| SWORDF1SH said: ... it's all about buying habbits and trends. Amazon has been pretty good in tracking hardware sales but not all is what it seems. Although it's a good indicator, Playstation guys are more likely to buy from Amazon so this offsets the data and sometime causes conflict with the NPD results. What I mean by this is it both consoles were pretty much the same position on the bestsellers on the monthly Amazon, Xbox would be ahead in the NPD. The evidence January NPD vs January Amazon Bestsellers X1 - 152k NPD - 18th on Amazon PS4 - 192k NPD - 9th on Amazon On Amazon, the higher up you go, the bigger amount of sales between each position. These 9 positions between the 2 in the top 20 should translate more than 40k between the 2 for the month. Order of top 10 games bestselling platform. NPD first Amazon second
Amazon has most software winning on PS4, except Destiny, while NPD shows more software selling better on the X1. Another indication that Playstation fans prefer Amazon for their gaming needs. Why? Well you guess is as good as mine. I can only guess by using old facts and my experience. It used to be known that the average user that owned a Playstation is older than the average Xbox owner. If that facts remains true, who knows, but it more than likely still stands. So I think this could be a direct link to why sales on Amazon doesn't truly reflect sales. Go into a gaming store and you will see more younger people in there than the older gamer, my experience is that more younger people buy direct from brick and mortar stores. This, of course, should offset the Amazon data in favour of PS4. Younger people tend to prefer the Xbox, younger people are more than likely going to buy from brick and mortar stores. To conclude, if you see the X1 a few place behind on the bestselling Amazon charts, don't be shocked to see it outsell the PS4 in the NPD data. Same is true for software. Amazon data: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2015-01/videogames/ref=zg_bsar_videogames_pg_3?ie=UTF8&pg=3#1 NPD: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=198105&page=1 |
Agree with your opinion, but we all know this, Amazon pre order data will never become a primary source of sales data, because their number is not constant, it's pre order data not actual sales data. So it's bound to change, unless you are discussing sales data from Amazon not pre order data. Pre order data only good for projecting future sales.
