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Ryng on 03 February 2018
Jaxyfoo said:
Tagging. I think 2018 might be Amazon's fail year. I'm beginning to think the Switch demographic does a much larger amount of online buying. Meaning that even months where Big games and offers come in, leading to a PS 4 NPD win, it will still show different on Amazon.

I expect the Npd wins to be close to 50/50 between Switch or PS4 or a close Switch win. But I'm expecting Switch to take 11 out of 12 months on Amazon. We will see over the year though. I'll be glad to be wrong on this prediction.

Interesting you think Switch will win SO MANY months, yet you believe Switch and PS4 are gonna be close.

 

Personally, i expect Switch to win by a pretty massive lead... but we'll see.



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xMetroid on 03 February 2018
Jaxyfoo said:
Tagging. I think 2018 might be Amazon's fail year. I'm beginning to think the Switch demographic does a much larger amount of online buying. Meaning that even months where Big games and offers come in, leading to a PS 4 NPD win, it will still show different on Amazon.

I expect the Npd wins to be close to 50/50 between Switch or PS4 or a close Switch win. But I'm expecting Switch to take 11 out of 12 months on Amazon. We will see over the year though. I'll be glad to be wrong on this prediction.

The only month or so which Amazon was wrong was November which is the month of the Black Friday where people usually go in stores for deals more than usual.

 



SWORDF1SH on 03 February 2018
Jaxyfoo said:
 I'm beginning to think the Switch demographic does a much larger amount of online buying.

I believe this. In fact, I think Switch is represented the most on Amazon out of the 3, closely followed by PS4 with Xbox lagging. I even made a thread about this subject a few years ago about Xbox and PlayStation. I'll link if I can find it. 

Quickrick got mocked for having this opinion recently. 



newwil7l on 03 February 2018
SWORDF1SH said:
Jaxyfoo said:
 I'm beginning to think the Switch demographic does a much larger amount of online buying.

I believe this. In fact, I think Switch is represented the most on Amazon out of the 3, closely followed by PS4 with Xbox lagging. I even made a thread about this subject a few years ago about Xbox and PlayStation. I'll link if I can find it. 

Quickrick got mocked for having this opinion recently. 

Because it is silly. Even in November Switch didn't win Amazon. Both Xbox and PS4 had SKU above both colored Switch.

 

Also they had more SKUs in general.



KLAMarine on 03 February 2018

Whoa, who says Nintendo doesn't lower prices for their games? Odyssey for 48.



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SWORDF1SH on 03 February 2018
newwil7l said:
SWORDF1SH said:

I believe this. In fact, I think Switch is represented the most on Amazon out of the 3, closely followed by PS4 with Xbox lagging. I even made a thread about this subject a few years ago about Xbox and PlayStation. I'll link if I can find it. 

Quickrick got mocked for having this opinion recently. 

Because it is silly. Even in November Switch didn't win Amazon. Both Xbox and PS4 had SKU above both colored Switch.

 

Also they had more SKUs in general.

How does that disprove it? Do you understand what I said?



Jaxyfoo on 03 February 2018

The difference in November was about 800k between the 2 consoles. It would prove my suspicions fully if the Switch was above PS4 then....

I'm not using this argument to attack the Switch. I come from a position of owning one, and having lots of friends who own one. I can see the kind of people who are buying one. Quite a few people I know, I figured were gone from the gaming cycle after going from WIi to phone/tablet gaming. It's nice to see none gamers come back. I hope that doesn't mean a tonne of shovelware party games every month.

No attacks, just a growing feeling that Amazon's predictive powers have been gazumped by the Switch. I simply think Amazon shows about 20% of Nintendo's sales. With PS4/XB1 about 6-8%, and Software maybe a little higher.



peachbuggy on 03 February 2018

It's possibly disproportionate but only by a small amount. That's why it's been a good indicator of sales trends historically, at least in the U.S.



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zorg1000 on 03 February 2018
SWORDF1SH said:
Jaxyfoo said:
 I'm beginning to think the Switch demographic does a much larger amount of online buying.

I believe this. In fact, I think Switch is represented the most on Amazon out of the 3, closely followed by PS4 with Xbox lagging. I even made a thread about this subject a few years ago about Xbox and PlayStation. I'll link if I can find it. 

Quickrick got mocked for having this opinion recently. 

No, thats not why he got mocked.

He was saying Amazon is useless because Switch can dominate in the rankings but actually be only slightly ahead in actual sales.

Many people tried to explain to him that Amazon has never been a good indicator for actual sales, just for placement.



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SWORDF1SH on 03 February 2018
zorg1000 said:
SWORDF1SH said:

I believe this. In fact, I think Switch is represented the most on Amazon out of the 3, closely followed by PS4 with Xbox lagging. I even made a thread about this subject a few years ago about Xbox and PlayStation. I'll link if I can find it. 

Quickrick got mocked for having this opinion recently. 

No, thats not why he got mocked.

He was saying Amazon is useless because Switch can dominate in the rankings but actually be only slightly ahead in actual sales.

Many people tried to explain to him that Amazon has never been a good indicator for actual sales, just for placement.

He got mocked for a few things and some rightly so. But he also got mocked for stating that Switch positioning on Amazon doesn't truly reflect how well it's doing. I think he even though he explained himself quite well.