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. EST on Monday, January 13th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: December 1, 2013-January 4, 2014 (5 weeks, November was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, January 16th @ 4 p.m. EST (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
Note: PSV will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. PSV is not included for point results.
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PS4]
[PSV]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in December:
Christmas and sales
PS4/XB1 supply
November's Results - thanks to various angles
November 2012 NPD thread
December 2012 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
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. EST on Monday, January 13th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: December 1, 2013-January 4, 2014 (5 weeks, November was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, January 16th @ 4 p.m. EST (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
Note: PSV will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. PSV is not included for point results.
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PS4]
[PSV]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[PS4] 1000K [PS4] 1 million (or 1m)
[PS4] 1,000,000 [PS4] 1.000.000
[PS4] 1000000 [PS4] - 1000000
Potential hardware impacting events in December:
Christmas and sales
PS4/XB1 supply
November's Results - thanks to various angles
Used for Predictions:
PS4 - 1138K
XB1 - 909K
3DS - 770K
360 - 647K
PS3 - 424K
WIU - 223K
PSV - 70K
November 2012 NPD thread
December 2012 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive