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

[hudsoniscool]

thismeintiel said:

hudsoniscool said:

I believe he has access to half the Best Buy sales in the country. If true it correlates as much if not more than these charts. He said Xbox and PlayStation would be very close and that apears true. At one point he said any could win but thought Nintendo would be last. He mentioned a few times PS4 was doing best. At one point he even said there was a decent chance switch wouldn't break 1 million.

 

   So everything he said was right besides when he said any of the 3 could win, but even that statement usually came with a ' but Nintendo probably 3rd).

I doubt he's that high up that he can see nationwide data for Best Buy.  Maybe a region, but not the whole country. 

And he said all 3 were close.  The Switch sold half of what the PS4 did, making a ~800K gap.  And the gap between the PS4 and XBO was ~200K-300K (best case scenario it is only a 100K gap.)  His info is not good when comparing it to the whole of the US.  I'd also imagine that when it comes to video games, BB makes up an extremely small % of sales.  And I'm going to guess it's much smaller than Amazon's.  There is a reason they bought Twitch.

Truth be told I don't know how much he see's. I was under the impression he was a regional manager. And didn't the reports say that Xbox is only 10% behind PS4. If so that is close. He did have it PS4~Xbox>switch. Only thing he was wrong about was saying switch could win. But he also said it  might be under a million.  

  Anyway bestbuy is a big retailer. I'm sure someone has the numbers but I thought it had a bigger market share than Amazon. 

Last edited by hudsoniscool - on 14 December 2017