Amazon US December bestsellers thread - updated 01/01/15. AC X1 bundle #1, PS4 #15 & Destiny bundle #90

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Landguy on 06 December 2014

Too early to get much out of these charts

It is near the end of the end....

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pbroy on 06 December 2014

ilovegirls69 said:

jlmurph2 said:

Amazon has a monthly sellers list. So yes, it is an indicator.

No it isn't. Read my post again. You can't just use one retailer and say this console is selling more and ignore other indications of another console selling more. Come on man. Thats common sense.

There are no GTAV bundles at Amazon. People are buying them at GS and BB. Amazon is usless until they get more in stock. It's not apples to apples.

Thread title says "Amazon US December bestsellers thread" and this thread is simply that. Now the part about Amazon being a good indicator of NPD sales, that is questionable. If you want to create a monthly thread about December sales in retail, you are free to. I don't think the OP cares about putting any effort into that.

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ilovegirls69 on 06 December 2014

pbroy said:

Thread title says "Amazon US December bestsellers thread" and this thread is simply that. Now the part about Amazon being a good indicator of NPD sales, that is questionable. If you want to create a monthly thread about December sales in retail, you are free to. I don't think the OP cares about putting any effort into that.

But this thread is being used to show proof of XB1's sales compared to PS4. I think i explained why using Amazon alone doesn't mean anything about sales. Especially when you're comparing it to PS4 which currently it's holiday bundle is sold out while XB1's holiday bundle is in stock. Obviously PS4 is going to be down in the charts since people are buying them elsewhere. So as of right now it's pointless to use it as any gauge of interest.

Yes this is a Amazon December total sales thread. Which is being used to predict overall sales at retail. So no it's not just simply that.

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ilovegirls69 said:

pbroy said:

Thread title says "Amazon US December bestsellers thread" and this thread is simply that. Now the part about Amazon being a good indicator of NPD sales, that is questionable. If you want to create a monthly thread about December sales in retail, you are free to. I don't think the OP cares about putting any effort into that.

But this thread is being used to show proof of XB1's sales compared to PS4. I think i explained why using Amazon alone doesn't mean anything about sales. Especially when you're comparing it to PS4 which currently it's holiday bundle is sold out while XB1's holiday bundle is in stock. Obviously PS4 is going to be down in the charts since people are buying them elsewhere. So as of right now it's pointless to use it as any gauge of interest.

Yes this is a Amazon December total sales thread. Which is being used to predict overall sales at retail. So no it's not just simply that.

Read the bold. People with knowledge of how Amazon works should realize that current stock is what's being ranked. So they know that it's not going to be an end all indicator of how sales will wind up. If this thread is meant to only show Amazon rankings, then it is just that. That is my point. What you are doing now may be considered de-railing, but I am no mod and will let that be up to them. Carry on if you want.

BTW, I would REALLY love to see you make a thread with all the retail store data for the month of December. You seem to know more about this than other people do.

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ilovegirls69 said:

pbroy said:

Thread title says "Amazon US December bestsellers thread" and this thread is simply that. Now the part about Amazon being a good indicator of NPD sales, that is questionable. If you want to create a monthly thread about December sales in retail, you are free to. I don't think the OP cares about putting any effort into that.

But this thread is being used to show proof of XB1's sales compared to PS4. I think i explained why using Amazon alone doesn't mean anything about sales. Especially when you're comparing it to PS4 which currently it's holiday bundle is sold out while XB1's holiday bundle is in stock. Obviously PS4 is going to be down in the charts since people are buying them elsewhere. So as of right now it's pointless to use it as any gauge of interest.

Yes this is a Amazon December total sales thread. Which is being used to predict overall sales at retail. So no it's not just simply that.

But you are also using things like Best Buy sort order which isnt nearly the same thing as Amazon monthly, weekly bestsellers. I have built ECommerce systems and the sort order is ultimaly dertimned by ECommerce marketing department not sales statistics.

Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.