Thanks Abdiel. As always much appreciated!
You really should've gone for a
Oreo PS4 setup though
Not my photo, but another gaffers
Haha, that's terrible. Hilarious, but terrible. Besides, I would have no use for a second PS4 around the house, and my friend has been pining after one for ages. I thought it worked out, since the white unit looks so good, I'm really glad I snagged it.
Thank you for this insight.
My pleasure. These threads each month are very entertaining/interesting for me, so I like contributing.
Yeah I've heard this from multiple places.
Destiny + White Glacier PS4 = Massive sales.
Do you have any kind of relative indicators of district sales, perhaps? Like maybe how the Destiny + White Glacier PS4 compared to the PS4's launch back in November 2013?
It's a real shame to see MK8 continue to fall behind Mario Kart: Double Dash and fade from retail relevance. I wonder if Nintendo's holiday lineup will really do anything meaningful in terms of YOY growth now that Smash Bros. 3DS is commanding everyone's attention.
Comparing to last year is... Hm. There was a tremendous upswell around the new unit and Destiny as a franchise just was a clincher (even though you only save $10 on the game!). I'll honestly say it was kind of surprising how many people really were excited about the fact that the system was white, and how clean/sleek it looks in that color... even with all that, we were still selling black units too, they didn't really see much of a downswing, just the white had the star power status. Despite the chaos, I don't think it really aligns quite with launch last year, where we had people camped out more than a couple days, due to the hitting shipment capacity, etc. We ran out of stock at stores, definitely, but we also restocked very quickly, and the levels of inventory on those shipments weren't 'launch' shipments, if that makes sense. Very manageable levels, just... very successful.
Does that sales doubled or tripled?
Ehhh. Some stores easily tripled their previous months, others doubled... Depended on how well they did the last month, haha. It wasn't a single universal number.
Woo, thanks Abdiel. Always a pleasure reading your insights.
Glad to help!
why would you want it on the bottom of the top page and not the top of the 2nd page
also 3DS impressions?
Well, being on the first page, I know when I use the mobile browser on my phone, its easier to open the first page, and then jump to the bottom to choose the navigation options/page number/last page, etc. Being on the first page means people are more likely to stumble on it before going elsewhere. At least, that's my thoughts. You guys all quote me on the following pages anyway, so that helps a lot.
3DS is hard to pin down. It rarely feels consistent. Smash models just came out, and the diehard fans seem to be grabbing those, but there wasn't a lot of push behind it last month. We'll see how it goes with Smash. There have been plenty of preorders for Smash 3DS, but that's all this month, not last... And most of those people already own 3DSes.
