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Swordmasterman on 10 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
JRPGfan said:

#13 : PS4 Black Ops III bundle - 349$
#39 : XB1 Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Bundle - 299$ (with 30$ gift card?)


This is scary... they are bascally 80$ cheaper than the PS4, and probably being outsold more than 2 to 1.

What does XB1 even do at this point? This year is going to be rough on them competition wise.

Sony have them sell and truly snookered. UC4 moved to April, the month Quantum Break releases, and I still think it was more of a strategic move from Sony rather than a need for extra development time. Then you have RAC and the Street Fighter Bundle, which is clearly there to help spoil the party because Street Fighter releases this month. If PSVR releases late March or late April I'm afraid it's going to get burried under the PS4 games and PS4 exposure in the news. Sony are not playing nicely.

How Someone purchase a bundle like Uncharted 4's bundle, if the game will launch only on April ?, what came with the Bundle ?.



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GribbleGrunger on 10 February 2016
Swordmasterman said:

How Someone purchase a bundle like Uncharted 4's bundle, if the game will launch only on April ?, what came with the Bundle ?.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The Uncharted Bundle has already been released but didn't stay in the top 100 long. Sony haven't really started promoting it yet so I'm guessing they're still happy with how well the BO3 bundle is selling.



 

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CosmicSex on 10 February 2016
BraLoD said:

I don't like where it's going,with that come on we are adults stuff, but anyway.

Sony had Uncharted planned for March until a while back, do you seriously believe there is a deal they would make eating up Uncharted itself? The reason it has an extra month now it's news, even if not internally, probably prior BO deal most likely.

The thing is nobody is running to buy a PS4 because it's bundled with BO3 anymore, a whole lot of people who wanted BO already got it, the thing sold over 10M copies last year alone on PS4, now Street Fighter is a new and big exclusive game, it's the perfect kind of stuff to push, that makes people buying a PS4 feeling like they did a good choice because of that exclusive game, having a Street Fighter bundle right now would both help to boost interest and self advertising on both the PS4 and the game as well, there is seriously a missed opportunity there a big exclusive game shouldn't choke up.

I'm talking about a business standpoint since the very beginning, and yes, I'm positive Sony can be phasing out BO bundle by now if they want to. Street Fighter is getting a bundle in Europe, isn't it?

I mean only to think strategy and not emotionally.  Not that I am accusing you of that.   But anyway...

Personally, I look at sales charts and look at Amazon and i think its safe to say that COD is helping to sell consoles in the states.  Yes, we have it at over 11 million sold at this point,  but the bundle is STILL on top.   This can't be ignored.   Now, you made a great point about Europe.  To that I will say that there is obviously a reason why they got it and the US did not.   They aren't doing it just to be assholes you know.  Its business related, we just don't have the full picture. 



Swordmasterman on 10 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
Swordmasterman said:

How Someone purchase a bundle like Uncharted 4's bundle, if the game will launch only on April ?, what came with the Bundle ?.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The Uncharted Bundle has already been released but didn't stay in the top 100 long. Sony haven't really started promoting it yet so I'm guessing they're still happy with how well the BO3 bundle is selling.

I Mean, a Bundle is a Console + a Game, how do you give a game if the game is not released yet ?, the bundle came with the Downloade code for when the game launch ?.



GribbleGrunger on 10 February 2016
Swordmasterman said:

I Mean, a Bundle is a Console + a Game, how do you give a game if the game is not released yet ?, the bundle came with the Downloade code for when the game launch ?.

They're just pre-orders.



 

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TheBlackNaruto on 10 February 2016

Is Jan NPD tomorrow?



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GribbleGrunger on 10 February 2016

5 hours since last update:

#05 PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle (same)
#23 XB1 Gears Bundle (up 6)
#37 N3DS Black (up 4)
#54 XB1 Three Game Bundle (up 21)
#74 XB1 Elite Bundle (up 19)
#99 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 4)

In a recent post from Abdiel, he mentioned they've got a huge excess of XB1 bundles and MS recently sent out more bundles. He said he was tempted to contact the regional manager and suggest he shouldn't accept any more until stock has dropped. Taking that into consideration, I think what we're seeing here is Amazon having the same problems and trying to shift old stock. This might look good on paper but it it only goes to show the console will struggle now MS have set the price expectations so low.



 

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binary solo on 10 February 2016

Seems pretty clear that for Xb one to be viable in the USA it needs to have skus $50 cheaper than the base PS4 price. It'll be some time before PS4 drops down to $250, so I imagine Xb one will live at $250 for a while once it's forced to drop there when PS4 inevitably officially goes to $299 at the end of this year.



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SWORDF1SH on 10 February 2016

 

bananaking21 said:
CGI-Quality said:

Remains to be seen if that's the case with this release. As for the 2 months from release, plenty of other bundles were unveiled within that timeframe and didn't drop off so quickly.

UC3 did 700k in November 2011 (NPD). its decent, but nothing massive. i think UC4 can reach 800k in april NPD. considering it has just one week, and its not releasing during the holidays. 

I agree with jason, this prediction is way to optimistic. 

I'm guessing it will do good to be over 500k first week.



Swordmasterman on 10 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

5 hours since last update:

#05 PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle (same)
#23 XB1 Gears Bundle (up 6)
#37 N3DS Black (up 4)
#54 XB1 Three Game Bundle (up 21)
#74 XB1 Elite Bundle (up 19)
#99 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 4)

In a recent post from Abdiel, he mentioned they've got a huge excess of XB1 bundles and MS recently sent out more bundles. He said he was tempted to contact the regional manager and suggest he shouldn't accept any more until stock has dropped. Taking that into consideration, I think what we're seeing here is Amazon having the same problems and trying to shift old stock. This might look good on paper but it it only goes to show the console will struggle now MS have set the price expectations so low.

3 Xbox Bundles on the top 100, did those bundles got a Price cut or something ?, i think that Microsoft, should take the Stock Back, and release the New stock for Amazon, don't drown in too many old Bundles, was better if they gave the Xbox One's old models for free, Randomly for any Windows 10's User.