We won't confirm it until NPD.

But how many people will honestly be surprised to see that VGC overtracked XB1? Three people? Four people? It would honestly be amazing to me if they didn't overtrack it, as that's been the consistent theme of the entire year, lol.

I have no problem with that.

I would note, however, that if NPD shows XB1 to be overtracked on VGC once more, and that the gap is sizable yet again, that Amazon would be 6 for 6 for 2014 at that point. VGC has overtracked XB1 every month this year by a decent amount to a huge sum except one IIRC.

You mean the one official price cut in UK (which was overpriced anyway to be honest) and you mean the 3rd party multiplat that was given away that boosted X1 sales and really hurt EA's profits more then anything?

Breaking promises? Because they have been doing right by their fans this entire year so far with policy shifts (no apps behind gold paywall, Games for Gold X1, solid firmware updates). Don't know what console war you are following.

All this within 8 months of release (not long at all given the length of these gens) and before their approx. 30 countries to launch in come September. Sooooooo that said, 35k gap before September is just fine. I just think you are making it look worse because you prefer the gap to be bigger then 35k.

Those '30 countries' will probably sell less XB1's than Illinois or Florida. And not by a small margin. Why? They're already available en masse, and even the surrounding regions of greater Europe are a bloodbath for XB1, nor did the 360 (massively more successful in Europe vs XB1 in terms of market share) do well in those areas.

Those are '2nd tier' countries for a reason. ~5k/week in those regions combined in terms of a boost would be HUGELY impressive. More likely, it won't show as a boost at all, the 'official' sales trickle will simply replace the 'import' sales trickle.

Wii U baseline seems to be about double what it was. Hopefully it can hold on despite a lack of major releases.

Titanfall helped X1 get ahead of PS4 for one week.  And it was given away.  One week

They have done plenty of good things in the last year, but they break their major promise, if Sony did the same you would heavily critcize them.

And once again, these 30 territories launching in September are all countries that are either small, Sony dominated, or both.  If you need to ignore all these things and tell yourself that China will make a difference, or 30 territories in September will make a difference or any of the many other things that were meant to be 'gamechangers' for the X1 will make a difference, then go ahead.  I think you ae trying to make it look better than it is because after all that MS has done to try to improve things, X1 sales are still only 50% of PS4s

I think he means they should have made the $399 price WITH the Kinect (and with the various bundle offers such as Forza or Titanfall).

We'll know at NPD in less than a week if that's true. I'm betting VGC is overtracking the XB1 considerably once again.

This whole bunch of mainly ports/remakes/niche games isn't going to move a lot of hardware

Wii U is keeping on par with XBOne and 3DS outselling PS4 gives the vibe that the tides are turning. Although PS3 outselling both next gen consoles in Europe is still hilarious

As a predictor of market position for PS4 vs Xb one in NPD it seems to be a very good barometer. But it's no basis for predicting absolute sales for any console. But since VGC has the June NPD weeks adding up to PS4 win by about 3K It seems Amazon and VGC are in agreement for once.