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globalisateur on 15 August 2015
endy.G said:


what evidence?
because ps4 is often hovering around the 50 in the hourly?
that does not euqal to good sales and an listing in the monthly.

the xb1 500gb no game sku is also often hovering around the 60 - 80s and does not chart in the monthly
bloodborn in july. was never high in the hourly. primeday sales happed. it shoot to #1 in the hourly and #3 or somthing like that in the mothly.
it fall off in the hourly quickly, but ended up #14 for the whole month, while being high in the top 100 hourly for just a few days

hourly sales ranking does not automatically equal to high sales for the month

 

 

you need to understand first how amazon charts work, before you come to any "evidence conclusion"
tl;dr amazon monthly charts and tracking of the ps4 no games sku was never broken and is fixed finally, just because the sku is charting now.


You are wasting your time. I have already being explaining this several times in this thread. Stats and averages are complicated and funny things compared to hourly.



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celador on 15 August 2015

Batman bundle still holding strong. Halo MCC still dropping, as is the Halo 5 bundle. Maybe the Madden bundle is picking up some of the slack, but I was expecting more from X1 this month. Next monthly update it will be interesting where Halo 5 bundle is.



endy.G on 15 August 2015
Protendo said:
endy.G said:


that's just wrong
the monthy chart is not and was never broken
the ps4 standalone bundle was never tracked wrong.

so why exactly should only that single product be tracked wrong and all other are fine?
what exactly has changed in the last 3day on the ps4 standalone, that it is not anymore tracked wrong?

 

this is pure conspiracy theroy bs
the only logical to conclude is the fact, that hourly charts and ranking does not equal directly to montly chart and rankings. because the hourly chart is no actual sales tracking chart.

 

Read this!!

https://ebooksuccess4free.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/amazon-sales-rank-secret-algorithm-exposed/

 

Because it was the only product changing categories it was listed under.... Show me an Xbox One ranking for DVDs one week and Bluray the next.

yes it tis
but that has not changed

http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-4-Console/dp/B00BGA9WK2/ref=zg_bs_videogames_63

still shown in the top100 lists for dvd- and bluray players
so i ask again. what exactly changed for the ps4 that the tracking was broken before, but is not anymore?
right! nothing ;)

 

the tracking was either never broken
or it is still broken
but it is not magically fixed now because of no reason, like some pretend

 



endy.G on 15 August 2015
globalisateur said:

 


You are wasting your time. I have already being explaining this several times in this thread. Stats and averages are complicated and funny things compared to hourly.


you are right. i am wasting my time.
most people will never acknowledge they are wrong.



WoodenPints on 15 August 2015
celador said:
Batman bundle still holding strong. Halo MCC still dropping, as is the Halo 5 bundle. Maybe the Madden bundle is picking up some of the slack, but I was expecting more from X1 this month. Next monthly update it will be interesting where Halo 5 bundle is.

Amazon keeps running out of stock on the 500GB and 1TB MCC bundles for some reason, Already this month the 1TB has been out of stock twice and the 500GB is currently out of stock since 13th August and expected stock is 19th August.

On the topic of hourly and monthly for the past few days PS4 Batman was #9/#10 always and droped from #10 to #11 on the monthly and the MCC 500GB went from #16 in the hourly chart all the way to #40 yet in the monthly it jumped from #16 to #15 which again shows that hourly isn't representive of the actual monthly charts.



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celador on 15 August 2015
WoodenPints said:
celador said:
Batman bundle still holding strong. Halo MCC still dropping, as is the Halo 5 bundle. Maybe the Madden bundle is picking up some of the slack, but I was expecting more from X1 this month. Next monthly update it will be interesting where Halo 5 bundle is.

Amazon keeps running out of stock on the 500GB and 1TB MCC bundles for some reason, Already this month the 1TB has been out of stock twice and the 500GB is currently out of stock since 13th August and expected stock is 19th August.

On the topic of hourly and monthly for the past few days PS4 Batman was #9/#10 always and droped from #10 to #11 on the monthly and the MCC 500GB went from #16 in the hourly chart all the way to #40 yet in the monthly it jumped from #16 to #15 which again shows that hourly isn't representive of the actual monthly charts.

Ok, didn't realise there were stock issues.  



Protendo on 15 August 2015
endy.G said:
Protendo said:

Because it was the only product changing categories it was listed under.... Show me an Xbox One ranking for DVDs one week and Bluray the next.

yes it tis
but that has not changed

 

But it has changed. We have witnessed it and made notes. It even changed catogories dropping in the monthly for the other for the new category it's in. It's cute that you ignore this.

Back to the hourly reporting:

10.) PS4: BAK
36.) PS4: DtTK LE
47.) XBO: tMCC 500gb
55.) XBO: H5 1TB
64.) PS4: Std
70.) Wii-U: MD
96.) XBO: Std
99.) N3DS: XL

Spoilers don't count as sales for the month as the transaction hasn't taken place. 



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Ryng on 15 August 2015

Madden bundle is at #108 in the hourly. Will be in the TOP 100 very soon.
Last year, XBO bundle with Madden 15 was at #50 in the monthly chartz. So, that's still not good.

Last year Madden bundle sold 41k... maybe 20k for Madden 16 bundle this time? Well, of course the XBO sales will not double the Madden week like last year...



Ryng on 15 August 2015

Also, Assassin's Creed bundle is not in TOP 100, but is in nearly in TOP 150.

#152.



Just...wow... this bundle is insanity lmao.



Teeqoz on 15 August 2015
endy.G said:
Teeqoz said:
Black Ops 3 PS4 physical at #3 and PS4 digital (download code) at #34. XBO physical at #7, download code doesn't chart.

Kinda makes you wonder how much of CoD's decline is due to digital.


beta preoders


I don't think you got my point. It had nothing to do with which platform it's selling the most on, it was just about how much of the sales decline for CoD comes from sales shifting from physical to digital.