Well I dunno....like I said the ps4 had sub 300k sales in October from 2014-2016...parents saw the machine widely available for months...why did they wait till novemeber to buy them?
And I agree with people who say that the last two days of Oct equals "Mario month" is not valid. It's not the type of game that the majority of gamers interested in playing it will rush out to spend $300 in October to play it day 1.
It's a huge system seller, no doubt, but not a 2 day system seller.
Because of BF deals.
The PS4 went back to its $299 MSRP more than a month ago, and was still selling fine, until about mid October when everybody expected some kind of price drop to be announced, even if only $50.
Then up to the first week of November, we saw the PS4 fall on Amazon rankings, the BF2 bundle pre orders not taking off (I see this one @ $249 in December doing well), and the Cod WW2 bundle doing very meh. Because many expect a price drop/ see no incentives.
Then, a week ago, Black Friday week deals drop. The PS4 will have the best deal of the season bar none (1Tb PS4 @ $199, gift card added in some places for BF alone) for a whole week nationwide including online, not just door busters.
This should tell you everything you need to know about the stocks Sony prepped.
It's like in previous years. Late Oct/ first 3 weeks of Nov are weak to "ok". Suddenly it's Black Friday and people go nuts for "black friday deals".
The Switch will do fine, but it doesn't have much of anything in terms of deals (why would it? It's brand new. Well... And Nintendo).
The XB1S has already been at $199 for at least 2 weeks now, and not setting anything on fire. But the $189 is labelled a doorbuster and it'll sell volume sure.
I might end up very wrong, but I think if my analysis is correct people will be surprised by PS4 sales over just 1 week.
