BMaker11 said:
It's not spin when you analyze factors, especially ones as important as current sales. If Xbone launched at 10M, but didn't sell a single console again from January until now, would you be praising how much "better" it's doing than 360....even though right now (in this example), nobody is buying it and the forseeable future is that nobody will buy it? Yea, 10M, and like for like, it outsold the 360 in the same time period....but no sales afterward just means you're leaning on launch to make what the reality is, 11 months afterward, look better. That's what you do when you say "it's selling better than 360 in the same time period" despite the fact that outside of that 6 week launch period, 360 has handidly outsold the XBone in the same time period. Launch was 11 months ago. Stop talking about it. Stop relying on it. Those 6 weeks are the only thing XBone got right. People who invest in Xbox, want to make new IPs for Xbox, etc aren't gonna overlook the poor sales that have occurred since immediately after launch til now and say "sure, I'll put my money in this platform. I mean, it's future isn't looking good, but who cares about where this platform is going? It had a great launch an irrelevant time ago!" Yea....so did Betamax. Not that XBone will go the way of Betamax, but just relying on a strong launch instead of current trends is deluding yourself to make "healthy sales" something it isn't. |
I disagree but that's just my opinion - I assume if you take away the PS4 out of the equation the XB1 is selling at comparable levels against the other platforms like the WiiU (i havent checked the figures, im just assuming) - also it seems the XB360 has a lot of legs left in it so you could argue there are many 360 owners yet to upgrade to next gen yet.
