The Xbox One Is Going To Be Just Fine. Playstation 4 Will Not Dominate The Market In The Long Run.

[Zanten]

Jega said:

Zanten said:

Jega said:

Well maybe so, but right now it posted that Xbox One outsold the PS4 in America for the last week of August:)

 

That's... not really saying much for the Xbox One though, man. o.O The Xbox One's sales that week were boosted by a bundle that had been pre-ordered for 2-3 weeks before getting released, and boosted by giving Madden away for free in a bundle. The PS4's sales, meanwhile, were hindered by having more and more people pre-order Destiny bundles in preparation for the game's release instead of buying a console outright (at around that week, the Destiny bundle began to chart above the PS4 on the hourly Amazon charts,) putting its bundle in the top 10, whereas the Xbox One's Sunset Overdrive and Advanced Warfare bundles weren't even in the top 125 in the hourly charts, meaning almost nobody is pre-ordering them in August.

And yet despite all this, it only was able to outsell the PS4 by, what, 5000 units? With everything going for it, should've been MUCH bigger. o.o

To put it another way. The Xbox One had brass knuckles, and the PS4 had one arm tied behind its back, and the Xbox One still could baaaaaarely beat it. Take away even one of those advantages, (such as by also counting Destiny bundle pre-orders are sales,) and the Xbox One'd likely just lose again. =P

I am just responding to the other guy. In no way does the sales last week by means a celebration, but in my eyes a suprise.

Ehhh, not as big a surprise to me, to be honest; bundle releases are generally nice, solid sales boosters, and the Madden bundle had tracked pretty well on the charts. As another obvious example, the Destiny bundle is looking to give the PS4 a very strong boost this month, (did you know it's officially passed the Titanfall free game bundle, in lifetime sales, on Amazon? And the Kinect-carrying Xbox One's 2014 sales. And it's still selling as strong as it was a week ago, so it has the potential to go even higher up the chart. It's kind of insane. x.x ) because most of the people who pre-ordered it in May, June, July and August won't have their 'sales' counted until September.

In other words, not only might a bundle draw in more 'total' customers, it'll also have people who planned to buy your product earlier instead drop money on a later release.