Which one will make it to 10m first, Wii U or Xbox One?

[Landguy]

MTZehvor said:

Landguy said:
Not sure how people think the XB1 is doing bad?

It is at nearly 4 million consoles in less than 4 months and will likely be at 8 million+ by the end of the year if not more. M$ is not stupid, they will continue to throw the incentives and price drops to erase the price difference with the PS4. That and the continued megaspend on advertising will even things out. I wouldn't be surprised if they get past the WiiU by the end of November. No looking back after that.

Keep in mind that 3 million of the X-Box One's sales were launch/Christmas season sales, so this isn't a fair comparison by any stretch of the imagination. The only major "exclusive" (read: system seller) launching this year for X-Box One that we know about so far is Titanfall, meaning the the X-Box One isn't likely to rise too far above the 50-60K a week it seems to be hovering at. At that pace, it would take fiften to twenty weeks to simply add another million sales, and there are only 43 or so weeks left in the year, and roughly 39 until the end of November. 8 million sales by November's time is pretty far fetched, barring Microsoft having some unannounced big name exclusive hitting the market later this year.

Sorry for the late reply...

I didn't intend to make it sound like the XB1 would reach 8 million by November.  I meant by the end of the year.  Starting in November, the XB1 will probably be hitting 100k and by the end of November be at 250k per week.  The system price will be lower and the library will have some content.  A lot of people get hung up on exclusive games as the only system seller.  IF that was the truth, the WiiU would have double the sales by now as they pretty much only have exclusive content.  When all of the Bttlefield and COD versions come out this fall and they actually have versions that were mad for the PS4 and XB1, they will actually be system sellers by themselves.  Sure, the PS4 is more powerful than the XB1, but when the nextgen games start landing this fall, they had beeter look it or people will start to forget that whole idea.

If you think it is far fetched that M$ can sell 4 million XB1's in the last 8 months of the year, i think you need to look at the sales patterns for the 360 the year after launch.  It sold 6 million in it's first year and only sold 1.5-2  million in the first 3 months. This is the uusal time of year right now to have slow sales. Don't let the PS4 fool you, it is an anomoly.  Titanfall will help, but package pricing and price reductions are what is going to make the XB1 sell better the rest of the year.