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Miyamotoo on 26 November 2018
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Nuvendil said:
Megiddo said:
If Benji is only referring to Amazon sales, that would make a lot of sense as I believe there were much less stock for the PS4 this year. However, in terms of retail brick and mortar sales, everything points to there being a larger supply overall of PS4 units this year than last year, which would mean larger Black Friday sales than last year.

The issue was always going to be the Spiderman bundel's stock.  That's been doing the heavy lifting.  So while initial impressions of stock were strong, it's possible in the end it came up similar to or lower than last year's 199 deal.  

It's the same for Switch, the MK8D and Pokemon bundles did the big numbers.  The shipment sizes of each will impact sales significantly.

In case of Switch, only Pokemon would push hardware sales in any case, but offcourse that BF deal and bundles also help a lot.

Megiddo said: 
Nuvendil said: 

The issue was always going to be the Spiderman bundel's stock.  That's been doing the heavy lifting.  So while initial impressions of stock were strong, it's possible in the end it came up similar to or lower than last year's 199 deal.  

It's the same for Switch, the MK8D and Pokemon bundles did the big numbers.  The shipment sizes of each will impact sales significantly.

 But that's the thing. We had Brickseek inventory numbers for Spiderman PS4 vs MK8D bundles, and it's a 5:1 ratio or greater in favor of Spider-man for all the Wal-Mart stores I checked. There were were 40-100 Spider-man bundles and there were 2-10 MK8D bundles. All are now showing as < 2 stock right now for each, but the much higher stock for Spider-man should lead it to an easy November NPD victory.

Well Switch wasnt selling only because BF deals, Pokemon pushing hardware sales hard and Switch has some other intresting bundles also, including Pokemon bundle.

animegaming said: 
Another update from Benji 

"The 20 million dream for the Switch is very much alive"

https://www.resetera.com/posts/15367947/

That's very interesting because before November he was very skeptical that Switch will meat their 20m goal this FY.