wary-wallaroo on 08 April 2014
| binary solo said: Titanfall bundle+pricecut is just managing to keep Xb one ahead of PS4 in USA. MS did what it needed to do to get Xb one ahead of PS4 in North America (by my calculations Xb one outsold PS4 in Canada by ~1000 units, which is quite a large %). But it took a pretty monumental effot to put Xb one in that position, which is not especially secure. However I expect it stay marginally ahead at least until PS4 gets a compelling exclusive. Infamous was great and all, and a timely release to help keep sales going, but it's not one of Sony's shining stars. I'm going to go ahead and assume PS4 has no stock issues aside from perhaps 1 or 2 smaller markets, so it's no longer a factor. I see in some places Sony is bundling Ass Creed and NFS at no extra cost. I think possibly one of those games might be the first AAA PSN+ game for PS4, perhaps coming in May or June. I'd quite fancy getting Ass Creed as a "free" game, because as much as I'd like to give Ass Cred a try I don't think I'm ever going to buy an Ass Creed game. Not surprising that PS3 is selling pretty well. For the price of the console and 1 year of PSN+ you get a whole lot of quality gaming without having to shell out a single extra cent. Now is a very good time to buy a PS3. In fact now that I have PSN+ I expect my PS4 to get not much use until either The Order, Uncharted 4 or Dragon Age III gets released. I think my gaming pattern for the next year at least will be spending most time on PS3 playing the PSN+ games, and occasionally getting on PS4 when a game I want comes down to the price level I'm prepared to pay. Vita can live with the sales it's getting, though it's fragile given those sales are only coming from Japan. I wonder if Sony is going to "help" western thrid parties put content onto the Vita. Wii U, at least it's holding steady. But steady at sub-50K isn't much. |
Then you are assuming wrondg. Stock is definitely still an issue for PS4. It's gotten way better but it's not yet been fixed. And for all the effort and money MS put into TF, I doubt being "slightly" ahead in NA is what they expected. The X1 will be back to its 50-60k baseline soon
