Amazon US March monthly bestsellers and general amazon based discussion

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With the way PS4 seems to be able to stay marginally ahead of Xb one in the USA at $50 higher price, when the free extras are more or less comparable (though the extra controller for Xb one is better than a 3rd game). I wonder if Sony might just go with a $50 price cut this year to see what happens.

I have no doubt MS has realised Xb one needs to be $50 cheaper than PS4 in order to stay competitive and have a chance at pulling ahead of PS4 in the USA, which means MS is prepared to race Sony to the bottom on price. I don't think Sony feels like having to compete with a $250 Xb one until at least late in 2016. And if Sony drops PS4 to $299 this year that is exactly where MS will go. Even if Sony can afford to go to $299, going to only $349 allows Sony to put a great deal of value into bundles, and it means Sony can go to $299 for Black Friday and Cyber Monday (as long as they can supply the market.

And speaking of supplying the market, at $299 Sony may not be able to meet demand, especially if that pricing adjustment is applied globally. All will be revealed, IMO, in April when Sony gives FY 2015/16 shipment projections. If they are predicting substantial YoY growth then a $100 price cut is likely. If the growth is expected to be modest, or flat, then we will be seeing a $50 price cut.

The Order at 76 more than 24 hours after being de-bundled is pretty good. I was expecting the game to be out of the top 100 before the end of February, though that was before it got bundled. It has hit 10 days in the top 100 and it looks like it might spend a day or 2 longer up there.

2 Bloodborne skus in the 40s. This is looking like having a pretty decent launch. I hope it can do >150K week 1 in the USA, which will put it on par with the Dark Souls games. I hope it has Dark Souls 1-like legs as DS2 fell off quite quickly. I don'k people should have excessive expectations on this. These games will never have mass appeal, they are too hard core, and aren't pew pew enough for the masses.