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NPD Sales Results for September 2014 [Up1: Smash/HW/MK8, Destiny stats, 3DS HW]

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Pachinko

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Seems reasonable to expect that sony sold quite a few destiny bundles to get their hardware sales in the number 1 spot once again. Curious to know if digital sales are added to NPD numbers as well as bundled copies of destiny, would the xbox one version of the game still have outsold the PS4 version ?

October/november/december is going to be an interesting sales quarter that's for sure.
 
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Pennywise

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hydrophilic attack said:
This is a sad day for America.

I watched the TGS streams, I know what Playstation is all about. All of you Playstation lovers with your loli obsession and your anime avatars, if you love Japan so much, why don't you just move there? It saddens me that Americans would choose to associate with that rather than the sturdy, rugged, masculine, patriotic The One. Yet, throughout these sad times that we live in, I have still kept alive a lingering flame of hope that the great American values will endure, and Pacther’s predictions this week helped kindle that flame. But if these news are true, I may have to finally abandon that hope.

If these news are true, that is. Anyone else think it’s suspicious how NPD starts hiding console numbers, so that we are left at the mercy of the console manufacturers to provide us with what information they will, and suddenly Playstation starts doing better than Xbox? No one else finds it suspicious how the well-informed and knowledgeable video games analyst Pachter, who usually makes predictions with great accuracy, after consulting his vast retail contact network, predicts that The One will come out ahead, yet when we get “official” numbers, suddenly PS4 has sold more? It’s not like this is the first time that Sony is caught with juking the stats. Esteemed video games sales expert ioi recently revealed how Sony was lying at Gamescom with their 10 million consoles sold number. You may think Sony wouldn’t go that far, but they have lied to us before. They lied to us about the Driveclub PS Plus version and they lied to us about the power of their systems. One lie leads to another and once you have gotten into the habit of lying, it is very hard to stop.

But I guess this is to be expected. People who want to harm America always have a propensity to believe in made-up numbers. Look at how North Korean citizens swallow lies from their own leaders. Or closer to home, look at how liberals are gulping down the Obama administration’s lies. Look at how they are cooking the books on Obamacare and job reports. 250000 new jobs added in September? Hah, where I live, in real rural America, most people have given up looking. 250000 new jobs, my ass. Plus, under President Romney, we would have had at least 400000 new jobs. Or look at how they lie about inflation as an excuse to print money, debasing the dollar further. President Reagan (may he rest in peace) is turning in his grave. Inflation below target? Tell that to my local grocery store and gas station! These Washington types, always coming at you with their fancy numbers and their facts and their smug grins, thinking they know better than you. (And don't get me started on those IRS bullies. Federal income tax is theft and, even worse, unconstitutional, and I'm not paying to help finance a government I never voted for. So they can take their tax return forms and their court summons and shove them up somewhere. Don't bother coming back here!) And throughout all this, the mainstream media keeps cheering the administration on, helping them pull the wool over Americans’ eyes. This is very similar to the gaming media, incidentally, with their strong Sony bias. Kotaku is far too close to Sony. Always has been.

Maybe it’s time we started unskewing the NPD results. Even though they started shilling for Sony only relatively recently, I have always felt that their numbers are suspect. They don’t track sales from online stores, where more and more customers are taking their business these days. Also, it is well-known that they don’t take digital download sales into account. Who knows how many console sales they miss that way?
 
Still, I am always the optimist. I have hopes for the future. It looks like people are finally starting to see through the Democrats’ lies. If polls are to be believed, we will put a patriotic majority back in the Senate in November. If it can happen there, we can get the powers for good back into power in the video game business at the same time, with the arrival of Halo: The Master Chief Collection and, most importantly, the monthly OS updates. Until then, God bless you all, and don’t forget to vote in November!
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I love you.
All the time, so many people are still fooled <3
 
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juicyfruitas

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I know 6 peeps who already owned PS4's and all bought the digital version of Destiny because they figured it's one of those games that will be in their perma-play rotation for the rest of their year.

Still, nice little victory for the bone to claim
 
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Curufinwe

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vicissitudes said:
What the hell at XB1 Destiny > PS4 Destiny.

