The Mad Draklor
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I'm debating whether crab rangoon is either Edson Farley or RandyRaceCar...
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NPD Sales Results for May 2016
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I'm debating whether crab rangoon is either Edson Farley or RandyRaceCar...
ethomaz
Banned
PS4 had 207,300 new US users in May 2016.
That is pretty big for May... MC threads are Weekly... try to compare them monthly to see.
After you said Xbone > PS4 this month I get where you trying to do now.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They outsold MSFT a hair over 2:1. You can't downplay, goalpost, or spin that shit, lol.
My prediction is 200k, so I was totally expecting a boost. GAF aggregate is even bigger with 213k.
Perhaps even DoctorProfessional or Hermain Cain reincarnated. The possibilities are endless!
Okay, to put it simply, how would you classify the boost then? My prediction was 197K, BTW.
TheStruggler
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who won hardware, only MS released a statement
crab rangoon
Banned
If X1 best PS4 given those 3 MAJOR selling points favoring Sony's platform it would be a pretty major disappointment for Sony.
He said it was not impressive. How does that equate to him agreeing the boost was 'good'? You seem to see what you want to see.
5Twist,
Neither.
The Mad Draklor
Member
What if he's everyone??!! :O
Well, Media Create is weekly. This is NPD. We roll on a month-month basis.
Nvm... What Etho/donny said. It's solid at worst dude. No real argument to be had.
ethomaz
Banned
360 looks to be fast catching even in US.
PS4 - Xbone gap is lower than what I expected.
192k here
Microsoft won, the hours played increased dramatically.
Not particularly impressive, but a good improvement.
Good grief. Did you flunk English class by any chance? Where did I imply that him saying the boost was not impressive means he was agreeing that the boost was "good"? I was indirectly asking if he would agree if it was a good boost. And I was referring specifically to May 2016, I meant you would be praising the XB1 to high heavens if it won any month.
Oh, look. He said it's a good improvement. I didn't point a gun to his head to force him, BTW.
Thanks, allan. I too think it was a good boost, maybe great for me.
ethomaz
Banned
It is because he is a Junior that made account one day after Edson was banned.
Too many coincidences
Thank you, I hope you know how grateful I am that you arent anywhere as lazy as I. I expected the X360 to outsell XO this year after our previous conversation about this, but hadnt realised PS3 is doing the same thing too. Considering both the X360 and PS3 were more popular in the RoW too, its sobering.
ps3ud0 8)
The Mad Draklor
Member
Don't bother. You're probably talking to the person who doesn't even know what 'exists' means.
pixelation
Member
I honestly don't see them being able to salvage the XB hardware venture. With Scorpio they'll either be: A)Selling at a higher price point than the PS4K, meaning that only the XB faithful who are upset that the PS4 currently has better specs than the XBO would be the only ones making the upgrade. Other than that i don't see a more expensive unit catching on with the general market. B)They bite the bullet and sell the Scorpio at a loss... again. Something that i don't think the share holders are going to be OK with.
Cue in the responses that go... "who cares!, i'm not a share holder. I'll buy it and that's all i care about"
crab rangoon
Banned
What does the debate regarding the boost have to do with MS, other than the fact X1 helped PS4 out by underperforming? That should have helped PS4 more and as such serves my point.
The folks who cling to a percentage are trying to spin things here. If the question is 'how many new users did these specific conditions bring to PS4 this month compared to last May?'....the answer is 50k, which doesn't seem like a lot given how potent those 3 conditions typically are (not even including X1's competitive underperformance).
Oh, that reminds me. What's the current U.S. gap for console sales?
LOL
cling to percentage
LOL
cling to percentage
It's soon to say that Minecraft selling more in PS4 will be the new trend.
ethomaz
Banned
Now I finally understood why Minecraft underperformed to MS.
It is not about the numbers but where they come from
No question about it. The only console with every top selling new Wii U game released in 2015. The number of Goomba's stomped on and gallons of paint spilled in Splatoon were off the charts too. Don't even get them started on the MAU's.
Cow Goes Moo
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The Mad Draklor
Member
Yeah, it's like golf. The lowest score wins xD
DeepEnigma
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AdventureRacing
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Not a good sign for the xbone. It's down YoY and it's well behind the 360 and this was before it really took off with kinect. They really need the slim to make a big difference or they will be falling well short of the 360 in the US. WW it won't even be close.
Primethius
Banned
With UC4, PS4 got a boost which resulted in impressive numbers. I'll stick with that as I quite vividly remember the whole talks about PS4 not hitting 200k in the prediction thread. And I certainly didn't predict it that high, so... opinions.
207k in a month is impressive?
ethomaz
Banned
The talk was about PS4 having a 30+% boost in May when other BIG games this generation only give around 20% increase.
TO be frank though the XB1 is selling like doo-doo.
How does it compare to May figures for last-gen consoles?
i.e. during say circa 2007-2012.
Not trying to get in the middle of your guys' fanboy nonsense, but just curious to see how the market is faring as a whole as WiiU is dead and XB1 (at least to me) is really looking like a nose dive despite only being out 2.5 years.
But are we not factoring in the Gamestop trade-in deal though? I get confused, it was considered a significant factor in the April 2015 results for the XB1?
Primethius
Banned
It's the highest performing May for the PS4 and is up above April. So, yes. It's impressive.
wapplew
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Well, according to Kotaku, Windows store UWA AAA games went from 0% market share to 2%, that's like infinity % increase. Most impressive boost of all time.
CosmicQueso
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Hi Aqua, wherever you are... Thank you
Crab... Do you have a specific point you're trying to make? I can't understand from the posts what it is you're trying to get across. Help me out?
Crab... Do you have a specific point you're trying to make? I can't understand from the posts what it is you're trying to get across. Help me out?
That's the minimum expected with a big launch like Uncharted 4 and last year price drop. Would be really strange if PS4 was down.
207k is a number not impressive at all, but I guess it fits in the new standard for the market, sales more concentrated in holidays.
ethomaz
Banned
Depends what your definition of impressive.
PS4 May 2014: 197k
PS4 May 2015: 152k
PS4 May 2016: 207k
By far it is the best May any console had this generation.
What about previous gens???
PS3 May 2008: 208.7K (unique time PS3 sold more in May).
360 May 2011: 270K (unique time 360 sold more in May).
Wii? Until 2011 it never sold less than 207k in May.
Thank you for this - do you know how X360 - or even Wii did in May in the previous gens?
EDIT: so this May it did "only" 10K more than May 2014? - In comparison to that coupled with Gamestop trade-in, lower base price, and UC4 out, I don't think it's that impressive.
It's not a bad number at all (see WiiU and XB1), but on the other hand it doesn't seem impressive. Maybe my expectations are skewed.
Primethius
Banned
Your saying it's expected and I'm saying it's not. Let's agree to disagree. The aggregate was higher in the predictions thread but the discussion was widly different.
RichiRamjag
Member
Ol Crab has been on damage control for most of the day it seems.
ethomaz
Banned
I added now... Wii never sold less before 2012 in May.
May 2014 was yet every PS4 Sony shipped = sold... there are supply issues in Europe and Sony tried to cover US with everything they have.
Well looking at the summary Welfare provides it seems generally MoM theres a drop. Theres only been one weekly increase this gen until now and that was the Wii U in 2014...
ps3ud0 8)
Sorry, bruh, but if you bought a Ubisoft game at day one and got disappointed, joke's on you!
it hurts
It's not an NPD thread until we get a loony anti-Sony junior with less than 50 posts.