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whiteknight101 on 22 September 2014
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prinz_valium said:
whiteknight101 said:
prinz_valium said:
whiteknight101 said:

XBox One, XBox One+Kinect Day One Edition, Titanfall+Kinect bundle, Madden bundle are all available now, COD and Sunset Overdrive bundles are available for preorder.


only sold from resellers. not amazon.

and the numbers are very low for that sales

maybe even non existing, because of the pricetag

The day one edition with Kinect is shipped from Amazon, and the COD and SO that are available for preorder are also shipped from Amazon. I guess the other ones sold out during the "get an additional game for free" week.

The reason why Amazon isn't quick to re-stock Kinect bundled SKUs could be that they're burned by still have Day One in stock. Might be a similar story with the other bundles (they didnt move well, and Amazon were fine with having their stock cleared by the Destiny for free offer and moving on to the upcoming bundles, hoping they might do better). It's all speculation of course.


i know

thats what i said.

 

only availbe sku RIGHT NOW is the kinectless one

3 weeks before there were 3 more skus avaiable (madden, kinect and forza)

 

and this day one bundle is just a joke. its on stock for 5 or 6 month now.

 


If it's a joke I'm sure neither Amazon nor Microsoft are laughing. The day one edition IS available right now, and think about it - why would Amazon restock any kinect-bundled SKU when they still have day one's in stock?

The Titanfall bundle was with kinect, and while the game was "free", it was still 499$ because of the kinect. That bundle is the highest ranked XBO sku on the yearly chart on Amazon, but it probably started selling poorly from the point when the kinect-less SKUs became available. It didnt make the top-100 in August: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2014-08/videogames, while the upcoming CoD bundle did (#89).

Forza 5 Bundle was also with kinect.

So the question is: why stock up on a product which was hard to move when there are better (kinect-less) options coming?

I think it's quite plausible that another reason (beyond trying to keep up with the PS4) why it was a smart move for Microsoft to do the one-game-for-free offer during the Destiny launch was that it helped retailers get rid of their stock in SKUs that the market didnt want and keep them happy.

Why the Madden bundle is out of stock at Amazon is the only remaining mystery. Maybe Microsoft and retailers were overly conservative with the size of shipments because of previous over-shipping, and it sold out last week with the free game offer?