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Ryng on 03 August 2016
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Welfare said:
Ryng_Tolu said:

Yeah i understand this... but why?

I'm not even sure if XBO will do more than in August honestly, let alone SO MUCH more.

The 360 slim helped push July 2010's weekly average to 110,875 from June's 90,340, or an increase of 22.7% in a month where the average weekly drop is around 15%, and that was with the slim selling in its 4th to 8th week. September already see's an increase in the weekly average from August, and with the 500GB and 1TB's having a whole 5 weeks after their first week, I can see it selling 500k even if the XB1 sells a conservative 300k in August.

I kinda knew this would be your answer, but there is a big difference.

When Microsoft launched the 360 Slim was an unexpect annunce, they literally annunced it the SAME DAY they launched the slim.

So make sense if people waited a bit for buy it, for the simple fact some people were not prepare for this.

 

With XBO is totally difference. First, even before the annunce, there were lot of rumors about a Slim version, or even because the "most expert" surely rememb what's happened in 2010, and they kinda expect a slim model.

Second, the most important, they annunced the slim two months ago... with all pre orders from June/July, or even people who don't pre ordered XBO S but still they gonna buy it in August.

 

That's why you can't expect the same increase in the second month as what's happen with the 360.

A PS3 comparation is way better:

492,000 (September 2009) -------> 321,000 (October 2009) = 35% MOM drop; or 19% weekly sales drop.

 

And PS3 slim released two weeks after the official annunce, while XBO will release two month after the official annunce... It is true, September is a better month than August in term of weekly sales, and has one more week, but forget XBO to be up in weekly sales.

 

It will probabily be about flat August to September.