| bigjon said: Now this is just a theory, but it is safe to say that Sony allotted at least 30k PS4s based on the fact that they were available for 13h and the last 900 sold in less than 30 min. When you consider that the sales per hour were most likely higher earlier in the shipment and factor in the bundles this allotment to Amazon could easily been over 60k, maybe upwards on 80k.
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No this is not true. Of actual unbundled PS4's, I kept careful watch using the edit cart trick once stock got under 999. It took about an hour for the last ~1k of unbundled PS4's to sell out. In fact they were selling about 17 per minute. This was around 8AM in the morning.
They were in stock for at least 17 hours, so at 1,000 an hour the shipment was probably 17,000 as an EXTREMELY rough estimate. Because sales would have likely been way higher during the prior evening, yet way lower during the dead of night hours. So we can make a guess they balanced out and 1k/hour was the average.
So they were definitely selling slower, about 24 times slower, than the 12k PS4's in 27 minutes thing. (because that is over 24,000 an hour).
Now, I did not keep track of the bundled PS4's, but all indications (and simple logic) say they were selling much less than unbundlede ones. I did check the BF4 bundle at one point I believe, it was selling at a rate of about 600 per hour (47 in 5 minutes). But this was after unbundled PS4's had sold out, so sales probably were higher than normal as people had no other options. But even if you take the straight estimate, it was ~half as fast as the unbundled PS4, so you can assume half of 17k were sold.
In other words i expect your 60-80k shipment guess is VERY high. My guess would be more like 25k. It's likely the bundles sold slowly as long as unbundled PS4's were in stock. After all there were no savings in buying a bundle. Bundles only are a tactic to up retailer profits, they aren't preffered by consumer.
