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[Kusagari]

Souls fans are a committed bunch.

Can't believe Scholar of Sin charted so well.

 

[RexNovis]

Absolutely shocked Xbox pulled a W for April and utterly disappointed Bloodborne already dropped out of top 10. What an odd NPD month.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

who's still buying minecraft in 2015....

 

[Atlas157]

I expect a meltdown from the Sony-GAF folk and a ticker-tape parade from the Xbox-GAF.
Guys, don't let me down. I'll be back in a few pages.

I'm part of Sony-GAF and I'm happy Xbone won, competition is good.

 

[phanphare]

did something happen for smash to chart? just a slow month in general?

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Didnt one of the retailers have a trade in promotion of US$175 trade in towards an XBO?

Edit: forgot how fast these threads move

Gamestop did from what I've seen people say.

That may be a big contributing factor as well since it seems like one of Microsoft's biggest problems has been getting people to actually upgrade from their 360s.

 

[Genio88]

Well done Microsoft!

 

[DNAbro]

Mortal Kombat being #1 was expected.

Surprised at Xbox One being first though.

 

[hongcha]

Clearly the New 3DS didn't reinvigorate the platform like Nintendo expected it to.

Same story in Japan.

 

[Pankratous]

Hopefully this pushes Sony to drop the price of PS4 in NA.

 

[Lucreto]

Do we gave estimated figures yet?

 

[Rajang]

Sony shouldn't worry, but I wish they did: the sooner they release 14nm $299 PS4 slim the better (for me)

Yeah. I already pre-ordered the MGSV CE for the PS4.. all I need now is a good PS4 bundle.

 

[RedAssedApe]

Bloodborne seems to be front loaded, interesting, good exclusive from Sony.

aka most games not named COD, GTAV, Minecraft

 

[Herman Cain]

The only explanation, the only one possible, is that there has been a full month of Halo MCC bundle. it's the only explanation, because PS4 even won software.

It's amazing, Halo is still very strong.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

didn't PS4 have the $125 deal the week prior?

PS4 deal was in March, XB1 was in April.

I know this because I traded in a PS3 for a PS4 during that deal.

 

[Toki767]

I'm curious. When NPD lists the order for platforms that a game sells most on, is that just for that month or is it overall?

 

[dragonzdogma]

Everything makes sense,
Everyone already bought a PS4 with bloodborne,
so it obvious that XBOXONE would come in at second place, no?

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Hopefully this means PS4 pricedrop. I want to join current gen!

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

What happened?

 

[anexanhume]

didn't PS4 have the $125 deal the week prior?

Month prior.

 

[ZhugeEX]

What happened that made Xbox spike in sales?

PS4 has no games of course. Haven't you heard!

/s

 

[Sterok]

Huh. Didn't see that Xbox win. Ouch at Wii U. Seems that Xenoblade did alright. Nice to see Smash back. Mewtwo is putting in some good work.

 

[Inuhanyou]

The PS4 install base is higher.

That's true, but a lot of the time XB1 takes the mainstream games crown.

Even so, 100 thousand+ is not good for any of them. Some more games would do nicely

 

[The Inventor]

Congrats Xbox.

Also I'm back!

Welcome back!

And good for MS and the Xbox brand!

 

[Gator86]

Xbox One had a $125 credit trade-in deal for last gen consoles, a bunch of gift-card/free game/free controller/free XBL bundles across multiple retailers. It's not terribly surprising it won.

Yup, the constant stream of Xbone fire sales and deals finally broke me. I picked one up from Best Buy and am currently enjoying the shit out of Sunset Overdrive so I'm not complaining.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Xbox One - 187k

Wii U - 43k

3DS - 114k

Fucking hell

 

[Boke1879]

didn't PS4 have the $125 deal the week prior?

I think they had it the month of March

 

[Atlas157]

What happened?

Halo MCC bundle

 

[Palocca]

A nice clean win this month for the XB1. Continued congrats to the team for working so hard to turn the ship around.

Curious to see how much they outsold the PS4.

 

[labaronx]

didn't PS4 have the $125 deal the week prior?

The month before i think

 

[Shin-Ra]

Everyone's (really: lots) buying Batman instead of regular SKU's.

 

[BlowoverKing]

I wonder how far behind the PS4 is.Now the biggest question this month is if Vita is up YoY for April. Should be a nail biter.

 

[mejin]

sony got way too cocky with the ps4 honestly, doesn't surprise me

Arrogant Sony is back!

