Shadow1980 said: For the first six months of this year, the PS4 sold 1,592,000 units while the XBO sold 1,100,000 in the U.S according to NPD. That means the PS4 has outsold the XBO by 44.7%. Every month the PS4 outsells the XBO, the wider the numerical gap becomes and the harder it will be for the XBO to come out on top. Halo will provide a short-term boost at best, as individual titles rarely boost sales longer than a few weeks. The XBO could conceivably win in the months Halo 5 & 6 are released, but two monthly victories will be meaningless small victories in the sales war. The only thing that can stimulate sales on the long term is an actual price cut. If the XBO is reduced to $300 and Sony doesn't answer back with a price cut of their own, they stand a chance of closing the gap. However, I doubt Sony will go without a price cut of their own for long, plus I doubt MS will cut into the XBO's profitability so they aren't going to issue a price cut anytime soon. Maybe sometime next year, but not within the next few months. If the PS4 and XBO stay at price parity with each other for this whole generation, which is likely, then there is no conceivable stimulative factor that will propel the XBO ahead of the PS4. |
Is basically what I'm saying too.
Plausible, but extremely hard. Even if the XB1 wins the holidays, it still needs to outsell the PS4 before and after the holidays if it wants to close the gap in the US consistently. Even last year when it was doing extremely well it only won one NPD cause it supplied better. If the gap doesn't decrease or increases by Holiday 2015, it's totally over.
You can't have a price cut(didn't even work) and halo every month.
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