| TheDrill said: Xbox 360 has dominated USA last generation, and people forget that even with all the bad reputation, the higher price cut X1 didn't sell significantly less than the PS4 in here. In the USA, as of today the Xbox one only sold approximatively only 11 % less than PS4 did And for the last few weeks X1 sold on par or even slightly more than the PS4. Now that the price cut has been announced, as well as Halo and the ability to run IE and netflix without paying for gold, I expect it to sell a lot more. A considerable advantage is that all these announcement, especailly the price cut will convince a lot of xbox 360 owners to upgrade, and considering how well xbox 360 sold in USA, there are many of them. The current difference between PS4 and X1 in the US is 322004 units. That means that if xbox starts selling 10k more than it does currently, (only a 20 % increase in sales) or about 60k, it needs only 32 weeks, or 8 months to catch up. Considering that it will sell a lot during Christmas, It will have more units sold in the US by January 2015, and start outselling it from there. After that it will slowly grow and eventually sell more long a term considerably more than the PS4.
EDIT: Please learn to read, in the USA not worldwide, only in the USA. |
And this is assuming that people who got PS4s, sometimes waited months to be able to find one, did in fact want xbox ones, but could not afford to spend 100$ more on it? (or even less when it was heavily discounted in March/April).
I think the price drop is nice, but assuming things keep going as they are, I don't see why it would make much difference, until either side release some big titles for their new console (we will see if Sony dropped the ball at E3, if MS delivers the big titles, etc. and how all the multi-platform titles end up performing on their console once liberated from the few ressources Kinect was hogging).
So, I don't think price alone, even with the newfound reason for free Apps/web browser access (these are just "doh" aspects of a device now, it was a net negative before, now it's a neutral, because everyone does it).
Also, the xbox one remains the weaker console, realistically it should cost 50 to 100$ less than the PS4 (from the customer's point of view, you sacrifice your gaming experience when you buy this machine).
