Amazon US October monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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BraLoD said:

GribbleGrunger said:

BraLoD said:

It's still not ahead of the major cards, that $60 is not as consistent and those top 3 cards that are always there.
Being #4 is a good position, but cracking the top 3 is what means, at least to me, that it's doing really well, as beating those cards is not an easy task.

Yeah, beating those cards basically means it's getting incredible sales, whilst being just below them means it's selling great sales. That's how I see it anyway.

#04 PS4 Destiny Bundle
#28 PS4 TLOUR Bundle
#53 XB1 Halo Bundle
#72 PS4 Black Ops Bundle
#75 PS4 Star Wars Bundle
#81 XB1 Madden Bundle
#90 PS4 Fool's Edition
#98 XB1 Gears Bundle

Even if it was only the TLOUR bundle you'd still have to give the month to the PS4 so far. If this continues I can't see MS winning the month. Yes, Halo is likely to sell a lot of bundles but not only does it have to sell more than what the PS4 has already sold throughout the month, but it's also now got to sell much more than the Destiny bundle because I doubt that's going to drop out of the top 20 by the end of the month.

If we are too see the official price cut really soon, so all bundles get $50 slashed from them, Amazon would need to be finally proven wrong because there is no way the PS4 won't win the month there.
Halo will move the most software, though, by far.

Amazon can't really be proven wrong in October because of the fact that the Halo bundle has been on pre-order since before October. Any month where a super-massive exclusive game is being released and there is a LE console in the mix for that game that has been available for pre-order since before the start of the month of release all bets are off. It's pretty much the exception to the Amazon rule. Xb one was always likely to win NPD for October, but with the gift card deals at various retailers and a likely official price cut happening before the month ends a little bit of uncertainty has crept in about whether Xb one will win NPD for October. The only real thing of interest for Amazon rankings this month is how high or low the current Xb one offerings are in the charts, but really Amazon gives us nor real guide as to how NPD will turn out.

If by some miracle PS4 does win NPD for October then Xb one is really in deep shit. The Halo LE bundle ships on 20 October which means Xb one gets 2 NPD weeks of hardware boost from Halo, not just one. So there is no way anyone can legitimately claim that PS4 would only win Oct NPD because Halo 5 releases so late in the month. 2 NPD weeks of Halo 5 hardware shipments is plenty enough for Xb one to win NPD if Halo still has the pulling power it did last gen.

Also, yep Destiny LE bundle is out of stock and on back order for 14 Oct. So expect it to drop in the hourlies quite far and then jump back up on the 14th/15th. Question is whether the other PS4 skus will drop in price over the next couple of days. Impressive to sell through the entire LE stock within the space of a few hours. There is clearly plenty of demand for PS4 at $349.