This, we still have plenty of Halo bundles in stock from launch that went unsold. Most hardcore Halo fans have already bought an XB1 and played the crap out of it. There's no doubt that the game will be on top of the charts, or very close to it, but it didn't appear to push much hardware.
A couple anecdotal notes responding to some of the posts over the past couple days:
- Battlefront not pushing much hardware? You do realize this is STAR WARS game when there is incredible hype about the movie coming out and it's the holiday season the bundles just give extra incentive for consumers to purchase a PS4 with a Star Wars game included. Just think about the customer base; where a parent will not buy a CoD game for a adolescent child because of war/gun violance, they will definately by a Star Wars game with lasers and "fantasy violance." they are playing the nastalgia card perfectly with this game. This will play big with with no real price war this holiday season. a customer really wanted a PS4 this past weekend and didn't want to buy the last BO bundle and opted to wait for BF bundle on Tuesday instead, lol.
I mean, look at the extra marketing Sony and EA are puting into this game: (which kind of pisses me off being a huge Tales fan, that Zestiria couldn't even get a trailer on their store retail loop)
This stuff is massive!
(The poor quality is my buddies fault I'm at my other job, so I had him take them for me)
- Sony sent a TON of bundles to sell at WM, and that will help since we have been constantly sold out since the price drop. BO3 1TB bundles from last week went really fast even at $429.. (Would be interested to see if the other retailers are getting a bunch these as well)
- Dinsney Infinity (Star Wars edition) PS4 bundles come out tomorrow to lead right into the BF3 launch on Tuesday, tey will be sold out over the weekend on last minute lay-aways no doubt...
Personal thought:
I could see MS pulling another "temporary" price drop in Dec. if they do not "win" Black Friday" like last year. I mean, who knows how much money they lost last year from giving away so much to win Nov./Dec. Also, the GoW 500GB white bundle is scanning for $329 already, so....
Just random musings, please carry on. I totally forgot to put my numbers up again this month.. but for fun:
[PS4] 470K
[XB1] 385K
[3DS] 105K
[WIU] 75K
and yeah, I'm even surprised at this Star Wars hype. The toys are selling like crazy too.