Amazon U.S. July bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[Welfare]

GribbleGrunger said:

Welfare said:
Microsoft are slashing the price of the XB1 because they want to clear stock for the S next month. They aren't doing this for the W in one month of NPD when no one even shares numbers publicly anymore.

Are you telling me MS don't know those numbers will be leaked? Come on, man. Anyway, that's besides the point. It's clear that MS stuffed the channels. When Sony finally drop the price of the PS4 to clear the channels ready for the Slim and perhaps the Neo, they won't need to be so desparate because they won't have so much stock sitting at the retailers.

They are not slashing prices so that nerds like us can discuss their numbers. Yeah, they have a lot of stock, that's why they are dropping the price before the S comes out. They are going to announce the release date of the 500GB and 1TB S models this week, and if those are in late August, then sales of the fat model will drop. Retailers want those gone before all the S models.

And Sony wouldn't need to clear PS4 stock for the Neo since they are meant to be sold side by side. The S will completely replace all the fat bundles.