ITT, predict for the NPD May 2017 retail period (April 30-May 27, 2017) 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 6th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: April 30-May 27, 2017 (4 weeks, April was 4 weeks)
NPD Physical Release: Thursday, June 8th @ 4 p.m. EDT (public thread with physical+digital posted on Monday after E3 on June 19th ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in May:
nothing much
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
(April's results not public)
April's #1 predictor
April 2016 NPD thread
May 2016 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 6th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: April 30-May 27, 2017 (4 weeks, April was 4 weeks)
NPD Physical Release: Thursday, June 8th @ 4 p.m. EDT (public thread with physical+digital posted on Monday after E3 on June 19th ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[XB1] 200K [XB1] 200 thousand
[XB1] 200,000 [XB1] 200.000
[XB1] 200000 [XB1] - 200000
Potential hardware impacting events in May:
nothing much
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[NSW]
[PS4]
[XB1]
(April's results not public)
April's #1 predictor
[NSW] 312k
[PS4] 209k
[XB1] 126k
Nintendo said:According to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States, the Nintendo Switch system was the best-selling video game hardware in the month of April with more than 280,000 units sold.
April 2016 NPD thread
May 2016 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive