| AlfredoTurkey said: When was the last time Sony finished third? The PS3 era? This is crazy stuff. |
Not really if you really think about it. Especially when you consider that for the holiday season the PS4 still was the top selling console.
As weird as this may sound, I am happy they came third. They dropped the price of the PS4 to $200 in November (heck of a deal by the way) only to have everyone buying it at $250-$300 once stock of the $200 SKU ran out (which was basically for the last 7 weeks of the year). This should push sony towards getting the price to $200 permanently, especially if MS keeps offerring a sub $200 SKU unless they are ok with coming third and still selling ok for the majority of 2018.
Make no mistake though, if the PS4 was priced at $199 for the rest of the year, they would have won NPD. Proof? Selling for $199 for all of a week in November got them to win November NPD with sales higher than the NS was able to manage in December. Whereas the XB1 remained more or less flat.
Now they question is, how soon will sony make that official price drop to $199? Will they even bother at all? Cause while its great for us here to argue about who is winning NPD or not, for sony right now that doesn't matter a single bit.
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