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October 2014 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes November 11th

I don't know PS4 is already climbing the Amazon charts again and the only Xbox bundle that is sticking around is the AC one. If Sony has the supply and the demand around Black Friday they can take November.
IF Sony takes November and MS doesn't gain momentum off the price drop they won't have a chance to even win the US this generation. It will be a slaughter world wide.
 

Elios83

Member
This NPD thread is going to be pathetic. Unless the big 3 give us numbers out of pity, we won't have much to go on besides speculation and vague statements.

Usually some numbers are leaked by journalists in their NPD coverage.We have to keep the hope alive :p
 

Nirolak

Mrgrgr
When are the nod dropping . Thought it was today ?

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"In an hour and a half."
 
More interesting things of the month.

Outside this I want hardware just to not lose track of LTD.

Yes my first priority would be hardware sales, then Bayonetta/SO sales

Hopefully Bombenetta did at least 125-150k. The game is most likely extremely front-loaded and won't have the usual Nintendo legs.

It probably won't even reach 300k LTD ;.;

If it mimicked Japan's opening for it, then it would sell roughly 65,000 units in the US. I'm hopeful it can punch slightly above that, maybe just break 100,000? Much more than that seems hard to achieve but I suppose it did have a great critical response
 

tapedeck

Do I win a prize for talking about my penis on the Internet???
I usually dont give a flying fuck about NPD but todays should be fun.
 

NateDrake

Member
I'm expecting Nintendo PR to report Bayonetta 2 did over 125k. For reference, Sony Sept. NPD statement was shared around 5:40pm & Nintendo just after 6pm. So we should hear stuff within the next 30-40mins from the companies.

I usually dont give a flying fuck about NPD but todays should be fun.

Why? The only information we'll have is from press releases. So this NPD will be rather tame compared to recent months.
 
Really? :(

I thought the value proposition of including the 1st game might have enticed more people to get the title.

I hope I am right.

If Bayonetta 2 can reach 100K, I would consider it a success considering it's Platinum. That may be wishful thinking, though.

The first one did less than 300K first month ('ve read 160K 360 +60K PS3 to 240K combined...) on two platforms that were over 15/25M (Combined 40M). If Bayo 2 hit 100K That would be INSANE on a total userbase of less than 4M
 

tapedeck

Do I win a prize for talking about my penis on the Internet???
Why? November is the one people are curious about!

I'm expecting Nintendo PR to report Bayonetta 2 did over 125k.



Why? The only information we'll have is from press releases. So this NPD will be rather tame compared to recent months.
Oh I thought Octobers included alot of those xbone bundle sales increases. So its November then..derp.
 
He used email tag.

Has it been confirmed that was legit? I saw the email tag, I know there was an "lol" or something to that effect, meaning Cream could have been joking about losing their source. But is there anything to back that up?


I bet Cream may PM the info to someone else, who can share the information or something. That would be ideal, the information would be from an anonymous source.
 

allan-bh

Member
Has it been confirmed that was legit? I saw the email tag, I know there was an "lol" or something to that effect, meaning Cream could have been joking about losing their source. But is there anything to back that up?


I bet Cream may PM the info to someone else, who can share the information or something. That would be ideal, the information would be from an anonymous source.


I don't see how to think that creamsugar was serious about lose his source, but we'll see tonight.

And I don't think he is afraid of NPD as Aquamarine was. He is doing this for years.
 
Thanks. I don't know why but I always thought the NPD thread started about an hour or so earlier than the results came in ... Or am I getting it mixed up with this thread?

It has always gone up when main report is released.

Thread goes up once the Top 10 software chart is made available which is generally 2 to 2 and half hours after the actual NPD report is given out to those who pay for it.
 
Yeah this 125k figure being repeated is very fishy ... wondering what they're basing that on.
Well, Hyrule Warriors did manage nearly 200K with digital, and that's a genre that typically doesn't do fantastic from memory. Of course it was "a Zelda game." But maybe it's simply based on Nintendo publishing, as a form of credibility with the installed base, and ties to their brands with costumes and stuff.
 
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