DemDereNads
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Mithos Yggdrasill said:
Ya... nothing like this happened around the launch of the DSL... oh wait
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CANADA NPD Sales Results for July 2007
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Ya... nothing like this happened around the launch of the DSL... oh wait
US July NPD:
If the US:Canada ratio of each system for July is the same as that of June, US July NPD will look like this...
[NDS] 562,600
[Wii] 262,400
[PS2] 260,700
[PS3] 227,900
[360] 192,800
[GBA] 125,200
[PSP] 91,300
As you can see, remarkably high DS, PS2, PS3, 360 and GBA. And remarkably low Wii and PSP. Especially PSP. Still, I doubt US NPD will look like this.
If the US:Canada ratio of each system for July is the same as that of June, US July NPD will look like this...
[NDS] 562,600
[Wii] 262,400
[PS2] 260,700
[PS3] 227,900
[360] 192,800
[GBA] 125,200
[PSP] 91,300
As you can see, remarkably high DS, PS2, PS3, 360 and GBA. And remarkably low Wii and PSP. Especially PSP. Still, I doubt US NPD will look like this.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Those percentages make no sense to me. What do they mean? The PlayStation 3 had a 130% bump, not a 190%. Wtf?
Sho_Nuff82
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Parl said:
Yeah, that won't happen. I'm surprised that 360 weekly sales are actually up month over month in June and July, given the speculation over the price drop.
Square2005
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fix'd.Fuzzy said:
Square2005
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Parl said:
You've got to remove Canada Day's affect first before making projections.
ComputerNerd
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AlphaSnake said:
Hey, you're right. It's a 130% jump.
ComputerNerd said:
It appears the percentages are based off the actual values from June and not the shown "4-week adjusted" June numbers.
Sony over-estimated the amount of stock they have in the retail channel when they set a release date for the PSP-2000 and initiated the price cut. Woops.
Let's hope they don't make the same mistake with PS3s and run out of 60s before they produce enough stand alone 80s to replace it at $500.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
ComputerNerd said:
I think they're all wrong.
Tanod: I'm confused.
Square2005
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Fuzzy said:
Try it again, captain!
Square2005
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What Canada Day? :lolphez said:
So Canada Day may boost U.S. sales instead of Canadian!?
sonycowboy
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AlphaSnake said:
July had one less week of sales than June
Percentage Change = (July/4)/(June/5) - 1
sonycowboy
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Odysseus said:
Other than additional retail participation, PS3 price drop, PSP shortage / rebound from price drop, and Wii Supply, I can't explain it. And I asked for a confirmation just to be sure. If I find out more I'll let you know. Essentially, the raw numbers for 3 platforms show almost exactly the same numbers, so I'm a bit suspicious.
NPD Canada doesn't seem to follow US purchasing trends very well at all and have a different movement to the market based on both HW & SW sales.
JoshuaJSlone
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If his guesses were GAF-only I'd be tempted to say the X360 value is a joke... but they're not so I don't know what to make of that.Shepherd said:
Thunder Monkey
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Sounds like a typical day in America's heartland.fallout said:
Marconelly said:
If I read the numbers below correctly, in last few months, compared to 360, PS3 has done better proportionally in Canada than US. But looks like the trend was the ratio was approaching US ratio. I don't have the numbers before April but if trend did not reverse itself for some reason, chances are PS3/360 ratio has always been better in Canada than US.
Or you were not comparing to 360 to begin with?
sonycowboy
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Frillen said:
Whoever said that had no idea what they were talking about. Happens all the time.
NPD gets it's data from retailers. EVERY RETAILER ON THE PLANET (slight exaggeration) uses a 4-4-5 calendar and have been for a long time. It's the best way to have comparable sales year to year, without having to worry how many weekends fell into a month year to year. Weekends rule retail and using a calendar would cause sales comparisons to swing significantly thus hurting sales and inventory analysis.
It also permeates the accounting of staffing, overhead costs, advertising along with sales and inventory.
So, yes NPD Canada uses the 4-4-5 calendar.
sonycowboy
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OK,
Who would want to participate in an NPD Canada prediction thread? :lol
We could start to track these a bit more seriously and really get a better handle on our neighbors to the North. They're experiencing 60% sales growth this year and will end up probably close to $1.5B in sales for the year or so. They're larger than most of the regions that we get numbers for with the exception of US, Japan, & the UK.
That, and, they're a decent precursor of potential US sales. Right now, we don't really have enough data to correlate it to US sales yet, but with enough history, we probably can approximate it a bit better than we are currently.
Who would want to participate in an NPD Canada prediction thread? :lol
We could start to track these a bit more seriously and really get a better handle on our neighbors to the North. They're experiencing 60% sales growth this year and will end up probably close to $1.5B in sales for the year or so. They're larger than most of the regions that we get numbers for with the exception of US, Japan, & the UK.
That, and, they're a decent precursor of potential US sales. Right now, we don't really have enough data to correlate it to US sales yet, but with enough history, we probably can approximate it a bit better than we are currently.
sonycowboy
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castle007 said:
Corrected to > 7-1