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thismeintiel on 11 January 2015
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Kerotan said:
DJEVOLVE said:

Yes but with still amazing sales. It needed to shake it's horrible launch.  They almost caught PS4 in USA. that is a massive turn around from one year ago.  MS with Phil in Charge is going Come back very strong, Sony will outsell them World wide but as massive games that drive people to the system launch, so will it's sales. Halo 5 is going to sell gangbusters, I also bet they will have a nice price cut ready. I'm thinking they will launch a slim this year, Cut price to $350, maybe even $299 for the holidays.


That is not true.  Xbox had a really good launch in the usa. After the initial sales it did terribly for 10 months of last year.  So bad they needed a firesale at Xmas to shift their stock. If they dont return to the insane deals soon the same fate likely awaits them in 2015. 

That seems to be the big mistake of some on here.  They look at the total sales, not the trends.  When you look at the monthly sales for this last year aligned with the 360's corresponding months, the XBO was starting to fall behind by quite a bit.  Which is not great at all considering that the 360 had a slow start.  If this trend continues, the XBO is going to fall greatly behind the 360 in 2016, as the corresponding year for the 360 (2008) is when it really started to take off.

Of course, I can see it also coming up short for this year, too, seeing as many who were going to buy it when it was $349 already jumped at the chance before it rose back up to $399.  This means that when they permenantly drop it to $349, the bump won't be nearly as nice as it would have been.  AND this time Sony will answer with a cut of their own, which will also take some of the wind out of their sales (.)