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3 hours since last update:

#12 XB1 Gears Bundle (down 3)
#23 PS4 Black Ops 3 Standard Bundle (down 2)
#24 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (down 2)
#57 XB1 Three Game Bundle (down 2)
#67 N3DS Black (same)
#68 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (up 1)
#77 PS4 Fools Edition (down 2)
#80 WiiU Mario Kart Bundle (down 4)
#90 XB1 Fallout Bundle (down 7)

PS4 - 4 bundles, 4 in the top 100
XB1 - 8 bundles, 3 in the top 100

Generally speaking, Sony's strategy has been spot on this generation but I think this is one case in which things haven't gone as expected. Star Wars doesn't seem to have pushed the PS4 as much as I think Sony expected and the Black Ops 3 Bundle hasn't done as well as expected either. Price seems to be the only driving force at the moment.



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

3 hours since last update:

#12 XB1 Gears Bundle (down 3)
#23 PS4 Black Ops 3 Standard Bundle (down 2)
#24 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (down 2)
#57 XB1 Three Game Bundle (down 2)
#67 N3DS Black (same)
#68 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (up 1)
#77 PS4 Fools Edition (down 2)
#80 WiiU Mario Kart Bundle (down 4)
#90 XB1 Fallout Bundle (down 7)

PS4 - 4 bundles, 4 in the top 100
XB1 - 8 bundles, 3 in the top 100

Generally speaking, Sony's strategy has been spot on this generation but I think this is one case in which things haven't gone as expected. Star Wars doesn't seem to have pushed the PS4 as much as I think Sony expected and the Black Ops 3 Bundle hasn't done as well as expected either. Price seems to be the only driving force at the moment.

Once again you're taking Amazon charts, hourly at that, as face value. We have insiders at GAF saying the bundles moved, and are still moving, a ton. I don't know how you can say this when the PS4 just sold 1.5M last month. And looking at other online retailers the COD and SW are selling the most still.

 





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Star Wars Battlefront seems to have had a great Christmas, online numbers on both PS4 and XB1 are higher than during launch week (November 21st to be exact)

November 21st:
Xbox One: 85,608 (24h peak: 110,817)
PS4: 178,374 (24h peak: 187,286)

November 25th:
Xbox One: 50,573 (24h peak: 110,817)
PlayStation 4: 98,254 (24h peak: 187,286)

As I'm posting this (December 25th):
Xbox One: 146,994 (24h peak: 146,994)
PS4: 203,551 (24h peak: 203,551)

Using current online numbers Xbox One's player count has almost tripled compared to exactly one month ago (190.66% increase to be exact), while PS4's player count has more than doubled (107.17% increase to be exact). And it's still early in the US so today's numbers should only increase in the coming hours.



poklane said:

Star Wars Battlefront seems to have had a great Christmas, online numbers on both PS4 and XB1 are higher than during launch week (November 21st to be exact)

November 21st:
Xbox One: 85,608 (24h peak: 110,817)
PS4: 178,374 (24h peak: 187,286)

November 25th:
Xbox One: 50,573 (24h peak: 110,817)
PlayStation 4: 98,254 (24h peak: 187,286)

As I'm posting this (December 25th):
Xbox One: 146,994 (24h peak: 146,994)
PS4: 203,551 (24h peak: 203,551)

Using current online numbers Xbox One's player count has almost tripled compared to exactly one month ago (190.66% increase to be exact), while PS4's player count has more than doubled (107.17% increase to be exact). And it's still early in the US so today's numbers should only increase in the coming hours.

 


Where did you get this info btw?



jason1637 said:
poklane said:

Star Wars Battlefront seems to have had a great Christmas, online numbers on both PS4 and XB1 are higher than during launch week (November 21st to be exact)

November 21st:
Xbox One: 85,608 (24h peak: 110,817)
PS4: 178,374 (24h peak: 187,286)

November 25th:
Xbox One: 50,573 (24h peak: 110,817)
PlayStation 4: 98,254 (24h peak: 187,286)

As I'm posting this (December 25th):
Xbox One: 146,994 (24h peak: 146,994)
PS4: 203,551 (24h peak: 203,551)

Using current online numbers Xbox One's player count has almost tripled compared to exactly one month ago (190.66% increase to be exact), while PS4's player count has more than doubled (107.17% increase to be exact). And it's still early in the US so today's numbers should only increase in the coming hours.

Where did you get this info btw?

Nov 21st numbers: http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/11/21/star-wars-battlefront-ps4-vs-xbox-one-vs-pc-ps4-has-more-players-than-both-platforms-combined/#/slide/1

Nov 25th numbers: http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2015/11/star-wars-battlefront-has-more-players-online-on-ps4-than-pc-and-xbox-one-combined.html

Today's numbers: http://swbstats.com/



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In my GameStop district, we completely sold out of PS4 Star Wars bundles the day before Christmas Eve. And we had a ton of them in stock. Definitely was the best-selling bundle at GameStop for the holidays. This was even after the price returned to $349.



CGI-Quality said:

Perhaps not on Amazon, but * anecdote, of course *, I saw quite a few of those Battlefront Bundles being sold at Best Buy and my local GameStop. With the former, the CoD bundles have now taken over, but I think it's more a matter of Amazon than anything else.

 

CGI-Quality said:

Indeed. That's what I mean. I feel like this is more an Amazon issue than a SW one.

Looking @ GameStop's best sellers, the SW and CoD bundles are the front runners, for instance.

I know they've done well elsewhere and I know they've probably pushed the PS4 to a win this month but they've not done so well on Amazon and we can't put that down to stock issues for 100% of the time. Sony got it wrong in my opinion and could have sold more.





 

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I think MS will introduce the halo 5 standard bundle as there main bundle til the division comes out in march, and that might be their main bundle for the majority of the year.



GribbleGrunger said:
CGI-Quality said:

Perhaps not on Amazon, but * anecdote, of course *, I saw quite a few of those Battlefront Bundles being sold at Best Buy and my local GameStop. With the former, the CoD bundles have now taken over, but I think it's more a matter of Amazon than anything else.

 

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You focus too much on amazon, what sony didnt suppy to amazon was supplied to other more important retailers.



The thing is I think we can all agree as we got closer to Xmas day amazon becomes less important. With the PS4 coming in and out of stock, for me if I was buying a console for xmas, I would go to retail. The last week would always be less important, unless you had prime, but again if you did, you would see the stock issues and go buy from a store, there are enough places to buy one. So I'm not sure why people are surprised by the lack of movement the last week.

I saw an ad from Argos today, star wars UCC PS4 for £249.... absolutely crazy :D



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