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November is already a sure win for sony with black ops and star wars bundle.

The only interesting month will be december.



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Fallout bundle finally rising



Just to reinforce the idea that items in the lower half of the top 100 barely sell anything.. The only X1 bundle that hovered there that made it into the monthly is the Gears bundle and barely; only at #97, despite being in the 50s so often. Only makes sense, considering the ps4 fools edition stuck around the hourlies as well as the overpriced sold by 3rd parties Destiny bundle; how many do you think were buying those?

Kinect bundle dropping like a rock after first day spike and won't make it into the Monthly

Even though I still give X1 the win, it's clear Amazon gives it to PS4. 24, 39 and 47 in the monthlies is just much better than 22 and 97. (Plus, the NDC will get ahead of the Halo bundle by the time the final monthly update happens, given their current performance). Amazon can't always get it right.



Roronaa_chan said:
Just to reinforce the idea that items in the lower half of the top 100 barely sell anything.. The only X1 bundle that hovered there that made it into the monthly is the Gears bundle and barely; only at #97, despite being in the 50s so often. Only makes sense, considering the ps4 fools edition stuck around the hourlies as well as the overpriced sold by 3rd parties Destiny bundle; how many do you think were buying those?

Kinect bundle dropping like a rock after first day spike and won't make it into the Monthly

Even though I still give X1 the win, it's clear Amazon gives it to PS4. 24, 39 and 47 in the monthlies is just much better than 22 and 97. (Plus, the NDC will get ahead of the Halo bundle by the time the final monthly update happens, given their current performance). Amazon can't always get it right.

It's always bean which console was at the top on the monthlies that proved Amazon correct, no matter what was below that. IF it stays this way then it's an XB1 win according to Amazon (and I'm not going to disagree). The month isn't up yet though and the Nathan Drake Bundle is well ahead in week 4 so it's likely that when the monthlies get updated for the last time it will have the PS4 ahead. The ONLY thing that can change that is the Halo preorders.



 

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Don't think the Destiny bundle will do that well in its current form. It came with MGSV for the same price before and then at $349.



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celador said:
Don't think the Destiny bundle will do that well in its current form. It came with MGSV for the same price before and then at $349.

Agreed. It needs an incentive such TLOUR or Nathan Drake.



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

It's always bean which console was at the top on the monthlies that proved Amazon correct, no matter what was below that. IF it stays this way then it's an XB1 win according to Amazon (and I'm not going to disagree). The month isn't up yet though and the Nathan Drake Bundle is well ahead in week 4 so it's likely that when the monthlies get updated for the last time it will have the PS4 ahead. The ONLY thing that can change that is the Halo preorders.


I think that's a simplistic and lottery-ish way of looking at it though. It's fine if the month is focused on the same bundles throughout, which happens most of the time, but PS4 has 3 phases this month. Destiny LE until price cut, TLOU first week of price cut and NDC the following two weeks. These are not different systems..they're not Vitas and PS3s. They were the #1 console throughout their "phase", not hovering around the middle or lower end of the hourlies. That  is why I'm saying Amazon gives PS4 the win. This could be wrong in a month like November where sales might be strong during the whole month but destroy previous weeks in the last one thanks to BF, which would render the previous "phases" pointless. But this is October, not November. There was no big surge in shoppers

Yeah the White Destiny bundle won't rise much, also because the other two LEs are close to launching, you'd have to be pretty impatient. I also doubt Amazon has a lot of them stocked anyway.



Roronaa_chan said:


I think that's a simplistic and lottery-ish way of looking at it though. It's fine if the month is focused on the same bundles throughout, which happens most of the time, but PS4 has 3 phases this month. Destiny LE until price cut, TLOU first week of price cut and NDC the following two weeks. These are not different systems..they're not Vitas and PS3s. They were the #1 console throughout their "phase", not hovering around the middle or lower end of the hourlies. That  is why I'm saying Amazon gives PS4 the win. This could be wrong in a month like November where sales might be strong during the whole month but destroy previous weeks in the last one thanks to BF, which would render the previous "phases" pointless. But this is October, not November. There was no big surge in shoppers

Yeah the White Destiny bundle won't rise much, also because the other two LEs are close to launching, you'd have to be pretty impatient. I also doubt Amazon has a lot of them stocked anyway.

It's been right every time so I'd more than be ahppy to partake in that lottery. Preorders are the only thing that can change it.



 

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Wow. Halo came out a few days ago and PS4 consoles are dominating. In the US none the less.

This feels like the nail in the coffin. If Halo cant turn it around nothing can.



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GribbleGrunger said:
Roronaa_chan said:
Just to reinforce the idea that items in the lower half of the top 100 barely sell anything.. The only X1 bundle that hovered there that made it into the monthly is the Gears bundle and barely; only at #97, despite being in the 50s so often. Only makes sense, considering the ps4 fools edition stuck around the hourlies as well as the overpriced sold by 3rd parties Destiny bundle; how many do you think were buying those?

Kinect bundle dropping like a rock after first day spike and won't make it into the Monthly

Even though I still give X1 the win, it's clear Amazon gives it to PS4. 24, 39 and 47 in the monthlies is just much better than 22 and 97. (Plus, the NDC will get ahead of the Halo bundle by the time the final monthly update happens, given their current performance). Amazon can't always get it right.

It's always bean which console was at the top on the monthlies that proved Amazon correct, no matter what was below that. IF it stays this way then it's an XB1 win according to Amazon (and I'm not going to disagree). The month isn't up yet though and the Nathan Drake Bundle is well ahead in week 4 so it's likely that when the monthlies get updated for the last time it will have the PS4 ahead. The ONLY thing that can change that is the Halo preorders.


Nope, it hasn't been about which console has the top SKU. It's just that nearly everytime, the top SKU was so far ahead of the others that it didn't matter. In the close calls, like april, where the PS4 had the top SKU, but the XBO had two SKUs, one was literally one place behind, while the other was about 10 more places behind. And, lo and behold; the XBO won april NPD. I think this month is looking similar (in fact I'd say this month, the PS4 lead suggested by Amazon is bigger than the XBO lead suggested by Amazon in April) *however* part of that is changed by the XBO Halo 5 bundle's preorders, so they'll be very close either way. However claiming that it's just about which console gets the top SKU is just wrong.