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AlwaysRight said:
drkohler said:
AlwaysRight said:

70% vs 30% not out of the realm of possibility. That's complete annihilation.

The local MediaMarkt already sold several CoD for PS4 today (nothing on sight for sale for XBox One). This surely proves that there will be 100% vs 0% annihilation here, or do I make a mistake?

Maybe you should stick to whatever you're good at?

So, for the completely irony impaired, here is the sad truth for you:

Both companies have started to mass manufacture their new consoles at roughly around the same time (give or take 1-2 weeks). There are only so many chinese students you can force into chinese factories, so manufacturing capacities are limited. Both companies have a capacity of around 1mio units per month, once the manufacturing runs at full speed. How fast that is achieved is up for discussion, but don't expect a line to manufacture more than a fraction of full capacity in the first 2-3 weeks.

So what we are looking at, coming mid- to end-November is the simple fact that both companies will have roughly the same amount of consoles to sell (unless something went really wrong, which we would probably know by now), very roughly 2.2-2.5mio units, give or take 200-300k. There is no way any console will "annihilate" any other console. Given that Sony has spread out its consoles into a much wider area, I can easily see XBox One actually outselling PS4 in the States by a good margin by end of year, because that is where the future of the entire XBox group lies so they have to keep that territory at all costs (and the costs are high).