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

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poklane said:

Infoscout on Black Friday: The top console bundle pick this year was the Xbox One 500gb with Gears of War.

http://blog.infoscout.co/games-trump-console-sales-this-black-friday/

Well now, this is interesting. Last year Infoscout and Amazon agreed, this year they are definitely contradicting one another. Could this be the difference between online and in-store? Obviously infoscout only tells us about Black Friday, and technically Amazon doesn't tell us about Black Friday as they don't have a daily chart. But the weekly is as good as, since if 50% of November sales is BF weekend, 80% of BF week sales muyst be on BF weekend. 

For NPD Amazon is definitely what we should use as the indicator for NPD. But for BF it's really hard to know whether infoscout is more reliable than Amazon.

Amazon gives us 100% of sales from a single source. Infoscout gives us a fraction of sales from multiple sources. Retailer sharts will be a mix of online and in-store sales, right? Individual stores may run out of stock, but the retailer may have sufficient stock in warehouses to continue to sell online. Amazon, so people say, represents 5-6% of the market now. How much of the video game market does infoscout represent? they receive 300K receipts, but how many of those receipts has a video game console purchase?

Lol, X1Gates might be feeding us crow after all

AFAIK the only prior infoscout PR about console sales was PS4 was # product by revenue at Best Buy.  That doesn't come anywhere neart close to saying PS4 was the best selling console nation-wide.

Best clue we have I guess is Greenberg's tweet. The fact he tweeted means Xb one must have done pretty good, the fact he didn't claim a win means either PS4 won narrowly or it's too close to call. If PS4 had won big on BF I don;t think Greenberg would have tweeted anything. You look pretty dumb if you tweet something that suggests a close finish and it ends up your arse got kicked.