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wary-wallaroo on 29 August 2014
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Arkaign said:
Rather than type all this out again, I'm going to repost it here from my other thread since it's exactly relevant to this topic. COD is not going to save the X1. For one thing, many COD players are borderline casuals who don't care, and will keep playing on their 360 or PS3 without a worry. For another, people already know it will play as well or likely superior on PS4. And lastly, the bundle is $499 freaking dollars, which is a suicide note in 2014. Anyway, this is another in long line of checkboxes which didn't pan out for people predicting X1 suddenly to become a runaway success and beat the PS4. It just won't happen. The best they can hope is to lose LESS badly.

I don't think anyone is prepared for how September will go. Every time people say 'wait for this' in regards to the X1, it doesn't happen the way they think. I've called it every step of the way.


(8)- 'X1 will get a huge boost from COD! PS4 has no chance against that!'.

/nope, the PS4 version will almost certainly be superior, and people know that by now, even many of the casuals. And the bundle? $499? Seriously? That's not going to fly in the time of $399 and less deals, 1TB drive or not. I do think COD will sell strongly to the XB1 owners, and have a higher attach rate, but the install base gap by COD release is likely to be over 1M+, so more copies of AW will easily be sold on PS4 overall in the US, and globally the gap will be ludicrous.


Agreed on all points. The CoD bundle could have helped if it was $399, but at $499 it won't do much. The series is too huge and MS can't make it seem like an exclusive, especially considering Ghosts sold more on PS4. Compare that to something like Destiny, which is a brand new IP. THe whole excluisve marketing will work much, much better. With CoD, MS may fool a few people, but everyone knows CoD comes to all consoles. 

I'll be completely blunt, I don't think there's anything that can "save" the X1. Even if MS gave out another $100 price cut, they'd just risk Sony responding, and the last thing they need is a $299 PS4, that'd just be monstrous.