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Forums - Sales - NPD: Xone has sold more retail software in USA than PS4( tie ratio 2.75 XO, 2.18 PS4)

biglittlesps on 14 March 2014

PS4 has free games from PS+, F2P games, indies, cross gen upgrades to play without purchasing retails copies and less exclusive retail software compared to Xbox which is contributing more to Xbox right now from Forza and Dead rising.



GAMING is not about spending hours to pass/waste our time just for fun,

its a Feeling/Experience about a VIRTUAL WORLD we can never be in real, and realizing some of our dreams (also creating new ones).

So, Feel Emotions, Experience Adventure/Action, Challenge Game, Solve puzzles and Have fun.

PlayStation is about all-round "New experiences" using new IP's to provide great diversity for everyone.

Xbox is always about Online and Shooting.

Nintendo is always about Fun games and milking IP's.

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Blood_Tears on 14 March 2014

Considering the difference in US software last gen, this ratio and amount so far is awesome for Sony. This close of an overall amount plus Europe and Japan basically means PS4 will sell more software then X1 this gen.



celador on 14 March 2014

PS Plus and more X1 exclusives.



Train wreck on 14 March 2014

PS4's tie ratio will rise when games such as MLB the show and infamous come out couple with the fact that the majority of 3rd party games are selling better on the 4, itll be fine.



BMaker11 on 14 March 2014

Taking into account that there is a statistical tie (at the moment) in userbase in the US; looking at the fact that XBone has more retail exclusives (Forza and DR3 sales = KZ and Knack sales, so the addition of Ryse gives the edge), PS+ offering free games, PS4 having F2P games (Warframe, Blacklight, etc), and digital sales being another contributing factor.....

Straight up "XBone sold more retail software" is true, but there's a reason (mostly being that there are PS4 has a lot more to offer, digitally)



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starcraft on 14 March 2014

Many people are raising digital sales, which is reasonable.

However given we have very little data from either company providing a comprehensive picture of these sales, it is not reasonable to draw conclusions.

If we were going to start drawing conclusions you'd start by looking at digital trends from X360 and PS3, which would imply that not only are Xbox gamers more active at retail, but also digitally.



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sales2099 on 14 March 2014
Xenostar said:

PS plus owners have also had 4 free games since launch

Edit:

And before anyone says anything you not what i mean by free. There still games that arent in this tie ratio that players will have played. 

Of those 4...how many are retail? Because that is what this is about.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Nem on 14 March 2014

And the Vita has a great attach rate aswell.



crissindahouse on 14 March 2014

I would also own one or two more retail games on XBO.

Pretty much the same multiplat games + Killzone on PS4 and Forza + DR3 on XBO. Garden Warfare probably as digital download.

I think most find the retail library of XBO better atm and ratio would be even higher if XBO would be 100 bucks cheaper but PS4 would be also higher if thete wouldn't be PS+



Xenostar on 14 March 2014
sales2099 said:
Xenostar said:

PS plus owners have also had 4 free games since launch

Edit:

And before anyone says anything you not what i mean by free. There still games that arent in this tie ratio that players will have played. 

Of those 4...how many are retail? Because that is what this is about.

None but getting 4 games is gonna stop people feeling the need to go out and buy another retail title.