| DélioPT said: I don`t know why so many people are calling XB1 doomed. It`s a 500$ console with less hype than PS4 but it still sold 311K. It`s selling above the 360. Just because PS4 is outselling it doesn`t mean XB1 isn`t doing really well, because it is. Wish Wii U could pull half those numbers. |
I think I said this in another thread, but people it's getting annoying seeing people constantly wave the "it's selling above 360" flag as means of making the XBone look good. As if the situations between the Xbone launch and 360 launch are apples to apples.
Xbone is coming off the highly successful Xbox 360, which had tons of blockbuster games and sold 80M consoles. People are gonna want the successor to that.
But let's go back to 2005. What was the Xbox 360, then, coming off of? The terribly selling Xbox that only sold like 24M and it's only memorable games are Halo, Conkers and maybe Ninja Gaiden. Who really cared about the successor to that console at the time? Especially after the PS2. How many people were saying "let's just wait til the PS3 comes out", up until it was announced at $600? You don't think those factors may have hindered initial X360 sales?
Yea, the XBone is selling above the 360 in the same time period, but that's because the 360 had a bigger uphill battle fighting off the stigma of the bad selling OG Xbox and the hype of the PS3, coming off the PS2. But this is only the initial phases of the lifecycle. It may be above the 360 right now, but remember, it sold 3M out the gate real fast (as a result of that "tons of blockbuster games, 80M sold") but has only sold a million since (whereas PS4 has sold at about a million a month since the end of December). And as has been pointed out by another post, even with Titanfall bundled in (some bundles with Forza bundled as well) and a $50 price cut at Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and some other retailers, not only was it outsold by the PS4 in its strongest territory but on a week to week basis, March was a lesser selling month than February (64.5k a week in February vs. 62.2k a week in March). Things aren't looking good when the "Game of the Generation" is bundled for free and $50 is knocked off the total price in many places, and yet it sells less, weekly, than it did the month prior which didn't have any big time releases, no free games, and $500 across the board.
