Intrinsic said:
CommonNinja said:
Just like to coment on a few of your predictions...
1.) No way MS drops the price that steep, they would be losing too much money, and just annoy investors. Also, Sony aren't really in a position where they need to worry about Xbox so much, and considering that PS4 is selling so well at $400, and that sony is losing money, they will not care to drop the price any, and especially not $100. Also...what do you mean price drop 'again'?
2.) I could see this happening throughtout the first half of the year, but not for the total years sales. Xbox One has some much bigger exclusives comming next year than this one. Just think, next year you will have Quantum Break -> Forza 6 -> Rise of the Tomb Raider -> Halo 5 Gaurdians. And Fable will be mixed in there somewhere maybe late spring/summer, and there is also the possibility of a Gears of War colection.
Halo will be huge for US and UK (already have 2 friends that are waiting for H5 to make the jump), but the other games like Tomb Raider, Quantum Break, and Forza 5 are games that could do quite will in Europe as well. So I don't think they will sell less...I think they will be up year on year by about 20%.
3.) Your joking right??? Well, I think it depends on how good the beta goes, and if they have a good E3 showing. I personally though think it will move a ton of units.
Your right about Halo MCC hurting them, but I think a lot of people are still going to wait simply because of the cost. Like I mentioned earlier, I know a lot of people who are still waiting for Halo 5....
anyways, few disagreeances aside, you have some nice predictions in there!
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- Agreed, that prediction may have been a bit overzealous. But a $50 price drop is pretty much a given. As for sony matching the price, as I said its not really about worrying about the XB1. Its about moving more consoles. The only thing stopping sony right now is sony themselves. MS will be dropping their price to prevent the gap from getting too large too quickly, sony on the other hand will be doing it to increase their market share as fast as possible.
- Yes, XB1 does have some great games coming out next year.. no doubt about that. But the only real stand alone games in its list are Fable and QB. One of which is a new IP. By stand alone games I mean that every other game they are releasing is more or less a follow up to an existing IP from the franchise on the XB1. Hqlo MCC will have no doubt take away some sales from halo 5 and forza 4 and forza horizon has pretty much moved over most of the forza fanbase already. But if the XB1 has as bad as a first 9 months or even worse as it has this year, then all those games combined, even if they amount to 5M in sales... will not do much to the overall XB1's years end bottom line.
- That was actually my boldest prediction. You can't make predictions without throwing something crazy into the mix. tht was one of mine :)
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1.) That sounds reasonable.
2.) Hmm, still not sure that all forza fans have moved. There are a lot that switched to PS4, but may get X1 as a secondary console in the future once price is better, and a few more exclusives are out.
3.) Ok, got it! I'm personally super stoaked for the next halo, and so are my friends. They aren't getting an X1 or MCC yet, but will probabally come over to my house to play it on my X1 :p. 343 really does have a lot to prove with this next game though. A lot of people dissapointed with H4's Multiplayer, so hopefully they can recapture that lightning in a bottle with this next game (after all, Halo 4 was thier verry first game as a studio, so now that they have some experience).
