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jlmurph2 on 29 August 2014
wary-wallaroo said:
jlmurph2 said:
eva01beserk said:
Next week the x1 will probably finally see the light and smell the fresher air of second place for one week. Then drop again the following week, then rise again the next week due to destiny. But dont get to cocky x1, you wont be that far ahead.


Nope. Releasing in 28 countries first week of September, it may not be much of a boost but it will stay up throughout the rest of the year.


It's going to be DoA in those countries. You can already buy an X1 if you want one, it's not some hard task.

So there's going to be literally no boost?



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Normchacho on 29 August 2014

Another monster week for PS4. The battle between the Xbox One and WiiU is getting interesting. I wonder what the numbers will look like at the end of the year?

 

Edit: What do you guys think. PS4 destiny week > Xbox One september?



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Bokal on 29 August 2014

Is it me or the XB1 has been adjusted down?



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VXIII on 29 August 2014
Bokal said:
Is it me or the XB1 has been adjusted down?

Yes it has by 150K

3DS +90,749

WiiU +78,830

Xone −152,801



binary solo on 29 August 2014
jlmurph2 said:
wary-wallaroo said:
jlmurph2 said:
eva01beserk said:
Next week the x1 will probably finally see the light and smell the fresher air of second place for one week. Then drop again the following week, then rise again the next week due to destiny. But dont get to cocky x1, you wont be that far ahead.


Nope. Releasing in 28 countries first week of September, it may not be much of a boost but it will stay up throughout the rest of the year.


It's going to be DoA in those countries. You can already buy an X1 if you want one, it's not some hard task.

So there's going to be literally no boost?

There will be a boost for sure. The fact that Xb one can be had in those markets doesn't mean it's been doing brisk business. In fact given the sales of Xb one to date you'd have to say there's very few people in the Sept 28 markets who are importing Xb one, because if there are substantial numbers doing it, it means things are even more dire in the countries where it is officially on sale.

If we assume more or less 50K for the current markets, I think the boost for the Sept 28 markets could take Xb one over 100K for the week. But if PS4 has pretty much sucked all the oxygen out of those markets for Xb one it could be as low as only a 20K boost. Is Japan one of those markets or is Japan a bit later still? If Japan is part of those 28 then I can see Japan contributing 20K by itself. Well down on Xb360 but there are plenty of reasons why Xb one is unlikely to get close to 360 launch in Japan, and two of those reasons are PS4 and Wii U are already out there.



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jlmurph2 on 29 August 2014
binary solo said:
jlmurph2 said:
wary-wallaroo said:


It's going to be DoA in those countries. You can already buy an X1 if you want one, it's not some hard task.

So there's going to be literally no boost?

There will be a boost for sure. The fact that Xb one can be had in those markets doesn't mean it's been doing brisk business. In fact given the sales of Xb one to date you'd have to say there's very few people in the Sept 28 markets who are importing Xb one, because if there are substantial numbers doing it, it means things are even more dire in the countries where it is officially on sale.

If we assume more or less 50K for the current markets, I think the boost for the Sept 28 markets could take Xb one over 100K for the week. But if PS4 has pretty much sucked all the oxygen out of those markets for Xb one it could be as low as only a 20K boost. Is Japan one of those markets or is Japan a bit later still? If Japan is part of those 28 then I can see Japan contributing 20K by itself. Well down on Xb360 but there are plenty of reasons why Xb one is unlikely to get close to 360 launch in Japan, and two of those reasons are PS4 and Wii U are already out there.


I know Japan is September, can't remember if its the same day as the others or if its China that's separate.



greenmedic88 on 29 August 2014

Either way, it should be interesting to see what effect availability in those markets have on overall sales over the initial week and then over the initial month to gauge drop off or sustained interest.

I'm guessing that MS has not prioritized launching officially in those regions for their own reasons, which do not include deliberately hobbling global sales of a major product.



AZWification on 29 August 2014
Raziel123 said:
PS4 160k :O
Wii U 54k
XB1 53k





                
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DonFerrari on 29 August 2014

To any one complaining about TLOUR drop week on week... It isn't TLOUR 4th week. It's TLOU 56th week... So pretty than impressive for the game that shouldn't exist. Already at 1M it may get tmy prediction of 2M LT, maybe with game of the year editions and digital the franchise can be the second one to hit 10M in a "single interaction" (1st party obviously).



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adrictogames on 29 August 2014

Great ps4 numbers!!!... It's pretty clear that on a worldwide basis PS4 is the poster child of videogames... I'm from Santiago de Chile, and here videogames means Playstation and i believe that's the situation in most south american countries... it's not even a competition anymore. During Last gen it was closer because of 360 piracy being huge over here, but even then, the PS3 took the win. This generation is a massacre in Sony's favor.

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