| Keegs79 said: The whole reason why the XB1 is selling at 399 is because the XB1 couldn't outsell the XB1 while including Titanfall so they had to drop the price. Their better launch line-up couldn't help. All the changes Microsoft made it to be competitive. It is a good thing because now Microsoft is more humble than arrogant with their success with the 360. Now games will make the bigger difference. It will be interesting to see how lasting Microsoft's PR nightmare have an effect on their sales and see what both Sony and Microsoft have in store at E3 which will definitely impact sales. In the end, there is no way Microsoft will take Japan or Europe. Europe could sale twice as many XB1s, they still would sale less at this point. The ratio of sales been 3:1. I don't need to mention Japan. In the States, Sony had been winning. I think Microsoft could possibly sale more but not the numbers they did with the 360. |
@ Bolded: I do not agree with this statement. First, Titanfall would need to be the type of AAA game that appealed to a mass market. Even with the hype Titanfall received it still was a niche type of FPS on the X1. Its online only with no Single player. That right there killed a lot of people being interested in the game. It required you to have GOLD which is another invested that killed sales. There is a list of other things the game did not have or accomplish and its review scores were not AAA level to make it a must buy.
I personally believe Titanfall and the 50 dollar drop is the same tatic MS has used many times before to keep console sells going but not something they were going to do permanently. I believe MS dropped Kinect because it was not a good selling proposition overseas. The device support overseas have been spotty at best and considered holding down sales where Kinect never really offered a lot of value.
