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NPD Sales Results for March 2014 [Up4: FFX/X-2 HD]

Hawk269

Member
Yes, shipped and stuffed into warehouses, not sold to customers. It's a deceptive number by design for a press release.

How can it be deceptive if in the few first few sentaces they say "Sold in to retailers". How is that deceptive if they are saying it that they sold 5mil lifetime to retailers?
 

ymmv

Banned
Also 5 million shipped to stores, weak shit MS .......... what's the sold through? ...... 4.2 - 4.3 million.

Sony have at least a comfortable 3 million lead.

In just a couple of months Sony will have sold twice as many next gen consoles as MS. And there's not much MS can do about it since the Xbox One is dead in most of Europe.
 

Amir0x

Banned
Forget PS4.outselling XB1 - if that 311k number is correct, that's the more shocking info. Expect a price cut and/or kinect jettison soon.

I hope we get the Kinect jettison. I have literally have dozens of posts saved up for crow-serving from the people who insulted me for even considering the Kinect might be dropped from the package as a viable future XBO strategy :D
 
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He really shit the bed on his way out, eh?
 

LCfiner

Member
Price drop incoming. MAYBE even a Kinectless sku. The real question is before E3 or at E3?

My money is nothing official before E3. they will continue with the bundles and then make a bigger splash at E3 with an official price drop. I feel pretty confident that an official price cut is gonna happen this E3.

I’m about 60/40 thinking on whether MS drops Kinect for one version of the box. I wouldn’t bet a lot of money on it, but I think there’s a slightly better than 50% chance it will happen before Xmas this year.
 

Into

Member
The media certainly went overboard hyping Titanfall. I'm actually shocked gamers didn't fall for it.


They hyped it to high heavens, but only people who seemed to care enough to fork out money were existing Xbox One owners.

It does showcase just how little E3 awards, hype, enthusiast gaming media means. The game barely exists in the conciseness of most normal people out there. Yet in our little gaming world its the biggest game release since GTA5, its certainly been billed that way.
 
lol didn't think that number could get worse.

It's completely baffling to me how they managed to sell less with their most anticipated game of the year.
I have absolutely no clue how that happened.
TitanFall was not under any circumstances the 'saviour' MS held it to be.
 

thuway

Member
Subtract 60k from PS4 sales and you get the true Xbox One number :). Outsold by a margin by 60k. 60k. Delicious Pizza.
 
So is it safe to say that EA made out better on the Titan Fall exclusively deal then Microsoft? I still wonder is it was worth missing out on potential PS4 sales for what ever Microsoft paid them.
 

RoKKeR

Member
Can't say I'm all that surprised but it's simply not looking great for MS right now. (in comparison to it's main competitor, obviously)

And I say this as mainly an XBO player. C'mon MS, step your shit up.
 
This topic is incredibly fun but I have to point something out being a GAF watcher for many years.

PlayStation family and Xbox family. It's funny that both companies have used the same exact spin.

Shipped to retailers = Sold. Again, both companies have used the same spin. It's funny to watch people say it's a bad thing when the other team does it.

And here's the one I've been waiting to mention...

How do we know the Sony numbers are legit? I'm not talking about NPD, but their WW numbers. Back in October 2013 we were told that Sony would be combining PS3 and PS4 numbers as they did with the PS3 and the PS2 for several years. (Source)

"Notably, Sony will be combining sales of the PS4 hardware with the PS3 and PS2 figure starting from this quarter, potentially meaning that we won't be able to see exact hardware sales figures for the PS4, unless Sony separates them out elsewhere."

And that's just the thing, they don't sort them out elsewhere. In their recent financial reports its always a combined number. So how do we know they're telling the truth about their WW figures? There are no other sources.

Sorta makes you go "huh."

I'm glad I could contribute something interesting to such a fun thread. I'm ready for the slings and arrows.
 

javac

Member
South Park seems high, hope it did well! Dark Souls, not sure if it's position is good in comparison to the previous iterations. This is the first time Ground Zeroes appeared in the NPD right?
 

Burbeting

Banned
Wow, I'm completely surprised! I thought Titanfall would for push X1 to first place given the enormous hype behind the game. Well, the game itself seems to have sold well, but it doesn't seem to be the system Weller Microsoft wanted.

Bravo for PS4 :>.
 

Chocolate & Vanilla

Fuck Strawberry
Things I noticed in that MS pr release:

- 5m shipped not sold to consumers
- No TF number
- No Xbox* family hardware number 1 type comment but 360>ps3

PS4 number could be big. Really big.
 

Deadbeat

Banned
I hope we get the Kinect jettison. I have literally have dozens of posts saved up for crow-serving from the people who insulted me for even considering the Kinect might be dropped from the package as a viable future XBO strategy :D
I stopped putting that kind of effort in because those people will be banned one day anyways. Anyone that gets that angry about something is going to have a meltdown and thus self destruct on gaf.
 

ethomaz

Banned
Told you guys in the prediction thread that the possibility of PS4 won was good.

PS4 had weak NPD February number because Sony needed to ship 500k to Japan... now in March Japan received only 100k units and the others 400k was sent to US and EU.
 
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