November NPD 2018 Thread

[DonFerrari]

flashfire926 said:

DonFerrari said:

PS4 had mid cycle, increased sales after year 1, PS3 and X360 as well (and they had the move and kinect mid gen if you wish). So we are to believe all consoles will now sell flat with no increase from year 1 to 2 and 3 because of mid cycle that may or may not happen? What type of excuse is that?

You are a hard person. Selling the same thing from year 1 to 5 isn't really a good thing. Also please explain how you turn around sales by staying flat? And if the reveal was so damaging the effects wouldn't show 3 years later.

Putting words in my mouth yet again. Did I say its possible to turn around sales by staying flat?  Did I say the Xbox One is doing very well?  The only thing I said was that Kinect boosted X360 a lot, which will help it pull away from the Xbox One launches aligned (in the US)

Stop putting words in my mouth.

edit: What I'm saying is, Xbox has the same amount of wind in the sail as it did in 2014, whether you think that a very little amount or a very high amount.

So basically you entered the conversation to make a strawman? Because the whole point was about X1 starting strong and not increasing sales, while at the same time losing ground against X360 (and it happened year after year, not only after Kinect) and PS4 increasing the difference in percentage so there really wasn't no turn around in sales.

Also you have said yourself that sales curves are a thing of the past with the invention of mid gen refreshs (have people traveled from the future to warn Xbox customers, and they only, that there would be a refresh years after) increasing of sales on first half of the gen is basically not going to occur. You are just getting lost on trying to make a very cumbersome argument.