 

[Aeqvitas]

First time XB1 has won in a non-holiday month, people had me convinced it could never happen. a couple more wins could probably mean that strong holiday sales might close and over take the gap in the USA.

 

[Majestad]

FATALITY

Good showing MK!

 

[cafemomo]

The PS4 is still the best selling Sony console of April tho

 

[Nanashrew]

What bumped Smash I wonder, the dlc?

Probably that and the whole Smash Ballot stuff. Hearing there will be continued support throughout its lifespan probably helped others take the leap.

 

[CassSept]

Can a franchise that consistently sells 2m+ units be considered niche?

Well, when we have yearly franchises selling 20m+... yes?

 

[Jachaos]

Hm, the effect of Bloodborne hype was shorter than I thought. Sony ought to think again about releasing first party titles in Fall if they want to sell more than the competition in the US as Black Friday's big there.

With the major stuff like Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, Street Fighter V and their VR headset all releasing early 2016 and Until Dawn, The Tomorrow Children, Journey and God of War in the summer, that's a lot of releases that won't hit during the holiday rush.

I'm cool with it as there's still Persona 5 hopefully and a lot of 3rd party releases anyway but from their perspective this will likely spur some reaction over the next month leading into E3. Which is great!

 

[Herman Cain]

Unexpected. Could this be due to the batman bundle coming next month?

This doesn't make sense, batman is in june. There's still may before then.

 

[sense]

So.... Are we back to agreeing Bloodborne and Souls in general are niche games despite selling 1-2 million?

2 and 3 million sales ltd is pretty high to be called niche. i would go with mid tier or something like that

Hm, the effect Bloodborne was shorter than I thought. Sony ought to think again about releasing first party titles in Fall if they want to sell more than the competition in the US as Black Friday's big there.

With the major stuff like Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, Street Fighter V and their VR headset all releasing early 2016 and Until Dawn, The Tomorrow Children, Journey and God of War in the summer, that's a lot of releases that won't hit during the holiday rush.

I'm cool with it as there's still Persona 5 hopefully and a lot of 3rd party releases anyway but from their perspective this will likely spur some reaction over the next month leading into E3. Which is great!

first party titles earlier in the year is very smart. let the big third party titles do the heavy lifting. they don't have to discount bloodborne for black friday and stuff just to get a higher number when they could be making more money per copy sold earlier in the year and keeps people talking about the ps4 all year along. plus they can bundle games and sell goty editions during black friday to get more sales.

 

[Boogdud]

didn't PS4 have the $125 deal the week prior?

PS4s was in March, Xbox's was 4/6 - 4/25

 

[Nirolak]

Not so sure in my opinion.

1- Critical Acclaim, even by Mass media outlets

This is also true of Bayonetta, which is definitely a niche product.

2- PS4 sales had a nice bump MoM in March, almost (but not quite) keeping up with the bump provided by Ground Zeroes in March '14

March is a 5 week tracking period instead of a 4 week tracking period.

 

[ZhugeEX]

We already have two NPD threads. Why is this needed?

No offence.


EDIT
Thread has been merged now, cheers

 

[BokehKing]

Former 360 owners finally trading in their systems perhaps? I mean the ps4 is still $400, price drop wouldn't hurt, stop being greedy. You don't want all those 360 owners buying a x1 for halo

 

[Ape]

Absolutely shocked Xbox pulled a W for April and utterly disappointed Bloodborne already dropped out of top 10. What an odd NPD month.

When you think about it, are you surprised that it's not selling? The game isn't for the masses.

 

[arimanius]

Surprised by bloodborne and Xbox like everyone else. Was not expecting either.

 

[Pankratous]

We already have two NPD threads. Why is this needed?

No offence.

.

 

[Vampirolol]

No matter how many times we repeat that WiiU is dead, 43K are still depressing. Curious to see Splatoon's performance next month.

 

[On Demand]

I think what this indicates is a dead heat in the US among PS4 and XB1 in regards to demand. WHich makes sense as MS for the most part has tried to bring the heat(outside of that preseason BS) These two consoles are gonna bob up and down over each other i think, sometimes XB1 will win, probably most of the time PS4 will win.

Glad they are doing well too. But its kind of surprising to see PS4 with the most sold games in April considering the higher sales of the XB1

I would agree with you if XB1 didn't have those trade in deals going on and there's wasn't a Batman bundle people would want to wait for.

Now i expect XB1 to win May too.