ITT, predict for the NPD May 2016 retail period (May 1-28, 2016) for U.S. hardware sales.
What is NPD?: NPD is one of the main retail tracking firms in the U.S., and also about the only one who specifically goes into detail on video games sales. This thread is to predict what the NPD hardware sales will be for the most recent month. NPD months are defined here, from jvm.
What do I win?: Bragging rights. We also keep track of predictions over the year and have an annual contest using "points." Still just bragging rights, but Sales-Agers have fun seeing how well we can do with it. See here for details on the point calculations.
Prediction entries must be in and finalized by 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 7th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: May 1-28, 2016 (4 weeks, April was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, June 9th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
Note: WIU will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. It is not included for point results directly.
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in April:
GameStop $250 PS4/XB1 trade-in toward PS4 (May 9-29) - 20 days
Uncharted 4 PS4 Bundle (May 10) - 19 days
2DS price drop $80 (May 20) - 9 days
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
April's Results (used for predictions)
April 2015 NPD thread
May 2015 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
What is NPD?: NPD is one of the main retail tracking firms in the U.S., and also about the only one who specifically goes into detail on video games sales. This thread is to predict what the NPD hardware sales will be for the most recent month. NPD months are defined here, from jvm.
What do I win?: Bragging rights. We also keep track of predictions over the year and have an annual contest using "points." Still just bragging rights, but Sales-Agers have fun seeing how well we can do with it. See here for details on the point calculations.
Prediction entries must be in and finalized by 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 7th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: May 1-28, 2016 (4 weeks, April was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, June 9th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
Note: WIU will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. It is not included for point results directly.
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[XB1] 200K [XB1] 200 thousand
[XB1] 200,000 [XB1] 200.000
[XB1] 200000 [XB1] - 200000Potential hardware impacting events in April:
GameStop $250 PS4/XB1 trade-in toward PS4 (May 9-29) - 20 days
Uncharted 4 PS4 Bundle (May 10) - 19 days
2DS price drop $80 (May 20) - 9 days
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
April's Results (used for predictions)
April 2015 NPD thread
May 2015 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
