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Barkley on 28 November 2017
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hudsoniscool said:
Barkley said:

Not a good point at all. There's a difference between fluff like "5 Bajillion hours on xbox live!" which is used to hide sales.

And then the PR sony put out "We had the biggest Black Friday in PlayStation history. We sold more consoles than we ever have in our 22-year history, "

That is not PR to hide bad sales.

It's actually textbook  pr spin. They said the same thing the year before but ended up having the worst November  npd in years, down about 40% from 2015. If Microsoft would have came out and released a pr and said ' xb1x launch week was the best selling week for Xbox since xb1 launch' this would be pr spin no matter how true it is (is 100% true in the U.K.). Sonys statement makes it sound like it destroyed all the competition, without actually saying they did. 

For the record cord I have no problem with them saying it, good for them. And I still expect them to win npd but I believe it will be close.

Source for them saying this last year?

Directly saying they sold the most consoles on black friday they've ever sold is not PR spin, it's a direct statement on sales. Now you think they are talking about global sales because they lost the NPD? Neither Sony/MS/Nintendo know who won the NPD, otherwise the winner would have already put out PR saying they'd won. So no this isn't PR Spin.

But at the end of the day global sales are far more important then "winning the NPD" anyway, so they're hiding behind something that's more important anyway? Strange.