November 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware estimates in the OP!

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pray4mojo said:

Bandorr said:

Sure some. Just like I am comparing one month to FOUR. The bigget months difference was when the xbox on S came out. The difference was 114K. 20K higher than october with Gears.

You didn't answer my question though. You actually think the xbox one S will win 7 out of 12 months up against the ps4 AND the switch? Based on what?

Sorry. I didn't see the question. 

I think it will based on sales momentum and their new console coming out. Winning four out of the last five months can't be ignored and if they can pull that off with a redesign, what can they do with an all-new, machine? 

I could be wrong and things just magically revert back in Sony's favor but usually, that's not how the gaming industry works. You will typically see sales swing in chunks, or years. It's not often hardware wins for four months and then drops off. There's usually fire behind that smoke and it's probably why Microsoft felt compelled to open their mouths lately about the tides turning, or whatever it was they said (can't remember the actual quote). They know something we don't... more than just winning NPD. There's probably alot of internal data that we don't have access to that is showing them something bigger has happened in the US than just a blip on the map.

Why do people ignore the obvious signs and reasons why something happens and then when it reverts back they are in shock.

MS have generally done poorly Jan-March, mainly because Sony always stacks games up, but the bottom drops from XBO, now this year might be different because of Sony also cutting the cost and if they raise it too much then it will impact sales.

But... it was plainly obvious why MS did well for those 4 months, lets start with Pro, then start with MS undercutting the PS4 slim (and sony not dropping the price), then lets go for lots of XBO users trading in their old consoles for a much better designed S version. Its really obvious why MS won, but all of that catching up was lost in 1 month. I admit the gap from MS in Sept/Oct was pretty good, but the previous two months were not worth writing home about. The gap will widen in 2017 in Sony's favour, to use your term, they wont magically just revert back to MS :D