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Bullsrun on 14 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Could well happen. Xbox is a popular brand here and Halo really is big here.

I've heard a good few people saying they prefer the Xbox One over the PS4 as well.


I always lol when people post such rubbish, my friend said that they prefer this that my bff prefers that and this lol.  What weight of significance that it carry that anyone should give a rats ass about it at all.   

More prefer the PS4, UK sales show it month after month.  But you heard a few people say they like X1 more, tide is clearly turning.  :) 



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Xevross on 14 October 2014
Bullsrun said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Could well happen. Xbox is a popular brand here and Halo really is big here.

I've heard a good few people saying they prefer the Xbox One over the PS4 as well.


I always lol when people post such rubbish, my friend said that they prefer this that my bff prefers that and this lol.  What weight of significance that it carry that anyone should give a rats ass about it at all.   

More prefer the PS4, UK sales show it month after month.  But you heard a few people say they like X1 more, tide is clearly turning.  :) 

He never said it means the tide is turning, or that you should give a rats ass. Its just a bit of anecdotal info and if it annoys you then just ignore it.



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Bullsrun on 14 October 2014
Xevross said:
Bullsrun said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Could well happen. Xbox is a popular brand here and Halo really is big here.

I've heard a good few people saying they prefer the Xbox One over the PS4 as well.


I always lol when people post such rubbish, my friend said that they prefer this that my bff prefers that and this lol.  What weight of significance that it carry that anyone should give a rats ass about it at all.   

More prefer the PS4, UK sales show it month after month.  But you heard a few people say they like X1 more, tide is clearly turning.  :) 

He never said it means the tide is turning, or that you should give a rats ass. Its just a bit of anecdotal info and if it annoys you then just ignore it.


is there an ignore user option on here somewhere ?



Xevross on 14 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:

Yeah, exactly that. I never tried to say it means Xbox One will do better than PS4. It's just a few people, but hey at least it does show that Xbox One does have some interest and at least has a chance to do better. Unlike some countries (Japan) where you wouldn't hear anyone saying that

Yeah there is still clearly a lot of interest in XB1 and it should do quite decently here. The holiday sales will be interesting because there's no indication how far behind PS4 will it be.



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Robbie2010 on 14 October 2014

MCC + COD + "some tricks" will somehow get the Xbone ahead of PS4 even though they only managed to beat PS4 during 4 weeks in 2014 in the UK? It is possible but considering free games, pricecut, titanfall among other exclusives only managed to get 4 weeks I doubt it.



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drake_tolu on 14 October 2014

Not impossible, but i don't think.

25 % chance imho.



Bullsrun on 14 October 2014

For the year its 570k PS4 to 350k X1 according to vg

PS4 at 62% share between the two, any one have a reason backed by something other then hope why that will reverse in Nov/Dec ???? magic or you believe it will do not count as a good reason.

As far as HMCC, have old remakes/collection ever bumped new hardware over it rival to make any one think hmcc will ?



Blood_Tears on 14 October 2014

I like how the op assumes the X360 user will automatically go to X1. Trends say they'll likely migrate to PS4.

Also, wasn't FIFA an Xbox centric game as well in the UK? The difference in sales between the FIFA sku's was similar to the CoD sku's over the years. Looking at the sales of FIFA 15, Sony gained market share of the IP in the UK and PS4 ousold X1 in the UK during the month of September. (FIFA is a bigger release than Halo in UK as well)



DonFerrari on 14 October 2014

It is quite possible altought I think it won't. And of course some preffer x1, if not it wouldn't be selling anything considerable.



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Callum_Alexander on 14 October 2014

Not anecdotal because I don't care enough about console wars to make it up, but just in my modest social circle and a little beyond it, a lot of people seem to be going for the PlayStation as opposed to the Xbox this generation. Microsoft lost a lot of good-will when they decided to include Kinect with every console, not to mention the fact that the last few years of the Xbox 360's life were awful in terms of game releases.

As a generalisation we Brits are fairly savvy shoppers so it just doesn't make sense to spend the same or more money for less, exclusive titles be damned. I think if the Xbox were cheaper than the PlayStation 4 - or comparably powerful - then your prediction may come true, but as it stands I'm not entirely certain that it will. All I can say is that me and a lot of others I know used to play exclusively on Xbox 360, but now we play exclusively on PlayStation 4. We'll just have to wait and see though.