Who will hit 20m in the US first? PS4 Vs. XB1 Vs. 3DS

[Normchacho]

Seece said:

Normchacho said:

Seece said:

XB1 exclusive line up was stronger, but all year it was marred by being more expensive than PS4 or on par, with the baggage and negativity of the previous year. Also bar Titanfall, up until the fall they didn't really have that much system selling software.

I can't claim to know what Microsoft or Sony have planned, by MS's fall exclusive line up is looking stronger right now than Sony's, you can thank Halo alone for that. MS don't have much for Q1/Q2, PS4 has some great looking games but none of them are huge brands/franchises. MS will need to strike far earlier than November tho IMO.

To the bolded part: Isn't the first 9 ish months of 2015 going to be just as baren? Worse even, since it won't have a big game to bundle the crap out of? Also, what are the odds that Microsoft will have the value advantage that they had for the 2014 holidays? 

The reason I think the PS4 will carry the U.S. is that I see MS having a weaker first half of 2015 and Sony being more competitive in the second half.

All possibles, I agree. But I think it's just as likely ms will want to do something not to revert completely back to PS4 destroying them. (Price parity and the negative baggage will help). We don't know what MS have E3 onwards. They have a lot of games coming, more than last year anyhow, don't think they're all gonna be bunched up together again. Who will debut a slim this year? If either? Strong rumours for XB1 slim and I'm sure penty of PS4 ones will pop up again. Are Sony in a position to cut to $299? Regardless of cutting costs.

The Order is february, Bloodbourne is March. What else do they have (before I get into a discussion about their line up and the implication on sales) I want to be fully informed.

MLB 2015 is March aswell. Not much else have specific release dates yet, but some other 2015 PS4 exlusives (or atleast, "not on Xbox" exlcusives) include

Deep Down

No Man's Sky

Persona 5

Tearaway Unfolded

Rachet and Clank

Hellblade

Until Dawn

Uncharted 4

Like I said, those games mostly just have launch windows as of right now. But that's a pretty solid lineup and it's very, very early in the year and more games will certainly be announced.

On top of that, 3rd party games have usually done more for the PS4 so far than they have for the Xbox One.