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teigaga on 28 December 2014
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SlayerRondo said:
teigaga said:

That simply won't happen. XBox has a stellar line up next year and don't forget that most system sellers are 3rd party not 1st party. The Order 1886 is unlikey to be a massive deal and Bloodborne has a very specific audience who are probably leaning sony anyway.

I'd say the gap will remain the same or increase slightly. The ground XB1 made in US isn't gonna vanish vanish overnight. A potential gap  increase will be from PS4 sales shooting through the roof in EU and finally finding its feat in Japan. In america I see Xbox dropping to levels slightly below PS4 which is far better then what we saw throughout the majority of this year.

I don't see why it could not happen in the future.

And first party games have the same potential to be system sellers as third party games. Series like Halo and Uncharted are pretty much the biggest system sellers for each specific console they release on.

In regards to The Order 1886 not being a massive deal, it is currently the highest pre-ordered game in America (the PS4's weakest market) with 152790 pre-orders ten weeks out from release. And while VGChartz is sometimes off with pre-orders it's almost always undertracking. The Order 1886 has gotten better with each showing and will likely be a massive release.

Bloodborne may has a specific audience but it is by no means small given prior entries have sold 1.75 million for demon souls, 1,9 million for dark souls and 1 million for dark souls 2 (coming out after ps4's release). Now the franchise is well known and back to being exclusive on the PS4 it may well top the two million mark.

I believe the gap will increase signifigantly as a result of these big releases as well as the China launch and Final Fantasy Type Zero setting the Japanese market on fire.

It won't happen in future because the Xbox is certified a desirable platform. The PS4 sales may rocket to new heights but Xbox is simply not going to fall to sub par levels again, there are too many releases to certify it a strong baseline and holiday momentum will not vanish come january 3rd, thats not how momentum works. It requires a judgement call but I personally don't see The Order 1886 or Bloodborne doing much damage to the Xbox's sales momentum, they will definitely give PS4 a boost (I predict The Order will be short lived, Bloodborne will be stronger).

Pre-orders don't say much IMO, most are people who already have PS4s and it just suggests the game will have a strong launch. Whether it becomes a huge seller (>2m) depends on if it can capture the general public and personally I am unsure of that at the moment. 

In regards to the gap I think it dpends on where we're looking. I think in regards to the respective periods  Q1 will be bigger gap/Q2 smaller/Q3smaller/Q4 bigger.

I think people are forgetting the  X1 dropped as low as 40k this past summer. The system will not repeat the slumb we saw after Titanfalls release