PS4 and Xbox One Drive Amazon Pre-Orders Through the Roof

[Slash2x]

Ummm yeah this is WAAAY misleading in the article(surprise).... The PS4 has 4 out of the top 10 slots.......... PlayStation 4: Standard Edition,PlayStation 4 Watch Dogs Launch Day,PlayStation 4 Battlefield 4 Launch Day, PlayStation 4 Killzone Launch Day...... So yeah.......

 

[Ironside]

hmmmm...

I'm curious to see now that region locks are removed if this changes significantly, or at all. After all, people don't have to worry about supported launch countries anymore, and Amazon US will ship anywhere at a locked price for free.

I suppose its true there are no region locks anymore, but I've been wondering does that mean that the Xbone will work somewhere like Japan now? I dont really understand the whole thing, but would they be able to connect to Xbox live and whatnot to download the day one patch or is that not something they can do?

 

[Slash2x]

UPDATE!!!!!!!!! XBone is in the number 6 slot....... If you go to another page on the same site...... So how about we stop making stories out of the changing websites as the are going to shift rapidly for the next few months.......

Source
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2013/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsar

 

[Nikolaz72]

X1 being the best seller as of yet? Gotta say, I called it. I called it super hard.

XboxOne is sixth.

Behind PS4,
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So yea.. Just needed a while to update the numbers I guess.

 

[Lightknight]

Looks like P4 is released on 31st December, doesnt that seem stupid of Sony to miss christmas day? Granted you are only waiting a week for your PS4 but then your back to work. Its a shame really.

That's just Amazon's default listing for "sometime this year". They know it's coming, but they don't know exactly when, so they put up dates like that.

X1 being the best seller as of yet? Gotta say, I called it. I called it super hard.

Yeah, the Xbone has jumped to the #1 spot. #2 is The Last of Us.

The 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 17th positions are all occupied by PS4 and its various bundles.

So yeah.

Methinks the Xbone remains in the #2 slot overall in terms of preorders.

Oh, I hadn't considered the fact that the ps4 had so many bundles. Good catch. One thing that may be more telling is how many more controllers are ps4 than the Xbone.

 

[RicoADF]

X1 being the best seller as of yet? Gotta say, I called it. I called it super hard.

I wonder if its because the PS4 preorders had already rushed out and ordered then before the X1 was fixed. Either way its good, both because it shows that yes we do want next gen which we need and the X1 showed that online requirements can piss off.

 

[Xanex]

Saying Xbone80 is #1 is kinda misrepresenting things a bit. As in the top 5 are PS4 and various bundles occupy 3 spots. Not to mention several other PS4 bundles also in the top 100 list. Wish they could put up the numbers so we can see who truely is top. But doubt that will ever happen.

 

[thisbymaster]

So people are now ordering forty times the number of new, next-gen consoles than the number of older, last-gen consoles they were ordering last year?

Maybe the upcoming release of brand new hardware has something to do with the increase in orders...

Yeah I thought this was rather obvious, who didn't think this was going to happen?

 

[Pandabearparade]

Yeah, the Xbone is the top seller if you split the PS4 in a dozen different catagories.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

well this time last year also didn't have new consoles going up for reservation. Furthermore, summer months tend to me extremely SLOW in terms of any sort of sales. Not exactly a high bar to jump.

 

[Lightknight]

X1 being the best seller as of yet? Gotta say, I called it. I called it super hard.

I wonder if its because the PS4 preorders had already rushed out and ordered then before the X1 was fixed. Either way its good, both because it shows that yes we do want next gen which we need and the X1 showed that online requirements can piss off.

It is because the ps4 day one version sold out days ago and has slipped to the number 17 spot since. Then you had the other FOUR versions of the ps4 that are in the top ten list yesterday. When there's only one version of the Xbox one (the day one hasn't sold out yet) then it makes since that one version of a popular console would outsell a console that has 5 versions for sale. However, it looks like the ps4 is still absolutely swamping them.

If you want a legitimate comparison, note that the ps4 controllers are FIVE spaces above the Xbone's controllers and that's an increase in sales from yesterday while the Xbone controllers are around the same amount:

http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames#1

So right now in the top 20 there is only one Xbone and while it is first, you currently have the ps4's various versions at: 2, 4, 5, 11, and 20. That's with #20 being the already sold out for days preorder.

