January 2014 NPD Thread! - PS4: 271k, XBO: 141k, WiiU: 49k

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benji232 said:

Sh1nn said:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/playstation-4-sales-top-microsoft-xbox-one-in-january-sony-says.html

"Combined sales for the PS4 and its predecessor, the PlayStation 3, surpassed all other platforms in January, Sony said."

Nice.

If this is: PS4+PS3 > all other systems combined , how is this nice? This stat is only spelling doom for the console/handheld business. Absolutely horrible news unfortunetly. I guess Sony fanboys will get  a kick out of this but for those who truly care about the console/handheld market, this is very bad.

Indeed, celebrating bad sales for everything other than PS4 (because let's face it PS3 sales will be very low) is fiddling while Rome burns.

However let the premature I-told-you-so's that this generation would be a contraction from Gen 7 commence:

I told you so!

That Xb one is significantly lower than 360's first January is terrible news for Xb one AND for Gen 8 over all sales. And if Wii U's 2nd January is not much better than it's first then considering price cut and decent game library that's a disaster.

As much as I like to see PS4 on top, PS4 cannot carry console gaming entirely on its shoulders. MS needs to step up at least in the USA and achieve some measure of comparability in sales numbers. But even there all that would be doing is shifting sales from PS4 to Xb one, not actually growing the console market.

MS needs to accept that bundled Kinect was a bad idea and release a Kinectless sku. They may also need to take a loss on the Kinectless sku and sell it for $349. Specs still matter, and it's a hard sell trying to convince people to pay the same price for a console that has less power under the hood.