Console Wars 2013

[Dudebro]

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

I figured it out a long time ago, you are not mature enough to play it. Seriously, you sound like a ten year old with an eight year old sibling.

That's what you got from this exchange? I guess I shouldn't expect much else from an proud fanboy. I dared to disagree with mighty Nintendo, blasphemy!

[Slime Slayer]

Originally Posted by Dudebro

That's what you got from this exchange? I guess I shouldn't expect much else from an proud fanboy. I dared to disagree with mighty Nintendo, blasphemy!

Sorry, you are entitled to your opinion. But keep in mind, the vast majority like the system the way it is, and if they changed it, there would outrage.

[Seahawk]

NPD MARCH 2014
Gamesindustry.biz article

SOFTWARE:

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HARDWARE
PS4: Best selling platform, no numbers
Xbox One: 311K, Microsoft PR
3DS: 159K, source
Xbox 360: 111K, Microsoft PR
Wii U: 70K, source
Wii: 28K, source
Vita: 10K, source
PSP: 5K, source

Originally Posted by Microsoft PR

Highlights from March 2014 NPD Group results include:

• Xbox One continues selling at a strong pace with 311,000 units sold in the U.S. in the month of March, surpassing Xbox 360 sales by more than 60 percent at the same point in time.
• Xbox 360 continues to grow its install base with 111,000 units sold in March in the U.S., more than any other seventh generation console.
• Xbox One continues to see impressive software sales with an average of 2.9 games sold per console.
• With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold the most games across all console platforms with 4.1 million games sold. Xbox One sold 1.4 million games in March and Xbox 360 sold 2.7 million, totaling 49 percent of the total software market share (Xbox 360 and Xbox One combined).
• During the month of March, Xbox One and Xbox 360 games in the top 10 title lists were as follows:
  • Xbox One held four top titles in the generation eight top 10 console game title list in the U.S. including: “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare,” “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes,” “ Titanfall.”
  • Xbox 360 held six top titles in the generation seven top 10 console game title list in the U.S. include: “Minecraft,” “Dark Souls II,” “The Lego Movie Video Game,” “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare,” “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” “South Park: The Stick of Truth.”

March NPD Results: Titanfall on Xbox One is Number One Selling Game

No Sony PR
No Nintendo PR

[DrunkN]

Xbone master race

[Dudebro]

Damn the WiiU is doing worse than the 360? That's actually kinda sad.

[Seahawk]

I'm pretty sure that the Wii U has been outsold by the 360 every month except launch.

[CrispyChicken]

Silly WiiU. At least the 3DS is still staying strong.

[Seahawk]

I'd be pretty worried if I were Nintendo with the 3DS falling and Wii U being eternally catatonic.

[CrispyChicken]

Smash will surely help out the 3DS which doesn't really have that many big games coming out aside from the new Kirby. Smash seems to be getting a lot of hype.

WiiU is pretty much doomed.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I have no clue by what kind of crazy logic you still think you are going to win this.
Yeah yeah "Smash and Mario Kart will move units".

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

No, because I'm gonna be in control of SH's avatar for 3 months.

I'm not sure what you mean, the numbers have barely changed since we made the bet.

Originally Posted by Seahawk

NPD Feb:
Xbox One: 258k
Wii U: ~82k

NPD Mar:
Xbox One: 311K
Wii U: 70K

Meanwhile, Media Create in Japan, week 17, 4/21-4/27

|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
|  WIU  |      5.710 |      5.204 |      8.262 |    188.692 |    268.787 |   1.714.122 |

I ain't even worried bro.

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

I'm glad, it will make my victory all the sweeter.

Originally Posted by Dudebro

Wait let me see if I understand this. Steven is saying the WiiU is gonna triple its sales and pass the xbone?

Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

No, the bet is that on Jan. 1, 2015, the Wii U has more total sales globally than the Xbox One. Maybe would should make a topic about the bet, and encourage others to make some bets to get in on the fun. Make for a hilarious start to 2015 will all the ridiculous avatars.

Continue here.

[Dudebro]

If the WiiU turns it around I'll be sincerely stunned.

[CrispyChicken]

I think WiiU could double their sales from Kart and Smash but I doubt they can triple total sales based on two games.

[Slime Slayer]

Are you guys commenting on our bet? Or just in general? Because in order for me to win the bet Nintendo doesn't need to triple their sales, nor even turn things around (well they will probably need to turn things around a little bit, witch they obviously will). The bet boils down to can the Xbone catch up.

[CrispyChicken]

Well they will need to triple their sales because they Xbone has 3x more sales than WiiU.

[Slime Slayer]

Originally Posted by ChrisP

Well they will need to triple their sales because they Xbone has 3x more sales than WiiU.

No it doesn't, these are total sales, Wii U has somewhere in the range of a 1.5 - 2 million unit lead.

[CrispyChicken]

Ohh gotcha. I was confused with the original post. My bad. Continue on.

[Seahawk]

Nintendo FY 2014 financial review

Don't feel like analyzing deeply right now, but I'll leave this-

Cash and cash equivalents at
Start of FY - ¥469.4b
End of FY - ¥341.3b
(last row on page 12)

27% drop in all monetary assets in a single year.

[Slime Slayer]

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That image wasn't meant to be directed towards you specifically btw SH, I appreciate the numbers you post here.

And speaking of numbers, Nintendo apparently just acquired some sort of technology for 100 million usd. Not really any details other than that at this point. Must be pretty major at that price.

