| Welfare said: Amazon doesn't manipulate the hourly charts. Hourly's aren't an exact placement and we have had situations where an item is out of stock but take a while to start dropping. Switch probably got preordered so much that it is still considered a top selling product days later because of how the hourly charts actually work. If I had to guess, the hourly's are actually more of trend of how well an item sells compared to everything else for a certain period of time, and not direct unit sales for the last hour. |
Thank you, I was just about to post something like this, but you pretty much summed it up. Amazon is the easiest place to reserve systems like Switch, so I'm sure they did a large amount of sales when it was available. As you said, other items have sold a large amount, sold out, and then remained at the top of the charts for days (Amiibos come to mind, as do certain Xbox and PS4 sales during Black Friday and Cyber Monday and such).
Also (not just to Welfare, but in general) unless the Switch is going to completely tank (unlikely), of course it's going to top the charts for a time. It's a new system (not just an upgrade to an already existing system with a very capable cheaper option, like the Pro and, likely, Scorpio) by a company that has been regaining some popularity over the last year, it had better have a good launch. Whether it gains any momentum from that launch or begins to waver, like the Wii U did, remains to be seen.
