| Shadow1980 said: 1.1M for the PS4 and 1M for the XBO would be a disaster. That's a 28.5% and 22.8% YoY decline, respectively. Considering the release of the Pro, plus strong YoY growth for the XBO with the S, I find those numbers very, very hard to believe. I'm going to wait for Aqua to release numbers. While her Twitter page is down, she did say she was going to be gone for the entire month of December, so she may have temporarily shut it down herself. We'll find out for sure come early January. |
But this is strictly for Black Friday (the singular day) that we're talking here, a day for the value shopper... So why would we expect people to go out in droves to pick up a Ps4 pro, not only during the busiest shopping day of the year but also on a day when there were no ps4 pro bundles or sales? Now consider that Sony themselves said they were surprised by the amount of first time buyers for the Pro as opposed to early Og adopters double dipping. Would it be reasonable to assume that the pro is siphoning off the slims sales? I think that's reasonable. Again, Sony implied that they thought pro owners would more so be double dippers than people new to the brand.
Now, after taking all that into consideration...last year was Sonys best Black Friday ever for sales in the US. Something like 1.54 million on that day. Why would it be terrible if they didn't perform as well as their best Bf ever which was last year when we know that the Pro didn't have any sales yet people are migrating to the premium model in droves?
I just think it's too early to say much until we see how the month did. With the focus of Black Friday becoming more and more like a week of sales rather than a day, and where the information that we're speculating on only focuses on one single day out of that week, and knowing that there were no extra incentives for people to go after the pro during this day then it starts to become apparent that our dataset is skewed and incomplete.
