December 2015 NPD Thread! PS4 and XBO exclusives LTD up!

[DonFerrari]

Shadow1980 said:

GribbleGrunger said:
Are you guys saying they're will be a 1.6m gap on top of the 1.3m gap with year? I think the gap will be 2.8m by January 2017.

Nah. The doubling was just a coincidence of the numbers. The two were released during the holidays in 2013, and the PS4 just had a bigger launch. In 2014 the gap was actually about 1022k by the end of October, but the surprise (an initially announced as temporary) price cut for the XBO in November narrowed the gap substantially. This year the gap was less than it could have been because the XBO was at $50 below parity for the first three quarters of the year. For the Q1-Q3 period of 2015, the gap was 374k, while in the same period in 2014 the gap was nearly 900k. Assuming the PS4 and XBO remain at parity for the whole year, then the gap should be at least a million by year's end, but it probably won't be anywhere close to 1.6 million.

So little off-topic, do you think every week will be over 200k and every month over 1M?