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greenmedic88 on 06 March 2014
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Madword said:
bananaking21 said:
Madword said:
The last time PS4 was in stock at amazon it was on for 2-3 days... and it outsold XboxOne by nearly 2:1... it not selling out on Amazon is nothing for the moment.. especially as it jumped straight to no 1.

Let's see what happens shall we, lots of things can change, TitanFall is a total unknown yet.


well sales on amazon wont really tell us how sales will be in march. if anyone who wants to buy a PS4 right now most likely has to buy it from the store its available at, which is Amazon right now. but Xb1 is readily available everywhere, so people dont have to go to a certain store (amazon) to get it. so while its impressive that PS4 outsold XB1 at amazon, you cant really judge whether the same thing happened at other retail stores as well. 

I would never use amazon as a major indicator of how well something is selling, but what I am saying is last time it took days for amazon to sell stock but globally the PS4 still outsold everything. Having stock that takes 2 or 3 days to sell out means nothing right now... the context is useful but only when there is lots of stock sitting on shelves for weeks etc.

I don't know if you mean available for weeks, or if existing stock isn't moving.

Obviously, if the same console is sitting on a shelf at retail for weeks, that's really bad, but this is rarely the case when it comes to consoles. Stock goes out, more stock comes in from the distribution warehouse on a regular basis. 

When it comes to a high demand item, it's generally a good sign to see lots of stock constantly moving onto and off shelves to consumer hands. 

Of course when they're never out of stock at any decent sized retail outlet that can stock more than a few units at a time, that could mean anything from production rates have either met with current consumer demand to an indicator of stock glut due to overproduction/distribution.