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Aura7541 said:
Teeqoz said:
I can't for the life of me understand why Sony is so insistent on having few bundles in the US..... but I suppose they sort of fucked up with which games to advertise this year. Infinite Warfare wasn't a crowd pleaser, even though I've read positive things about it online.

Either SIEA is incompetent or it cares more about profit margins than sales volume. Bundling a 1st party game is less expensive than bundling a 3rd party game.

They still have other first party games than only Uncharted 4 though.



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d21lewis said:
So everybody can claim a victory. But which is bigger business? Retail or online?

I read an article that said that cyber monday did bigger business than black friday for the first time. So by that logic Xbox won?



Teeqoz said:
Aura7541 said:

Either SIEA is incompetent or it cares more about profit margins than sales volume. Bundling a 1st party game is less expensive than bundling a 3rd party game.

They still have other first party games than only Uncharted 4 though.

I think it's because UC4 is the most popular 1st party game by a wide margin. Also, Gamestop offered R&C or TLOU along with the UC4 bundle while Best Buy offered both.



SweetTalia said:

Awesome. Seems both company did well. Here's to hoping for a strong December from both but man according to this the pro did not sell well..

 

Edit: i just realized the pro sold better on cybermonday because of the deals.. makes sense now.

What I find jarring was that either a lot of people were holding off to buy the PS4 Slim on BF or Gears really did drive a lot of the initial support for the XBOS... 

 

Either that or people realized the PS4 Pro sucked and their expectations changed drastically, since it seems it might not have been as popular as the Slim... Now I realize these patterns make no sense. I'd expect the Pro the be the main source of sales, rather than the out since Summer Slim... 

It does confirm something though... Microsoft fans no longer like stores, so my call was right... 



bunchanumbers said:
d21lewis said:
So everybody can claim a victory. But which is bigger business? Retail or online?

I read an article that said that cyber monday did bigger business than black friday for the first time. So by that logic Xbox won?

ONLINE.

Online shopping was more on cyber monday than online shopping was on BF.

MS won online on BF and PS4 won online on cybermonday.  

Retail shopping is still way bigger than online shopping. Unless I'm grossly mistaken. 



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SweetTalia said:
LivingMetal said:

I bought my PS4 Pro that Sunday before Cyber Monday from Amazon.

cool. but i thought cybermonday had better deals for the pro. I may be wrong.

Here's my order:

And I had orginally mentioned this to say I was part of that "browser" crowd.



AsGryffynn said:
SweetTalia said:

Awesome. Seems both company did well. Here's to hoping for a strong December from both but man according to this the pro did not sell well..

 

Edit: i just realized the pro sold better on cybermonday because of the deals.. makes sense now.

What I find jarring was that either a lot of people were holding off to buy the PS4 Slim on BF or Gears really did drive a lot of the initial support for the XBOS... 

 

Either that or people realized the PS4 Pro sucked and their expectations changed drastically, since it seems it might not have been as popular as the Slim... Now I realize these patterns make no sense. I'd expect the Pro the be the main source of sales, rather than the out since Summer Slim... 

It does confirm something though... Microsoft fans no longer like stores, so my call was right... 

I dont know why you would think the pro would evee be the main drive for sales. It just makes no sense.

This is the holiday season. Gift buying season. People go where the deals are. And did you see deals on thr PS4? And the pro is an enthusiast console. It's not intended to push the kinda numbers a cheaper slim would push. 

And I dont understand what you mean by MS fans no longer like stores. Could it just mean that online retailers had better deals for an XB1? Or MS losing the physical fight just means that they lost because MS fans rather buy their stuff online?



d21lewis said:
So everybody can claim a victory. But which is bigger business? Retail or online?

Retail is much bigger than Online for BF, I belive.



Nice! Congrats to PS4 for winning the BF/CM weekend.



Bandorr said:

I find the math on those charts odd.
Playstation 45, 40/5. Ok that makes sense
Xbox one 55, 34/18. That adds up to 52. Where is the other 3%?

The mortar store says

- Playstation 58%.. but adds up to 59
- Xbox says 42% but adds up to 41%.

These just seem sloppy.

Maybe the older fat models sales?