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[Loudninja]

How much stock did you guys get per store?

 

[XxRampage07xX]

Yup

PS4 stock shortage confirmed.

 

[Abdiel]

How much stock did you guys get per store?

There's not usually a set # per store for shipments. Our back end inventory teams work with the suppliers and distribution centers to align what expected sell-through for any given SKU should hopefully be, and that level of inventory is allocated.

Basically, slower stores usually get less, busier stores typically get more, so it can be all over the place for how many of any given SKU a store has.

 

[Pocky4Th3Win]

How much stock did you guys get per store?

I honestly couldn't tell you. I know the guys had it set up so they were almost even. That display was only Uncharted Bundles though, We had the Battlefront and Black Ops 3 Bundles elsewhere.

 

[Loudninja]

I honestly couldn't tell you. I know the guys had it set up so they were almost even. That display was only Uncharted Bundles though, We had the Battlefront and Black Ops 3 Bundles elsewhere.

There's not usually a set # per store for shipments. Our back end inventory teams work with the suppliers and distribution centers to align what expected sell-through for any given SKU should hopefully be, and that level of inventory is allocated.

Basically, slower stores usually get less, busier stores typically get more, so it can be all over the place for how many of any given SKU a store has.

Ah ok makes sense thank you.

 

[Lemondish]

Spent some decent time in line with some folks buying PS4s alongside new TVs at the Best Buy in Nashua, NH. Most were from Mass (get a lot of folks from there looking to cut out the tax man). Each one knew of the Target deal and decided to go there if they were going to get an Xbone. A few figured it would be 299 by January so decided to wait.

Lots of Uncharted bundles, but one bloke fell in love with the limited edition Star Wars one but was short about $20 bucks. He was almost to the end of the line when he realized, but a gentleman stepped up and gave it to him. Gamers helping gamers. Warms me heart.

 

[Loudninja]

Spent some decent time in line with some folks buying PS4s alongside new TVs at the Best Buy in Nashua, NH. Most were from Mass (get a lot of folks from there looking to cut out the tax man). Each one knew of the Target deal and decided to go there if they were going to get an Xbone. A few figured it would be 299 by January so decided to wait.

Lots of Uncharted bundles, but one bloke fell in love with the limited edition Star Wars one but was short about $20 bucks. He was almost to the end of the line when he realized, but a gentleman stepped up and gave it to him. Gamers helping gamers. Warms me heart.

Aww thats awesome.

 

[Ninja Sharingan]

I can believe it.

Holy crap! Wow!

Just notices one has a pricing plinth on the xbone but the other doesn't? What's all that about? Are these from the same place? Totally different sides isn't it?

 

[specialK]

Yup

 

[SwolBro]

Good purchase to go with a new Xbox One.

aren't you cute.

 

[unknownstranger]

I'd say they get about the same. Best Buys are often in/near malls or shopping centers, so it's fairly easy to get to them. It's actually harder to find Targets in some parts (or all?) of the country.

For instance, I know there's like one Target in like a 10 mile radius from my house and one that's all the way across town close to my grandparents. Those might be the only two Targets in the Orlando area as far as I know.

I have to drive 70 miles if I want to go to somewhere that isn't Walmart or Gamestop. :/

I think it has a great chance of opening at 1 million in the US.

People sometimes forget how big the Uncharted IP is. Uncharted 3 is supposedly at ~10 million. It is Sony's biggest IP, outside of Gran Turismo of course.

I'm basing my 1 million questioning on both Infamous: Second Son and Bloodborne selling 1 million copies globally in about 2 weeks. Uncharted is bigger than both but I'm not sure by how much.

hahahahahah yeah, you're really going on a massive limb that U4 will sell 1.5m copies globally. The series isn't regressing that much in one mainline title, it's not Halo.

U4 is going to drop 4 million on its first month incredibly easily, though I suspect it'll be noticeably more than that.

For some reason I keep forgetting how many PS4's have already sold. Keep thinking they're way lower than they actually are.

