I don't think The price was ever a issues with ps4.$400 is a pretty standard price for a console,I don't think a $50 drop made people feel like they had to buy one. Especially when Holiday deals are right around the corner. Sony being able to match the $299 BF deals is huge imo.
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NPD Sales Results for October 2015 [Up1: Xbox #1]
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I don't think The price was ever a issues with ps4.$400 is a pretty standard price for a console,I don't think a $50 drop made people feel like they had to buy one. Especially when Holiday deals are right around the corner. Sony being able to match the $299 BF deals is huge imo.
Oh yeah, it's happening. All of their games. Gears 4 will likely have a larger drop from Gears 3 than Halo 5 from 4, so that is certainly hitting pc. They are going to start wanting to make as much money from their first party games as they can. And as we can see, first party titles don't sell hardware like they use to, so there really is no downside in my opinion.
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
It's so funny watching all of the freaking out. This hits the nail on the head. They are fine, as are Microsoft.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Pretty much. Combined with no games really released in October... Battlefront, CoD, FO4, BF deals, etc in November. This will be the insane month I believe.
Liabe Brave
Member
Yeah, but they only hint, they don't post confidently precise numbers like ZhugeEX. Precision is sexier (even if it's unwarranted).
travisbickle
Member
Sickboy's unifying theory of life:
"At one point you've got it, then you lose it, and it's gone forever."
No one should think there favourite thing will last forever.
The Mad Draklor
Member
*Dragon Quest Heroes, Disgaea 5, and Tales of Zestiria all cry in a corner*
I know, I know. They're niche.
Obliterator
Member
My only question around it now is Gold subs. They really value those. So I could see their big titles not hitting Day 1 on PC but within a year of launch yeah
Cow Goes Moo
Member
People are saying X1 sold 300k. Assuming every sale was a Halo edition, that means it made $150 mil at $500/console. People also claiming that Halo 5 sold 1 million. That makes $60-80 million (assuming some significant number of limited editions). Together that means 2$10-230 million. People also claim that US is the lions share of Xbox one.
So rest of the world is responsible for about $200 million more? It would take about 3.3 million more sales of the game/controllers (and no consoles) for the numbers to add up.
No way it sold less than 1 million. Unless people are going to argue that Halo sold more in the non-US markets.
So rest of the world is responsible for about $200 million more? It would take about 3.3 million more sales of the game/controllers (and no consoles) for the numbers to add up.
No way it sold less than 1 million. Unless people are going to argue that Halo sold more in the non-US markets.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Well early on in the thread we get info Disgaea 5 did good .
So that is great to hear .
ethomaz
Banned
Or MS PR was about sell-in (shipped).
Shipped 500k consoles ($250m) and sold 300k consoles.
perfectchaos007
Member
305K consoles is a lot better than I thought XBone would do
1st Course
Member
The ~276k figure for PS4 should be legit. It seems like it was teased earlier by a reliable poster. Look up the predictions thread.
Sangetsu-II
Member
November should be good for PS4 and hopefully should recover from the October price cut fail. Since I won't be able to do predictions for November I'll just leave the info I was gonna place on the November prediction thread:
PS4 Pre-orders on Amazon so far:
September:
#16 Darth Vader LE PS4
October:
#26 Darth Vader LE PS4
#39 CoD LE PS4
#89 Star Wars PS4 Bundle
Two Weeks of November:
#14 CoD LE PS4 (Launch numbers mixed in)
#24 Darth Vader LE PS4
#26 Star Wars PS4 Bundle
Black Friday Ads:
GameStop - $299 UCC PS4
Target - $299 UCC PS4
Walmart - $299 UCC PS4
Best Buy - $299 UCC PS4
Meijer - $299 UCC PS4
$299 PS4 should be everywhere in Black Friday. I think Sony can reach at least 1m in November with all of this.
PS4 Pre-orders on Amazon so far:
September:
#16 Darth Vader LE PS4
October:
#26 Darth Vader LE PS4
#39 CoD LE PS4
#89 Star Wars PS4 Bundle
Two Weeks of November:
#14 CoD LE PS4 (Launch numbers mixed in)
#24 Darth Vader LE PS4
#26 Star Wars PS4 Bundle
Black Friday Ads:
GameStop - $299 UCC PS4
Target - $299 UCC PS4
Walmart - $299 UCC PS4
Best Buy - $299 UCC PS4
Meijer - $299 UCC PS4
$299 PS4 should be everywhere in Black Friday. I think Sony can reach at least 1m in November with all of this.
Liabe Brave
Member
But he didn't cosign the numbers, just expressed his respect. And while I respect CosmicQueso, I have to disagree with him here. I do data analysis for a living, and from my experience ZhugeEX's analysis on GAF was generally reasonable, but not anything especially clever or insightful. He had a very high opinion of his own estimates though, which is a real red flag.
The Artisan
Member
damn, both Ps4 and xbone going at $299? this is gonna be really interesting
SteamyPunk
Member
Pretty sure the $400 million is sell-in. MS probably sold through about $200 million of that in October. They'll sell the rest and more in November and December.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Rock Band 4 in the top 10 makes me happy.
There was once a guy who thought that his estimates were actually better than the trackers he was using to make his estimates with. Such a strange (and statistically unsound) fellow. Went on to create some website. Everythingandnothing or something like that.
Omnistalgic
Member
yup...disappointed at everything. Next month sales will be up, but meh, nothing surprising for the year I think. Good healthy sales for the industry, that's about all I care about now.
Obliterator
Member
NPD George strikes again
KyanMehwulfe
Member
finally no minecraft or gta? :O dem fall releases 
Biggest sell-in, in Halo history?
travisbickle
Member
If you look at the time's in last month's thread, creamsugar first posted about 50 minutes from now.
hodayathink
Member
They give AC a year off and put out Watch Dogs 2 in it's place. It makes sense, especially if they think they can get an AC1 to AC2 level bump in quality.
That is, unless they feel like the have to have something to coincide with the movie. Even then, I could see the movie getting pushed to early 2017 and the game releasing then.
Sangetsu-II
Member
So since creamsugar is a no show, can john or cosmic PM the halo 5 numbers?
opticalmace
Member
Y'all are too impatient. The cream always delivers.
Obliterator
Member
We shouldn't count out Cream yet. He likes to come out when things are quiet
Sangetsu-II
Member
It's already 1am, the pies are burnt. He's never this late.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
well if that's the case i'll wait. Here are a few questions i have dear creamsugar:
H5 over 1.4M Y/N
Uncharted over 200k Y/N
Yoshi over 300k Y/N
AC over 1M Y/N
TY
H5 over 1.4M Y/N
Uncharted over 200k Y/N
Yoshi over 300k Y/N
AC over 1M Y/N
TY
Vincent Grayson
Member
Seriously. I think I bought more PS4 games in October than in any previous month since launch.
He seems to keep us waiting longer and longer with each succeeding NPD thread. I'm surprised he hasn't just popped into the thread to just leave "Kept you waiting, huh?". That would drive most people nuts already
Obliterator
Member
We already know Halo is sub 1 million.
Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule
Member
i can't know a thing without REAL answers
It's real... all of it.
Ghost Slayer
Member
Thisa Christmas should be fun
Sangetsu-II
Member
The thread is dead guys...