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Bryank75 said:


Looks like battlefront could be a little shaky for reviews. You think it will have a negative effect on sales or preorder cancellations?! 

If it does it will be so negligible it won't change a thing, and a huge majority of those purchasing the PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle that do decide to cancel will likely just change it to another PS4 bundle. I think November is going to be a HUGE month, but ONLY if Sony have upped production in preparation for Black Friday. I have no reason to doubt they have though, especially because of them upping their fiscal year projection by 1m. If they build them they will come (sorry ...)



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

Will those possible extra XB1 consoles be enough to regain the lead Sony are clearly building during the month though? That is the question! Personally, I don't think so.


Yeah, I don't think so either. The lead not only consists of sales and pre-orders made this month, but also Battlefront pre-orders from September and October. That's quite a mountain to climb for Microsoft. Even if they manged to sell a bit more than Sony on Black Friday, it would only make the gap smaller, but not invert it. They'd have to completely dominate like last year, which seems highly unlikely with no major advantages this holiday. I'm much more interested in what the actual gap will be.



McReally said:


Yeah, I don't think so either. The lead not only consists of sales and pre-orders made this month, but also Battlefront pre-orders from September and October. That's quite a mountain to climb for Microsoft. Even if they manged to sell a bit more than Sony on Black Friday, it would only make the gap smaller, but not invert it. They'd have to completely dominate like last year, which seems highly unlikely with no major advantages this holiday. I'm much more interested in what the actual gap will be.

It completely depends on by how much MS have stuffed the channels, particularly with the Halo Bundle. Perhaps our local mathematicians can draw some decent data from Microsoft's Halo 5 PR and the reality of the NPD results because those numbers Microsoft used in the PR are related to shipped not sold (as we found out later).



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

Unless Sony have stepped up production dramatically then I can see MS winning Black Friday based on availablity alone. We could make a case that the PS4 will likely have consoles left over from the rather weak October results but I feel as if the PS4 bundles are selling so well, they're likely to exhaust that surplus before Black Friday. Will those possible extra XB1 consoles be enough to regain the lead Sony are clearly building during the month though? That is the question! Personally, I don't think so.


But so far the only bundle we've seen for BF is the NDC one. I doubt there'll be availability issues for that. IMO that's not the problem, rather it is how appealing that bundle will be? Just NDC isn't enough, they should have an extra game. Or a gift card. MS is doing 60$ and 30$ gift cards in specific retailers, Sony so far isn't. A plain NDC bundle at 299.99 isn't incredibly enticing for BF.



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Roronaa_chan said:


But so far the only bundle we've seen for BF is the NDC one. I doubt there'll be availability issues for that. IMO that's not the problem, rather it is how appealing that bundle will be? Just NDC isn't enough, they should have an extra game. Or a gift card. MS is doing 60$ and 30$ gift cards in specific retailers, Sony so far isn't. A plain NDC bundle at 299.99 isn't incredibly enticing for BF.

That will change if need be.



 

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Current BF deals:



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

Current BF deals:


I've seen this before somewhere.... Lol

 



Bryank75 said:


I've seen this before somewhere.... Lol

 

I have no idea where ...



 

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3 hours after last update:

#12 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (down 1)
#13 PS4 Star Wars LE Bundle (down 1)
#18 PS4 Black Ops Bundle (same)
#20 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (same)
#35 XB1 Fallout Bundle (down 1)
#46 XB1 Gears Bundle (up 1)
#72 XB1 Madden Bundle (up 1)

PS4 - 4 bundles, 4 in the top 100
XB1 - 13 bundles, 3 in the top 100


XB1 Deals:

Gears Bundle + Black Ops 3
Madden Bundle + Free Game Of Choice
Halo Bundle + Free Game Of Choice
FIFA Bundle + Fallout 4
Three Game Bundle + Halo 5
LEGO Bundle + Minecraft Story Mode
Kinect Bundle + Free Game Of Choice
Fallout Bundle + Free Game Of Choice


PS4 Deals:

Nathan Drake Bundle + ACS + FF Type O
Nathan Drake Bundle + Black Ops 3



 

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