When you post stuff like that ina sales thread people take it as a legitimate indicator of sales trends. That's why you have to provide the context. Like the name of the chart/list. Without the context its too open for misinterpretation. Going by the cropping of the picture t is obvious Ryng went out of his/her way to obfuscate the source of the screencap and a regular member of SalesGAF should know better than to do something like that.
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November 2015 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes December 8th
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When you post stuff like that ina sales thread people take it as a legitimate indicator of sales trends. That's why you have to provide the context. Like the name of the chart/list. Without the context its too open for misinterpretation. Going by the cropping of the picture t is obvious Ryng went out of his/her way to obfuscate the source of the screencap and a regular member of SalesGAF should know better than to do something like that.
Agreed, for a moment there I was shocked the Wii U was so close to the top ranking at Amazon lol
Eh. He's enthusiastic about the system not being a total bomb. He's genuine about his numbers and calculations, but he was over exaggerated on purpose.
Anyhow I wouldn't be surprised if MK8 is the Bundle they keep for the entire holidays and maintain this price it would probably end up the best selling Wii U bundle on Amazon for the year.
So you've finally converted from the Church of Knack.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
well using amazon charts as an indication for videogames isn't very serious given their marketshare
Lol.
Poor Queso MS's focus on MAUS has messed with your mind. I don't even remember the last post of yours that wasn't about MAUS.
MAUS!!!!
With all due respect, I hope it doesn't get too cold during winters in your area...
Giriath_89
Member
Right, I'll bring the gasoline.
With all due respect, I hope it doesn't get too cold during winters in your area...
You guys just need to believe! Believe as hard as I do, and then believe some more.
Dude... Call down, i was half joking with that post lol.
slavesnyder
Member
Marketshare is something like 8% iirc. That's a nice sample size for predictions. Every market researcher would be wetting his pants out of excitement if he could reach 8% for his surveys. At least it's far better than scanned cash register bills.
We all know that Amazon charts are not 100% accurate, but they are a good indicator. If you have anything better please let us know.
You should know Ryng by now. Apart from his foolish love for Nintendo and Inklings he seems to be mentally healthy.
Analysis-wise, he knows his shit and if a posting from him is so bizarre it just has to be a joke. That one was not funny and might mislead some. But you know, Ellie, this could even happen to the best of us.
NX delayed! Wii U saved!
Tivor Tontomo
Member
NX becomes an add-on like Kinect but only for $599
Let's see a possible scenario...
XB1 this November: 900,000 ( i personally predict 1.02m )
Wii U this november: 400,000 ( i personally predict 325k)
Now, last year, Wii U got a 140% boost November to December, ( 242,000 -----> 580,000 ), and XB1 only 5% boost ( 1,230,000 -------> 1,290,000 ).
IF we will see those sales in November, and we will see the same boost of last year, then the December result will become:
Wii U: 400,000 + 140% = 960,000
XB1: 900,000 + 5% = 945,000
Ok, not gonna happen, but lmao if will.
I doubt they have so much stock of that bundle.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
What's the reception been like for the NDC for newcomers? Because if they are falling in love with it then yea UC4 is going to be huge.
[3DS] 400k
[PS4] 1250k
[WIU] 225k
[XB1] 985k
The Uncharted bundle has done wonders for the UK from the PAL chart and at $350, it'll help the PS4 easily enough take 1st place for NPD.
The bundles also helped NDC go up +999% in that region so I'm very glad the potential fan base for Uncharted 4 will be enormous come March.
[PS4] 1250k
[WIU] 225k
[XB1] 985k
The Uncharted bundle has done wonders for the UK from the PAL chart and at $350, it'll help the PS4 easily enough take 1st place for NPD.
The bundles also helped NDC go up +999% in that region so I'm very glad the potential fan base for Uncharted 4 will be enormous come March.
rokkerkory
Member
[3DS] 435K
[PS4] 1150K
[WIU] 425K
[XB1] 1090K
[PS4] 1150K
[WIU] 425K
[XB1] 1090K
theprodigy
Member
look at Mr. Can't Take a Joke over here
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
I'd love to see Sony release statistics on how many people are completing the Uncharted games from the collection.
