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Ssenkahdavic on 03 March 2014

I wonder if the PS4's coffin looks like the X1.

Wouldnt that be something to see?



 

  

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Areym on 03 March 2014

Oh god, PS4 is doomed. Well it was a good 3 months for Sony. Xbox domination incoming.



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larrysdirtydrawss on 03 March 2014

isn't the ps4 dry out of consoles until march 25th in the uk? if it doesn't make some EASY ground now with a popular exclusive/price cut,,it never will.....



Machiavellian on 03 March 2014
DerNebel said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Nate4Drake said:

Let's enjoy the game experience. PS4 will dominate this gen, live with that X fans. Accept it, it will be easier and less painful. It's silly to look at the micro scenario, 1 week after a price cut, etc... any company going with a price cut and those deals so early is in serious troubles.


Really is that what happened with the PS3? PS3 cut price in July of there launch year. So is XBOX ONE going to be doomed if they do the same and cut price as early as July? Seems many of you don't understand that this is the very beginning of the gen and anything can happen. Took ps3 a long time to catch up but they did.

http://www.geek.com/games/ps3-gets-price-cut-on-july-12-update-566948/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39271/Global/

Numbers from that month.  Look XBox One Should pass PS3 numbers by April in aligned launch year.. So to say anyone cutting price and doing deals this early, is also saying PS3 would have never came back and was doomed.  Sorry but this argument is getting really old.

DS 453,238 (-3%) 46,377,230
Wii 255,828 (-8%) 9,301,578
PSP 183,447 (-6%) 24,414,591
X360 69,870 (-13%) 10,461,493
PS3 63,826 (+4%) 3,884,475
Total 1,026,209(-5%)  

Even at $600  and with hardly any games, against a 360 that had already build up a very respectable game library, the difference in weekly sales between the PS3 and 360 was never even close to as drastic as that of the X1 and PS4 is.

I believe the key is that the X1 does not have to beat the PS4 in sales, it just needs to sell and make a profit for MS.  One of the problems with most posters is that its always about who sell the most, no matter how much it cost a company to gain that marketshare.  In reality, its who can sell the most, make a profit and expand their customer base.

In the end, who sales the most is really for the fanboys to wave their corporate banner around.  In business, MS want to sell as many if not more than what they did for the 360 gen.  The race for MS to accomplish that is just starting.



Willem on 03 March 2014
larrysdirtydrawss said:
isn't the ps4 dry out of consoles until march 25th in the uk? if it doesn't make some EASY ground now with a popular exclusive/price cut,,it never will.....

Correct, the base console will be available again at march 25th, Second Son bundles will be available at march 21st, and Assasins Creed bundles at march 14th.
But I suspect that entire Europe is heavily constraint at the moment...



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Fusioncode on 03 March 2014

Toastboy thread! This will be fun.



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ethomaz on 03 March 2014

Xbone needs a 70% increase in hardware sales to sell more in UK this week... if that big boost in sales happened then Chart-track should report it.

So no.



Marks on 03 March 2014

Yeah true, but PS3 just kinda outsold Xbox One this past week...well or you could say tied due to margin of error.



DerNebel on 03 March 2014
DJEVOLVE said:
DerNebel said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Nate4Drake said:

Let's enjoy the game experience. PS4 will dominate this gen, live with that X fans. Accept it, it will be easier and less painful. It's silly to look at the micro scenario, 1 week after a price cut, etc... any company going with a price cut and those deals so early is in serious troubles.


Really is that what happened with the PS3? PS3 cut price in July of there launch year. So is XBOX ONE going to be doomed if they do the same and cut price as early as July? Seems many of you don't understand that this is the very beginning of the gen and anything can happen. Took ps3 a long time to catch up but they did.

http://www.geek.com/games/ps3-gets-price-cut-on-july-12-update-566948/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39271/Global/

Numbers from that month.  Look XBox One Should pass PS3 numbers by April in aligned launch year.. So to say anyone cutting price and doing deals this early, is also saying PS3 would have never came back and was doomed.  Sorry but this argument is getting really old.