 

[Schrade]

Lots of Uncharted bundles, but one bloke fell in love with the limited edition Star Wars one but was short about $20 bucks. He was almost to the end of the line when he realized, but a gentleman stepped up and gave it to him. Gamers helping gamers. Warms me heart.

That right there is an awesome story.

 

[The Mad Draklor]

Yup

And there are still plenty of Halo 5 LE bundles

 

[30yearsofhurt]

And there are still plenty of Halo 5 LE bundles

Well duh, 9 out of 10 imaginary anecdotal friends were buying it digitally.

/s

 

[Rembrandt]

At Target last night I stopped by the video games section and there were no PS4s and no 360s left. Stacks of PS3s and XBones tho.

People learned nothing from last year it seems.

 

[N.Domixis]

People learned nothing from last year it seems.

This year is not like last year.

 

[Rembrandt]

This year is not like last year.

Last year had steep discounts and people still took anecdotal evidence as bond. Of course, it's always fun to guess but we should know by now not to use these as definite proof.

 

[thekiddfran]

Perfect planning by Sony to put Uncharted collection in their cheapest bundle. With Uncharted 4 launching in March this will certainly boost sales of the game

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Sony were pretty smart here. So many people will be playing Uncharted for the first time, and I suspect this could boost interest for Uncharted 4. Very interested to see how it does in March.

At least not anywhere near the amount of last years attempt to close the gap.

Agree with Fat4all. Last year MS went "all in", those discounts were crazy stuff and they managed to close the gap by 400.000 units, if I remember right.

This year however they entered BF on an equal footing. And now we get first indicators how that turned out for MS.

 

[LostMyNarbles]

When do we usually get the press releases with Sony/Microsoft subtlety bragging about how BF went for them?

 

[unknownstranger]

Perfect planning by Sony to put Uncharted collection in their cheapest bundle. With Uncharted 4 launching in March this will certainly boost sales of the game

Also probably smart not having a deal on The Uncharted Collection anywhere making the value seem better. Gears of War Ultimate Edition was $15 at a lot of places.

 

[N.Domixis]

Agree with Fat4all. Last year MS went "all in", those discounts were crazy stuff and they managed to close the gap by 400.000 units, if I remember right.

This year however they entered BF on an equal footing. And now we get first indicators how that turned out for MS.

That gap was also grown over the time where it was cheaper during November.

 

[pooptest]

Also probably smart not having a deal on The Uncharted Collection anywhere making the value seem better. Gears of War Ultimate Edition was $15 at a lot of places.

Yeah, I got a $250 Target GC for getting a new iPhone, but gonna hold out on getting Xbone until a non-crappy bundle shows up. The $60 Target GC taht came with the bundle was okay, but I don't want a bundle game that's $15. I'll save the GC until a better, maybe limited, bundle comes around.

 

[cripterion]

Here (France) in 2 stores I've worked it's the least selling bundle of the holiday bunch. People want 1TB and are jumping on the Battlefront bundle as well as the GTA V + PES 2016 one.

 

[RedAssedApe]

The only bundles with any real sales momentum for us were the ones priced at $299. The higher ones are just not doing it for people. For both systems, PS4 and XB1, that is.

Thanks for the clarification. Hope it wasn't too miserable. Did your stores open at 6pm on Thursday too?

What about the battlefront and blops3 consoles? Those aren't selling well?

 

[OdysseusVA]

It's the packaging.
The green is no where near as appealing as the Uncharted bundle. People gravitated towards the pretty one.

Just look at it.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

UC4 MP beta starts soon too

Isn't that on the box ?

 

[Officerrob]

I honestly couldn't tell you. I know the guys had it set up so they were almost even. That display was only Uncharted Bundles though, We had the Battlefront and Black Ops 3 Bundles elsewhere.

How many of the Battlefront and BO3 bundles were left?

 

[eFKac]

It's the packaging.
The green is no where near as appealing as the Uncharted bundle. People gravitated towards the pretty one.

