Up to now, we have only seen anecdotal or regional. For instance, we found at that one of the regions we expected the console to do best in — Japan — had a fairly weak opening week for the hardware. More specifically, the Media Creates pointed to only 130,000 units being sold. In retrospect, this is less than a third of what PlayStation Classic’s most significant competitor (the SNES Classic) sold in the same amount of time.
Anecdotally, the PlayStation Classic seems to be keeping its real estate at major retailers, despite anticipated holiday sales foot traffic. This has led to some funny pictures, though impossible to correspond with actual sales figures:
This “Only buy ONE PlayStation Classic” sign really seems like it should have said “Please buy a PlayStation Classic. No one else is and we really need to clear these shelves!!” pic.twitter.com/XuRCEgITXx
— DreamcastGuy (@DreamcastGuy) 5 December 2018
However, this is where Amazon and their sales step in as a useful barometer of success. Using Amazon price tracker CamelCamelCamel, the historical data is telling a tale of struggle:
Following the release on December 3rd, you may note that we only see Amazon’s price (the green line) drastically falling. Around December 16th, the price goes down by 25% with a new price of $74.95. Only a week after that do we see the new price ebb in at $69.95.
This also has impacted the third-party sellers as well, with likely scalpers getting burned by the decline in popularity. While the game was retailing at nearly $150 pre-launch with people sitting on pre-orders, that number has plummeted since. Specifically, the drop is around 56% from the all-time highs.
Doing a similar comparison of the NES Classic Edition (the hardware PlayStation based this on) yields wildly different results:
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Source: https://www.dualshockers.com/playstation-classic-sales-amazon/
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