Huh?
Also, it's still kind of crazy to me that PS4 is YoY up with the price still at $350. That's just crazy.
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February 2016 NPD (U.S. Hardware) Predictions - Closes March 8th
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Huh?
Also, it's still kind of crazy to me that PS4 is YoY up with the price still at $350. That's just crazy.
I still need to understand if CosmicQueso was including handhelds in his comment: since New 3DS was released in February 2015, it wouldn't be a shocker to see double-digit-percentage hardware decrease and home consoles the same/a bit up from last year overall; and I don't get why it'd be "poopy" in the case, unless there's more. If he were referring to just home consoles, instead...eh.
Years
And June is No Mans Sky which Sony is clearly putting a lot in marketing
DriftingSpirit
Member
YoY growth and a first party software mention (particularly, R&C)!
Nice!
Nice!
Did you seriously forget No Man's Sky in June?
Welfare
Member
Why should we assume they don't mean this month? That looks to be like the same generic PR they use.
It was $399 last year.
Chobel
Member
The way I understand it is that Sony is talking about the year 2016, and not February. I could be wrong though.
Fair enough.
He's just going by the PR statement. Calm down.
Eh I'm sure they'll wait until E3. Give it one last big mention before it releases.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Of course not just was going off their pr for now.
Ah, ok. I always thought that YoY meant in a comparison to the previous year's month, but I could be wrong.
wapplew
Member
Halo is old news, Rocket Leugue is the new hotness!
slavesnyder
Member
Did Greenberg or Hryb hire at Sony's?
It's boring only if you care about PS4 VS XBO.
For other people like me, no, sales of Fates and Far Cry Primal are interesting.
And i don't care about Street Fighter V, but a looooooooooooooooooooooot of guys are waiting for this...
No, sorry, I wasn't comparing the price to last year, I was just saying that the price is still $350 after being this long on the market and it still is showing YoY growth (even if last year it was $50 more expensive). It just seems crazy that they've only had one price drop in 2+ years and still doing YoY growth.
I'm pretty sure that is what it means.
Chobel
Member
I'm in camp "consoles are doomed" now, so I always assume any PR is written Greenberg or Hryb
Yeah, that's what it usually means
StrongBlackVine
Banned
So the poor reception to SFV didn't mean much for PS4 sales as expected.
orfax
Member
For this to be true then Sony would have had to sold > 305???
slavesnyder
Member
I predicted a pac man, including 3DS.
I'm nervous
DriftingSpirit
Member
It is also worth noting the PS4 did not experience what the X1 did from holiday 2014 to early 2015. The X1 was forced to go back down to $350 after going back up to $400 in January.
The PS4 has been able to maintain the $50 price increase after the $300 price point over last holiday.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Xbox and Wii sales must be pitiful if PS4 is up YoY and overall hardware sales are still down.
Obliterator
Member
Sony domination
Aaaaaa, explains it
DriftingSpirit
Member
A repeat of last month.
If they put a qualifier in like :"Strong year over year sales for the year" or "Strong year over year sales for the month" it would be a bit more clear.
ShaoranWright
Member
Math GAF need to extrapolate sales from percentages and estimates of this months Sony's sales (>342k) and last months numbers for all 3 platforms.
slavesnyder
Member
shortened for you
Obliterator
Member
2016 is going to be pretty monsterous for it imo yeah
I want to see how well the UC4 bundle does.
slavesnyder
Member
How many under Spencer? Someone knows?
Wait we've had an even number of months since launch(28), how are you getting 27?
Steverulez
Member
4. Nov/Dec 2014, one of April/May 2015 (I forget which one) and October 2015
Dude, since when did Sony become Microsoft when it comes to PR?
pixelation
Member
I contributed to the PS4 tally
Dash_Riprock
Member
If these low sales continue than its looking more and more that 2015 was XB1's peak year and its all downhill from here.
slavesnyder
Member
Thanks.
Don´t worry, the Xbox 1.5 will save the Xbox 1.0