xbone + wii u closing the gap with ps4!

[Normchacho]

Aielyn said:

Normchacho said:
What evidence do you have that either the Xbox One or WiiU have found their new baseline? The WiiU have been at 60K for two weeks and the Xbox One has been at 65K for just one.

The WiiU just had MK8 come out but doesn't have any other big games coming out for some time. The game has been great for the system but that boost won't last much longer.

The Xbox One just got it's kinectless SKU and has had discounts on and off for months. It's likely that the Xbox One will have a higher baseline due to the new SKU but we have no way of knowing it will be 65K. It is also possible though that the new SKU will just end up being another in a long line of failed attempts to boster sales for the Xbox One.

Wii U has been at a little over 60k for three weeks, actually (you've missed the most recent week, which is only available for hardware at this point - look at the front page) - it has gone 61k, 60k, 62k, which looks like a baseline to me. And Xbox One went 63k, 71k, 65k, 64k over the last four weeks. The 71k was thanks to the release of EA Sports UFC, so if you pull that one back down, you get 63k, 64k, 65k, 64k - looks like a baseline to me.

But the WiiU numbers will not last. There is no way one game is going to double a consoles weekly sales indefinitely, especially since no big games are coming out soon to carry the momentum.

The Xbox numbers might hold, but I don't we have enough information to show a new baseline yet. Even if it does hold though, when the WiiU inventiably falls back down it could very well bring the Xbox+WiiU total back bellow the PS4.