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GribbleGrunger on 17 April 2016
BraLoD said:

I'll never forget your "forget it"

Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to get into an in depth conversation about the potential loss of sales from the leaks. I could be wrong of course but don't you think it's odd that the BO3B has dropped out of the top 20 when the highly acclaimed and successful title RAC just released and UC4 is not too far off? And let's not forget the current promotions for No Man's Sky. One would expect it to at least maintain the consistancy it's been showing for weeks now.



 

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poklane on 17 April 2016

Pretty epic Uncharted 4 marketing



GribbleGrunger on 17 April 2016
poklane said:
Pretty epic Uncharted 4 marketing

I think Sony mean business.



 

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Ariakon on 17 April 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
BraLoD said:

I'll never forget your "forget it"

Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to get into an in depth conversation about the potential loss of sales from the leaks. I could be wrong of course but don't you think it's odd that the BO3B has dropped out of the top 20 when the highly acclaimed and successful title RAC just released and UC4 is not too far off? And let's not forget the current promotions for No Man's Sky. One would expect it to at least maintain the consistancy it's been showing for weeks now.

I think that can partly be chalked up to it running out of stock for a few days, and it seems that Amazon's hourly charts seem to factor in more than the most current hour of sales (the psvr stayed at the top of the charts for days even though it sold out in less than an hour), so that it can take a few days for the sales to "catch up," so to speak. Also, April is generally a much slower time for console sales, but if the ps4 doesn't start rising in a few weeks (especially by May 10th), then yeah, I could see where you're coming from. 



UltimateGamer1982 on 17 April 2016
Ariakon said:
GribbleGrunger said:

Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to get into an in depth conversation about the potential loss of sales from the leaks. I could be wrong of course but don't you think it's odd that the BO3B has dropped out of the top 20 when the highly acclaimed and successful title RAC just released and UC4 is not too far off? And let's not forget the current promotions for No Man's Sky. One would expect it to at least maintain the consistancy it's been showing for weeks now.

I think that can partly be chalked up to it running out of stock for a few days, and it seems that Amazon's hourly charts seem to factor in more than the most current hour of sales (the psvr stayed at the top of the charts for days even though it sold out in less than an hour), so that it can take a few days for the sales to "catch up," so to speak. Also, April is generally a much slower time for console sales, but if the ps4 doesn't start rising in a few weeks (especially by May 10th), then yeah, I could see where you're coming from. 

I feel this is normal. It dropped out of the top 20 around this time last year too. Console sales are slower this time of year. 

 

However i I was just at toys r us tonight and they didn't have a single ps4 in stock but had 12! Xbox ones. Seems like ps4 is selling fine to me regardless of the 4K rumors. 



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GribbleGrunger on 18 April 2016

10 Hours after last update:

HARDWARE
 #25 PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle (down 1)
#75 PS4 Fool's Edition (up 3)
#551 PS4 Uncharted 4 Bundle (up 5)

SOFTWARE (Pre-Orders Only)
#05 PS4 Uncharted 4 (down 1)
#11 WiiU Starfox Zero (down 1)
#63 PS4 No Man's Sky (down 3)
#85 PS4 Uncharted 4 LE (down 10)



 

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UltimateGamer1982 on 18 April 2016

Xbox doesn't have a single console anywhere close to the top 100! Even with quantum break out too. Seems Microsoft and Sony both are seeing slight lulls in sales as summer is right around the corner.

But again this is normal for this time of year.



GribbleGrunger on 18 April 2016

5 Hours after last update:

HARDWARE
 #19 PS4 Black Ops 3 Bundle (up 6)
#80 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 5)
#86 XB1 Quantum Break Bundle (re-entry)
#482 PS4 Uncharted 4 Bundle (up 69)

SOFTWARE (Pre-Orders Only)
#06 PS4 Uncharted 4 (down 1)
#07 WiiU Starfox Zero (up 4)
#64 PS4 No Man's Sky (down 1)
#68 PS4 Uncharted 4 LE (up 17)



 

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AEGRO on 18 April 2016

Does anybody has any doubts that R&C will outsell QB?

Ratchet & Clank is holding strong at #4 while Quantum Break is going down and currently at #35.



GribbleGrunger on 18 April 2016
AEGRO said:

Does anybody has any doubts that R&C will outsell QB?

Ratchet & Clank is holding strong at #4 while Quantum Break is going down and currently at #35.

It's got a great chance but I'm still not certain. If I had to pick I'd say yes.



 

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