It's probably do to the sheer, unmitigated, unbridled pole-riding they're doing over Sony's success. Congratulations for milestones are normal, but gushing over monthly sales with that much enthusiasm is a bit silly, not to mention strange.

@september

You can go to Best Buy right now and get one. It’s been that price for a week already not just for Black Friday

Switch is in dire need of fresh games. This console set's itself apart by being sold to gamers who don't necessarily enjoy the likes of Pokemon and that kind of thing. Smash is not for everyone either. Let's see what happens when we get Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3. After that, they're gonna be in trouble. Switch is turning into a glorified indie machine real fast these days

@Muzik

That’s because stores now provide Black Friday deals for the entire week instead of just the day after thanksgiving. They are still Black Friday deals.

Almost everywhere it’s advertised as a Black Friday bundle.

You know what though? I’m going to be heavily disagreed with anyway. Let’s come back in January when NPD is up. Dollars to donuts says I’m right. Deal?

@Brett

The last few Smash games have outsold both mainline Mario and Zelda titles on their respective systems.

Smash is a system seller.

Like @BrettAwesome said, those popular Nintendo games are not for everyone. Meaning some people like myself don’t like Smash. Even Smash will outsell other games, but it only won December. The rest is for PS4.

No way. PS4 takes all.

@UCForce

You can literally say that about almost any game. Again, Smash is one of Nintendos best selling properties. It’s a system seller. It’s not like God of War was bought by all 80 million PlayStation 4 owners, but it was sure as hell a system seller too.

Forget it...you’re just biased.

@septemberindecember

I agree, it's the same thing that happened last year. PS4 won November and was $199 as well, but sold out nearly everywhere. This is how Switch ended up winning December 2017, with XBO overtaking PS4 as well (barely), even though PS4 still won the overall holiday season.

This year Switch doesn't have a price drop like many are saying, but it does have bundles, and more importantly it has one of it's biggest franchises (Smash Bros.) launching that month as well. December will be huge for Switch. PS4 has a chance of winning December still, but they need to make sure they have the supply available, otherwise it'll be a repeat of last year, although I feel XBO will be in 3rd for both months this year, meanwhile PS4 and Switch will be a close first and second for December.

@septemberindecember

It doesn’t matter to me if Switch takes January or not. They’ll need to have more games as others have mentioned.

As for the Spider-Man bundle, you said you thought it was only for Black Friday and I corrrcted you. No need to get mad about it. Call it a Black Friday deal all you want but what I said is still true. You can buy it right now

@Muzik

I didn’t say Switch will take January. I said they’ll take December, but we’ll find out whether they did in January as that’s when that information will be released.

Yeah, you can buy it...as a Black Friday deal. Every deal is a Black Friday deal right now. Maybe it’ll be available cyber Monday too, I don’t think last years Black Friday deal was,...but it’s definitely doubtful it’ll be available in December which is what you guys are arguing with me on.

Also, I’m not mad. I’m trying to have a conversation. I just know how the demographic is here.

@Abizzel

Thank you for understanding that Smash is a system selling franchise. I think some people think that, by me saying that, I’m somehow against PS4s success or something. Which I’m definitely not. PS4 is still going to take November, just like it did last year.

I see you meant Switch for December and I guess we will see if that happens. I don’t see anyone saying anything about PS4 taking December just one comment saying that they have the discounts. I’m sure that the bundle will be back to a higher price in December but I’m also sure that PS4 will still be discounted somewhat all the way through the end of the year. Has been the last few so I don’t see that changing.

Companies are funny with the sales and calling them black decay sales because many deals are still better on Black Friday for multiple retailers. I guess when you have a sale every week you just run out of names. Probably just want to run with the hype of it all

@Muzik

Well, the comment I responded too said they'd take the rest of the year. Which is why I said December will probably be the Switch because Smash is such a huge game for it.

I agree with the rest of your comment though. The PS4 will still be discounted and its definitely going to sell well. It'll probably sell the most during the holiday season overall, just like it did last year. I just think that December specifically is set for the Switch to win the NPD.

In no way does it mean they haven't had a big October since then, that just means they haven't had an October bigger than October 2002 til now. October 2002 also saw the release of both Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and GTA Vice City, the latter of which was a PS2 console exclusive at the time.

Sunny explained it... Spiderman.

Its just weird to hear a comparitive with a month that is not synonymous with big sales. November and December, sure but October was odd.

Sony had great October months before too, but to actually beat the PS2 at it's prime (for that month), that's quite the achievement!

You read it correctly. For whatever reason (COD BLOPS 4 and RDR 2) has helped PlayStation have one of their most successful October months since 2002.

@darth, you always gotta find a way to downplay. At least Sony has the cojones to release their sales numbers unlike a certain other gaming company. So salty lol.

