Amazon US October monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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jlmurph2 said:

Abun said:

poklane said:

Monthly update:

#24 PS4 Limited Edition Destiny bundle (down 2)
#26 PS4 The Last of Us Remastered bundle (no movement)
#29 PS4 Limited Edition Star Wars Battlefront bundle (no movement)*
#36 XB1 Limited Edition Halo 5 bundle (up 1)
#49 PS4 Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection bundle (up 3)
#61 PS4 Limited Edition Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 bundle (up 3)*

*Doesn't count towards October NPD

The Uncharted bundle has also overtaken the Halo 5 bundle again on the hourlies, it looks like the sales of those 2 bundles are pretty much identical on Amazon.

Halo 5 bundle is not even dualing with the top PS4 bundle.As I said,the Destiny bundle will be a slaughter once it is restocked.The wait will only increase demand.

You're overlooking the fact that the Halo bundle has been building up pre-orders since August 5th (#24 for that month). So what do you think happens for NPD when it actually counts on release and 2 and a half month's worth of sales happen on one day?

Taking that into account I still think the Halo 5 bundle needs to end the month close to or in the top 20 for the pre-orders to put Xb one over the top. So things are moving in the right direction there, but having spent half the month outside the top 30 there's a lot of work needed to get to that top 20 position. 

Either that, or a few of the other bundles announced early this month need to suddently shoot into the top 50 monthly, but that seems unlikely.

Right now, we have PS4 outselling the Halo 5 pre-orders by at least 2:1 on a reasonably frequent basis. I would say that on average, since the PS4 price cut the sales difference has been 2:1 between (TLOUR Bundle + NDC Bundle) vs Halo 5 bundle. Seems like it will be a tight month and though I think Xb one is still most likely to be number 1 the difference will not be all that much. Within 50K I would guess.