DS 453,238 (-3%) 46,377,230
Wii 255,828 (-8%) 9,301,578
PSP 183,447 (-6%) 24,414,591
X360 69,870 (-13%) 10,461,493
PS3 63,826 (+4%) 3,884,475
Total 1,026,209(-5%)  

Even at $600  and with hardly any games, against a 360 that had already build up a very respectable game library, the difference in weekly sales between the PS3 and 360 was never even close to as drastic as that of the X1 and PS4 is.

Here is March 3rd of 2007. PS3 4 month on sale. Look at the difference. XBox One is 2.5 million ahead in sales compared.^^^^ Above is of July 2007. 8 months of the ps3 on sale ^^^^^

DS 452,903 (-10%) 38,390,948
Wii 200,263 (-14%) 5,109,095
PSP 175,399 (-17%) 21,194,796
X360 95,476 (-12%) 9,022,392
PS3 80,401 (+61%) 1,953,123
Total 1,004,442(-9%)  

Point being, don't be so sure. So what if it has a early lead, many things start and end in way different scenario's.  360 also had a 7 million unit lead.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39145/Global/

I'm not saying that the X1 won't sell decently, but your comment was a quote to a guy that said the X1 was not going outsell the PS4 and I just pointed out that the situation you used as an argument against that is not really comparable as the PS3 was never lagging behind the 360 as much in weekly sales as the X1 is lagging behind the PS4. The X1 outselling the PS4 is unrealistic, the X1 doing well for itself isn't.

Also I'm just gonna ignore that PS3 to X1 comparison since there is a fuckton wrong with it, for example the PS3 was at that point available to less than 50% of the people that eventually bought one, whereas the X1 is easily available to over 80% of the people that bought a 360, also you cannot ignore how extremely frontloaded the X1s launch was and how telling it is how sharp the numbers dropped after the holidays. In the same week the PS3 sold 24k more than the X1 (at least according to Vgchartz) with being available to less than 50% of its customers, that is the important thing here, if you really want to make that comparison. 



DerNebel on 03 March 2014
Machiavellian said:
DerNebel said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Nate4Drake said:

Let's enjoy the game experience. PS4 will dominate this gen, live with that X fans. Accept it, it will be easier and less painful. It's silly to look at the micro scenario, 1 week after a price cut, etc... any company going with a price cut and those deals so early is in serious troubles.


Really is that what happened with the PS3? PS3 cut price in July of there launch year. So is XBOX ONE going to be doomed if they do the same and cut price as early as July? Seems many of you don't understand that this is the very beginning of the gen and anything can happen. Took ps3 a long time to catch up but they did.

http://www.geek.com/games/ps3-gets-price-cut-on-july-12-update-566948/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39271/Global/

Numbers from that month.  Look XBox One Should pass PS3 numbers by April in aligned launch year.. So to say anyone cutting price and doing deals this early, is also saying PS3 would have never came back and was doomed.  Sorry but this argument is getting really old.

DS 453,238 (-3%) 46,377,230
Wii 255,828 (-8%) 9,301,578
PSP 183,447 (-6%) 24,414,591
X360 69,870 (-13%) 10,461,493
PS3 63,826 (+4%) 3,884,475
Total 1,026,209(-5%)  

Even at $600  and with hardly any games, against a 360 that had already build up a very respectable game library, the difference in weekly sales between the PS3 and 360 was never even close to as drastic as that of the X1 and PS4 is.

I believe the key is that the X1 does not have to beat the PS4 in sales, it just needs to sell and make a profit for MS.  One of the problems with most posters is that its always about who sell the most, no matter how much it cost a company to gain that marketshare.  In reality, its who can sell the most, make a profit and expand their customer base.

In the end, who sales the most is really for the fanboys to wave their corporate banner around.  In business, MS want to sell as many if not more than what they did for the 360 gen.  The race for MS to accomplish that is just starting.

See my post above. I know that it doesn't need to do that to be successful, but I just wanted to point out how djevolves argument as to why the X1 could still outsell the PS4 wasn't really a very sensible one.