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TheDrill on 05 June 2014
Sagemode87 said:
TheDrill said:
Shadow1980 said:
TheDrill said:

I completely acknowledged that PS4 outsold X1, but I am saying that it's still early in the generation, that the gap is close, and X1 will have a price cut that will undoubtably increase sales.

Furthermore Titanfall sold a lot of units, and Halo and similar game (FPS genre) sells a lot in the USA, which means X1 may make a comeback.


I don't doubt that the XBO will get some kind of boost, but as I explained the other day there are many reasons to think that the boost will not be significant enough for it the pass the PS4 in average monthly sales, which it would need to in order to catch up with and then pass the PS4 in LTD sales. There is simply no historical precedent for a price cut (which the Kinect-less SKU technically isn't) to provide a boost in sales of the degree and duration needed for the XBO to go from barely over 115k to over what the PS4 has been doing on average. The odds of it closing the average monthly gap between itself and the PS4, much less having a comfortable enough lead to rapidly close the LTD gap, is extremely low. MS is either going to have to get the XBO below the PS4 in price (and hope Sony doesn't follow suit with a price cut of their own) or they'll have to offer a lineup of exclusives that blows everything Sony has out of the water. There's very little difference between the two systems as they share 90% of the same games and have very similar capabilities, so it's going to come down to pricing and exclusive games. The XBO could surpass the PS4 in the months that Halo 5 and (possibly) Gears come out, but it's going to need more than that for a consistently strong performance. Individual games only ever offer short-term gains, after all.


Dont forget that I am talking about the US, last generation X360 decimated the PS3 in US and in the UK.

Microsoft has a lot of money to push into X1, furthermore software wise they can potentially buy exclusives, and Halo and Gears of war is a system seller.

At the current rate, as I have said, it would take only an average perhaps 15k increase per week to catch up in the US with Sony in a few months, that is not unrealistic, and it will grow more if Sony sells less units.

Just because MS has money doesn't mean they can bribe and buy any developer they want. That would've happened years ago if that was the case as MS has always had more money than Sony. MS would've bought EA, Activision, Rockstar, etc. Stop depending on MS money to get them out of situations. You're very mislead if you think Sony is just gonna stop making exclusives themselves. Gran Turismo is as much a system seller as Halo is. Uncharted, The Last of Us, God of War, and MGS (sells more on PS) are all as much a system seller as Gears is. Your logic that only MS exclusives matter is quite baffling. 


I said that they matter more for US audiences, who is more FPS or online FPS oriented.

Sales wise the games that have a story and are mostly single player sell better in European countries.

The ones that are mainly online FPS, sell better in USA ,especially for the younger audiences.



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fedfed on 05 June 2014

well WD didn't help XB1 but a bit better for XB360. Does it still count in the prediction?

What other great title are coming to XB1 this year?



Switch!!!

PwerlvlAmy on 05 June 2014
fedfed said:
well WD didn't help XB1 but a bit better for XB360. Does it still count in the prediction?

What other great title are coming to XB1 this year?


I can only think of Sunsnet Overdrive, but I dont know if I can call it ''great'' though..yet at least



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riecsou on 05 June 2014
TheDrill said:

Dont forget that I am talking about the US, last generation X360 decimated the PS3 in US and in the UK.

Microsoft has a lot of money to push into X1, furthermore software wise they can potentially buy exclusives, and Halo and Gears of war is a system seller.

At the current rate, as I have said, it would take only an average perhaps 15k increase per week to catch up in the US with Sony in a few months, that is not unrealistic, and it will grow more if Sony sells less units.


With a 27% boost for Xbox One in the US on May 31st we have the numbers at 31 k also represents the highest Xbox One has sold during May.

The smallest PS4 sold in the same month is 50K. So adding 15K to the highest number of Xbox One in may that is 46K.

Since you have a master in computer science I think it is fair to say that 50K>46K

Now if by 15k increase you meant outselling the PS4 in the US by 15k , then that will put the number of the Xbox One around 65K. To reach that number Xbox One would need a 100% boost.The second week of Titanfall with bundle available + price cut + free Titanfall, Xbox One only manage to sell 60k. On the third week of Titanfall with still price cut+free Titnfall, Xbox One manage to sell 45k...

So please enlight me with your master in computer science

Also can you check if the percentage of gap is still 13%?? I am guessing that is an easy calculation for you.



UndauntedWizdom on 05 June 2014

Epic cotdamn bumpage! lol. Thread title can remain and probably be true... but only with the word "soon" omitted.



