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Arkaign said: This is all true. However, it does spell a significant storm cloud for Microsoft. We're at or beyond a 1M sales gap in the US, and nobody sane would argue that it won't definitely be beyond 1M by September NPD results. As this gap continues to expand (the early 2015 releases will only reinforce this headed out of the holiday season as well!), the 'friend/family/networking' effect will get larger and larger. In that way, we may start to see a greater significance in multiplat gaps as time goes on. I predict that the inertia given to PS4 coming through September will be significant, affecting console purchases through the holidays by extension. For every person getting a PS4 or XB1 in September, they will have friends, family, and online friends in social media who will be told about their purchase, and influenced pro/con by word of mouth. It's statistically significant to the situation at hand that MANY more of these word of mouth exchanges will be coming from a new PS4 owner than an XB1 owner. |
I agree with you 100%. If the gap continues to grow multiplats will move less and less Xbox One's as time goes on to the point where it could become a major problem for Microsoft. It may very well go that way, too, the way things are looking now. I am definitely interested in what the X1 will do over the holidays to see if they can gain any kind of momentum it desperatly needs. I am definitely not convinced they can do that but will be paying attention for sure. At this point they just cannot afford to let that US gap increase. World wide is probably going to get worse and worse so they need to bring something to the table in their homeland to slow down the frieght train that has become the PS4.
You make some very excellent points for sure. :)
