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Aura7541 on 18 April 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:

Not sure why you would post links that prove my point, but okay.  According to those links the One is doing much worse than the 360 from 2012, the year it managed 10M.  And ~22K worse than it did last year, where it only managed 5.8M for the year.  So, I guess you agree with me that the launch for the One was good, but sales have now dropped lower than the dying 360 of the past 2 years.  Glad we're on the same page.

My page is:

PS3 has outsold the 360 significantly in the first quarters of the last few years.

If you put the PS3/360 ratio you will see that it´s very similar to the PS4/XOne ratio.

That is not even a complet comparison, as PS4 has de advantage of Japan (not that it would matter) and the rest of the world (would bump XOne sales by 10-20%), but let´s go.

Again we have the point of price, the thing that I´m point since last E3 and the only truely XOne trammels. It won´t have a chance to outsell the PS4 as long it is more expensive PERIODE!

The timely drops and bundles can only help for people realy looking for a deal and for the bundled game.

Friends of mine that play only FIFA won´t give a F* for "the game of the generation", the same way one of them bought tLoU and didn´t finished the first hour before reseling it.

The rest of world will NOT bump X1 sales significantly. In fact, it will hardly make a dent because the PS4 has already established 1.) a userbase and 2.) a good strong reputation in those countries. MS has put off the "2nd tier" countries for way too long which made those markets free pickings for the PS4. It gets even more hopeless considering that these 2nd tier countries have different tastes in gaming in comparison to the US. Taiwan, for example, is more into the MMO and JRPG genres. Games like Titanfall will not make a difference because they do not fit Taiwan's tastes.

The PS4 is not outselling the X1 solely on price difference. You have forgotten that the PS3 outsold the 360 worldwide despite always being more expensive. A variety of reasons factor into why the X1 isn't selling as well including negative reputation from the DRM fiasco, the mandatory Kinect, and resolution gate.