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Aura7541 on 04 November 2014
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binary solo said:
toastboy44562 said:

Based on Amazon rankings (very accurate) Xbox One will outsell PS4 2:1 or 3:1 this holiday.

That ratio is plenty enough to beat PS4 this year in the good o' USA.

The real question is can Xbox One outsell PS4 in the UK and be competitive in other Euro countries!

That is a very characteristic oversimplification and overestimation of the meaning of the hourly Amazon best seller list.

Amazon is an accurate predictor of which console will be number 1 for npd but it does not accurately predict sales ratio in NPD. If you look at Amazon Oct monthly sales then PS4 is 2:1 over xb one for October. But does anyone seriously believe NPD will show PS4 2:1 over xb one for October? I don't think so.

Also sales ratio on the week a $50 price cut comes into effect will never be sustained.

So no xb one Ltd will not move ahead of PS4 in the USA by the end of the year.

It was also like that for September. The PS4 and Destiny bundle were ahead of the X1, so you'd think the PS4 sold over twice as much. However, NPD showed that it "only" outsold the X1 by 1.85 to 1.