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NPD Sales Results for January 2015 [PS4 #1, Nintendo Numbers, XB1 Minimum]
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Drugs they sure work well. The thing is that misinformation will probably be taken by smaller sites and stay like that.
outunderthestars
Banned
Yes, there is still a kinect SKU. That said, I don't think that very many people are choosing that SKU.
Dyson Industries
Banned
If this keeps up, who knows?
Eh... this was January 2008
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274,000 230,000 269,000 264,000 251,000 230,000My guess is a lot of new Xbox one owners from the holidays buying games. Remember it outsold the ps4 but quite a bit those last two months
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Nope, the drop for hardware sales revenue, is due to the massive drop in price from the XB1 ($500 --> $350)
That combined with not selling much more than last January, leads to a big contraction in revenue.
that comparison would only ever make sense if the primary function of a smart phone was games.
Shit, you were serious. MS best spin has been reduced to outselling itself.
Night Angel
Member
My guess also is that many of the PS4s recently sold included GTAV in the bundle, which would end up decreasing the game's sales in NPD.
PoweredByHentai
Member
Isn't that because the Xbox One was still 500 bucks for January 2014 as opposed to 350-450 bucks this January?
RedAssedApe
Banned
how many copies did evil within sell at launch? thuoght it didnt do that well?
Good times for the PS3. Shame what happened afterwards.
And yes, it does show how the console market has changed a lot
Yup haha. They also had a higher attach rate... which means PS4 probably sold more software, just Xbox One had more games purchased per console sold, which would probably make sense with all the bundling
GreenTornadoX
Member
Ahh so a bit of an extra momentum eh.. So next month there's a chance for a reversal?
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Xbox One leading in nearly all software sales? Whoa.
Maintenance
Member
That's like playing chess against yourself and winning in less moves than the last match.
Haha....
Realistically, it should be $299 though. It still baffles me until this day, that MS charges $25 for the battery pack and $25 for headphones adapter.
Hardware down 26% should be setting off alarm bells honestly. It IS just January so I'm not going to go all doom and gloom, but if it continues then that is extremely worrying. Both Wii U and Xbox One are up also so 3DS, PS4 and last gen falls?
Edit: ah, down in revenue? I suppose the lower prices found on Xbox 1 and non PS4 consoles may attribute to that. Still...
Edit: ah, down in revenue? I suppose the lower prices found on Xbox 1 and non PS4 consoles may attribute to that. Still...
gigantor21
Member
Well, damn.
How often has the Vita sold at numbers like that in any month in the States?
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Night Angel
Member
Very true. No doubt the large influx of new XB1 owners is the main cause. I was just listing an additional factor.
MS PR is elite.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Why wouldn't 3DS sales be down YOY? Who were the people going out to buy a new 3DS XL when the new 3DS XL comes out next month?
bananafactory
Banned
It's revenue, not units sold that's down.
That XB1 drop from $500 to $350 is a big hit.
Good deal IMO, those two bags of popcorn are worth $299 alone!
It's down in revenue, we don't know about units yet (which I doubt is down YOY).
Destny has been selling best on XB1 for the past 4 months or so. Seems the Bungie brand association is still strong
As far as GTAV goes remember that PS4 had a GTAV and TLOU bundle available so many of the hardware sales likely included GTAV with them and would not be counted towards software sales numbers.
I will say that it's surprising just how many of the top 10 XB1 is leading sales in though. Clearly the hardware push from the holidays carried over a bit into January with software sales.
PR doing work!
Vincent Grayson
Member
Aren't the XBO and PS4 sales still higher than any other console ever, save the Wii? I'd hardly call that nothing.
Also, this doesn't take into account digital games at all, a space that I suspect has grown significantly year-over-year.
Not very often since it launched. Vita sells those type of numbers for the entire year now in the US.
Officerrob
Banned
It's about 20 million in less revenue compared to last January for the XBO before any additional sales start to reduce that number. That still leaves another 45 million
shadowsdarknes
Member
140k is not a lot of consoles. Even for January.
DC1
Member
The PS4 is the new digital domain. Go ahead and wrap you head around that irony.
really? if you consider last January being just the 3rd month into the PS4/XB1 generation?
The PS4 was selling out everywhere last January. It was the hottest thing to get during it's first few months. A drop like that has to be expected, especially with last gen slowly dying
TheRagnCajun
Member
You mean the YoY figure? You recall Sony was selling them as fast as they could make them last year in Jan right?
Well the Xbox One is $150 cheaper to buy than it was last year.
Isn't Forza quite a big franchise? Don't they usually sell around 5 million per game? And Sunset Overdrive was heavily marketed. I guess that game just doesn't have any appeal to the core audience of Xbox.
We can't handle the truth!!!!
Haven't visited that site since Garnet Lee left, but I'd imagine they're just kind of going through the motions.
Shit!
I stand corrected.
What big games were in Jan 2008? Better lineup than this Jan probably right?