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nanzano on 22 March 2015
binary solo said:
PS Vita at 80. $30 off and it actually moves some units. Cut the Vita to $150 and America might actually start to like it. They can probably afford to do that. Perhaps after the financial year ends so that the cost of cutting the price can be better absorbed by other revenue and the write downs are all over and done with.

Wow that is a good news. Ps vita is doing better than last year in the US according to NPD. Things might change a little bit



                                               

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binary solo on 22 March 2015

Type O seems to have dropped quite quickly after having spent a few days sticking to the top 10. I guess now that the shopping week is over sales will typically fall off and the second week drop will kick in about now. Let's see how long it stays in the top 100.



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TheObserver on 22 March 2015

You'd think with so many more people buying PS4s a good chunk of them would be casuals who buy less games, compared to XB1 which should have more hardcore gamers who buy more games, but apparently not.

There are currently 16 PS4 games in top 100, and only 6 XB1. MS is really gonna have to break the bank getting exclusives if this keeps up.



GribbleGrunger on 22 March 2015

Bloodborne is number 1 in Germany:



 

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Ryng on 22 March 2015

Both XBO SKUs out of TOP 40!!! Ouch...



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tokilamockingbrd on 22 March 2015
binary solo said:
Type O seems to have dropped quite quickly after having spent a few days sticking to the top 10. I guess now that the shopping week is over sales will typically fall off and the second week drop will kick in about now. Let's see how long it stays in the top 100.


it spent over 3 weeks in the top 10. Over 10 days in top 5. Unless you are reffering to after launch, which a few days would be accurate.



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eva01beserk on 22 March 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:
eva01beserk said:

I think you need to add releases to see that comparison. As I understand, march is usually a dry month for games, so with all the new heavy hitters coming this march, compared to the lack of games that came last month, the same thing that happened last year, dont know about the previous years, this should be an indication that the month does not matter, but what games arrive on that month.

Nope. Let me explain.

Last year XBO have sold in 4 week 258,000 (64,500 avarange a week), and in March 311,000 in 5 week (62,200 avarange on week)... DOWN WEEK BY WEEK WITH TITANFALL RELEASED!? Titanfall that have sold more than 1,000,000 on XBO!? what!?

PS4: up week by week... ok, but don't forget that February for PS4 was nothing, and March was Infamous.

 

2013

PS3 was GoW Ascension, XB360 GoW Judment, Both Tomb Raider and Bioschock that have sold a lot better than Crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 (released on Feb), but even if this game's was bigger, and March was a 5 week VS 4 week, XB360 and PS3 have sold better on Feb.

XB360: 302,000 (feb) ---> 261,000 (Mar) / WEEKLY / 75,500 ---> 52,200

PS3: 270,000 (feb) ---> 212,000 (Mar) / WEEKLY / 67,500 ---> 42,400

Wii U 2013: feb was nothing, March was Lego U and MH3U that have sold both more than 100,000, but:

Wii U feb 66,000, Wii U march 67,000 (only 1.5% boost with two nice released) / WEEKLY / 16,500 ---> 13,400

 

That is just example, but yeah, February > March , even if March have more released...

I guess last year was a poor exmple too since the new consoles where on short supply so demand was high. But I hope this trend changes from this year foward, dont like to think about gaming being consentrated on a few months, even if the hollidays are the biggest, I want the year to be high.



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JRPGfan on 22 March 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:
Both XBO SKUs out of TOP 40!!! Ouch...


That cant be good for xbox sales.

Highest xbox sku is #42 and trending downards. Ouch.



tokilamockingbrd on 22 March 2015
JRPGfan said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
Both XBO SKUs out of TOP 40!!! Ouch...


That cant be good for xbox sales.

Highest xbox sku is #42 and trending downards. Ouch.


I thought they would intersect in the low 40s but I guess that is not the case. 50s?

The good thing about this is it will give us an idea how items at the bottom on the top 100 perform compared to the top. If the XBOX performs well this month we can assume that the gap between say 20 and 50 is not huge in gross number of sales. This is the biggest weakness of Amazon we have no idea how the chart scales.

I mean number 5 could mean 500 sales over the last 24h, and 25 could mean 350 sales, and 50 could mean 200.... we just dont know.



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grannamir on 22 March 2015

@tokilamockingbrd:
You are right about we having not a idea of how many Xbox is less on Amazon chartz, but other thing influences too, not everything is about numbers but general perceptions. I think Time and hype are important too.
Xbox is going up and down after January, its a long time to be honest, and all this prices cuts and disconts all i fell is that they are destroing the value of the product.
And people are responding to that, caring less and less for Xbox.