TheDrill said:
Xbox 360 has dominated USA last generation, and people forget that even with all the bad reputation, the higher price cut X1 didn't sell significantly less than the PS4 in here.
PS2 dominated the entire world, including the US the generation before last. The PS3 lost marketshare, but at the same time still caught up in total units to the 360.
In the USA, as of today the Xbox one only sold approximatively only 11 % less than PS4 did
And for the last few weeks X1 sold on par or even slightly more than the PS4.
That happened in TitanFall Week, and supply constrained December.
Now that the price cut has been announced, as well as Halo and the ability to run IE and netflix without paying for gold, I expect it to sell a lot more.
IE is crap, Netflix has been free on the other platforms for years. Only Halo really has a possible effect, but the one coming out this year is a remake not 5.
A considerable advantage is that all these announcement, especailly the price cut will convince a lot of xbox 360 owners to upgrade, and considering how well xbox 360 sold in USA, there are many of them.
Most of the Xbox Dedicated already bought a One, why do you think they would wait on 360 for silly console exclusivity.
The current difference between PS4 and X1 in the US is 322004 units.
And its growing.
That means that if xbox starts selling 10k more than it does currently, (only a 20 % increase in sales) or about 60k, it needs only 32 weeks, or 8 months to catch up. Considering that it will sell a lot during Christmas, It will have more units sold in the US by January 2015, and start outselling it from there.
Because PS4 sales aren't moving either.
After that it will slowly grow and eventually sell more long a term considerably more than the PS4.
Because Sony will just let that happen.
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