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

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ThisGuyFooks said:

GribbleGrunger said:

Originally, I'd assumed the Scorpio would dominate (by what degree I couldn't say) for about 3 months and then slowly return to the norm, but with the success of the Switch -- something I DID actually think could happen -- I'm now considering a 2 month period of success, but not necessarily domination. We may even see only 1 month of domination although I'm still going to play it safe and say X1gates will only be a regular contributor for 2 months, and then he'll just be popping in when the Switch or the PS4 is temperarily out of stock to suggest the XB1 is 'killing it', as normal.

Do you think the Xbox One will take an NPD this year?

Before the huge success of the Switch, I would have said yes, but I'm not so certain now. For me it depends entirely on whether enough current owners of the XB1 will upgrade to the Scorpio. Those outside of the brand and looking to either purchase another console or their first console are likely to go for the Switch or the PS4, largely due to the fact both consoles have identifiable true console 'exclusives' where as the XB1 literally has none. The dynamic I see is PS4/Switch pulling from one direction and PC persuading from the other (taking into account XB1 games can be played there too). Just on the merit of preorders, I think they'll take at least 1 month, but I'm really not certain about the 3 I initially considered.

I could be entirely wrong on this though. We'll see.