CosmicQueso
Member
Can't you just check the trophy list?
Wii U can't win. They don't even have a real account system going yet. No way to track MAUs. Let's get serious. No MAUs/No future.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
I don't know. I've never once checked that.
CosmicQueso
Member
http://psnprofiles.com/trophies/3938-Uncharted-Drakes-Fortune-Remastered
Boom.
Weird on differences. Maybe the site updates at weird times or something.
Dude, every piece of data on every single thing in the world of video games is bogus, made up, wrong or dumb. We should all just stop. Apply all this energy to solving real problems in the world. This thread alone could splice the human genome if we applied this in some productive way.
Primethius
Banned
Weird, those percentages are different then the ones I'm getting when I check on PS4.
UC1: 33% on Easy
UC2: 34.9% on Easy
UC3: 30% on Easy
Percentages seem on par compared to most games.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
Gracias, mi amigo Queso.
bigedole
Member
I've been lurking in these threads as a silent observer for what feels like years now. It is time to join the chaos!
[3DS] 405K
[PS4] 1200K
[WIU] 355K
[XB1] 1000K
Also, a dumb question. I can not for the life of me figure out how to get to the Amazon monthly list for best sellers other than by googling it. Is there a common sense way to navigate to it from Amazon's page that I'm just overlooking?
[3DS] 405K
[PS4] 1200K
[WIU] 355K
[XB1] 1000K
Also, a dumb question. I can not for the life of me figure out how to get to the Amazon monthly list for best sellers other than by googling it. Is there a common sense way to navigate to it from Amazon's page that I'm just overlooking?
Birgitte2004
Member
Go to the yearly one and then tack on a -<month> to the year in the URL. Like change it from 2015 to 2015-11 to see November. Month is always two digits, so to see January would be 2015-01.
panda-zebra
Member
And if you get really sick into it, you can check week-to-week with the correct WB number (the Monday), for example http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2015-11-23/videogames/
When someone has a reputation for providing analysis and data they are likely to be taken seriously. My statements weren't about whether I "got the joke" they were about whether other people would or whether they would be mislead by the purposeful exclusion of context. While I doubted the sincerity of the post I did not and still do not see any humor in it. Nor is it blatantly obvious that it isn't meant to be taken seriously.
I just cannot stand seeing misleading info get posted in these threads especially by people with a reputation for providing sakes data and analysis because I KNOW some will take it as #truthfact and that just means more pointless clarifications and debunking for us in the future. But Y2Kev made it clear that I should stop so I'm dropping it.
Cereal Enthusiast
Banned
Of couse, PSN Profiles only tracks people who at least registered once on the site. They're tracking 2.433.630 people right now. Your PS4 tracks everyone.
anexanhume
Member
Amazon must have shifted a ton of NDC PS4 bundles. It's currently in 22nd place for the year, and is the top console. It's only been on sale since last month. It's ahead of Bloodborne which was the highest selling console game at one point on the year for Amazon. Regular PS4 is 35th, and top XB1 is 50th (AC bundle). GOW XB1 bundle is 62nd.
Primethius
Banned
Oh, duh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Is there some sort of inside MAU joke I'm missing?
FullMetaltech
Member
Yeah. It was part of a MS PR statement about Monthy Active Users or something like that.
Some posters were talking about how sales figures aren't important metrics anymore and that it's all about MAUs (Monthly Active Users) because that's where everything is headed. But really it was just a defense of MS' decision to abandon reporting sales in favor of only reporting MAU instead. The argument that sales figures are not useful or meaningful seems to have, in some level, broken CosmicQueso.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Thought Mau was a natural born killer reference
Primethius
Banned
That's an understatement.
Giriath_89
Member
Recent sales discussion has certainly had some...interesting arguments and theories.
Doesn't seem like we will be getting any official PR about this Black Friday any time soon. I wonder if that means things are substantially down from last year. That would be especially surprising in the case of PS4 since it received a substantial price drop compared to last year's and it's sales last year weren't particularly impressive. It's also hard to believe that WiiU would be down given all the evidence we have to the contrary. Was really expecting to hear something from someone by now.
Nightengale
Member
Or maybe it's too close to call.