We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non --RRB- numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has
sold over this holiday period, and from the various analysts that track overall device sales and shipments (but we've had a few indications that sales will be strong).
Not exact matches
Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely
over excitement about how well Arlo cameras
sold in the
holiday shopping
period.
Amazon declined to comment on Echo devices said but said in a press release it
sold millions of its Echo Dot speaker during the
holiday season, making it the best -
selling product
over the
period on its online store.
Media Create reports
over 71 000 units
sold for the Nintendo 3DS this week, which is a pretty solid result, especially now that the
holiday period has begun.
With the upcoming
holiday period, it should easily be able to
sell at least 100 000 units before the end of the year, though it will still be the lowest -
selling game in the series (it's unlikely to catch up with Style Savvy 2: Fashion Forward, that ended up
selling over 225 000 units LTD according to Famitsu).
Just an FYI that KWL staff will still be around
over the
holidays and that authors can still make changes during that time, but, to keep the website (www.kobo.com) stable, changes, updates and inserts from KWL (and all publishers) are significantly throttled back during that time
period in order to ensure the site is stable for the most important of activities:
selling eBooks to Kobo's customers.
Apple's iPad and iPad mini may have been a top -
selling item
over the
holiday period, but entries from competitors
sold strongly enough to slightly loosen Cupertino's stranglehold on the tablet sector.
- Nintendo is
selling three physical Switch games for every console
sold in the UK and Spain - this matches the performance of Wii - Nintendo says the Switch's global tie - ratio is 3.6 - 78 % of Nintendo Switch games are
sold in boxes, by comparison only 47 % of PS4 games are
sold physically - the only blips in Switch sales have occurred during moments of stock shortages - there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey - across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been
sold for the first 36 weeks of its life - this is about 49 % of what the Wii managed to do
over the same
period (which launched
over Christmas)- this is 300 % of what the Wii U managed to achieve - Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations - there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment - if demand increases for the
holiday season, GAME says «we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go.»
It seems Sony had a good
holiday period as Sony Interactive Entertainment announced they
sold over 5.9 million PlayStation 4 consoles during the
holiday season.
Amazon declined to comment on Echo devices said but said in a press release it
sold millions of its Echo Dot speaker during the
holiday season, making it the best -
selling product
over the
period on its online store.
Indeed, Amazon's Echo Dot was the retail giant's most popular item
over the
holidays, shipping as part of the «tens of millions of Alexa - enabled devices»
sold during the time
period.
Amazon said it
sold «millions» of Echo Dot speakers
over the
holiday period and it was the best -
selling product (by any manufacturer in any category) on Amazon during that time.