ITT, predict for the NPD December 2015 retail period (November 28, 2015-January 2, 2016) 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. EST on Tuesday, January 12th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: November 29, 2015-January 2, 2016 (5 weeks, November was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, January 14th @ 4 p.m. EST (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in December:
Summary
It's Christmas shopping! - 26 days
PS4 Battlefront/UC bundles $50 price cut to $299 Dec. 6-19 (announced Dec. 1) - 14 days
XB1 $50 price cut (making entry price $299) Dec. 9-26 - 18 days
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
November's Results
1. PS4 - 1.54m
2. XB1 - 1.30m
3. 3DS - 350K
4. WIU - 240K
November 2014 NPD thread
December 2014 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. EST on Tuesday, January 12th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: November 29, 2015-January 2, 2016 (5 weeks, November was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, January 14th @ 4 p.m. EST (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EST)
Format:
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[XB1] 600K [XB1] 600 thousand
[XB1] 600,000 [XB1] 600.000
[XB1] 600000 [XB1] - 600000
Potential hardware impacting events in December:
Summary
It's Christmas shopping! - 26 days
PS4 Battlefront/UC bundles $50 price cut to $299 Dec. 6-19 (announced Dec. 1) - 14 days
XB1 $50 price cut (making entry price $299) Dec. 9-26 - 18 days
Prediction Format: (repeating to emphasize to use this format)
[3DS]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
November's Results
1. PS4 - 1.54m
2. XB1 - 1.30m
3. 3DS - 350K
4. WIU - 240K
November 2014 NPD thread
December 2014 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive