WW HW/SW Up 25th January 2014 (US Has A New King)

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vivster said:

FinalFantasyXIII said:

binary solo said:
Everything bad except PS4.

Xb one just over 50% of PS4 has got to be a worry. When PS4 releases in Japan, and when Xb one gets only a few thousand sales per week from the 2nd tier markets it's possible that PS4 will regularly be 2:1 vs. Xb one.

With Japan it should be 3 to 1 for at least a month when it launches I would imagine. I hope longer though, because I want to see 11 million PS4 to 5.5 million XB1 before CHristmas 2014. If XB1 stays around 50k a week/200k month and PS4 stays 150k a week and 600k month till holidays Feb-Nov = 10 months = XB1 = +2 million more sales and PS4 would average 6 million more sales.

So with XB1 @ 3.4 ish that would be 5.5 million, and PS4 @ 4.9 ish with 6 million = almost 11 million. If that would remain then by Christmas the PS4 will have double sales on hardware over XB1. 11 m to 5.5 mil, I love it! Because then there will be so many 3rd party titles for the PS4 with great hardware to push those games! Which should make for an amazing generation of games! I think it will be more like 14 mil for PS4 and 7 mil for XB1 by Christmas but who really knows. That's just my basic speculation at the moment.

I admire your optimism but you shoudn't count out MS's market power. I'm pretty sure that MS will have one or 2 massive bombs at E3 to reveal. I'm talking price cuts, more monster exclusives like Titanfall, bundles with non gaming related products and content cooperation for their entertainment network.

Sony will also bring the big guns to E3 but I don't expect anything gamechanging and rather an evolution of what they've done so far. PS4 is pretty much at the pinnacle right now and there is not much to improve so the huge potential to turn things around lies with MS.

My prediction is that the X1 will win back the american market by the end of the year to such an extend that they might be able to equalize the sale difference from Japan. Of course they'll still be a good measure behind WW because of the 2:1 in europe.

North America is still very much in play for sure. 10K difference in a given week is pretty negligible, and is within margin for error. But, unless PS4 does no better than WIi U in Japan I think Japan+North America will come out in PS4's favour most weeks. PS4 and Xb one will mostly be neck and neck or PS4 marginally ahead for as long as there is a price difference in favour of PS4. And the longer that price difference lasts the more likely it is that PS4 will edge out Xb one in the long term. But, unless there are still supply issues keeping PS4 low I must say I am impressed that Xb one is strongly competing with PS4 in North America.