Your looking at this the wrong way. Anyone who doesn't have a PS4 can get the Spiderman game and a PS4 for only $199.00usd plus tax. Not only do you get what is prolly the best Spiderman game ever made you get the only console that the game can be played on. Plus when you get the console you then have the option to play the other great PS4 exclusives such as Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Uncharted 4 and my fav BloodBorne and that's only a few on a long list of great exclusive games that you as a PS4 owner have the option to play if you so choose. Your other option is waiting and praying for it to goto other consoles that you may own but that is never, ever going to happen or you have the option of getting PSNow when Spiderman is put on the service in 2 to 3yrs.
Now I in no way want to offend Anyone because I know $199.00usd is a lot of money and you just can't throw down what you don't have but with that said Sony announced the bundle about 2 months ago. Maybe save some $$$ or ask Santa and maybe he'll deliver and for anyone who has the $$$ and loves to game but went with another console now is a great time to get the console that most all gamers already have. Good luck to you.

The only console I own is a PS4 Pro, so I don't really care from that angle. I just don't look favorably at exclusivity in general, but it's more acceptable to me if the platform holder owns the studio and the IP is a new creation.

Overall, though, I think exclusivity does more harm than good. And I'm consistent on this. I hope the gaming industry eventually evolves past this fragmented exclusivity crap. I look forward to the day when gamers can enjoy games on the hardware of their choosing--much like you can watch any DVD or Blu-ray movie on any of a multitude of different brands and types of playback devices--instead of being artificially locked to single brand or device.

Triggered.

I have to agree with AspiringProGenji. Even third party Spider Man games never be nominated or award of GOTY before. This is proper Spider Man is able to get nominated this year. Marvel choose Sony because they knew Sony First Party Studio Strong Reputation. And Sony choose Insomniac because both of them still have strong relationships. And that’s an excuse from you.

@starchild
IP’s man. You can’t buy a Whopper at McDonalds. You won’t find Presidents Choice at Safeway. DC and Marvel might sell at the same store but they sure as shit don’t share the same universe.

You mention movies, but Netflix has exclusives. Cobra Kai can be digital only and skip disc all together. Marvel doesn’t even have the movie rights to all their own characters. They had to buy Fox studios just to get them to stop destroying the FF lol. An IP holder isn’t obligated to help the competition.

"Overall, though, I think exclusivity does more harm than good. "

I disagree. Exclusive games are special and it is rare to find the quality of games like Spider-man and God of War in a multiplat game. Every now and then you get a Witcher 3 game that rises to that level, but without the platform owner pushing their own devs to make something really great for their own platform the quality of games overall would be less. Exclusivity means better quality games.

And Spider-man is a perfect example. We have seen many Spider-man games from Activision and they ranged from bad to just ok. The PS4 exclusive Spider-man is truly great. I'm not sure how anyone can say this is doing more harm than good.

Why shouldn't it be exclusuve?

Marvel went with the console that sold the most.

"Spiderman" isn't exclusive.

Spider-Man, however, is.

It was Marvel that wanted Sony to be involved because Sony owns the movie rights to Spiderman and Marvel wanted to use him in their upcoming movies so they made a deal with Sony. Marvel can use Spiderman in their movies and Sony can make exclusive Spiderman games. Insomniac can make games for whomever they want they are an independent contractor, Sony asked them if they wanted to make a Spiderman game they said yes.

Spiderman is exclusive to Sony because of Marvel that allowed them to even make the game, Activision had the game rights to Spiderman for years and they consistently made ok to mediocre games so the quality of the game is clearly a result of various parties interest in making Spiderman a success, namely Marvel, Sony and Insomniac. I don't know why you are so upset but Sony's involvement has proven to be good for the Spiderman franchise unlike what Activision did with the Ip.

Lmao!!

Marvel Approached Sony. Not Ubisoft, Activision or anyone else. You want to point blame to anyone, blame Marvel. Marvel went with a publisher the could trust. Sony went with a non 1st party developer.

Exclusives are where we see the best results and have been a part of gaming since the start - I don't see that changing.

Gotta spin it into a negative somehow huh?

yeah just like how xbox hasn't never been able to win a console generation before since the brand been establish darthv72.

No you were just thinking how you can be a hater and downplay this great news so you decided to post this ridiculous comment twice now just move along

Not hating guys.. just confused. Usually you hear about November or December because its holiday times.

Thank you Sunny. That explains it cause I knew there had been other big releases in Octobers past but I guess none of them sparked sales as much as this one.

You forgot about Spider-man? lol

Darth
Here is a simple reason they've never beat 2002
GTA Vice City was a PS2 exclusive. If you can't get through your head that 2002 was probably just the PS2's peak Oct and the PS2 is the highest selliing home console ever. To beat that Oct is basically saying you topped the best selling console of all times peak Oct. Nothing to think about. Stop reaching

It's okay teflon, not everyone can recall the big releases of the month per year. Sorry I'm not a big GTA fan but I can see how that game was a system seller because the original GTA3 was a system seller as well. I didnt forget about spiderman, I just remembered it coming in September not October.

Again, sorry for the confusion.