Let's say XB1 Destiny outsold PS4 Destiny by 1 unit and PS4 bundle sold ~200k. That's still a small gap in favor of the PS4 as the best case scenario for Sony. Very surprising.
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So if you make up a small number for the bundle it looks bad?
 
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Joeki11a

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dmr87 said:
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Mind blown.
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Why?, it was a free game for most

and the other fact Bungie are xbox firstly

in terms of fanbase.
 
BWJinxing

BWJinxing

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I think if Patcher waited till Halo and Sunset dropped, Id think he'd stand a legit chance of being right.

Triple the sales is quite impressive!

I wish i had saved my gif for this thread.
 
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Drencrom

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Most people probably got Destiny with the PS4 Destiny bundle so I'm not surprised the XBO version charted higher

Also, lol Pachter
 
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Loudninja

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Destiny in particular was huge for Sony, as the company noted that PS4 has been the lead platform for the game in terms of units sold through October 4. Additionally, while NPD doesn't provide specific digital sales yet, Sony boasted that Destiny helped the PlayStation Store set a new record for the month. And the limited-edition Destiny PS4 bundle drove PS4 hardware sales to its biggest month in 2014 - Sony said PS4 hardware numbers "nearly tripled" those of August.

“September 2014 was a record-breaking month for PlayStation's digital business, thanks in large part to the success of Destiny,” said Eric Lempel, vice president of Sony Network Entertainment International. “Last month's PlayStation Store revenue increased nearly 90 percent compared with Sept. 2013. Working closely with Activision and Bungie, we wanted to make the launch of Destiny a special experience for PlayStation fans. We're thrilled to see this high engagement from PS4 and PS3 owners.”
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...lead-sales-boost-for-us-games-biz-in-sept-npd
 
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Toki767

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Obviously the 2 things of note about standalone Destiny selling more on Xbox One than PS4 are:

1. Destiny bundle didn't count for PS4.
2. Microsoft footed the bill on the Xbox One version the week of launch for anyone who bought an Xbox One so a lot of the people who bought it on Xbox One got it for free.
 
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BruceLeeRoy

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miDnIghtEr20C said:
Destiny selling more on the X1 huh? Interesting. Very interesting.
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IAmRandom31 said:
Oh thats right Microsoft was giving away Destiny for free with a console purchase, just wasn't an official " bundle " so those sales counted. Right?

Thats the only reason I can see for the X1 edition outselling. Didn't another news piece state the PS4 version was the top selling for Destiny?
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Read that.
Not really all that surprising.
 
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Joeki11a

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BWJinxing said:
I think if Patcher waited till Halo and Sunset dropped, Id think he'd stand a legit chance of being right.

Triple the sales is quite impressive!

I wish i had saved my gif for this thread.
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yeah ok a series of games everybody has already will help sell a new console, ya no
 
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GifGafIsTheBestGaf

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hydrophilic attack said:
This is a sad day for America.

I watched the TGS streams, I know what Playstation is all about. All of you Playstation lovers with your loli obsession and your anime avatars, if you love Japan so much, why don't you just move there? It saddens me that Americans would choose to associate with that rather than the sturdy, rugged, masculine, patriotic The One. Yet, throughout these sad times that we live in, I have still kept alive a lingering flame of hope that the great American values will endure, and Pacther’s predictions this week helped kindle that flame. But if these news are true, I may have to finally abandon that hope.

If these news are true, that is. Anyone else think it’s suspicious how NPD starts hiding console numbers, so that we are left at the mercy of the console manufacturers to provide us with what information they will, and suddenly Playstation starts doing better than Xbox? No one else finds it suspicious how the well-informed and knowledgeable video games analyst Pachter, who usually makes predictions with great accuracy, after consulting his vast retail contact network, predicts that The One will come out ahead, yet when we get “official” numbers, suddenly PS4 has sold more? It’s not like this is the first time that Sony is caught with juking the stats. Esteemed video games sales expert ioi recently revealed how Sony was lying at Gamescom with their 10 million consoles sold number. You may think Sony wouldn’t go that far, but they have lied to us before. They lied to us about the Driveclub PS Plus version and they lied to us about the power of their systems. One lie leads to another and once you have gotten into the habit of lying, it is very hard to stop.

But I guess this is to be expected. People who want to harm America always have a propensity to believe in made-up numbers. Look at how North Korean citizens swallow lies from their own leaders. Or closer to home, look at how liberals are gulping down the Obama administration’s lies. Look at how they are cooking the books on Obamacare and job reports. 250000 new jobs added in September? Hah, where I live, in real rural America, most people have given up looking. 250000 new jobs, my ass. Plus, under President Romney, we would have had at least 400000 new jobs. Or look at how they lie about inflation as an excuse to print money, debasing the dollar further. President Reagan (may he rest in peace) is turning in his grave. Inflation below target? Tell that to my local grocery store and gas station! These Washington types, always coming at you with their fancy numbers and their facts and their smug grins, thinking they know better than you. (And don't get me started on those IRS bullies. Federal income tax is theft and, even worse, unconstitutional, and I'm not paying to help finance a government I never voted for. So they can take their tax return forms and their court summons and shove them up somewhere. Don't bother coming back here!) And throughout all this, the mainstream media keeps cheering the administration on, helping them pull the wool over Americans’ eyes. This is very similar to the gaming media, incidentally, with their strong Sony bias. Kotaku is far too close to Sony. Always has been.

Maybe it’s time we started unskewing the NPD results. Even though they started shilling for Sony only relatively recently, I have always felt that their numbers are suspect. They don’t track sales from online stores, where more and more customers are taking their business these days. Also, it is well-known that they don’t take digital download sales into account. Who knows how many console sales they miss that way?
 
Still, I am always the optimist. I have hopes for the future. It looks like people are finally starting to see through the Democrats’ lies. If polls are to be believed, we will put a patriotic majority back in the Senate in November. If it can happen there, we can get the powers for good back into power in the video game business at the same time, with the arrival of Halo: The Master Chief Collection and, most importantly, the monthly OS updates. Until then, God bless you all, and don’t forget to vote in November!
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Jarnet87

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We don't know the complete numbers because of bundles/digital downloads/etc but Destiny selling well on Xbox didn't shock me, had a gut feeling it would do very well on the console. It's just a very Xbox sort of game and a lot of the Halo faithful are still Xbox guys. I'd imagine this would of been a killing had Microsoft not screwed the pooch so badly at the beginning, and had they spent the marketing time and dollars that Sony did for this game it would of been good night sweet prince.
 
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Vestal

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Disaster Nebraska said:
Very surprised at Destiny selling more on XBO.

Also very surprised at FIFA and Madden selling more on PS4 (compared to X1) despite the advertisement.

What this says to me: despite what Pachter had claimed, marketing deals don't mean shit. XBO apparently offered the better console combo despite Sony's advertisement, and PS4 + Madden and FIFA sold better despite Microsoft's advertisement.
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Have to consider the impact of EA ACCESS as well. That could really affect the digital numbers for any ea game for xbone.
 
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barit

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Omg no FH2 in the Top10

Every Multiplat sold better on PS4 except NHL and Disney:I 2.0

MS must be in panic mode deluxe
 
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Trace

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Disaster Nebraska said:
What this says to me: despite what Pachter had claimed, marketing deals don't mean shit. XBO apparently offered the better console combo despite Sony's advertisement.
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U wot. Did you miss the whole "PS4 best sales in 2014" part, which was almost entirely white Destiny bundles? XBO only sold more than PS4 if you exclude both PS4 bundles and digital sales, and count the free XBO game.
 
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samuraidino

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redblack85 said:
Destiny One > Destiny PS4?What?
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More than likely its due to the unofficial Xbone bundles. The free copies of destiny being given away with it would have been counted as a regular game purchase,that MS paid for.

The PS4 bundles on the other hand wouldn't have been counted since it was an official pack in.
 
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DarthWalden

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I'm really confused..

Xbox One destiny > PS4 destiny

I'm assuming to do the bundled news of destiny..

But

Madden, Fifa 15 PS3 > XB1 Madden, fifa

Maybe due to EA Access???? I dunno
 
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