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

[Insidb]

peachbuggy said:

Insidb said:

He's been saying for a long time that the gap between NS and PS4 will be a lot smaller than Amazon seems to indicate.

Speaking of PS4 and Amazon, did they run out of them? How is that even possible? It's 2018!

That's a possibility but if that was the case it wouldn't prove anything or further his cause much tbh.

His two points are unrelated; he's been taking about the relative gaps for far longer than the "cliff."

drkohler said:

peachbuggy said:

I haven't checked personally but from what people have been saying, yes the PS4 has been going in and out of stock on Amazon recently. I have no idea of the cause though.

And I'll just repeat myself because of general weakness in math in the populace:

Sony manufactures 2.5M this final fj quarter. That is roughly 200k units per week. PS4 has been selling around 250k per week (probably even going up due to MHW for a few weeks) so there is a deficit of around 20% units which the stock laying around in stores has to cover. Amazon doesn't just have stock laying around because they can.... So statistically they likely get (at least) 20% less stock than what would be needed. That naturally leads to days when there simply are no units anymore.

1) Thanks for the clarification.

2) This is the first I've seen this explanation.

3) The bolded makes you look like a condescending tool.