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Aura7541 on 25 January 2015
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AlfredoTurkey said:
Aura7541 said:

You're running on the assumption that 360 users will automatically get an X1 and that is deeply flawed. One thing's for sure is that the majority of a console's userbase is not loyal to the company who makes that particular console. This was proven from the transition from the PS2 to PS3. We are seeing a similar situation with the transition from the 360 to X1. The PS4 is winning over what I call the "swing" gamers. These gamers hold no preference for one company over another and will purchase the console they think has better value.

And this is why the PS4 is outselling the X1 even though the X1 is cheaper by $50 with two games instead of just one. Gamers see that there is more value in the PS4. Grim Fandango Remastered is coming out on the 27th; The Order: 1886 comes out next month; Bloodborne in March; MLB 15: The Show in March; Toukiden Kiwami in March; Omega Quintet in April; and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD in spring. There are several other games coming out such as Tearaway Unfolded, Ratchet and Clank Redux, The Tomorrow Children, Wild, No Man's Sky, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Forest, Rime, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and lots more. What does the X1 have to match the PS4 in terms of quality and quantity?

You'll buy and play all those games... and so will I. So will the majority of core gamers who live and breath gaming, go online and post in message boards and otherwise spend most of their time doing game related things. But dude bros wont and dude bros are what makes the Xbox brand what it is in the US. 

People like us are not in the voting majority. If we were, COD wouldn't have outsold Uncharted.

Dudebros aren't the majority either. This is why it is important to appeal to as many different demographics as you can. This is what the X1 is considerably struggling at. There are RPG fans in the US as well as platformer, puzzle, fighter and horror fans. Each fanbase adds up and the cumulative population consequently becomes very large.

You've also made another major flaw by assuming that dudebros will only buy an X1. PS4 has dudebros, too, and has more of them. But let's say if the X1 and PS4 are evenly split in the dudebro fanbase, what do you do? You appeal to fanbases of other genres. The PS4 has a lot of games that appeal to those fanbases while the X1 does not.

And as others have said before, this is NOT an opinion thread. It is an indisputable fact that the PS4 is beating the X1 for the month on Amazon and that so far, Amazon has correctly predicted the monthly winner. Even though the X1 is $50 cheaper and has two bundled games instead of just one, it is still getting beaten. The gap will continue to widen since the PS4 has a considerably stronger and more evenly distributed lineup.