if anything I think the numbers indicate that sony doesn't need a price drop. Look at all MS is throwing at the XB1 just to remain competetive. And everything weare seeing of the XB1 sales right now are just "boosts". We should all wait till numbers normalize again.

I think the XB1 is in a lot more trouble than people are letting on. $350 + free game or $250 + free game + traded in PS3/360 just to get ahead is saying a lot. Especially when the competiton does absolutely nothing. So what happenes when the PS4 is at $350 too and offering a free game?

I think Sony should hold of on a price cut until they can knock of either $80 or better still a full $100. Jumping straight to $299 would be huge. And you know Xb one will officially be $299 this time next year. I reckon Sony will be in a position to drop $100 by Oct or Nov next year.

binary solo said:

How do you come to this conclusion? this is what Mehdi wrote:

"The response to this wave of blockbuster game releases and new bundles has been amazing, and sales have skyrocketed since the new price took effect on Nov. 2. Compared to the previous week [Week ending 1 Nov], Xbox One sales in the US have more than tripled, which is exciting as more and more friends will be playing together this holiday. As we head into the busy holiday season Xbox One led generation 8 console sales in the US for the past two weeks. "

Because this PR was released on 12 Nov at most he's talking 2-12 Nov sales, so 11 Days. With the biggest days of that 10 day period being 2-8 Nov. triple 91K is 273K and it did over that. If he really is talking about an 11 day period then Xb one still would have pulled over 200K for 2-8 Nov given sales will have skewed towards that time period and proportionally ther would be lower sales during 9-12 Nov. But I think he's actually talking 2-8 Nov when he's saying more than triple. But I do acknowledge there is some ambiguity as to the time period he's referencing when saying triple the week priot to the price cut. The statement does not say "in the week following the price cut sales tripled". Who can say whether that's deliberate obfuscation or careless language? With PR one can never be exactly sure.

That's why Amazon tracking should never be used to show actual numbers.  It is a guide to show what is selling more than something else but not to determine ratio's.  Like i tried to explain in Seece's thread on the subject but everybody was too excited to see reason.

The second bolded was added by you, no?

Yeah... my mistake was that I used two weeks but it is fair to say it is 10 days because they are using MCC and Parity launch in the equation and the wrong VGC week.

So in 10 days they tripped the sales of the previous week... that I believe is the week before Nov 1 like you.

So using VGC 90k... 270k between these 10 days... with two big days Nov 2 and Nov 11... if you say 80% of the sales come from these two days I can see something like 170k for the first week and 100k for the others 3 days.

US Week ending 8th Nov 2014: ~170k
US Week ending 15th Nov 2014: > 100k

Using the VGC numbers is the key because they will change the number with the NPD today

In any case VGC is overtracking Xbone by ~100k in US this week ending 8th Nov.

PS. It is weird try to decrypt the MS spin... they can help us being more directly.