Amazon US December monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[DonFerrari]

Roronaa_chan said:

Farsala said:
I am not sure the price drop in December was planned from the start. Black Friday and typical holiday sales were probably planned, but they probably thought to do the big deals in December when they adjusted their prediction for PS4 in the FY2015. MS seems a little off guard as well.

It was. As I said before, reducing the SW bundle close to the movie was a no brainer. Plus, it already had a (very) limited 329 deal on eBay in November. Keeping the price at 400 the whole year and only dropping 50 in October was also a way to ensure that this 300 price point would be extra effective and have a concentrated boost (somewhat like MS's fake temporary cut last year).

SCEA is doing what SCEE did from the very start in the UK, to keep up with MS's attempts at undercutting and steal market share away. That's why Ps4 won last year's holiday in the UK, while SCEA was basically sleeping all the way through those two months. Glad to see they learned their lesson.

 

BTW someone on GAF who works retail hinted MS already has an answer to the cut. It could be an equal cut like BF, or another free game promo like early November.

Maybe Sony didn't had enough Stock in USA to justify the cut, so they just coasted... this year they have more inventory for WW and were able to ship unholy amounts to USA and are able to make very big numbers with the price cut.