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zorg1000 on 22 May 2017
thismeintiel said:
zorg1000 said:

280k for Switch

Meant for May.  Unless you're just saying that's your prediction for May.

whoops, my mistake



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Nuvendil on 22 May 2017
thismeintiel said:
Lawlight said:

I see what you mean - the seller is not amazon itself. I suppose a lot of people would consider a $98 markup to be too much even though $398 is a fairly standard price for a new system. I guess Nintendo isn't shipping enough hardware to the US for some reason.

Well, it has only been out for 2 whole months.  And there's a possibility it could be more Nvidia's fault than Nintendo on the lack of stock.  Still, I expect things to calm down a bit during the upcoming months, as they are usually slow.

Still a far cry from when consoles could be marked up $300+ and still be sold.

Well those $300 mark ups happened at the launch of machines, not so much months later.  And Holiday launches make it far worse as there's a sort of deadline to acquire the product.  You can't wait for months, Christmas is around the corner.  Launching in March, there are more people willing to wait longer than in the Holidays because of the lack of this deadline.  But the prices have reacyed $450.

And the shipments aren't peculiarly low or anything, demand is just high.  Shipment size is fairly standard, it's just taking time to get the shipments stepped up. 

And yeah, $400 is what the PS4 launched at.  But that's not necessarily the right price.  This does show that they could have maybe priced it at that and gotten decent sales, but more than anything it shows that $300 was more of a sweet spot than people thought.



Insidb on 22 May 2017
Slarvax said:
zorg1000 said:

280k for Switch

Read again.

I honestly think the Switch can sell more than last month. Shipments should be higher.

If we're anything representative of the mainstream market, Nintendo could release 2 prior months worth of consoles in June and sell out immediately.

The successive months, however, should see readily available consoles. Maybe.



Oneeee-Chan!!! on 22 May 2017

:Best Buy

#1 Switch Gray

#2 Mario Kart 8D

#3 Switch Neon

#4 Zelda BOTW

#5 Injustice 2 (PS4)

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?cp=1&searchType=search&_dyncharset=UTF-8&ks=960&sc=Global&list=y&usc=All%20Categories&type=page&id=pcat17071&iht=n&seeAll=&browsedCategory=pcmcat748302046757&st=pcmcat748302046757_categoryid%24abcat0700000&qp=customerreviews_facet%3DCustomer%20Rating~Top-Rated



Lawlight on 22 May 2017
SpokenTruth said:
Lawlight said:

I see what you mean - the seller is not amazon itself. I suppose a lot of people would consider a $98 markup to be too much even though $398 is a fairly standard price for a new system. I guess Nintendo isn't shipping enough hardware to the US for some reason.

Start with negative.  Get proven wrong.  Find new negative.

 


That Retron HD came and went from the charts really quickly.

No, I'm still right - the PS4 is outselling the Switch on Amazon at the moment. It's not like the Switch will outsell the PS4 overall anyway, right?



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Insidb on 22 May 2017
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

:Best Buy

#1 Switch Gray

#2 Mario Kart 8D

#3 Switch Neon

#4 Zelda BOTW

#5 Injustice 2 (PS4)

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?cp=1&searchType=search&_dyncharset=UTF-8&ks=960&sc=Global&list=y&usc=All%20Categories&type=page&id=pcat17071&iht=n&seeAll=&browsedCategory=pcmcat748302046757&st=pcmcat748302046757_categoryid%24abcat0700000&qp=customerreviews_facet%3DCustomer%20Rating~Top-Rated

How do they do their charts? Does anyone really know? Sometimes, I see X1 WAY up the charts, and everyone knows that it's a million miles behind the NS.



tbone51 on 22 May 2017
Lawlight said:
SpokenTruth said:

Start with negative.  Get proven wrong.  Find new negative.

 


That Retron HD came and went from the charts really quickly.

No, I'm still right - the PS4 is outselling the Switch on Amazon at the moment. It's not like the Switch will outsell the PS4 overall anyway, right?

So why worry and post anything switch related? Pls dont come into amazon thread with nonsense. This thread is somewhat peaceful already. We kno you dislike nintendo alot :/



Insidb on 22 May 2017
Lawlight said:
SpokenTruth said:

Start with negative.  Get proven wrong.  Find new negative.

 


That Retron HD came and went from the charts really quickly.

No, I'm still right - the PS4 is outselling the Switch on Amazon at the moment. It's not like the Switch will outsell the PS4 overall anyway, right?

Yes, but the Switch is currently sold out and has the monthly lead.

With regards to the latter, it's simply too soon to tell.



GribbleGrunger on 22 May 2017

16 hours since last update:

HARDWARE:
#13 PS4 UC4 (up 4)
#20 NS Grey (down 1)
#22 NS Neon (down 2)
#52 PS4 Pro (up 7)
#64 PS4 Fool's Edition (up 6)
#93 NES (down 41)
#99 PS4 COD (re-entry)

SOFTWARE (Pre-orders Only) **:
None at the moment

Does not affect this month: *
Software outside of the month only gets added if it's in the top 20: **

PS4: 4 in the top 100 / 1 in the top 50 / 1 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
XB1: 0 in the top 100 / 0 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
NIS:  2 in the top 100 / 2 in the top 50 / 1 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5



 

The PS5 Exists. 


Jranation on 22 May 2017

Both Grey and Neon above the PS4! Another Nice month for the Switch!



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