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Nuvendil on 23 February 2018
Mbolibombo said:
PAOerfulone said:

But... they have 6 different SKUs in the top 100, whereas Sony and Nintendo, combined, have 5, (6 if you want to count the SNES Classic).

For like 2 days of 23.

Let's see how the rest of the month pan out.

Wise advice.  And thus likely to be disregarded.

More importantly, you need to look at how these new SKUs do in the monthly charts.  Hourlies are fun to track but making calls based on short term hourly observation is ill advised.  

If there's enough SKUs, it can result in an upset, it's happened before.  But the new SKUs are awfully low.  Which as said before doesn't necessarily mean anything, but historically being under 50 usually indicates minimum impact to results.  And half the Xbone skus are 80 or under at the moment.  We'll have to keep an eye on it, but I don't think this will be enough.  There's an outside chance though, since the Switch only has 2 skus.



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Mbolibombo on 23 February 2018
Nuvendil said:
Mbolibombo said:

For like 2 days of 23.

Let's see how the rest of the month pan out.

Wise advice.  And thus likely to be disregarded.

More importantly, you need to look at how these new SKUs do in the monthly charts.  Hourlies are fun to track but making calls based on short term hourly observation is ill advised.  

If there's enough SKUs, it can result in an upset, it's happened before.  But the new SKUs are awfully low.  Which as said before doesn't necessarily mean anything, but historically being under 50 usually indicates minimum impact to results.  And half the Xbone skus are 80 or under at the moment.  We'll have to keep an eye on it, but I don't think this will be enough.  There's an outside chance though, since the Switch only has 2 skus.

True, Xbox still only has two SKUs on the top 100 on the monthly chart and they're in the 50's and 60's. The tide can turn (and it might just do that, who knows) but there still needs to do some work to get there would be me guess.



p0isonparadise on 23 February 2018

4 hours since last update.

HARDWARE:
#14 NS Neon (up 1)
#23 NS Grey (same)
#42 XB1 Minecraft (down 1)
#43 XB1X (up 1)
#45 SNES Classic (up 2)
#48 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 6)
#53 PS4 Pro (same)
#65 PSVR Skyrim (down 7)
#67 XB1 Forza (up 4)
#69 PS4 Pro Star Wars (down 7)
#81 XB1 (down 4)
#88 XB1 PUBG (down 21)
#92 XB1 Madden (down 10)

SOFTWARE (Pre-orders Only)**:
Nothing at the moment

Does not affect this month: *
Software outside of the month only gets added if it's in the top 20: **

PS4: 3 in the top 100 / 1 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
XB1: 6 in the top 100 / 2 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
NIS:  2 in the top 100 / 2 in the top 50 / 1 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5



Ryng on 23 February 2018
Shaqazooloo0 said:
Ryng_Tolu said:

Bruh, Mario Odyssey sold like 90k in UK at launch lol. I don't think i saw many people predicting 100k, actully most people were predicting in the 70-80k range, so it beat expectations.

Yeah, im probably wrong on that one, i'm trying to find where I remember the 75k and no luck. Can you link me to the proper numbers please?

I don't know whether it was here or resetera where I saw people saying the debut was below. Resetera had a few but that seemed to be a minority, so oops my bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Bad example on my part.

I'm sorry man but i can't right now :-/

 

That's kinda a boring period for me because i'm moving house and i can't use my PC. if you wait some days i'll be happy to reply every of your questions



xMetroid on 23 February 2018

Also is the Xbox one only getting a discount on amazon or other retailers also ?



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hudsoniscool on 24 February 2018

Pubg bundle sold out, madden bundle sold out, x bundle 3 left in stock. Xbox has a legit shot for February. Yes it's loosing to switch on Amazon but just going back to January xbox was evidently close to taking npd even though it got crushed on Amazon. Not saying it's going to win just that has a chance.

Seams like the combo of pubg and the X really helping it now... mainly pubg.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Nuvendil on 24 February 2018
hudsoniscool said:
Pubg bundle sold out, madden bundle sold out, x bundle 3 left in stock. Xbox has a legit shot for February. Yes it's loosing to switch on Amazon but just going back to January xbox was evidently close to taking npd even though it got crushed on Amazon. Not saying it's going to win just that has a chance.

Seams like the combo of pubg and the X really helping it now... mainly pubg.

Interesting.  Though it selling out without ever making it high up the charts doesn't point to a good stock situation.  Hopefully Amazon's is just anomalously low.



newwil7l on 24 February 2018

For february I predict

Switch > XBO >PS4

Xbox could actually be up YoY if they continue to be aggressive throughout the year.



KBG29 on 24 February 2018

Console + VR Units 2/24/2018

  • #16 Neon Switch
  • #23 Grey Switch
  • #39 PS4 Slim
  • #43 XBO S Minecraft Bundle
  • #46 XBO X 
  • #53 PS4 Pro
  • #70 XBO S 500GB
  • #74 XBO S FH3 Hot Wheels Bundle
  • #75 Oculus Rift + Touch
  • #81 PS4 Pro SWBFII Bundle
  • #90 PSVR Skyrim Bundle
Oculus continues to hold strong, while the PSVR Skyrim bundle looks to be on its way out of the top #100. Very impressed with both the XBO X and the PS4 Pro so far this year. Have fun, see everyone tomorrow.


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SWORDF1SH on 24 February 2018
Nuvendil said:
Mbolibombo said:

For like 2 days of 23.

Let's see how the rest of the month pan out.

Wise advice.  And thus likely to be disregarded.

More importantly, you need to look at how these new SKUs do in the monthly charts.  Hourlies are fun to track but making calls based on short term hourly observation is ill advised.  

If there's enough SKUs, it can result in an upset, it's happened before.  But the new SKUs are awfully low.  Which as said before doesn't necessarily mean anything, but historically being under 50 usually indicates minimum impact to results.  And half the Xbone skus are 80 or under at the moment.  We'll have to keep an eye on it, but I don't think this will be enough.  There's an outside chance though, since the Switch only has 2 skus.

So you're putting weight on the rankings ? 

Lower units don't make a impact? 

Didn't you say that PS4 and Xbox One having more bundles is what's causing the illusion of a bias? T

hese bundles were hovering around the 200 mark or lower before price cut. Not even close to the 80 mark where you said has minimum impact.

Didn't you condemn putting weight on rankings, but here you are doing just that. 

It's fine to have that opinion but at least acknowledge the possibility of a bias and it's possible to put weight on the rankings even if it's the most simple form like "It's at 80th so it's not doing that great"  etc. 

Last edited by SWORDF1SH - on 24 February 2018