fleischr on 29 April 2014
| teigaga said: Actually check the XO North American sales, definitely not pointless.... they've almost doubled since its launch. But yeah it didnt do as much for hardware as MS hoped but maybe in conjunction with XO exclusives as well general next gen exclusives coming out later this year, it will allow the system to outsell the PS4 for the rest of the year over there. Only in Japan could one piece of software "save" a system (monster hunter). Obviously its sales aren't low enough to suggest that it needs saving but you know what I mean. |
... but the XO still can't catch up to the pace of the PS4. There's very little else MS can do to change that. Assuming the gamer market is of pretty similar size for 8th gen as 7th, the X1 won't come even close to matching the 360's sales. While that's enough to secure some 3rd party support -- it'll mean less variety for X1 owners as what they had on the 360.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
