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Insidb on 30 November 2014
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thismeintiel said:
Blood_Tears said:
Why are people saying PS4 outsold X1 on BF 2013? It's a well known fact that X1 outsold PS4 on BF 2013 but PS4 won NPD with the 1 million sold on day 1 which gfave them the overall boost.

BF is 1 day or a weekend of sales roughly and NPD is a whole month. One could win NPD and the other could have won BF.

I think they are just getting NPD and BF confused.  Of course, as I pointed out before, we can use last year's PS4 data to prove they are wrong, since they show that PS4 and PS3 sold basically the same.  Of course, that is wrong since the PS4 sold only ~100K on Black Friday week, while the PS3 must have sold at least 250K-300K (they sold 420K for the whole month.)  Their methodology is just incredibly flawed.

If we you take thinner BF crowds (http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2014/11/28/walmart-statement-on-2014-early-black-friday-results), greated and slower selling PS4 stock (Many stores have already confirmed this.), the infoscout survey's reliance on data from Walmart and Target (the X1 giveaway store this year), retailers anticipation of BF sales shifting to Cyber Monday (http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2014/11/28/walmart-statement-on-2014-early-black-friday-results), Sony's stated online sales strength, and the PS4 dominace on online retailers, I would fully expect this to be a neck-and-neck race this November.

Everyone should keep in mind that Sony's sales may end up greater, but miss both the BF and NPD cutoffs. That would probably hand both to XI and December to PS4.