Intrinsic said:
The PS4 being down YOY doesnt amount to much especially considering that the Pro had been announced at this point and was due to release the following month (this month). However, the XB1 had gears and a couple of other notable bundles. Believe me 90k lead isn't very good. I just made an NPD 2016 thread showing the numbers for all the months of this year. 90k while XB1 is supposed to indisputably be at its strongest isn't saying a lot. The month of October was the one time that the XB1 should have had every reason to beat the PS4. |
The thing is early in the year everyone expected PS4 to outsell the Xbox One and not jujst by a small margin, Around this site all the Sony side were saying that Xbox One wouldn't win another month after August this year and the users who look at the bigger picture were expecting close margins in either sides favour through September and October which turned out bigger than most people thought in favour of the Xbox One.
It's not really about Xbox beating the PS4 across the entire 2016 as I said it's expected but rather Sony need to answer this November with big numbers pushing 1.8m-2m at a minimum imo to show that the PS4 Pro did infact take a lot of orders away from the PS4 slim in September/October and they are not loosing some of the momentum whilst Xbox is gaining it, If they don't hit them numbers and outsell Xbox One by 500k I'd consider it a big let down for Sony.
