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ironmanDX on 14 December 2017

Switch doing really well. Ps4 not too far behind and xbox doing ok. X holding up decently. Going to be another massive month for the industry.



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hudsoniscool on 14 December 2017
thismeintiel said:
hudsoniscool said:

I believe he has access to half the Best Buy sales in the country. If true it correlates as much if not more than these charts. He said Xbox and PlayStation would be very close and that apears true. At one point he said any could win but thought Nintendo would be last. He mentioned a few times PS4 was doing best. At one point he even said there was a decent chance switch wouldn't break 1 million.

 

   So everything he said was right besides when he said any of the 3 could win, but even that statement usually came with a ' but Nintendo probably 3rd).

I doubt he's that high up that he can see nationwide data for Best Buy.  Maybe a region, but not the whole country. 

And he said all 3 were close.  The Switch sold half of what the PS4 did, making a ~800K gap.  And the gap between the PS4 and XBO was ~200K-300K (best case scenario it is only a 100K gap.)  His info is not good when comparing it to the whole of the US.  I'd also imagine that when it comes to video games, BB makes up an extremely small % of sales.  And I'm going to guess it's much smaller than Amazon's.  There is a reason they bought Twitch.

Truth be told I don't know how much he see's. I was under the impression he was a regional manager. And didn't the reports say that Xbox is only 10% behind PS4. If so that is close. He did have it PS4~Xbox>switch. Only thing he was wrong about was saying switch could win. But he also said it  might be under a million.  

  Anyway bestbuy is a big retailer. I'm sure someone has the numbers but I thought it had a bigger market share than Amazon. 

Last edited by hudsoniscool - on 14 December 2017

Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Slarvax on 14 December 2017
PAOerfulone said:
Skyrim has been constantly sticking around the top 30 throughout the month.
Even though we don't have official numbers, I think this will be the best selling 3rd party game for the Switch by a decent margin.

Mario + Rabbids and Bomberman should be higher right now.



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KLAMarine on 14 December 2017

Closer closing in! (sorry)



Ariakon on 14 December 2017
tbone51 said:
What are rough estimates as of now for dec predictions? Assuming no more ps4+x1 deals like BF week

Both x1 and PS4 are receiving further price cuts starting sunday



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Madword on 15 December 2017
Ariakon said:
tbone51 said:
What are rough estimates as of now for dec predictions? Assuming no more ps4+x1 deals like BF week

Both x1 and PS4 are receiving further price cuts starting sunday

Could totally change the landscape of the result. In November it was said that switch was ahead until the price cuts (and to be fair sony advertised it a week before it started so there would have been a drop off).... Suspect that Switch is selling well, and PS4/XBOX are behind, but once the price cuts come that one week of sales (if they do a similar thing again) will totally change the result.

Now... lets turn our minds to amazon, are they actually going to get any stock, or is it going to be all bricks and mortar, got a feeling this happened last year. This could lead to a wrong amazon result in my mind.



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tbone51 on 15 December 2017
Ariakon said:
tbone51 said:
What are rough estimates as of now for dec predictions? Assuming no more ps4+x1 deals like BF week

Both x1 and PS4 are receiving further price cuts starting sunday

Back to the 199/189 for ps4/x1 im guessing



Miyamotoo on 15 December 2017
tbone51 said:
What are rough estimates as of now for dec predictions? Assuming no more ps4+x1 deals like BF week

I would said Switch around 1.5m, PS4 and XB1 less than that.



Madword on 15 December 2017
Miyamotoo said:
tbone51 said:
What are rough estimates as of now for dec predictions? Assuming no more ps4+x1 deals like BF week

I would said Switch around 1.5m, PS4 and XB1 less than that.

I would say 1.2-1.3m for switch and 1.5-1.8 for PS4/XB - but at the moment (before any deals) I actually think switch will do better than nov, while ps4/xb will do about the same/slightly worse than nov if they dont do the deals long enough/have enough stock.



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Miyamotoo on 15 December 2017
Madword said:
Miyamotoo said:

I would said Switch around 1.5m, PS4 and XB1 less than that.

I would say 1.2-1.3m for switch and 1.5-1.8 for PS4/XB - but at the moment (before any deals) I actually think switch will do better than nov, while ps4/xb will do about the same/slightly worse than nov if they dont do the deals long enough/have enough stock.

Switch doing better than November buy huge margine will be easily. But I am not sure that PS4/XB1 will have better December than November because they both have huge deals in Novembar and they ended with huge months.