November NPD 2018 Thread

[flashfire926]

DonFerrari said:

flashfire926 said:

The XBO didnt drop, its selling consistently. Its just that X360 sales shot up that year.

The cause of that "drop" was the launch of the kinect, which was a huge hit back in day and really boosted x360's sales and lifespan.

Eeeeeerrr guess you jumped on the gun.

The lead didn't disappear suddenly on the year 5. It have been losing lead basically since launch. A show that X1 launched good but lost wind after every year. Another evidence? PS4 increased the percentage lead every year. Another evidence is that X1 didn't really had YOY growth for consecutive years as is expected on the first half of the gen.

All in all, it just shows that reveal/release for X1 for all the troubles they had wasn't the problem

What do you mean, "it lost wind". Its sold about the same for each of the last five years. 

I didnt jump any gun. You said XBO dropped when compared to 360, but what actually happened that the 360 shot up and XBO remained flat, which is true.

It lost because of that horrible reveal that still leaves a bad place in peoples mouth to this day, the primary reason why the XBO isnt doing as well as its competitors:

- focus on TV TV TV  and other media instead of games

-horrible DRM plans, trying to make it always online, trying to eliminate used games

-Kinect forced into every XBO, so they were basically selling a weaker system for a larger price

Theres not much else to it. Next gen will be a fresh new start for Xbox, where it can finally escape the "xbox one" name.