| Abun said: PS4 has this month.It's not even a doubt anymore.Tons of X1s are just sitting on store shelves. |
It's not that clean cut and anecdotal evidence tells us nothing. It could simply be that MS have put out far more stock because of Halo. It's going to be close until the very end of the month and then we have to consider pre-orders of the Halo Bundle. The PS4 had a comfortable lead over the XB1 in the monthly charts but the bundle that lead is now the bundle that's out of stock. The bundle that currently leads (Uncharted bundle) is behind the XB1 and so any sales of that bundle will only close the gap and with the gap at the top being so small I highly doubt by any significant amount. However, the gap between the Halo bundle and the bundle that leads in the hourlies (TLOUR bundle) is huge, which could lead to the Halo bundle eventually overtaking it in the monthlies.
To sum up: Halo is going to catch up with the TLOUR bundle far quicker than the Nathan Drake bundle is going to catch up with the Halo bundle, and then we have to add in pre-orders. That's what I meant when I said Sony have given away this month. Given a consistant flow of TLOUR bundles, the PS4 would now still have two bundles in the top 20, one of which would be in the lead (and so widen the gap on the monthlies) and the other would have been just behind the XB1 doubling up on the likely possibility that the PS4 would take the month. That would have offset the preorders more significantly. Things have now changed because TLOUR bundle is out of stock.
I'm now inclined to believe the XB1 will win the month. We don't know the preorder numbers though. If they're really low then the PS4 might still stand a chance, but if they're good to excellent then I think the XB1 will win.
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