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UltimateGamer1982 on 09 October 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
UltimateGamer1982 said:


The fool's edition you're talking about, I don't believe Sony sells that one anymore ever since they started bundling the last of us. 

I believe those are just the old sku without a game being sold by third-party sellers and not through Amazon directly. 

So Sony doesn't have no control on those, that's up to the individual seller to lower the price. 

You could be right and in fact that could explain why the Fool's Edition can be constantly in the top 100 throughout the month but still not make it into the top 100 in the monthly results. Perhaps they only count their own bundles. Eureka! I think we have it.

#19 PS4 Destiny Bundle
#25 PS4 TLOUR Bundle
#35 XB1 Halo Bundle
#53 PS4 Star Wars Bundle
#69 PS4 Black Ops Bundle
#72 XB1 Gears Bundle
#78 XB1 Madden Bundle
#90 PS4 Fool's Edition
#92 WiiU Deluxe


So in the future, since the "fool's edition" has previously already been bought by a reseller and counted among prior npds, I would probably refrain from listing it. 

So excluding that model, Sony currently has the Destiny, last of us remastered, and now uncharted collection bundle as available skus. Pre order wise, star wars battlefront and COD bundles will be counted next month. 



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GribbleGrunger on 09 October 2015
UltimateGamer1982 said:


So in the future, since the "fool's edition" has previously already been bought by a reseller and counted among prior npds, I would probably refrain from listing it. 

So excluding that model, Sony currently has the Destiny, last of us remastered, and now uncharted collection bundle as available skus. Pre order wise, star wars battlefront and COD bundles will be counted next month. 

I'm going to still include it. It doesn't make much difference anyway and it IS a sale, even if it is for another retailer:

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UltimateGamer1982 on 09 October 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
UltimateGamer1982 said:


So in the future, since the "fool's edition" has previously already been bought by a reseller and counted among prior npds, I would probably refrain from listing it. 

So excluding that model, Sony currently has the Destiny, last of us remastered, and now uncharted collection bundle as available skus. Pre order wise, star wars battlefront and COD bundles will be counted next month. 

I'm going to still include it. It doesn't make much difference anyway and it IS a sale, even if it is for another retailer:

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That's fine. But if we're judging Amazon for npd, just know that version was counted probably months ago when the resellers originally bought it before Sony fazed it out in favor of bundling last of us here in north America, and it's current placement on Amazon has no bearing on npd. 

Only current bundles of Destiny, last of us, uncharted collection are being counted in npd as of right now. As far as I know, there is no ps4 available currently that does not include a game. 

 

But I agree, it is odd ppl would still prefer to buy a ps4 without a game included as there's quite a wide selection to pick from lol 

Guess that just shows how desirable ps4. 



celador on 09 October 2015

Some decent movement fir PS4 so far then

I wonder how much of the wider public know there has been a price reduction yet, given there was only a day between the announcements and cuts.



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GribbleGrunger on 09 October 2015
celador said:
Some decent movement fir PS4 so far then

I wonder how much of the wider public know there has been a price reduction yet, given there was only a day between the announcements and cuts.

I think we'll see in another 12 or so hours.



 

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UltimateGamer1982 on 09 October 2015

I think by Monday we'll be seeing much more movement for ps4. Gamestop's website as well as best buy already have the price cut advertised and I'm sure all the stores will be having signs throughout the store this weekend for customers to see and get word of mouth going.



UltimateGamer1982 on 09 October 2015

Star wars bundle already overtook the halo 5 bundle and is already at #35!

COD also way up and current at #59.

Good to see news of the price cut is getting out to the public with little problem.



binary solo on 09 October 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
Every bundle that got the price drop comes with a game and yet the Fool's Edition is still $399. I still think Sony are poised to make that $299 if they need to.

The Fool's edition is not sold by Amazon, it's only available from 3rd parties. The baseline sku from Amazon is the TLOUR bundle, which as you've noted is $349. Ergo the price cut is across the board. The basic black sku is $349 with or without one or more free bundled game. The curious thing is whether Destiny LE bundle will move down permanently, or stay at $399 because it's special.



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celador on 09 October 2015

Current hourly:

#21 PS4 Destiny
#28 PS4 LoU
#35 PS4 Battlefront
#37 X1 Halo 5
#59 PS4 CoD
#76 PS4
#78 X1 Gears
#90 X1 Madden
#99 Wii U Deluxe