| Ka-pi96 said: But that's not really anything to do with beating PS4. Yeah some more sales would be great but the way you put it makes it sound like a failure solely because something else did better. Hypothetically if Xbox One sold 5 million in a month but PS4 sold 6 million would that be a failure because it was still behind, or can something be considered a success without being number 1? |
Actually these numbers are not great for a console that just had a $100 pricecut. This is not even comparing it to the PS4. MS would of expected a lot better.
The numbers just look great against the abysmal month of May.
A bit of maths to see how well it actually did.
77k for 4 week May, that 19.25k a week. If it was a 5 week May like this June month it would of sold 96.25.
Now if we take a look at the PS4 numbers to gauge the natural increase from May to June, June usually sell more consoles in May (because the PS4 had nothing out of the norm happen so should give us a good idea of the natural increase).
May PS4 - Avg 49.25 a week (X1 19.25k)
June PS4 - Avg 53.8k a week (X1 39.4k)
So thats roughly a 10% naturally increase
so if we increase the X1 May numbers by 10% we get 106k
Take that away from the the June numbers and we get 91k.
So the X1 price cut increase sales by 91k
So while it's debatable if it's a good increase or not, you can factor in the claims that less people bought a X1 in May to wait for June pricecut. If that is true than that increase is less than great. Also after the sales spike, expect this to offset the the increase for next month. The other consoles mightget a natural increase in July while the X1 might not increase at all or not as much.
