Global Hardware 01 September 2018

[chakkra]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

chakkra said:

If I were to make a guess I would say it is a combination of:

A) X1X

B) Games Pass (I mean, for the price of ONE game on the competition camp, you have access here to 100 games during 6 months)

C) Backwards compatibility (The fact that they have put the effort to enhance many of those games virtually making them re-masters for free)

In fact, what I find weird is that the rest of the world has not been affected one bit by any of this.

I forgot about Games Pass.  That is another likely cause.  (And as I said I think backwards compatibility efforts are helping them.)

X1X is probably giving a small boost, but I don't think it is the biggest factor.  I mean, Sony has the PS4 Pro and it is still down YoY so far, while XB1 is up YoY.  Usually game library is the most important thing, which clearly PS4 has in its favor.  But backwards compatibility effectively does increase the game library, and Games Pass makes the library a lot more accessible.  Most likely it is one of those (or both) that is giving the XB1 the biggest boost.

But you are forgetting that last year was PS4's peak.  Which was effectively the year after the PS4 Pro release.

And this the year after X1X release so it could be having the same effect.

But I do agree with you that it is almost impossible to tell what is the biggest factor.