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Ryng_Tolu said:
daredevil.shark said:
BTW current amazon hourly chart. PS4 #18 & #32. Xbox One #32 & #39.

That's a lot interesting.

Actually i predict XBO > PS4 in May NPD. but if the king of the king amazon will say at the end of the month "PS4 > XBO" (all SKUs combinet), i chance my prediction in PS4 > XBO.

 

Seriusly, i will NEVER doubt what amazon say by now.


No offense but you can be downright annoying sometimes. What value your "prediction" have? Do you even do some math for these "predictions"?



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daredevil.shark said:
Ryng_Tolu said:

That's a lot interesting.

Actually i predict XBO > PS4 in May NPD. but if the king of the king amazon will say at the end of the month "PS4 > XBO" (all SKUs combinet), i chance my prediction in PS4 > XBO.

 

Seriusly, i will NEVER doubt what amazon say by now.


No offense but you can be downright annoying sometimes. What value your "prediction" have? Do you even do some math for these "predictions"?

hemm... it was only what i think... as i said, FOR NOW, i think that XBO will win, BUT, PS4 have strong chance, and, if amazon say PS4 above XBO by end of May, i chance my opinion in PS4 > XBO.

Just what i think. :D



Ryng_Tolu said:
daredevil.shark said:


No offense but you can be downright annoying sometimes. What value your "prediction" have? Do you even do some math for these "predictions"?

hemm... it was only what i think... as i said, FOR NOW, i think that XBO will win, BUT, PS4 have strong chance, and, if amazon say PS4 above XBO by end of May, i chance my opinion in PS4 > XBO.

Just what i think. :D

 

I really wish I could meet you in real life. Nothing can demoralize you. You are always cheerful.



daredevil.shark said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
daredevil.shark said:


No offense but you can be downright annoying sometimes. What value your "prediction" have? Do you even do some math for these "predictions"?

hemm... it was only what i think... as i said, FOR NOW, i think that XBO will win, BUT, PS4 have strong chance, and, if amazon say PS4 above XBO by end of May, i chance my opinion in PS4 > XBO.

Just what i think. :D

 

I really wish I could meet you in real life.Nothing can demoralize you. You are always cheerful.

Because i'm Ryng Tolu. :P "nothing stop this train". xD



199k > 174k (-12%)

It is not a big drop off... if you thing PS4 is yet the same price since launch it looks like a ok drop.

I guess the real question is "why Xbone increased sales?"

Gamestop: up to $125 trade-in PS360 for Xbone for all April
Bestbuy: up to $175 trade-in PS360 for Xbone for last week of April



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In my area, I am seeing far better X1 bundles than what is offered by Sony. I'm in Canada btw.
At Bestbuy.ca they are under cutting the PS4 by $100-150. This is on sale, but the sales are pretty constant.
Closer prices at Walmart, but X1 still under cuts it a bit cause it's the kinect bundle in comparison for the most part oddly enough.
I doubt that Canada is taking up all the sales, but this is how it is up here for now. We have yet to see any Sony deals that I'm aware of.



Gotta figure out how to set these up lol.

Uabit said:
No exclusive games (good ones, don't come at me with shitty the order pls). Besides bloodborne PS4 only has announced for this year no man's sky (which isn't even exclusive) and Tearaway which is already on Vita.

They delayed uncharted 4 and R&C to 2016, they better show something big at E3 for later this year...


This makes no sense. By your logic all xbox has this year is halo5 and another forza. Gears doesn't count because it's also on 360 like tearaway. To raider doesn't count because it's timed like no mans sky.  Please explain your logic, it would be fascinating to hear your thoughts. Blood borne is good but we still don't know how halo and forza will turn out. And like sony ms also delayed one of their games. QB.



All three consoles together are only marginally acceptable for US sales this month. They all failed to some degree, I think $299 has to be hit, $349, $399 price point is starting to hit saturation. It's a real problem because growing the userbase is critical to being profitable. X1's "win" with terrible sales and ps4's 2nd place of even worse (albeit $399 with no big trade in firesales) are both absolutely pathetic. Sub 50k/week? Garbage. Git gud MS/Sony. Battle it out at $299 and $249, sales will start hitting 100k/week and the profits from XBLG and PS+ will drown them.



market saturation at 399? who knows



TruckOSaurus said:
Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part since I'm hoping for a price drop but I'd be inclined to believe it's market saturation for the current price point coupled with lack of big exclusives in April.

I think it's too early to be calling 'saturation' as a reason for this anomoly, even though you have been specific and added 'current price point'. All the clues point to a vacuum created by Bloodborne's success and the Batman preorders. We had a good week or so of PS4 shortages on Amazon which were more than likely created by the 'surprise' success of Bloodborne. If another big game released tomorrow and Sony had replenished the stock appropriately, the sales would be back to normal.

This is NOT to do with me 'not being able to accept the XB1 won', it's to do with an interest in understanding the anomoly, which is certainly is.

edit: Jesus, I can't believe some of the theories I'm reading here. LOL



 

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