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 Monday, October 8th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: August 26-September 29 (5 weeks, August was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: October 11th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT
IMPORTANT: As of May 2012's results, NPD is now directly including Wal-Mart data in their totals. Previously they were only estimating for Wal-Mart, so there could be some significant changes in relative performance compared to previous years.
Format:
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PSV]
[WII]
Good/Bad Formatting
Potential hardware impacting events in September:
PS3 Slim 2.0 released @ $270 on September 25 - 5 days
August's Results - thanks to duckroll, Nintendo, allan-bh, and Mpl90
3DS: 36% over June would make it ~178K. 44% of that was 3DSXL from NPD PR, so 3DSXL was ~78K.
August 2011 NPD thread
September 2011 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 Monday, October 8th. Format use is required if you want your entry counted.
NPD Coverage: August 26-September 29 (5 weeks, August was 4 weeks)
NPD Release: October 11th @ 4 p.m. EDT (thread posted ~6:30 p.m. EDT
IMPORTANT: As of May 2012's results, NPD is now directly including Wal-Mart data in their totals. Previously they were only estimating for Wal-Mart, so there could be some significant changes in relative performance compared to previous years.
Format:
[360]
[3DS]
[PS3]
[PSV]
[WII]
Good/Bad Formatting
Code:
Good Bad
[360] 300K [360] 300 thousand
[360] 300,000 [360] 300.000
[360] 300000 [360] - 300000Potential hardware impacting events in September:
PS3 Slim 2.0 released @ $270 on September 25 - 5 days
August's Results - thanks to duckroll, Nintendo, allan-bh, and Mpl90
3DS: 36% over June would make it ~178K. 44% of that was 3DSXL from NPD PR, so 3DSXL was ~78K.
August 2011 NPD thread
September 2011 NPD thread
NPD Prediction Thread Archive
