Shadow1980 said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
June was a very good month for XBO because some insane deal, for example, if you sold your 360 / PS3 you can buy a XBO for only 175$ and other thing like this.
Oh. I forgot about the promos.
For talk about nexts months, well, August has Rare Replay, Gears Ultimate with the bundle, and Madden 16 with the bundle and the marketing VS September with Metal Gear Solid V and Destiny TTK, both with PlayStation marketing.
Well, those titles might collectively provide a slight boost. Madden is at best a modest system-seller, while remasters and compilations aren't really known for shifting systems. In August of last year the XBO sold 160k while in June it sold. That's a 22% increase, which could be viewed as statistically significant. However, on the 360 the typical July-August difference wasn't significant, with fives years having August down from July.
210-220k for August is certainly possible, but I wouldn't go much higher. The Madden 16 bundle isn't anything special, just a bog-standard 1TB XBO, the game, and a year of EA Access. It might be a good deal (it's a $490 value for only $400), but won't appeal to anyone besides a few hardcore Madden fans. Also, last year Madden might have had a bigger effect as the Kinect-less XBO was still new and the system was still young and had a smaller install base with not many huge games yet. Additionally, the PS4 version of Madden 16 is outpacing the XBO version on Amazon, and the Madden bundle isn't exactly tearing up any preorder charts itself. Like I said, if it provides a boost it'll be a modest one.
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As i said, even for me Madden bundle this time will be smaller than last year, indeed, last year Madden bundle sold 41k, i expect 20-25k this time.
Any way, XBO sold 189k in July, if will increase by 22% like last year, it's going to sell 231k. Not gonna happen in my opinion, but it will easy be over 200k. But with this trend, will be still under PS4.
The problem is, will PS4 be over or under 218k? That's a good question... last year the PS4 was flat, or up by 2%... that's even with TLOU bundle, but is also true is released the last two days, so the boost is continued for August, i think... hard to say.
