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Still sells more than on PS4 than Xbox One though as hilarious as that is
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NPD Oct 2018: COD: BO4 and RDR2 top the charts, PS4 best selling hardware
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Still sells more than on PS4 than Xbox One though as hilarious as that is
Wouldn't you say it's better to use the PS4's popularity to rapidly get as many people as possible into the PS ecosystem before PS5?
Sacrificing short-term profits for greater long-term gain right?
True, I'm assuming being competitive on one of the biggest shopping days of the year is more important to them however. Undercutting the competition with aggressive pricing has been Sony's mojo since the beginning. They single-handedly choked SEGA out of the console business, dealt powerful blows to Nintendo, and have had Microsoft red-lining this entire current gen. They're are savage at what they do lol
Has the Switch a realistic chance of being the best selling console of 2018 if it wins november?
Sounds great. Had my doubts but it seems like Pokémon seems to be doing better than expected which was my biggest doubt.
Will be quite surprising and impressive if they reach their goal even with a delayed line up and no price drop
The leaks have the PS4 about 500k over Switch so far this year, and Switch will win December by a large margin. But I'm not sure how large, what did it do last year? I could see it doing 500k more than PS4 in December, yeah.
But I still don't think it'll be all that close for November. Sony should still take this month comfortably. So Switch will have to do a lot more than 500k more than PS4.
It probably won't win November, but it has December on its side with Smash being #2 of the one two punch this holiday to keep the momentum high. Switch even got a little extra slap with Super Mario Party being more successful than anticipated
It was a very good chance of doing just that. If it matches or sells a little below PS4 in November, it only needs to sell 500K more than the PS4 in December, which will be super easy with Smash
With supply it's doable. Good bundles, highly anticipated games and a decent price.
Maybe yeah, but what will the PS4 do? What did they do last year? Did we ever get numbers for last December?
Really wonder if we will see a situation where revenue is very close due to the price difference and PS4 takes the units in November.
In regards to PS4, it really is difficult to go from 1.5-1.7 up to ~2million. With only the Wii hitting 2 million that also says a lot.
In regards to PS4, it really is difficult to go from 1.5-1.7 up to ~2million. With only the Wii hitting 2 million that also says a lot.
I mean, if they had more stock they would have hit that number last year and this year
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Switch ~1.5m
Xbox One ~1.36m
PS4 ~1.08m
3DS ~750k
Nintendo was 500K away from it last year. I can see it this year then with Pokémon and Smash in December.
Oh, I didn't even think people were talking to use Amazon rankings to predict sales, lol
It's not that Amazon is useless to predict sales—it's simply that we don't even have enough data to forecast sales. Even if Amazon sample was representative we can't use rankings to predict sales because rankings=/=sales.
Of course, Amazon sample is not representative and never been so this idea that Amazon was good in predicting sales was perhaps a self-fulfilling forecast.
Yep. There's actually a sales forum out there that takes amazon rankings way too serious and they spend an insane amount of time analysing the charts. Crazy.
I mean it depends on what you're interested in.
We can already guess the "big" releases for Q1 to start things off.
NSMBU port, Yoshi (or FE, but Yoshi is much more liekly), and then smaller game or two, or port (maybe a port/collection could be announced at TGA like last time). Before the fiscal year ends.
if someone doesn't like Yoshi, or gets mad at smaller titles & ports, come April 2019 we're going to have the exact same posts as this year. "Nintendo's 2019 has been garbage. I don't like easy yoshi or ports so there's been nothing to play"
I'm already prepared for it.
Benji Thanks for all the great insight! You can really tell how it excited everyone in this thread to get such pieces of information.
You mentioned Pokémon was doing really strongly, so I was wondering if the momentum you saw during this week makes you think it has a chance at selling comparable numbers as SunMoon did in the first holiday, or if that is still a bit too high for Let's Go to achieve.
You mentioned Pokémon was doing really strongly, so I was wondering if the momentum you saw during this week makes you think it has a chance at selling comparable numbers as SunMoon did in the first holiday, or if that is still a bit too high for Let's Go to achieve.
Nah it's not going to do near Sun and Moon numbers
But it's still doing fantastic overall.
And thanks, always happy to try to give back to the sales community
Zedark there was no way Let's Go was gonna match SuMo. Should've asked about X/Y like I did since it's a closer comparison. You've wasted a Benji wish!
Right, so it's just Sony and
To be honest, I'm not sure what you're seeing here to create such disappointment with Era, but hey.
Just imaginary Sony fans then. What a weird take. Anybody giving Benji and Mat shit for system wars reasons will get themselves kicked, just as it should be.
You're gonna have to try again. I call all the fanboys out.
Thanks for all you provided us :)
Just one question if you can respond, did the $199 Spider-Man push significantly others Sony exclusives (God of War, Detroit, Horizon) ?
That's obviously thanks to all the shiny hunting I'm seeing on Twitch.
They all had significant price drops/sales, they pushed themselves I'm sure.
Man, the fan reception to the Playstation Classic is harsh as fuck. The replies to that tweet are really showing that. Do we expect it to actually sold well, in a comparable ballpark to NES and SNES Mini ?
I read like 4 non-negative comments on that tweet, so it should do okay!
seems like they f'ed it up with this classic
It should be even without Nov. right? Switch is the new hotness plus Pokemon + Smash
This was poised to do greater gangbusters than any other classics so far.
Really sad if the execution has lessened it's sales potential. Still think it's gonna sell pretty damn well, maybe the biggest classic regardless.
It doesn't have to. It just have to make good money. And it will.
I think the pricing @ $100 puts it right outside that instant pickup range for it to appeal to the masses like a $40 NES Classic and an $80 SNES Classic.
It should still do really well though.
I don't know if it will do that well but it will sell well in its own right.
It wont be NES or SNES mini levels obviously, even if it fails no big deal, sony has enough ways to get profit even if this doesnt do well.
That may just prevent it from selling super well. It should still sell fine though.