TheDrill said:
At the time I made this prediction the difference between X1 sold and PS4 sold was actually 10 % people are laughing now telling me how I stealthy changed it later to 13 % and now it's almost 17 %, but at the time it was 10 %, and it's not unreasonable to assume that a price cut would increase sales. I haven't expected the gap to widen that much, and I'm still skeptical about last weeks numbers, but it seems that the gap is still growing wider. I assume that the PS4 sales will slow down, or stay the same, especailly since they decreased a bit during TitanFall sales, and seem to decrease worldide as well. Either way, the X1 is still holding strong in US, and in the UK, especailly compared to other territories. It outsold the Wii U worldwide, and I still think it will claim a good chunk of the marketshare in the US and the UK, it will canibalize out of the PS4 dominance, it won't be like in Europe or Japan. How much the price cut will do will yet be seen, but X1 is still strong in USA despite being outsold by the PS4. |
X1 fell off a cliff after Titanfall even before MS announced the Kinect-less SKU. It's April NPD was worse than any of 360's NPD's, which does not bode well. PS4 continues to rank ahead of the X1 in retailers despite the SKU announcement and at the eve of the SKU's release, it is still substantially behind the PS4.
This is reinforced by the survey mentioned earlier that 79% of the surveryers are still not interested on purchasing the X1 at $399. 43% of the 360 owners haven't bought either a PS4, X1, or Wii U yet and only 42% of those users are interested in getting an X1. Overall, only 18% of all 360 users are interested.
Long story short, X1 is not doing strong at all and will not be strong after the SKU release unless MS drastically changes their gameplan fast.