it did for me but when there's no concrete *this game is coming to this box and not this station* it's really not going to move the needle.
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IGN: The PS5 pre-orders were the biggest event ever for us (in terms of affiliate links to stores from IGN) surpassed Black Fridays, iPhone launches
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it did for me but when there's no concrete *this game is coming to this box and not this station* it's really not going to move the needle.
I imagine it's like when they put up an article showing current deals on sites like Amazon people will click the links to see the deal instead of typing in Amazon on the address bar.
Yep, the PlayStation thirst is real. Sony has a winner on their hands. Just need to drop the 80$ first party price tags.
It's on a retailer-by-retailer, and site-by-site basis. IGN is owned by Ziff Davis and Ziff owns coupon websites like offers.com, deal websites like techbargains.com, and more traditional Editorial websites like IGN. All three of those categories usually have different agreements and standards.
per-click is considerably less common but it does sometimes happen.
Jim after reading era the past week
LMAO!!
Eh...we can kind of tell that was more to benefit Series pre orders. I like their games, but that didn't sway me. I plan on getting a Series X too anyway, was going to before the Bethesda thing.
Yeah, the Bethesda thing did do this tho, lol. It was a bigger gap before.
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Thanks for the clarification, I'll add it to the OT right now!
While we're getting an impression there isn't anywhere near enough stock for launch to satisfy demand... polls are showing 80% of those who wanted one managed to get a preorder.
If that 80% is a fair representation, it's a surprisingly good planning of launch volume.
If that 80% is a fair representation, it's a surprisingly good planning of launch volume.
yeh I assumed as much as well - but I can't imagine it being that high. A long time ago I used to work for a carrier so I know how crazy it gets when a new phone is out and people are ready to renew their contracts — the vast majority of people get the new phones that way, and the types that like to pay upfront tend to go to Apple directly. There are obviously outliers but those numbers were never going to touch the launch of a console on a gaming oriented publication (which is why I just felt it was weird to consider it significant.)
IGN skews US and 3:2, the ratio of responders that will only get a PS5 or only an Xbox, is bigger than the projected split in the US for PS4 vs. Xbox One. That's not... close.
Exactly, the exact split on the NPD by January of this year was 54:46 for the PS4
For me 5× their highest blackfirday clicks sounds insane . Damn
That was like 6 months ago lmao
Yeah, people seem to forget this fact lol its only WW Sony truly dominates so seeing this big of split in US for PS5/X is pretty good news for Sony.
Also, the total percentage on that poll is 51 percent PS5, 33 percent Xbox once you add the percentages for PS5 standard and digital against Series X and Series S. So it's not that close.
Adding the number who said they're interested in both (15 percent), changes the number, but not the 18 percentage point gap.
Despite some negative PR, most of the items seemed to be...pretty minor? I mean, it didn't feel like there was a PS3/XBO megaton debacle at least. The PlayStation brand is still extraordinarily strong and it's going to take sustained negative feedback for that to drop.
There wasn't. No matter how much some ppl want it to be.
This is not 2013 in reverse. Some ppl should just be happy that MS is starting next gen better than this gen wrt messaging, marketing.
Sony is even commissioning full fleets of aircraft to move PS5 shipments to their end destinations. They're clearly making a huge amount of consoles, but the demand is just exceedingly higher. It's nuts.
Lol ya'll are looking way too hard into this to discount it. In IIRC July it was 54% PS vs 21% Xbox. The week before this poll, 64.7% of people planned to get some type of PS5 vs. 32.2% of people planning to get an Xbox. That's a 32 point difference!!!
So for this poll to be 51% PS5 vs. 33% Xbox (including more people saying they will buy both), that is significantly closer than it used to be. Now, of course, you can interpret the stuff however you want. This is hardly scientific or rigorous. Regardless, this is the closest any of these polls have been in quite some time. No one is saying PlayStation is somehow irrelevant or something lol. PlayStation will continue to outsell Xbox, don't you worry. They don't need anyone to defend their honor.
But you can't deny that there haven't been some very significant shifts in a very short amount of time.
This was in like July.
This was the week before the Bethesda announcement:
