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ethomaz on 20 October 2015
CosmicSex said:

 

 

I spoke to soon.  Fallout bundle is DOA until Black Friday


I'm not Xbone's fan but that deservers it own thread.



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ethomaz on 20 October 2015
SWORDF1SH said:

Holy shit! If that bundle is $300 are we going to see just the original bundles going for $250 or less this BF?

This is the BF ad from Dell... it will be this price only on Nov 26.



Roronaa_chan on 20 October 2015

So XB1 price for BF deals will be 299.99 huh? I wonder if Sony will stick with 349.99 and add a game or reduce to 329.99

Also, NDC bundle out of stock on Amazon. Why? That's 3 unavailable bundles and only one you can buy that isn't a pre order is NDC+ guitar hero (why is NDC bundle only sold like this?) At 400 bucks



SWORDF1SH on 20 October 2015
ethomaz said:
SWORDF1SH said:

Holy shit! If that bundle is $300 are we going to see just the original bundles going for $250 or less this BF?

This is the BF ad from Dell... it will be this price only on Nov 26.

Yeah but that BF deal is a standard bundles, Fallout 4 and an extra controller for $300. How low will the standard bundle on its own go this BF?



sabvre42 on 20 October 2015
ethomaz said:
SWORDF1SH said:

Holy shit! If that bundle is $300 are we going to see just the original bundles going for $250 or less this BF?

This is the BF ad from Dell... it will be this price only on Nov 26.


Its actually tempting me to buy an XB1. 

Gears can fuck itself - so to me its the Fallout4 bundle for $299 with a second controller.



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GribbleGrunger on 20 October 2015

2 hours since my last update:

#09 XB1 Halo Bundle (down 1)*
#17 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (down 1)*
#27 PS4 Star Wars Bundle (up 4)
#36 PS4 TLOUR Bundle (down 1)*
#50 PS4 Black Ops Bundle (up 1)
#81 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (down 3)
#84 XB1 Forza Bundle (down 2)*
#90 PS4 Destiny Bundle (up 1)*

*Affects this month

PS4 - 7 bundles, 6 in the top 100
XB1 - 9 bundles, 2 in the top 100

Note: The 7th PS4 bundle is the Nathan Drake + Guitar Hero Bundle. It's listed separarely so it's definitely not a replacement for the Nathan Drake Bundle.



 

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Roronaa_chan on 20 October 2015

Dunno if you missed an update by a few minutes but Halo bundle is 10 and NDC is 16



GribbleGrunger on 20 October 2015
Roronaa_chan said:
Dunno if you missed an update by a few minutes but Halo bundle is 10 and NDC is 16

LOL. I'll update it again later. I must have just updated it a couple of minutes early.



 

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A_C_E on 20 October 2015
I LOVE GIGGS said:
It seems Uncharted bundle replaced Last of Us bundle which I think better for Sony.

Halo bundle is doing super well. I don't agree with people who say it is under performing. It is $150 more than the entry for the less popular console. Add to that the most popular console just got a price cut. Yet, it could be the best selling bundle of the month. I don't see any other console exclusive capable of doing this in the US.

What Microsoft and its fans need to worry about is the others bundles. You would think the not so hardcore Halo fans would by other bundle with the game for $399 or $449 (1 TB). We'll see how it goes next week when we get closer and closer to the release day.

Right now, my expectation for the month is 600k PS4 and 400k Xbox One. I know 600k is a lot, but I believe price cut is bigger than any game especially if it let you become the cheapest offering. So, I have to expect more than Destiny month especially since it is October which should have a better performance generally. I would have expected Halo and Xbox to do better than 400k, but I think PS4 will steal some sales.

I agree with everything in this post except that PS4 will steal some sales. Obviously there are going to be people who were on the fence about either purchasing an Xbox One or PS4 and now have one good excuse on either side; Halo and price cut. Having said that, Halo can actually lift sales of the PS4 as well and the PS4 price cut can lift Xbox One sales. Historically speaking, whenever a huge game comes out or a price cut happens there seems to be garnered attention to the marketplace as a whole. The biggest lifts of course are the subjects of which the software/price cut is released on but there's usually also a lift for the opposing player, which is weird and I think that should be attributed to the attention that the marketplace gets as a whole.

So Halo will technically steal sales from PS4 and price cut will technically steal sales from Xbox One but both instances bring in more shoppers and where there are more shoppers there are more purchases. Am I making sense or just crazy?



SWORDF1SH on 20 October 2015
BraLoD said:
Amazon must really have their own plans, it's getting rid of too many bundles stocks, as someone said earlier, they may want to go full CoD (and SW), as they have been made a big deal for shipments

Whoever said this makes a great point. The last thing Amazon want is to be stuck with crates of unsold consoles after the holiday season. This could be their way of managing stock levels.