Limited ps4 preorders may put some people on hold maybe
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April 2015 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes May 12th
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Limited ps4 preorders may put some people on hold maybe
Steverulez
Member
Wasn't there a TLOU bundle just under the #52?
Anyway, its not much of a surprise given that 41 vs 42 + 52, depending on whether there was another PS4 kicking around.
Xbox One has now exceeded 7 million sales in the USA after 18 months.
The Xbox 360 took 24 months to achieve this milestone, the PS3 took 27 months, the Wii took 14 months and the PS4 took 16 months.
The combined total of PS4 and Xbox One and Wii U in the USA has now exceeded 19 million units.
I had a feeling that Amazon would fail when sales would be extremely close (I imagine they are).
And lo and behold, Amazon rankings were #41 (PS4) and #42 (ACU XB1) with the Halo MCC XB1 not that far behind (#52).
Nope. The Batman limited ed shows up at #96, but the TLOU edition does not appear for whatever reason.
The Batman bundle? Maybe...
maybe because im not in every monthly sales every month all the time? maybe? also you could have save time by answering the way the user above you did, clear and to the point, without being a "showoff", thanks anyway
Or Batman bundle.
ethomaz
Banned
Better... I was expecting a boring monthSeems like you are wrong
Next month WiiU will outsell PS4 thanks to Splatoon!
Welfare
Member
Then that's bad for Sony because if sales fell that much in April, May will be terrible if it's because of Batman.
Steverulez
Member
I hope someone is able to give us State of Decay YOSE sales, then compare them to Screamride!
Anybody who was gonna get one may have opted to wait 2 months
The short month and gamestop deal was crucial for the xbox win but it was still sub 200k.
Well May has Witcher 3 so it could be better.
I really don't think celebrating YoY increases are really in order when they've had to cut the price so drastically to even eek out that tiny increase.
You mean thanks to SPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLASPLA-TOON
Batman bundle? Slow ass month. MKX launched but I don't think people rush out to buy a system for that.
Macho Madness
Member
It's worth celebrating because it means that both companies want your money really badly and are willing to compete to get it. If that means they have to cut the price, so be it.
EDIT: Nevermind. I figured it out
GAF would go down forever.
CosmicQueso
Member
No, not for April it isn't.
Leader last year was just slightly higher. Leader in 2013 was significantly lower.
Officerrob
Banned
I'm honestly not sure what is more surprising, that the XBox One was the best selling console, or that it did it only selling 187k.
Steverulez
Member
Well its better than not making 7m/YoY! I guess it proves somewhere along the line that the changes they have made are having a positive effect. Im not really going to cry about a company the size of Microsoft having to slash their prices, considering it was overpriced so heavily in the first place
And they will have another YoY increase next month due to the Kinectless sku last years.
Welfare
Member
If people are holding out on buying a PS4 for 2 months straight and sales are slowing, that's bad as that's 2 months of less people getting into the Playstation ecosystem.
I was thinking the same thing. MK does have last gen release, while witcher isn't.
But technically those people will still jump in. Just not sooner
7DollarHagane
Banned
Its more likely just that slow sales all around and more people already owning ps4s had things work out this way.
This doesn't have any kind of similar impact on actual sales that winning a holiday month would.
They gain less than 50k and can send out a press release saying they won something for once. That's all it really means.
ZombieVito
Banned
I really hope so.
Correct me if I'm wrong but 2013 was the tail end of last gen, not current gen, so wouldn't one expect said result (of much lower). Still, I had higher expectations from what I kept reading in this very thread, lol.
Chobel
Member
Sales will be back to normal in June?
I don't buy this Batman Bundle talk, but if it's the only reason for slow sales, then it's nothing to worry about.
True but you lose those 2 months of ps plus sales, digital sales etc. and it's not like people wouldn't still buy the console in June with batman separately.
Still it's not as bad as announcing s bundle 4-5 months out.
Pretty much. I honestly expected a drop off for April. Slow month. People already having these consoles and no games to really MAKE someone run out and buy one.
Steverulez
Member
Wasn't the last time someone did a genuine price drop back when they knocked $100 off the PS2 like 12/13 years ago?
Losing one month in the US is hardly going to make them brick it. They'll wait for the holidays to be upon us (August/September) then drop it, I don't think theres any need to do it now, I bet it outsells XB1 with the Batman bundle anyway
I don't agree. If MS continues to bleed money selling an overbloated console that suggests to me that the console isn't commercially viable and is really just being buoyed to keep the brand relevant for a successor. While this does say more about Xbox 1 than the market as a whole, there are definitely poor implications for the future of the hobby.
It'll happen to xbox one when halo 5 xbox one is announced and wont release til October.
miDnIghtEr20C
Banned
It has begun! 360 owners starting to upgrade in the ol USA. The train's just getting started!
Imo it just shows that, as hinted by the Q4 FY results the $399 market for the PS4 might have been tapped out in term of growth (it was down year over year on the first 3 months of the year combined, and now again in April).
This might just push Sony to drop the price sooner than many (including me) expected, particularly when you consider that their sales Forecast for last FY was missed by a hair (14.8m units instead of 15m).
myharlequin
Member
Your statement tells me that you not consider the Xbox ONE a successful console? But it is, in its way, it is a success.
Nice, so Xbox won this month. Congrats.
RE: Amazon charts -- as others have mentioned, the double ranked Xbox SKUs provided a hint that this may happen.
It was similar last March when PS4 had one SKU highly ranked, Xbox had two SKUs ranked, and it ended up being a close win for PS4. Amazon, to me, still seems like a pretty good metric upon which to base guesses.
RE: Amazon charts -- as others have mentioned, the double ranked Xbox SKUs provided a hint that this may happen.
It was similar last March when PS4 had one SKU highly ranked, Xbox had two SKUs ranked, and it ended up being a close win for PS4. Amazon, to me, still seems like a pretty good metric upon which to base guesses.
I see what you did there....
But anyway, got to love the people over reacting.
This month is meaningless, especially when on a worldwide scale the PS4 is still selling better and even in the US is the cumulative sales leader.
Sony aren't going to drop the price tomorrow just because they got outsold in April..... It's April.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
I think they've basically done all they can at the PS4's current price. I think it's going to be a sizeable drop because $50 doesn't take it out of its current market, but $100 takes it to a brand new, larger, market....
It has always been my position that a lot of people bought into the SP4 early on because the pricing was reasonable when compared to the competition (Xbox One), Microsoft killed their image with the pre-E3 reveal and DRM disaster, and stock was generally widely available. Last-gen lasted too long and people wanted new consoles, so they jumped in really quick.
Now that market is slowing down and those waiting are either still happy with their PS360, are waiting for price drops, or are in no rush for new hardware due to less than compelling software.
Yea. However if you release the gears remaster in the interim, it would soften the blow