| Normchacho said: June is the only month since the new consoles launched that the WiiU + Xbox One have outsold the PS4 and that was a huge anomaly with the WiiU having it's 3rd best month ever including last november and december. You're making a prediction for the entire generation based on one easily explainable anomaly. |
But is it an anomaly? Wii U has stabilised to about 60k per week, PS4 has been consistently around 100k per week, and XBO has been around 65k since the price cut.
Given that the big Wii U criticism was lack of a game that would sell the system (and all reports seem to indicate that MK8 is selling the system) and the big criticism of XBO was price (and it got a price cut that saw sales jump by more than 50% and stay steady from there), is there really any reason to think that these aren't now the new baselines?
And if you consider XBO and PS4 to be in direct competition, it makes sense that an improvement of about 30k for XBO would result in a similar drop for PS4 (factor in the summer slowdown, and it makes sense for the numbers to land where they currently are).
Or are you really making a prediction that both the Wii U and XBO sales, which have remained stable for the whole month, are going to drop suddenly for no reason, or that the PS4 sales will suddenly jump for no reason, just because this month is different from last month, despite notable events changing things?
