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

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JRPGfan said:

duduspace1 said:

Disagree on this, what that thread currently tracks very well even as its being tweaked are the swings in sales and it clearly shows a relative decline for PS4 so far this month while the switch had a noticeable upward swing at the beginning of the month which has tapered away but not by much.

While it will take some time to tweak the thread's points allocation system to correlate with sufficient accuracy to NPD, relative performance in sales for the devices can already be seen to a reasonable degree. So it is not completely unreasonable for anyone to get excited about the potential outcome of May NPD for the switch even if its a bit premature as we are only about half way through the month.

The other factor as well is that the thread is curently predicting a high margin victory for the PS4 in April compared to March and if this is the case, the swing for May might still not be enough to make it lose its leadership position in sales.

Intresting.... even with PS4 Slim being sold out for weeks on end at amazon its still on top for the month?

Don't forget the different shops are weighted. Gamestop counts 100%, Amazon only 50% and Best Buy a measly 20%. PS4 is still doing pretty fine at Gamestop, hence why it's big lead there translates into leading period.

However, PS4 was losing there also every day the past couple of days without any visible stock issues, implying that the sales got boosted quite a bit from GoW and are normalizing since