Amazon US November monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion.

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binary solo said:

GribbleGrunger said:

celador said:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1146998&page=1

Neogaf has a new thread about people's BF experiences. Most of it is anecdotal of course, but may still be of interest to some. A few posts from guys working in retail as well.

This, I believe is the most important post to note:

Our district's stock of the cheap xb1 bundles is largely depleted, but we've got plenty of the uncharted bundles left, because Sony sent us a ton right before the weekend. Then we've got all these fucking tomb raider bundles people keep looking at like they're plague ridden or something. It's stupid.

Basically, last night and today have seen both systems sell really well. Definitely good. But why didn't ms send us more inventory of the cheap bundles? I don't get it. Sony stocked us up for their entire weekend.

(Sigh) is it closing yet?

It looks like Sony really stocked up.

MS would have supplied what retailers ordered, though they may have choked off supply for certain bundles to try to move others. So for the cheap bundles MS may have said to each retail chain that they only have X of the cheap bundles available, which means if the retailer wanted Y Xb ones and Y>X then the retailer would have to make up the difference with other bundles. That's the problem with having a multi-bundle strategy. I do hope that in 2016 we see both console with cheap bundles of 8th gen games.

They probably overstuffed the channel with the inferior bundles, and the retailers just didn't have room. That's the downside with overstocking. Space costs money.