So, with all the talk of the MCC pushing Xboxones, I wanted to look at how it appears to be selling -- using, of course, the only information available to a nobody like me: Amazon. Please note that I will only use the total sales pages, not the hourly updated pages that show sale velocity.
Note that this is purely speculation based on Amazon, though if someone who works at some major retailer could provide a simple "yeah, it's similar here too" or something that would be nice.
For the month of June, here are the rankings (looking primarily at preorders and consoles only):
- 8: PS4
- 10: Destiny PS4
- 14: MCC
- 15: TLoU:R
- 23: Destiny + White PS4
- ...
- 36: Destiny XBO
- ...
- 49: Xboxone w/o Kinect
- 50: Titanfall + XBO
Amazon June top sellers
So in the month it was announced, the MCC collection has a pretty big chunk of preorders, though it is beat by Destiny PS4 and closely followed by TLoU:R.
As of today, July 11, here are the rankings:
- 6: Destiny PS4 Limited Edition (currently sold out)
- 10: Destiny PS4
- 12: PS4
- 13: Destiny XBO
- 20: Destiny PS4 Ghost Edition (currently sold out)
- 23: Destiny XBO Ghost Edition (currently sold out)
- 27: Destiny XBO Limited Edition (available)
- ...
- 48: Destiny + PS4 White
- ...
- 62: MCC
- 65: Xboxone w/o Kinect
The TitanFall bundle isn't in the top 100 (at least that I saw. Please correct any info here and I'll update).
Amazon overall July sales
So, things that we can see from one online retailer (that only accounts for about 5% of game sales, if I remember correctly -- from Aqua, I think.)
- More Destiny PS4 special bundles were made than XBO bundles, and all PS4 bundles are sold out while there still stock for the Destiny XBO L.E.
- Demand for the MCC has dropped hard, while Destiny has maintained demand -- even if you don't consider the bundles.
This is the part I was hoping someone in retail could make a quick comment on: do you see similar things in your stores for the MCC and the other preorders?
Anyway, like I said, this only applies to Amazon and probably can't be extrapolated out to the whole market. However, I find info like this fun and interesting, so I thought I would share.