Then, for Sony, you have "The Last of Us" at #3 and the playstation network money card at #5. You don't see Xbox stuff again until number 8, behind animal crossing. So, it looks like we're in for an exciting time when they release actual numbers.

 

[Terramax]

But what about software sales? That's what matters most.

 

[theultimateend]

pre-orders for the Xbox One have dramatically picked up in pace and left the console in the number one seller spot of Amazon's videogame section

I'm disgusted. Just disgusted by how people will eat this shit up even if they know that MS will pull that same shit again. Maybe even during the very same generation.

If you add up all the PS4 types they are outselling the Xbox One afaik.

I don't care either way, if some people want to be scammed that's their prerogative.

 

[xPixelatedx]

M$ sees preorders. Makes another 180 and reinstates their DRM policy.

I doubt it'll happen, but I bet it's tempting

Considering they already said they are doing everything they can to work towards that goal, it is actually VERY likely. I mean, what can people do if this happens one or two years down the line and they already have their consoles and a library of games? Nothing, [small]you're screwed.[/small]

God I can't wait for all the threads that will pop up here from angry people who actually believed Microsoft "changed their ways".

It will be glorious, and as sucky as it all is, those people kind of get everything that's coming to them. Microsoft was acting like a B movie super-villain from the start of this, and now all is forgiven and forgotten? Christ, and I thought politics brought out people's mental failings flawlessly...

 

[Caiphus]

I'm slightly curious as to why the Xbone is so popular (even if it isn't #1) when there are two much better alternatives, one being cheaper to boot.

But then again I suppose these things have inertia. The 360 was the top seller in the US by a comfortable margin, and if all your friends are likely to get the Xbone, you need to get it as well. It's like WoW in that respect, with the whole inertia thing. It'll be interesting to see how much the bad press and bullshit from Microsoft breaks that up. Right now it seems not-as-much-as-anticipated.

But oh well, plenty of people don't even give a shit about gaming news. They just want to play Halo. And you can't really blame them.

 

[Lightknight]

I was really hoping Microsoft would eat it hard this generation, at least for a while... but it turns out that people are far more fickle than I originally thought.

90% of my coworkers were die-hard Xbox fans (even the literally the ONLY game they play is Call of Duty) and had opted to switch to PS4 because of all the DRM bullshit of the Xbone, but as soon as Microsoft said "oops our bad" they went crawling right back.

Sony REALLY fucked up with the PS3, apparently, so badly that they'll just never fully recover. I don't understand it, I think the PS3 is a great console, but they let Microsoft get too much of a lead by winning over the hearts of casual gamers early in the game. Now these people will blindly follow the trend - and if the Xbone is getting bad press, they won't buy it. Unfortunately, now it's getting good press, and it's likely all over for Sony. Again.

Maybe free PSN access for 6 months for every new PS4 sold would help win some people over.

Again, and I can see I'm going to have to spend more time repeating myself in this thread. There is only one version of the XBO and 5 versions of the ps4.

Look at the best seller's list of 2013 in Video Games so far:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2013/videogames/ref=zg_mw_tab_t_bsar

1: PSN $20 card,
2: PS4 Launch Edition.
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6: XBO

This is vital, because this means that JUST the ps4 launch edition has outsold the XBO's only available version. That's pretty darn significant.

Look at today's list of the top 20, this is the list that the original article used (incorrectly) to make the comment they made. http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames#1

Sony takes up 5 of the top six spots with a game, PSN money cards, and three PS4 versions. The ps4 controller is currently at 15 while the XBO controller is at 19 which is probably a better indicator of sales than the rank of any individual consoles. In total, the PS4 has 5 ps4 console packages in the top 20. 4,5,6, 13 & 17. 17 is the sold out day one edition and the XBO hasn't even sold out of their only package which is their day one edition.

Honestly, it looks like Sony is mopping things up. We'd have to see actual numbers to know for sure but when all of their peripherals are selling at a faster rate than the XBOs then they're clearly doing better (e.g. PSN $20 card: #3, MS $20/1600 points card: #7, PSN $50 card: #11, MS $50 card: Not on the list, the $9 one is at #18).

Look at this, the most wished for top 20:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/most-wished-for/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_mw

PS4 is at #1,3, and 19. XBO is at #2. What's more, there are NO other Microsoft items on that list. All ps4 or ps3 and only one Nintendo game (Animal Crossing at #12).

I'm sorry, but any person making the claim that this means it's selling "better" or "faster" is completely unaware of the facts.