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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%
 
Total:687
TheShogun on 18 April 2014
vivster said:
Let's see it this way for the non-doomers out there; The X1 selling less in US this month is about as doomy as if the WiiU would sell less than Vita in the month MK comes out.

So the Vita's near 4 digit sales and the Wii U's sub 100k sales are somehow equivalent to the Xbox Ones 311k sales?

Eh, wut?



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BeElite on 18 April 2014
TheShogun said:

Again though that's a bold ass prediction. What if Sunset Overdrive ends up being mind blowing?  What if Quantam Break releases and is incredible?


Problem is all your what ifs are pro X1, while pretanding nothing good will happen to PS4.   Unrealistic wishfull thinking nothing more.

Im atleast seeing things based of current realities not what ifs. 

What if Vr goes big and becomes the next Wii,  see i can do same foolishness in Ps4s favor.



lucidium on 18 April 2014
askel50 said:
If they cut the price $100 they will outsell PS4 very comfortably. If they do a kinect-less SKU at $350 they will outsell it permanently. It's easy to see that the main factor hodling back people is the price. The 360 just sold 111K.

You mean like how the 360 being cheaper than the ps3?

Worked wonders for them that time, they only ended up last.



vivster on 18 April 2014
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
Let's see it this way for the non-doomers out there; The X1 selling less in US this month is about as doomy as if the WiiU would sell less than Vita in the month MK comes out.


MK is the Wii U's last hope. Titanfall is not Xbox One's.

According to WiiU fans MK is not the last hope. According to X1 fans, Titanfall is not the last hope.

See a pattern here?



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lucidium on 18 April 2014
vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
Let's see it this way for the non-doomers out there; The X1 selling less in US this month is about as doomy as if the WiiU would sell less than Vita in the month MK comes out.


MK is the Wii U's last hope. Titanfall is not Xbox One's.

According to WiiU fans MK is not the last hope. According to X1 fans, Titanfall is not the last hope.

See a pattern here?

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askel50 on 18 April 2014
lucidium said:
askel50 said:
If they cut the price $100 they will outsell PS4 very comfortably. If they do a kinect-less SKU at $350 they will outsell it permanently. It's easy to see that the main factor hodling back people is the price. The 360 just sold 111K.

You mean like how the 360 being cheaper than the ps3?

Worked wonders for them that time, they only ended up last.

They are not last in the US and beside 360 costs less to manufacture. If X1 is profitable now then it is also profitable at $350 without kinect.



Sal.Paradise on 18 April 2014
TheShogun said:
Sal.Paradise said:

I've been pretty careful about making early predictions regarding these two consoles, I think this is the most I've ever stuck out my neck on this subject. I don't think it's too early to say that those are the only chances it has in the forseeable future.

MS just essentially packed in their biggest 'exclusive' that isn't Gears or Halo for free, and still got beaten by 60k units in a month with only Infamous as an exclusive for their competitor. Infamous is small-fry. It's a third or second tier Sony exclusive by popularity, same with Killzone. It's pretty clear MS won't outsell them on a 'regular' month with no big releases, so their only hope are for when the big games hit, aka Q3-4,but then in most years they'll be going up against games bigger than Infamous and KZ too.

They have very few opportunities of their own design to post bigger numbers than the PS4.  They can cut the price early and lose a ton of money upfront. And they can invest in new IP and hardware to find their next breakout hit.  And MS just committed their premier new team to an old IP...

And please stop saying DOOM sarcastically, I'm not arguing if the XB1 is DOOMED, most reasonable people aren't. All XB1 has to do to lose is sell less than PS4. Which is a very easy thing.

Again though that's a bold ass prediction. What if Sunset Overdrive ends up being mind blowing?  What if Quantam Break releases and is incredible?

That's what I mean, people are used to being in established trends as the last 3 years for console sales have pretty much followed a strait path. We are in the first steps of a new generation with lots of new IP's coming.  Those two games could turn out terrible and do nothing, or they could be massive hits, and the next Gears of War for MS.

That's what my overall point is, people need to be ready for some epic twists and turns over the next few years, just look at how many curve balls got thrown to us last gen with sales trends.

Not that many after the initial groundwork was layed, honestly. PS3 caught up on 360 by virtue of its Europe+Asia market strength (which wasn't that difficult to predict) , Wii petered off early, PSP died in the west and got a second life in the east, and Kinect happened.



TarHeeLsALLday on 18 April 2014

Gotta admit I did not see this coming. I thought XB1 would win March for sure. This may be a good thing in the long run tho. I can't wait to see how MS responds with their backs to the wall.



TheShogun on 18 April 2014
BeElite said:


Problem is all your what ifs are pro X1, while pretanding nothing good will happen to PS4.   Unrealistic wishfull thinking nothing more.

Im atleast seeing things based of current realities not what ifs. 

What if Vr goes big and becomes the next Wii,  see i can do same foolishness in Ps4s favor.

I didn't post all positives for the One though..........I said those games could be awful and do nothing in the same post.

And yes VR could be gignantic and push the PS4 even higher than its already incredible levels.

The only thing I'm commenting on is the prediction of weekly sales only winning in favor of the One during Halo week. And I'm simply commenting that its far too early to call something like that as quite frankly it is. We have no idea how the weekly trend of sales for these consoles will look 12 months from now.

 

Hell we don't even know what the weekly trends will look like 4 months from now.



lucidium on 18 April 2014
askel50 said:
lucidium said:
askel50 said:
If they cut the price $100 they will outsell PS4 very comfortably. If they do a kinect-less SKU at $350 they will outsell it permanently. It's easy to see that the main factor hodling back people is the price. The 360 just sold 111K.

You mean like how the 360 being cheaper than the ps3?

Worked wonders for them that time, they only ended up last.

They are not last in the US and beside 360 costs less to manufacture. If X1 is profitable now then it is also profitable at $350 without kinect.

And the difference between sales in the US last gen only stands to make the current situation all the more poignant.