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celador on 23 November 2015

Three game bundle dropped like a rock, over 20 places in three hours.

Strange the Star Wars LE went up ten.



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OneKartVita on 23 November 2015

You can bet your bottom dollar, Sony is making a profit on that 299 ps4. No way would they take a loss. So that suggests the ps4 production costs have gone way down. The perks of a cerny San machine coupled with massive sales that make the device very economical.

PS3 was a disaster and could never get down to a cheap price. How low can Ps4 go? I'd say 159$.

Regardless gaming is getting cheap both console and pc.



gtjay1982 on 23 November 2015

Stores are going to be packed with that bundle. Have a feeling BF bundle will be $299 online on cyber Monday.



GribbleGrunger on 23 November 2015

3 hours after last update:

#08 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (same)
#12 PS4 Black Ops Bundle (down 2)
#26 XB1 Gears Bundle (up 1)
#28 XB1 Fallout Bundle (same)
#46 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (up 2)
#76 PS4 Star Wars LE Bundle (down 6) [out of stock]
#91 WiiU Mario Kart (up 9)

PS4 - 4 bundles, 4 in the top 100
XB1 - 8 bundles, 2 in the top 100

XB1 Deals:

Gears Bundle (reduced to $326)

PS4 Deals:

None at the moment



 

The PS5 Exists. 


CosmicSex on 23 November 2015

Sooo.... how exactly does the Xbox One win the month? At what point does a Black Friday victory not matter because Sony is so far ahead. I have bee reading many arguments and folks seem to think that Microsoft is just ensured a Black Friday victory. Even if they win by 200k... does it really matter. At this point, I can't see Microsoft taking November unless we give them an unfair subjective advantage.



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Roronaa_chan on 23 November 2015

^I think Sony already has a 200k advantage anyway. Probably 500k vs 300k these past 3 weeks.



Insidb on 23 November 2015
CosmicSex said:
Sooo.... how exactly does the Xbox One win the month? At what point does a Black Friday victory not matter because Sony is so far ahead. I have bee reading many arguments and folks seem to think that Microsoft is just ensured a Black Friday victory. Even if they win by 200k... does it really matter. At this point, I can't see Microsoft taking November unless we give them an unfair subjective advantage.

If Sony wins the 3 non-BF weeks and has a preorder boost similar to Halo 5 for X1 in October, a repeat of last year's 200K BF loss will still result in a monthly win.



CosmicSex on 23 November 2015
BraLoD said:
CosmicSex said:


BF is quite a tricky event to this thread.
BF is HUGE on retail stores, so even if PS4 is winning on online stores right now, and end losing BF, the cheer amount ot retail sales can in a single day beat the whole month before it on online stores.

I remember someone posting BF sales of last year and it was like half of more of what NPD claimed for the whole month.

BF can seriously turn things aside, the better price/deal on retail stores can really change things.

Calling it to be in the bag to MS right now, though... completely unreasonable. It may also lose BF.

It'll have to win BF big time like last year, and last year it was cheaper than the PS4 and coming from the price cut effect that had been already big the whole month, so it's hardly happening like that this year. But it's BF, it's wait and see.

So then you are saying that its not assured a victory, but that it needs to take BF to stand a chance at all.   And being as though Sony has BF deals too, Microsoft has to massively outperform them on BF to take it.   If the sales are really that intense, anything can happen.



Insidb on 23 November 2015
BraLoD said:
CosmicSex said:
Sooo.... how exactly does the Xbox One win the month? At what point does a Black Friday victory not matter because Sony is so far ahead. I have bee reading many arguments and folks seem to think that Microsoft is just ensured a Black Friday victory. Even if they win by 200k... does it really matter. At this point, I can't see Microsoft taking November unless we give them an unfair subjective advantage.


BF is quite a tricky event to this thread.
BF is HUGE on retail stores, so even if PS4 is winning on online stores right now, and end losing BF, the cheer amount ot retail sales can in a single day beat the whole month before it on online stores.

I remember someone posting BF sales of last year and it was like half of more of what NPD claimed for the whole month.

BF can seriously turn things aside, the better price/deal on retail stores can really change things.

Calling it to be in the bag to MS right now, though... completely unreasonable. It may also lose BF.

It'll have to win BF big time like last year, and last year it was cheaper than the PS4 and coming from the price cut effect that had been already big the whole month, so it's hardly happening like that this year. But it's BF, it's wait and see.

I was that guy: it was 48% for MS, and 52% for Sony (although I'm not 100% certain on the latter).



Insidb on 23 November 2015
CosmicSex said:
BraLoD said:


BF is quite a tricky event to this thread.
BF is HUGE on retail stores, so even if PS4 is winning on online stores right now, and end losing BF, the cheer amount ot retail sales can in a single day beat the whole month before it on online stores.

I remember someone posting BF sales of last year and it was like half of more of what NPD claimed for the whole month.

BF can seriously turn things aside, the better price/deal on retail stores can really change things.

Calling it to be in the bag to MS right now, though... completely unreasonable. It may also lose BF.

It'll have to win BF big time like last year, and last year it was cheaper than the PS4 and coming from the price cut effect that had been already big the whole month, so it's hardly happening like that this year. But it's BF, it's wait and see.

So then you are saying that its not assured a victory, but that it needs to take BF to stand a chance at all.   And being as though Sony has BF deals too, Microsoft has to massively outperform them on BF to take it.   If the sales are really that intense, anything can happen.

It was about half of each respective system's total sales last year, but the X1 also won every November week last year. Sony should win every other week this year, if it loses BF (due to preorder sales for CoD [week 1] and SW [week2] and the apparent lead for stock sales). Who knows what MS will offer this BF, but it's hard to imagine that they can have the same incentive differentiators again (last year's Sony offers weren't even close).