As Xbox One Launches in Japan, Akihabara Gamers Really Aren’t Standing in Line

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MB1025 said:

It is set up just like the American site so "Best seller in Video Games"

12. Xbox One w/ Kinect

13. PS4 Destiny Bundle

17. Titanfall bundle

18. Dead Rising 3

 

Then you have "Hot New Release"

10. Xbox One w/ Kinect

11. PS4 Destiny Bundle

14. Titanfall Bundle

15. Dead Rising 3

 

I'm not questioning where it is on the list, it's just that in the case of the U.S. Amazon site, as well as the U.K., even German I think (though it IS in German so hard to tell =P ) the regular Best Sellers list only applies to hourly best sellers, meaning that the only thing an item's placement on the list confirms is that it's been selling more than/less than the other items on the list for that hour or so. It's not overall sales (that's a different list.)

It's why how LONG something stays in a given part of the list is just as important as where it is; the Amiibos, the Call of Duty bundle, the Sunset Overdrive bundle, all ended up topping the charts above the PS4 on Amazon U.S., for a time... but it didn't mean they outsold the OVERALL sales of the Destiny bundle, just that, say, more Call of Duty Bundles were sold than Destiny Bundles in that past hour. So the fact that the Call of Duty bundle only stayed in the top 20 for less than a week, and is currently sitting at spot number 192, while the Destiny bundle has been in the top 25 for months, and is currently at spot 6, means that the Destiny bundle's outsold the Call of Duty bundle a lot more often.

It's why I'm asking if you know how long the Xbox One's been in that vicinity on the Japan list; this soon after launch, we could just be seeing a spike in sales. The fact that it's currently higher on that list doesn't mean the total number of Xbox Ones that Amazon Japan has sold exceeds the total number of PS4s they sold.