April 2014 NPD Thread!

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bigjon said:

GribbleGrunger said:

Aerys said:
Burek : But not everybody will know for the price drop.

Then nothing will change.

agreed. To me the kinect features were a wildcard. Would they catch on. who knew. No we have 2X 399 consoles one being more powerful than the other. I always said a 399 XB1 w/ Kinect was there only shot to beat the PS4 in US (forgot WW, not even an interesting discussion).

Only way XB1 beats PS4 in US is something like-   MS buy GTA6 exclusive, MS buys CoD Exclusive, or a combination of a bunch of other IPs. Notice All involved MS BUYING. The fact they dont innovate their own shit is catching up to them, You can only buy success so long.

I just find it odd that some people keep saying that people don't know about the Kinetless SKU or the price drop, as if in some way that changes the reality of the situation as it stands. These people better hope they're wrong if they expect the XB1 to compete in june. As for MS buying exlusivity, I think the window is closing rapidly and the cost of off-setting any loss of revenue by only supporting one console will be getting mighty high. It's not just the game these devs will need to be compensated for, it's any DLC in the pipeline too.