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Aura7541 on 05 June 2014
TheDrill said:
Shadow1980 said:

I don't doubt that the XBO will get some kind of boost, but as I explained the other day there are many reasons to think that the boost will not be significant enough for it the pass the PS4 in average monthly sales, which it would need to in order to catch up with and then pass the PS4 in LTD sales. There is simply no historical precedent for a price cut (which the Kinect-less SKU technically isn't) to provide a boost in sales of the degree and duration needed for the XBO to go from barely over 115k to over what the PS4 has been doing on average. The odds of it closing the average monthly gap between itself and the PS4, much less having a comfortable enough lead to rapidly close the LTD gap, is extremely low. MS is either going to have to get the XBO below the PS4 in price (and hope Sony doesn't follow suit with a price cut of their own) or they'll have to offer a lineup of exclusives that blows everything Sony has out of the water. There's very little difference between the two systems as they share 90% of the same games and have very similar capabilities, so it's going to come down to pricing and exclusive games. The XBO could surpass the PS4 in the months that Halo 5 and (possibly) Gears come out, but it's going to need more than that for a consistently strong performance. Individual games only ever offer short-term gains, after all.


Dont forget that I am talking about the US, last generation X360 decimated the PS3 in US and in the UK.

Microsoft has a lot of money to push into X1, furthermore software wise they can potentially buy exclusives, and Halo and Gears of war is a system seller.

At the current rate, as I have said, it would take only an average perhaps 15k increase per week to catch up in the US with Sony in a few months, that is not unrealistic, and it will grow more if Sony sells less units.

Bolded: Clearly, you did not read my post from earier: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6360669

Italics: Those games are lightyears away from their release dates. Two games are hardly enough to combat the PS4's superior multiplats and exclusives.

Underline: Again, you did not read my post from the link above. Also, you stealthly changed from X1 needing to outsell the PS4 by 10k weekly to 15k weekly. Even then, 28 weeks x 15k = 420k. That's less than the 600+k gap (500k gap when you add up all NPD results + 100+k estimate from May). Actually, I think the gap for May will be a lot greater than 100k. Watch Dogs gave the PS4 a much greater boost, so the gap could be 200k, making the overall gap 700k.

You also should clink on this link (http://dealnews.com/features/State-of-Gaming-2014-PC-Gaming-Is-on-the-Rise/1062249.html ). Only 79% of the people are still not interested in buying an X1 @ $399. 43% of the Xbox 360 users have not bought a next gen console because of price and of those 360 owners, 58% are still not interested in buying an X1. Not looking good for the X1...



TheDrill on 05 June 2014
Aura7541 said:
TheDrill said:
Shadow1980 said:

I don't doubt that the XBO will get some kind of boost, but as I explained the other day there are many reasons to think that the boost will not be significant enough for it the pass the PS4 in average monthly sales, which it would need to in order to catch up with and then pass the PS4 in LTD sales. There is simply no historical precedent for a price cut (which the Kinect-less SKU technically isn't) to provide a boost in sales of the degree and duration needed for the XBO to go from barely over 115k to over what the PS4 has been doing on average. The odds of it closing the average monthly gap between itself and the PS4, much less having a comfortable enough lead to rapidly close the LTD gap, is extremely low. MS is either going to have to get the XBO below the PS4 in price (and hope Sony doesn't follow suit with a price cut of their own) or they'll have to offer a lineup of exclusives that blows everything Sony has out of the water. There's very little difference between the two systems as they share 90% of the same games and have very similar capabilities, so it's going to come down to pricing and exclusive games. The XBO could surpass the PS4 in the months that Halo 5 and (possibly) Gears come out, but it's going to need more than that for a consistently strong performance. Individual games only ever offer short-term gains, after all.


Dont forget that I am talking about the US, last generation X360 decimated the PS3 in US and in the UK.

Microsoft has a lot of money to push into X1, furthermore software wise they can potentially buy exclusives, and Halo and Gears of war is a system seller.

At the current rate, as I have said, it would take only an average perhaps 15k increase per week to catch up in the US with Sony in a few months, that is not unrealistic, and it will grow more if Sony sells less units.

Bolded: Clearly, you did not read my post from earier: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6360669

Italics: Those games are lightyears away from their release dates. Two games are hardly enough to combat the PS4's superior multiplats and exclusives.

Underline: Again, you did not read my post from the link above. Also, you stealthly changed from X1 needing to outsell the PS4 by 10k weekly to 15k weekly. Even then, 28 weeks x 15k = 420k. That's less than the 600+k gap (500k gap when you add up all NPD results + 100+k estimate from May). Actually, I think the gap for May will be a lot greater than 100k. Watch Dogs gave the PS4 a much greater boost, so the gap could be 200k, making the overall gap 700k.

