[Final Update] 2014 vs. 2015 end of year year on year showdown - Home console edition

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Black Friday, and the week prior numbers finally added.

Across the 3 platforms the Holiday period is up 441K YoY

Per platform PS4 is Up Yoy by 472.8K, Xb one is down YoY by 77.5K, Wii U is up YoY by 45.5K.

So despite a missive YoY increase for Black friday week Xb one is still slightly down YoY because of the large deficits in the preceeding weeks that correspond to the ACU price cut for 2014. So what will be interesting is to see what happens in the next couple of week, whether Xb one goes back to negative YoY per week, or Black Friday has a helpful boosting effect to put December into positive YoY territory.

PS4 is substantially up, but with a $50 price cut since October AND a $100 price cut for BF being less than 500K up is also not that big. the two week $299 NDC and SWBF bundles should mean December is substantially up so PS4 is all but guaranteed to end the year decently up. The interesting question will be whether revenue is up and whether profits are up or flat. December financials will be interesting when they come out.

Wii U is up by a small amount in absolute terms, but percentage wise 6.6% up is not bad. A little under half of that YoY difference is Black friday.

PS4 maintaining >50% market share for the period. But nowhere near close to 2:1 over Xb one. So for the time being Xb one is keeping that wolf at bay, should be OK until next year. Who knows what next year will do.