertising is a sign, SCEA will be pushing their 1st party games w/ better ad campaigns. We'll find out quite soon.
#StraightOuttaCremaster
Yes.
My point being that the closer we get, the more likely visits to the store as the shipping delay would become a concern
Not everybody has Prime after all...
This being said, I'm sure that selling through all they can ship is downright horrible for Sony. I hope Andrew House can sleep at night.
A little late to the party, but nonetheless!
I'm assuming you mean hw.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188792408&postcount=2307
TheAusHulk
Member
Tomb Raider is easily in my top 3 games for this year it's a shame it was sent out to die. The games industry really needs to stray away from releasing everything in November,December. It's becoming a joke.
A little over 1.5 million.
Pennywise83
Banned
In Japan, Sony gave Bloodborne for free to anyone who was purchasing a PS4.
Splatoon sold 750k more units than Bloodborne in Japan. Creamsugar told us Splatoon LTD > Bloodborne LTD in US. It is very likely that worldwide Splatoon is leading sales right now.
funkystudent
Member
Oh I have a question.
How well did Halo 5 sell versus how well did Destiny do on XB1?
How well did Halo 5 sell versus how well did Destiny do on XB1?
Super_Cobra
Member
Maybe because one was hyped to hell and back, the other was a pleasant surprise. And one was marketed as one of the top games for he Xbox one for the holiday.
Also tomb raider probably had a much much larger budget than UD.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
Some xbox youtuber claims that MS paid for full funding and marketing so SE can't lose money, and he knows because of his connections smh
iceblade997
Member
Thank you very much.
Those 'bundled' sales weren't tracked so while Splatoon is higher, we don't know by how much tho.