You also should clink on this link (http://dealnews.com/features/State-of-Gaming-2014-PC-Gaming-Is-on-the-Rise/1062249.html ). Only 79% of the people are still not interested in buying an X1 @ $399. 43% of the Xbox 360 users have not bought a next gen console because of price and of those 360 owners, 58% are still not interested in buying an X1. Not looking good for the X1...

At the time I made the prediction it only needed 10k weekly.

43 % of those X360 users are going to buy a next gen console when X1 price cuts.



Garland on 05 June 2014

TheDrill's being absolutely delusional if he thinks that many people will instantly rush out to buy the $399 Kinectless console.

It's still a worse value than the PS4, & still a worse value than the Xbox One being bundled with a game or two.

 

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TheDrill on 05 June 2014
Garland said:
TheDrill's being absolutely delusional if he thinks that many people will instantly rush out to buy the $399 Kinectless console.

It's still a worse value than the PS4, & still a worse value than the Xbox One being bundled with a game or two.


What's funny is when I call people delusional I get banned.

Consider this: X1 was overpriced (compared to PS4), had bad reputation and still managed to hold it's own. between PS4 and X1 (not counting Wii U)

X1 has ~ 45 % marketshare,  I can admit even 40 if you guys discredit my numbers

And futhermore it's  selling more than X360 in the same period, if that's not impressive, IDK what is.

Now you can't deny the fact that a price cut will definitely increase sales, and the FPS exclusives and Halo always sell good in US audiences, and will push consoles.

So in the US X1 is far from beaten.



Aura7541 on 05 June 2014
TheDrill said:
Aura7541 said:
TheDrill said:
Shadow1980 said:

I don't doubt that the XBO will get some kind of boost, but as I explained the other day there are many reasons to think that the boost will not be significant enough for it the pass the PS4 in average monthly sales, which it would need to in order to catch up with and then pass the PS4 in LTD sales. There is simply no historical precedent for a price cut (which the Kinect-less SKU technically isn't) to provide a boost in sales of the degree and duration needed for the XBO to go from barely over 115k to over what the PS4 has been doing on average. The odds of it closing the average monthly gap between itself and the PS4, much less having a comfortable enough lead to rapidly close the LTD gap, is extremely low. MS is either going to have to get the XBO below the PS4 in price (and hope Sony doesn't follow suit with a price cut of their own) or they'll have to offer a lineup of exclusives that blows everything Sony has out of the water. There's very little difference between the two systems as they share 90% of the same games and have very similar capabilities, so it's going to come down to pricing and exclusive games. The XBO could surpass the PS4 in the months that Halo 5 and (possibly) Gears come out, but it's going to need more than that for a consistently strong performance. Individual games only ever offer short-term gains, after all.


Dont forget that I am talking about the US, last generation X360 decimated the PS3 in US and in the UK.

Microsoft has a lot of money to push into X1, furthermore software wise they can potentially buy exclusives, and Halo and Gears of war is a system seller.

At the current rate, as I have said, it would take only an average perhaps 15k increase per week to catch up in the US with Sony in a few months, that is not unrealistic, and it will grow more if Sony sells less units.

Bolded: Clearly, you did not read my post from earier: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6360669

Italics: Those games are lightyears away from their release dates. Two games are hardly enough to combat the PS4's superior multiplats and exclusives.

Underline: Again, you did not read my post from the link above. Also, you stealthly changed from X1 needing to outsell the PS4 by 10k weekly to 15k weekly. Even then, 28 weeks x 15k = 420k. That's less than the 600+k gap (500k gap when you add up all NPD results + 100+k estimate from May). Actually, I think the gap for May will be a lot greater than 100k. Watch Dogs gave the PS4 a much greater boost, so the gap could be 200k, making the overall gap 700k.

You also should clink on this link (http://dealnews.com/features/State-of-Gaming-2014-PC-Gaming-Is-on-the-Rise/1062249.html ). Only 79% of the people are still not interested in buying an X1 @ $399. 43% of the Xbox 360 users have not bought a next gen console because of price and of those 360 owners, 58% are still not interested in buying an X1. Not looking good for the X1...

At the time I made the prediction it only needed 10k weekly.

43 % of those X360 users are going to buy a next gen console when X1 price cuts.

The 10k weekly tagline was wrong from the beginning. X1 needed to outsell the PS4 weekly by an even greater margin at the time you made your prediction. Your prediction will never come true because the PS4 will outsell the X1 by great margins when Driveclub and Destiny releases later this year. The PS4 might get some boost in the US when Samurai Warriors 4 and Guilty Gears come out, too. Did you not read carefully enough from the survey? 43% of 360 users did not buy a next-gen console yet. Of those 43%, 58% are still not interested in buying an X1. That means that only 18% (multiply 43% by 0.42) of the 360 users who have not bought a next-gen console are interested in buying an X1. That is horrendously bad.