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PS4 sells great, NS sells great, 3DS still sells more than decently and XBOne sells decently, if the whole console gaming market hasn't shrunk since 7th gen, and excluding that any current gen console sales suddenly plummet, there are enough potential buyers left to grant PS4 and NS stellar lifetime sales, and good sales to XBOne too. 3DS will stop under its true potential, but Ninty had to sacrifice it making a hybrid to save its share of home console market seriously damaged by Wii U flop (I expect Sony to make at least a hybrid version of its next gen home console to do the same, in the opposite direction, to save its share of portable market). PSV was doomed to niche status by Sony attitude itself; luckily for it, many Japanese 3rd party developers, except Capcom, never stopped loving it.



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Awesome for the PS4-Hardware, every Publisher and the great games from 2017 for the chrismas-time :)



There is quite strong anecdotal evidence of PS4 selling amazingly well, now of course there will be some stores that still have some stock or sell less, not everywhere is the same, we've been here before many times guys, so lets now go with the "well I went into a store and there were 6 PS4's so its not selling that great" type stories. When the PS4 was selling great at launch we had a similar situation where people would take a picture of a pallet of PS4's and say, its going to sell crap. Learn from the past, so that the future is more clear :D



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Soonerman said:
Lawlight said:

Looks like stock isn't as much of an issue for the Switch.

I'm gonna have to call BS on what Normchacho said. I was in one of the Targets downtown Chicago buying paper wrap for gifts and found a shelf with 6 PS4s just sitting there no one close trying to grab them.

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Cmon man... Just because a location near has a few does not mean the OP is lying. I am visiting family in Bumfuck Mississipi and their tini walmart had 2 Xbox 1 X in stock, 1 switch and a few pros. But I make 0 assumptions that this shithole represents sales patterns elsewhere.



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Normchacho said:
pitzy272 said:

So you had about 220 going into Thursday then, since you sold 80 Sun-Wed? Or did Sony ship you 300 JUST for Thursday and Friday? Think I overheard someone at Best Buy talk about actual “Black Friday crates” that are shipped and are reserved for Thur-Fri.

We had 300 just for Thursday and Friday. There are no official "black Friday crates" bit I'm sure plenty of stores held stock.

Will Sony ship you more 1TB $199 PS4 for cyber monday ?



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Looks like Microsoft is taking advantage of the sold-out PS4 over at Amazon today. They've priced the Xbox One S at $189 and it's currently at #2 on the best sellers list.



ratchet426 said:
Looks like Microsoft is taking advantage of the sold-out PS4 over at Amazon today. They've priced the Xbox One S at $189 and it's currently at #2 on the best sellers list.

It's been that price for days...



ratchet426 said:
Looks like Microsoft is taking advantage of the sold-out PS4 over at Amazon today. They've priced the Xbox One S at $189 and it's currently at #2 on the best sellers list.

It was already priced at that, they didn't make that the price to counter PS4 being out of stock..



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Madword said:
ratchet426 said:
Looks like Microsoft is taking advantage of the sold-out PS4 over at Amazon today. They've priced the Xbox One S at $189 and it's currently at #2 on the best sellers list.

It was already priced at that, they didn't make that the price to counter PS4 being out of stock..

Ah. My bad. I guess I hadn't noticed until it jumped up to #2 best seller on Amazon today.



ratchet426 said:
Madword said:

It was already priced at that, they didn't make that the price to counter PS4 being out of stock..

Ah. My bad. I guess I hadn't noticed until it jumped up to #2 best seller on Amazon today.

It's still selling better than any console on Amazon right now; it just seems like console sales are relatively dead since BF.