Just look at it.

Heh I was always of the opinion that Xbox boxes were better, more eye catching of the two. The extreme case was the PS3 Slim with it's nasty grey box.

The sand colour of the Uncharted bundle is nice though.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Tangent: I'm kind of dying at the fact you can still get a brand new "Day One" edition Xbox One.

 

[sackninja]

I'm basing my 1 million questioning on both Infamous: Second Son and Bloodborne selling 1 million copies globally in about 2 weeks. Uncharted is bigger than both but I'm not sure by how much.

Uncharted is a far far bigger series than infamous or bloodborne and its launching to a bigger install base. It will sell way better than either of them.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Uncharted is a far far bigger series than infamous or bloodborne and its launching to a bigger install base. It will sell way better than either of them.

Uncharted 4 will crush every other exclusive title launch on current gen consoles so far. In March 2016 PS4's install base will be around 35 million, and there will be no FIFA, Fallout or Call of Duty around it has to compete with.

 

[viHuGi]

Uncharted 4 will crush every other exclusive title launch on current gen consoles so far. In March 2016 PS4's install base will be around 35 million, and there will be no FIFA, Fallout or Call of Duty around it has to compete with.

35 Million? Very conservative sir.

More like 38milion.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Yeah, 38 is still a number around 35. (I don't know how old you are, but I am actually 38 years old, so I am an expert).

 

[Lacrus]

Bundle back up to 349$, PS blog said was gonna be 299$ till cyber Monday.
Something seems off.

 

[Hidden One]

Holy crap! Wow!

Just notices one has a pricing plinth on the xbone but the other doesn't? What's all that about? Are these from the same place? Totally different sides isn't it?

It's the same place and spot.

 

[Jotaka]

Bundle back up to 349$, PS blog said was gonna be 299$ till cyber Monday.
Something seems off.

out of stock?

 

[SlipperyFishes]

That is crazy considering that Best Buy had a 49" tv on sale for $150....

That's for per $ sales so they're earning more money per PS4 than each TV sold. In terms of volume it's not the most sold item (Kindle Fire) but it is their most profitable.

 

[Coroner]

PS4 is a beast.

Do you ever kiss your console?

 

[TheSecondSpitter]

out of stock?

Nope. Amazon has stock.

 

[boredandlazy]

Do you ever kiss your console?

Will you ever grow a sense of humour?

Spoiler

Potential for irony in the post is high...

 

[King Beyond the wall]

Holy crap at those before and after picks, that's a lot of consoles, and that isn't even including digital console sales!

 

[DISSESHOWEDO]

Do you ever kiss your console?

I like to cuddle with mine, when no one is looking!

 

[Three]

Do you ever kiss your console?

Does yours taste salty when you do?

 

[benny_a]

That's for per $ sales so they're earning more money per PS4 than each TV sold. In terms of volume it's not the most sold item (Kindle Fire) but it is their most profitable.

That's not what this means.

InfoScount does not even pretend to be about profit margins for the products they are tracking.

 

[gtj1092]

Yeah price is back up at all online retailers. Wonder if the are trying to artificially increase cyber Monday sales. Odd x1 didn't go up though.

Wonder how Sony feels about it. Their advertising promised through Monday.

 

[The Rain King]

Wrangler Men's Jeans are a beast.

 

[Ricky_R]

Yup

Goddamn MS is so good providing stock. Best Buy is even better re-stocking the floor.

 

[Servbot24]

Perfect planning by Sony to put Uncharted collection in their cheapest bundle. With Uncharted 4 launching in March this will certainly boost sales of the game

Uncharted collection and TLOU:R are both going to leverage UC4 to the best sales in the Uncharted series I'm guessing. Or the highest attach rate at least.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

I'm basing my 1 million questioning on both Infamous: Second Son and Bloodborne selling 1 million copies globally in about 2 weeks. Uncharted is bigger than both but I'm not sure by how much.

By a LOT.