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Forums - Sales Discussion - Xbox one will catch up soon with PS4 and then outsell it in the USA

Neodegenerate on 16 July 2014
DrDoomz said:

To be fair, this thread DOES have a time limit.

TheDrill said:

It will have more units sold in the US by January 2015

Hehe. I'm not current with the PS4 NPD numbers, so how much is the difference between the PS4 vs XB1 globally in the US again?

Last thing I saw I believe was around 550k.  Could be wrong though.



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VanceIX on 16 July 2014
TheDrill said:
Torillian said:


What did "soon" mean then?  So we can actually hold you to a prediction instead of this wishy washy bullshit.  


At the time, based on the calculations at the time, I figured X1 might catch up with PS4 by end of 2014, first quarter of 2015

Now I think this might happen (at the current rate) summer 2015 or at worst late 2015.

Are you going to change your prediction again soon, when your calculations turn out false?



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TheDrill on 16 July 2014
VanceIX said:
TheDrill said:
Torillian said:


What did "soon" mean then?  So we can actually hold you to a prediction instead of this wishy washy bullshit.  


At the time, based on the calculations at the time, I figured X1 might catch up with PS4 by end of 2014, first quarter of 2015

Now I think this might happen (at the current rate) summer 2015 or at worst late 2015.

Are you going to change your prediction again soon, when your calculations turn out false?

They were not false, just slightly innaccurate because at that time I couldn't have know how much X1 was going to sell in the meantime.

I just knew that the price cut will drive X1 sales to close or slightly more than PS4.

And as soon as Halo comes out basically X1 sales will double for the rest of the year.



TheBlackNaruto on 16 July 2014
TheDrill said:
VanceIX said:
TheDrill said:
Torillian said:


What did "soon" mean then?  So we can actually hold you to a prediction instead of this wishy washy bullshit.  


At the time, based on the calculations at the time, I figured X1 might catch up with PS4 by end of 2014, first quarter of 2015

Now I think this might happen (at the current rate) summer 2015 or at worst late 2015.

Are you going to change your prediction again soon, when your calculations turn out false?

They were not false, just slightly innaccurate because at that time I couldn't have know how much X1 was going to sell in the meantime.

I just knew that the price cut will drive X1 sales to close or slightly more than PS4.

And as soon as Halo comes out basically X1 sales will double for the rest of the year.

Your preditiction was that it would have more units sold by January 2015 and continue outselling it from there. If that doesn't happen then it means your prediction was false not slightly innaccurate. Even if it did not happen until summer or late 2015 that still makes YOUR prediction false. And there is NOTHING wrong with that....the issue is if you will accept that what you thought would happen was false....that's it from what I can see anyway.



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roivas2 on 16 July 2014
eva01beserk said:
I imagine when this gets 1000 replies the op will say, "you fools, I never cared for the x1, I just wanted the medal and I manipulated you all along. jajaja". Then we will look like the fools.


I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen.



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DD_Bwest on 16 July 2014
DrDoomz said:
TheDrill said:


At the time, based on the calculations at the time, I figured X1 might catch up with PS4 by end of 2014, first quarter of 2015

Now I think this might happen (at the current rate) summer 2015 or at worst late 2015.

Oh! Oh! Lookit them goalposts move.





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DrDoomz on 16 July 2014
roivas2 said:
eva01beserk said:
I imagine when this gets 1000 replies the op will say, "you fools, I never cared for the x1, I just wanted the medal and I manipulated you all along. jajaja". Then we will look like the fools.


I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen.


This is very likely.



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 16 July 2014

Edit: not yet, we still got 7 post to go

OT: is there really even a topic right now?



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alrightiwill on 16 July 2014

I think the biggest questions being raised is what is the definition of the word 'soon'



TheDrill on 16 July 2014
TheBlackNaruto said:

Your preditiction was that it would have more units sold by January 2015 and continue outselling it from there. If that doesn't happen then it means your prediction was false not slightly innaccurate. Even if it did not happen until summer or late 2015 that still makes YOUR prediction false. And there is NOTHING wrong with that....the issue is if you will accept that what you thought would happen was false....that's it from what I can see anyway.

My predicition was not false, because I approximated the results, I  claimed this from the start, it is not possible to exactly know the future, I simply estimated it.

My estimations were wrong, and I slightly adjusted them.

Hence my prediction was slightly off, and I made the proper adjustements.