bluedawgs said:
JWeinCom said:
Admitted? I gotta say I'm kind of confused. I didn't say anything about whether XBox One sales would be up or down in the first place, yet you're acting as though I'm "admitting" to something. And I don't even understand what it meanst to "admit XB1 down YOY". Did I have some inside knowledge from the future that I was hiding?
I'm also not sure what word play jokes you saw. O_o...
The PSVR was fairly available for most of october (I know I looked) and sales were basically flat for PS4 week over week and year over year. It could be selling more with better supply, but it's not like a PS2/Wii/NES Classic situation where there are tons of people desperately waiting.
It's clearly not a system seller like Kinect, which begs the question of why the PS4 will be up big YOY. PSVR and Pro both seem like relatively niche products, and the price was already dropped effectively 50 dollars this holiday season. Another pricecut will help somewhat, if Sony does one, but it isn't going to be that much bigger.
So, the games lineup will have to be enough not only to overcome the natural decline in sales, but also push out a few million more units. If you're predicting sales of about 20 million, the games have to basically be 4-5 million hardware sales better than last year's, and they really aren't.
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I'm not actually arguing, at this current moment, that PSVR is going to sell a bunch of PS4's. I just saw that you mentioned PSVR when talking about PS4 barely being up year on year and i think a product that expensive, that also is completely new and not super available won't start selling really well until this year or next year
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I brought up the PSVR because new peripherals are traditionally a way to boost sales mid generation. In this case, it doesn't seem like that's going to happen, so the boost would have to come from somewhere else.
