Xbox One Outsold PS4 Week Ending 1 March 2014 in UK!?

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DJEVOLVE said:

Nate4Drake said:

Let's enjoy the game experience. PS4 will dominate this gen, live with that X fans. Accept it, it will be easier and less painful. It's silly to look at the micro scenario, 1 week after a price cut, etc... any company going with a price cut and those deals so early is in serious troubles.

Really is that what happened with the PS3? PS3 cut price in July of there launch year. So is XBOX ONE going to be doomed if they do the same and cut price as early as July? Seems many of you don't understand that this is the very beginning of the gen and anything can happen. Took ps3 a long time to catch up but they did.

http://www.geek.com/games/ps3-gets-price-cut-on-july-12-update-566948/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39271/Global/

Numbers from that month.  Look XBox One Should pass PS3 numbers by April in aligned launch year.. So to say anyone cutting price and doing deals this early, is also saying PS3 would have never came back and was doomed.  Sorry but this argument is getting really old.

DS	453,238	(-3%)	46,377,230
Wii	255,828	(-8%)	9,301,578
PSP	183,447	(-6%)	24,414,591
X360	69,870	(-13%)	10,461,493
PS3	63,826	(+4%)	3,884,475
Total	1,026,209	(-5%)

Given the context of this thread is the UK, as it's the only market where there's been an official price cut, you are actually dooming Xb one by comparing it to PS3 price cuts. In the UK PS3 got its arse kicked so hard that both Wii's and X360's boots came out its mouth. PS3 did not catch up at all in the UK. PS3 temporarily outsold X360 in the UK after the 2009 price cut, but 360 soon regained dominance. And PS3 was coming off the back of a generation where PS2 was far more dominant. So if PS3 couldn't retake the UK market after 2 generations of dominance through price cuts, then what makes you think Xb one can re-take the UK after no generations of dominance? 360 snuck past Wii at the end of the 7th gen, but not to any extent that it could be called dominance.

The global context for PS3 is vastly different to the global context for Xb one. You may reflect on the fact that launch aligned PS3 outsold X360 every year, it was only ever X360's one year head start that gave it a global lead. If PS3 had launched at the same time as X360 and followed the same pattern of price cuts X360 probably would never have been in a leading position over PS3 at any point in the generation. Wii would still have won of course.  PS4 and Xb one are effectively launch aligned and PS4 has >2M lead already. So there really is no comparability between PS3 and Xb one. UK and USA markets still see Xb one favourably and Xb one can come back in those markets. But globally the vast majority of countries favoured PS3 over X360 quite early in the generation and there's basically no chance that Xb one can reverse a 3 generation pattern.