Amazon U.S. December bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[Madword]

SpokenTruth said:

Madword said:

Well two issues with that, (not disbutting that december is better) but you have the Wii-u which sold crap and did better in december (sell small and double is not that impressive but also gives a MOM% which isnt realistic). or the 3DS which was a cheaper?? handheld.

So if we say switch did 800k November, and use my top range of 1.3 thats 500k. I think thats a reasonable assumption for the price of the product. Could it do 1.5 yeah of course. But all data/products are not equal is what I am saying. 

A 1.3 million December would be highly disappointing and out of line with current sales trends and expectations by professional sales analysts.

Some people were highly disappointed by the less than 1m in December. So I guess its all apples and pears.

Hah lets not go there with the "Professional Sales Analysts", sorry but most of them are just riding the waves of info they get from other sources and certainly are only slightly better than everyone else guessing... they generally change their story based on bits of info coming out from people and then try to sound like people in the know. "All three are close in November"... " 2:1 difference. "Only talking about my own stores".... Even the NPD guy wasn't accurate for November at times...

Of course the numbers could be higher. All I am saying is that showing two products with different prices and status and then taking the % increase for MOM does not necessarily equate to evidence that Switch would do the same. Of course expectation is that products will sell more in December. Could I see switch doing 1.4 or 1.5, of course totally feasible. I think the top end of any of the three consoles will be 1.6m, I suspect that Xbox will struggle behind PS4 probably by about 200-300k because of the pre-order drop off but will stabilise some of those loses because of price - $189 .

• PS4 = 1.5
• Xbox = 1.3
• Switch = 1.3