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, August 12th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted. Extending the deadline to 8 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, August 13th since NeoGAF was down most of Tuesday, August 12..
NPD Coverage: July 6-August 2, 2014 (4 weeks, June was 5 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, August 14th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
Note: PS3 and WIU will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. They are not included for point results.
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in July:
June's Results - thanks to gamecrate.com *RIP*
June 2013 NPD thread
July 2013 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. EDT on Tuesday, August 12th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted. Extending the deadline to 8 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, August 13th since NeoGAF was down most of Tuesday, August 12..
NPD Coverage: July 6-August 2, 2014 (4 weeks, June was 5 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, August 14th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT)
Format:
Note: PS3 and WIU will only be counted for unit results and cardinal order bonus. They are not included for point results.
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PS4]
[WIU]
[XB1]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[PS4] 300K [PS4] 300 thousand
[PS4] 300,000 [PS4] 300.000
[PS4] 300000 [PS4] - 300000
Potential hardware impacting events in July:
June's Results - thanks to gamecrate.com *RIP*
PS4 - 269K
XB1 - 197k
3DS - 152k
Wii U - 140k
360 - 62k
PS3 - 42k
June 2013 NPD thread
July 2013 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive