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ICStats on 17 April 2014
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TheShogun said:
thismeintiel said:
TheShogun said:

Not in business its not. All that matters in business is if you are profiting with a product. Ones that do are kept, ones that don't profit are usually cut.

I'm not saying MS is all sunshine and rainbows right now. But the console just sold 311k units in March.  That isn't bad by ANY standard. Obviously it took a lot to get them there and I think there is certainly work to be done at MS studios but reading some of the posts on GAF and here are boarderline shocking.  It really goes to show you how little actual analysis there is in the current gaming community on the internet and how much is posted / written in blind emotion / opinions.

Well, the bad thing for MS is that even though they sold ~53K more than in Feb, they didn't make more profit off  of it.  The One was cut by $50 at all major retailers, even MS own stores.  On top of that, they had to pay EA to give Titanfall away for free.  I wouldn't be surprised if they just broke even, or even had a loss, for March.

That is a fair assessment and certainly true.  Like I said not everything is sugar and rainbows over at MS Studios.

That being said the Xbox One is still trending 60% ahead of the Xbox 360 in the same time frame. It sold a very healthy 311k this month. Those sales are far from poor considering the price of the console and just how amazingly positioned the PS4 is.

My only point is its FAR too early too say the One is dead. In fact its on pace to have a plenty healthy life cycle. The PS4 is just positioned to have an absolutly extrordinary one, which in perspective is making the Xbox look that much worse.

To look at two consoles that are quite possibly facing a "doomed" scenario the Vita and Wii U are much closer to that range. The One will most likely be fine, just quite a ways under the PS4's monsterous sales.

It's not that healthy considering this was Titanfall release + bundled + a price cut + Kinect (killer app :p) Sports Rivals month.  

Sure the PR guys can go out and say Xbox had the best month and so on, but what will they do next month?

There's a lot of multiplats on the calendar for the next half a year, and games like Watchdogs will sell more PS4s than X1s.



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