Amazon US January monthly bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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jason1637 said:

binary solo said:
Like I said, exclusive bundles tend to work better for the lead platform. When a platform is trailing and doesn't have the mojo for the generation then exclusive stuff for multiplat games just aren't going to have the same effect.

If the Division is all Xb one has to give it a push in march then it won't be enough to give it the NPD win. Xb one one April 2015 partly because it was $50 cheaper and partly because of Batman AA special edition PS4 pre-orders. And it still only managed to sneak in a $10K win. Xb one won October because of Halo 5. Xb one hasn't won a single month because of the power of a 3rd party exclusivity deal. Though with Nov 2015 we'll never know what might have been because PS4 had by far the better 3rd party exclusivity deals. I think MS would need to perhaps make a move on hardware as well, drop the 1TB sku into the $349 price bracket and disestablish the 500GB sku, and sell it at a discount through March. If they did that along with the Division they would win March unless Sony had something similar planned.

 

The Xbox One hasn't really ha any big third party deal outside Advanced Warfare which came out in Nov 2014. Except from FIFA games which arent big in the US and Madden which hasnt had a record of being a system seller. 

And the Division is also not big in the grand scheme of things and has very limited system selling potential, just like all 3rd party multiplats have very limited system selling potential, especially differential system selling. The Tom Clancy franchise doesn't justify a limited edition console, and it's really only the limited editions that push the hardware in favour of one console for the multiplats. PS4 certainly only got the substantially bigger boost for BO3 because of the LE console. It it had been a plain bundle with a BO themed box the boost would have been much much smaller.