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Nintendo spends $100-million on acquiring something | canada.com

[Seahawk]

Nintendo fans confirmed as casuals.

Three out of four US gamers prefer physical games - NPD | GamesIndustry International

The report comes from a survey of more than 7,900 core gamers ages 9 and up conducted in March. The research firm defined "core gamer" as anyone who plays five hours or more on Microsoft or Sony consoles, PC, or Mac, and plays in certain genres (action, adventure, fighting, flight, MMOs, racing, real-time strategy, RPGs, shooters, or sports games) on those platforms.

The NPD Group put the total US core gamer audience at 34 million people, with the average player spending 22 hours a week on games. Two-thirds of them also played games on mobile devices, and 70 percent played multiplayer games at least occasionally.

[Slime Slayer]

Took a strawpoll on /v/ for our bet SH:
Straw Poll
People seem to agree with me. Not to say /v/ isn't a pack of inbred retards, but point stands.

[Seahawk]

Still not seeing how that'd happen.

You got your images picked yet? I've got two candidates lined up.

[Slime Slayer]

Oh geeze, nothing finalized yet, but I have a theme hammered out pretty good.

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In case anyone didn't notice MS went from "We cant get rid of it. The Xbox One cant function with out Kinect." to: "Raise your hands and cheer, here comes the X Bone without a Kinect."

[Dudebro]

And the die hard fanboys are up in arms about the "sony trolls" and casuals bullying poor MS. They claim that the xbone is designed for the kinect and removing it ruins the experience. I even got called a sony troll for being happy about this and I haven't owned a Sony console since PS2.

The only good argument I've heard from fanboys is that this will hurt game production for Kinect. Forcing it on xbone buyers meant that pretty much every game could have some support for it and devs would feel confident about spending time and money on it. Now they will know that a good portion has no interest and would actually be upset if they added kinect stuff. More games will be like traditional games. I see it as a good thing for gamers but I can see why it hurts MS and any devs interested in taking the Kinect plunge.

[Seahawk]

NPD APRIL 2014: VARYING DEGREES OF DOOMED EDITION



Top 10 software of boring and generic titles


PS4: ~199k *not official*
Xbox One: 115k
3DS: ~104k *not official*
Xbox 360: 71k
Wii U: ~49k *not official*
PS3: 35k *not official*
Wii: ~17-18k *not official*
PSVita: ~3.3k *not official*

Year over year trends:
Hardware: +76%
Software: -10%
Overall: +17%

"Life to date, sales of PS4 and Xbox One hardware have more than doubled the combined sales of PS3 and 360 hardware through their first six months of sales,” said NPD analyst Liam Callahan. "PS4 software combined with Xbox One software sales are up over 40 percent compared to sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 through their first six months. Wii U software sales were up over last year by over 80 percent," he continued.

Originally Posted by Microsoft PR

April NPD Results: Xbox Leads U.S. Software Game Sales

April NPD Group figures released today showed that Xbox One continues to lead in software sales with the most cumulative units sold for any eighth generation home console platform life-to-date. Combined, Xbox One and Xbox 360 held eight of the top 10 spots on the generation eight and generation seven console game lists in the U.S. And, Xbox One continues to outpace Xbox 360 sales in the same historical time period by selling over 76 percent more units in the first six months on the market.

Highlights from April 2014 NPD Group results include:
Xbox One continues to see impressive software sales, maintaining an average of three games sold per console.
With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold the most games across all console platforms with 2.6 million games sold. Xbox One sold 447,000 games in April and Xbox 360 sold 2.2 million, totaling 53 percent of the total software market share (Xbox 360 and Xbox One combined).
Xbox One and Xbox 360 together held eight of the top 10 spots on the generation eight and generation seven console game list in the U.S.: “Titanfall” (Xbox One), “Kinect Sports Rivals” (Xbox One), “Titanfall” (Xbox 360), “Call of Duty: Ghosts” (Xbox 360), “NBA 2K14” (Xbox 360), “Grand Theft Auto V” (Xbox 360), “Minecraft” (Xbox 360) and “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare” (Xbox 360).
Xbox One sold 115,000 units in the U.S. in the month of April and has outpaced box 360 sales by 76 percent in the first six months on the market.
Xbox 360 continues to grow its install base with 71,000 units sold in April in the U.S., more than any other seventh generation console.
Looking ahead to June, we’ll launch significant updates for Xbox. Earlier this week, we announced more choices and better value for Xbox fans who have been asking for options in games and entertainment experiences as well as options in hardware selection. Beginning on June 9, in all markets where Xbox One is currently sold, we will offer Xbox One starting at $399, in addition to Xbox One with Kinect. We’re also bringing a new generation of Xbox Live including Games with Gold and Deals with Gold coming to Xbox One, as well as giving anyone with an Xbox 360 or Xbox One access to apps – whether or not you have an Xbox Live Gold membership.

We’re excited to share more about the amazing lineup of games coming to Xbox during our Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing, Xbox: Game On, which will take place Monday, June 9 beginning at 9:30 a.m. PDT. During the briefing, we’ll showcase in-depth looks at previously announced games as well as trailers for our unannounced games coming in 2014 and beyond.

Data from NPD Group, April 2014
Source: http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/xbox-one-april-npd

Nintendo: Doomed the PR department
Sony: What's PR

[Dudebro]

Someone wanna buy me a WiiU so I can play this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOq4IiuRMWk