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g911turbo on 21 June 2013
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JoeFlex said:
g911turbo said:
theprof00 said:
2500 per minute for how many minutes?


LOL exactly.  Don't get me wrong, its nice to see the industry get some momentum with a new launch, but the quote is FILLED with so much PR talk it's not even funny.  2500 per minute is nothing if it was for 12 minutes lol.

As for the bold below, think aboutt that.  They are saying the pre orders for the new consoles was better than pre-orders for the already released consoles last year.  Unless that's a typo, thats a rediculous statement.

The final setnence is vague.  Everyone calm the hell down.

 

"Last week, the Amazon Video Games store made history with its biggest pre-order week ever thanks to the launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In fact, at the peak of demand last week, Amazon customers were pre-ordering more than 2,500 Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles per minute. In addition: · The E3 week pre-orders of the two wildly-anticipated gaming consoles brought a year-over-year increase in orders of more than 4,000%, compared to consoles ordered during E3 week last year · Day-one pre-orders for the two consoles was nearly two times that of all video games sales on Black Friday last year (2012)"


You raised an issue I was wondering about. Was the Wii U available for pre order then? I'm hearing mixed opinions over this. It seems like it, but some said no.

Even if Wii U was available.  It would have had to of been the WEEK AFTER E3.  That is the only week they are comparing.

If the Wii U was NOT available for pre order by then, they are comparing pre orders this year to SALES of existing consoles (360 and PS3) in that 1 week last year.  Duh.  Better be higher.  What HUGE reason would people have to go buy the 360 and PS3 in droves the week after e3 last year???  This is PR at its finest but a lot of people fall for it.