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Forums - Sales - NPD March 2014 Thread - PS4 #1 (371k), Xbox One 311k, 360 111k, WiiU ~70k, Vita close to 4 digits. Titanfall tops software

 

Did the NPD results surprise you?

Yes 379 53.23%
 
No 308 43.26%
 
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DerNebel on 17 April 2014

Anybody know when we can expect some leaks from Gaf?



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manny10032 on 17 April 2014
DerNebel said:
Anybody know when we can expect some leaks from Gaf?

"controled leaks"???



DerNebel on 17 April 2014
manny10032 said:
DerNebel said:
Anybody know when we can expect some leaks from Gaf?

"controled leaks"???

Nah, I mean creamsugar and stuff, I wanna know some Titanfall numbers and the rest of the hardware of course.



Tabular on 17 April 2014

So if Sony is doing so much better here in US I can only imagine how bad they are dominating WW. The Jedi's are goon feel this one.



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TheShogun on 17 April 2014

MS should do a complete re branding of the system.

1. Drop the price by $100
2. Cut out the Kinect
3. Bundle the console with 1 great piece of software such as Forza, Titanfall, etc.
4. Do a new marketing push focused on the GAMER
5. Announce a bunch of new games and content.

I know many of these things are already semi happening such as bundled games and some unofficial price drops but MS should come out and officially do these things as a complete re branding process.



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manny10032 on 17 April 2014
DerNebel said:
manny10032 said:
DerNebel said:
Anybody know when we can expect some leaks from Gaf?

"controled leaks"???

Nah, I mean creamsugar and stuff, I wanna know some Titanfall numbers and the rest of the hardware of course.


Ahh yeah. I'm surprised he hasnt said anything yet.



milliniar on 17 April 2014
Shinobi-san said:
Not quite on the X1 doom train yet.

MS has lots of cards to play. However they cant afford to let Sony increase their momentum. Before you know it, the PS4 is the next 360. At which point the X1 becomes a failure.

I would remove the kinect, cut the price and give it a new marketing push with key new software like quantum break etc. The X1 has a solid games library they need to sell it.

I think a better comparision is PS4 is the next PS2. Outside of NA PS3 stomped 360 when you factor in the 1 year lead it had, and the rebuys due to RROD in north america. Call it anecdotal but nearly everyone i know that bought an og 360 bought at least one other after the first died.

XB1 will need to get it together, and they have games that could be interesting.



drkohler on 17 April 2014
Shinobi-san said:

I would remove the kinect, cut the price and give it a new marketing push with key new software like quantum break etc. The X1 has a solid games library they need to sell it.

I'm pretty sure MS has a long term manufacturing contract with the foundry that makes the SoC/tof/camera chips. Not bundling the Kinect2 anymore would mean either fill a warehouse with Kinect2s or break the contract. Both versions would mean 9-digit $ penalties. So that is not an option.

Another marketing push costs lots of dough as well. MS has just lost a sh*tton of money with the huge Titanfall push (advertising, freebie software, inofficial pricecuts left and right).

The investor group that wanted to get rid of the whole XBox brand has not dissipated at all. They still want to see a positive outlook, and at this time they have not seen it. They might be in hibernation at this time, but whoever runs XBox plans now should not continue to throw too much money down the pit, or else...



mutantclown on 17 April 2014

The numbers on this site are shit, and I particularly hate it when people quote them.



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 17 April 2014
milliniar said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

That's just speculation based on last gen and this gen. The PS2 released after the GC and Xbox yes, so it was definetly not designed to compete against their hardware. Thus the GC and Xbox were a lot more powerful. However, The Console War that we have now that started last gen is not the same one that we had prior in with the PS1, Saturn, and 64 in the 5th Gen, that "war" was incited by the companies to increase market awareness.

The 7th gen War was started by fans and thanks to the internet and social media fanbases can communciate with each other and against other groups. 

In 5th gen most people here had dial up, you didn't have internet communities for the PS2, it barely had online gaming. Only having one console for some kind of brand identity was even more insane then it is now because, social networking didn't really exist so you could barely even voice your opinions. It only made sense if it was an issue of price, or convience (many people were introduced into gaming because of the Xbox)

MS fans were such because they liked Xbox, but it had nothing to do with whether or not they where fans of PS2 or Nintendo.

Nope PS2 Was first

PS2 Mar 2000 JP, OCT 2000 NA+EU

GC sep 2001 JP, Nov NA, May 2002 EU

Xbox Nov 2001 NA, Feb 2002 JP, March 2002 EU

With a little reading comprehension its not hard to see I meant earlier.

@Italics : definetly not designed to compete against their hardware

How would something released after not be designed to compete against competitors already on the market?

here are some more intresting dates

360 2005

PS3 2006

Kotaku 2004

G4 2002

GameTrailers 2005

YouTube 2005

Facebook 2004

Twitter 2006

This second console war is because of Social Media.



In this day and age, with the Internet, ignorance is a choice! And they're still choosing Ignorance! - Dr. Filthy Frank