Which Console Should You Buy This Holiday? 2015 Edition

[jason1637]

eva01beserk said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft doesn't need to bridge the gap right now. They only need to make America their primary domain and gain more territory around Europe. Microsoft took the latter half of fouth quarter last year in the states. They should do better than that this year since Halo and Tomb Raider are coming. Thats a bigger lineup than last year. This year MS should get at least three of four months. The must have game that Microsoft needs to boost their console sales by a some million is finally coming next month. The first Halo tends to do very well in each generation.

Sony has no exclusives to take on those two games this holiday season. A statement will be made this holiday season, even though they wont win the year. Microsoft is still $50 cheaper so their black friday will be just as dominant as last year. Microsoft tends to beat Sony at the fourt quarter. Sony plays the year while Microsoft tends to play fourth quarter when the bulk of shoppers are ready to spend their money.

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If they focus on America, japannese devs will keep ignoring the x1. Even if they are  niche as some claime, thouse small numbers add up. Just look at the sales diference in jappan. Not only are japaneese devs going to ignore it, but some european devs will as well if they dont performe as well on the country the game is being made in. Like fifa, its a game that performs the best everywhere except the US, where the majority of X1's are. Sure EA will never skip an X1 release,, but releasing on it is just because. Thats not going to last forever, the first ones to start ditching the x1 will be the smaller dev teams who are not making shooters. then it will domino untill soe big titles skip the x1.

Last year sony did not need to drop the price twice like the MS and still outsold worldwide the x1, it even outsold the x1 for the year in the US, so I would not put so much stockk on the holliday. Considering this time sony will actually put some effort on it. And they been sitting on that pricecut that is bound to come this year as well. And unlike some think, all the exclusives released so far dont just desapear, they will sell more on the hollidays. So I still think sony has the better holliday potential

They have all the big japanese game like FF15 and KH3. Also its pointless to focus on japan because if the x1 did well in japan it would only sell a max of about 5m. But microsoft is still kinda showing support for those who bought the x1 in Japan which is good for those fans. Phill Spencer said they will focus more on Europe. And i cant see X1 selling less that 15 million this gen in Europe which isnt that bad.