Amazon US May monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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Aura7541 said:

Here's Abdiel's assessment for April:

"I'll reiterate since we don't have a new prediction thread yet: 

Through this entire month, in the districts I've checked (always a wide range to try and compensate for varying customer bases) the ps4 consistently outsold the xb1 quite handily. This is just best buy, but we didn't see the same kind of stock issues that seemed to plague Amazon. 

I was kind of surprised, the promotion we had with the email coupon for an extra $50 off any xb1 really didn't get a lot of traction in our local stores. 

MKX sold very well indeed though.

And for people speculating about Splatoon from the other thread... Preorders aren't the whole story for a game's success or failure, but they're not looking great at this point."

P.S. The Shogun is banned on GAF, so it looks like we'll be depending on Abdiel for general trends unless Cornbread and Osiris also give their assessments.

Interesting observation on Splatoon. Especially for Nintendo games pre-orders are not the whole story. But if Splatoon is supposed to be a system seller then substantial pre-orders would be expected. If it's mostly going to be picked up by existing Wii U owners or people already planning to buy a Wii U then its sales pattern will be flatter and longer with not much hardware push. I always expected Splatoon to go the flatter and longer route with sales and that it is not going to shift hardware in any significant way.

I think the Amazon hiccup with PS4 supply has perhaps sent PS4 buyers away from Amazon to some extent for a longer period than just the period of lack of supply. But I don't think the effect will be significant enough to make Amazon no longer reliable as a Xb one vs PS4 barometer.