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, November 12th (November 11th is Federal holiday: Veteran's Day). Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: October 6-November 2 (4 weeks, September was 5 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, November 14th @ 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]
[PSV]
[WIU]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in October:
2-D 3DS (i.e. 2DS) released Oct. 12 at $129 (22 days)
Pokemon X/Y released Oct. 12 (22 days)
September's Results - thanks to various angles
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, November 12th (November 11th is Federal holiday: Veteran's Day). Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: October 6-November 2 (4 weeks, September was 5 weeks)
NPD Release: Thursday, November 14th @ 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]
[PSV]
[WIU]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[360] 200K [360] 200 thousand
[360] 200,000 [360] 200.000
[360] 200000 [360] - 200000
Potential hardware impacting events in October:
2-D 3DS (i.e. 2DS) released Oct. 12 at $129 (22 days)
Pokemon X/Y released Oct. 12 (22 days)
September's Results - thanks to various angles
Vita - 41KUsing Wii U 95 K gives:
To closest thousand.Code:360 179K PS3 216K Wii U 95K
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/131031/img/06l.jpg[IMG]
Get 94 pixels for 3DS and 93 pixels for PS3. Using 216K for PS3 => 218K for 3DS.[/QUOTE]
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