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MDMAlliance on 16 November 2013
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Somini said:
MDMAlliance said:
I stopped reading the posts around 30 posts in, but I'm really curious as to why people are saying that Amazon must have sold so many copies themselves. What proof do we have that Amazon is selling, like some person here said, over a million copies? That really doesn't make sense to me, because that would mean that Amazon would have the largest percentage of PS4's compared to anyone else.


Because they made a statement about it?

See here;

Amazon Sold 2,500 Xbox One and PS4 Pre-Orders Per Minute Last Week

Saturday, June 22, 2013 - by Paul Lilly
Ladies and gentlemen, the gaming business is just fine. You wouldn't know it from the declining figures posted by The NPD Group time and again, but as some suspected, gamers have grown stingy with their spending because they're waiting on next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony. One need only look at the mad dash consumers made toAmazon in the wake of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 being offered up for pre-order.

According to a press release Amazon's been emailing the media, the Amazon Video Games store had its biggest pre-order week of all time thanks to the launch of the aforementioned consoles. At the "peak of demand" a week ago, Amazon was processing more than 2,500 Xbox One and PS4 consoles per minute.


"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 percent, compared to consoles ordered during E3 week last year," Amazon said. "Day one pre-orders for the two consoles was nearly two times that of all video games sales on black Friday last year."


Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year, underscoring just how much demand there is for these new consoles. Of course, the Wii U posted some strong numbers at first as well, but it wasn't breaking records the way these two are. At present, the Xbox One and PS4 remain the top two selling items in Amazon Video Games, with the Xbox One having leapfrogged its rival after Microsoft reversed course on its DRM policy. So much for this generation of consoles being doomed to failure.


I'm going to be honest and say that I have no idea how this says that Amazon has the most out of anyone else or how it says that Amazon has over 1m pre-orders for PS4 alone.  I didn't visit the links because I would assume that what you pasted had the information that "proves" it, but you didn't.