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tak13 on 20 November 2014
ethomaz said:
DerNebel said:

Btw, this just underlines that the german PS4 announcement was sold through even more. About 2.3m (maybe more depending on where the PS4 stands) PS4s+X1s sold in the UK in mid November versus about 1.2m PS4s+X1s in Germany in mid October. Very plausible.

If Xbone only outsold the PS4 the last three weeks after the 1m announce then you can be sure PS4 number is around 1.4m.

1.4m UK

1m Germany

Seems right.

I'm just curious about the others countries.

i doubt that ps4 is undertracked in uk. Vgc seems that tracks it pretty well there!Let me remind you that vgc had ps4 at 1m before sony uk announced that they sold 1m. Also mcv uk had said that ps4+xbone was at 1.8m as of 27th September(vgc had ps4 at 1.1 and xbone before the adjustment down by 70k,at 797k)!Vgc  undertracked xbone in October,as for ps4 i don t think it s undertracked in UK.:P



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The Fury on 20 November 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
That's surprising. But maybe in North London is where PS4 is the more popular one....

I'd like Xbox to outsell PS4 by the end of the gen. MS can do it. It's still possible.

Not really surprising, big releases of CoD, MCC and Sunset Overdrive plus a pricecut of the basic console has helped it pull ahead for a few weeks. Yet the numbers compared to what they have here is a huge difference. 

They may be able to if they keep with supplying games that people want, last gen they seemed to kind give up, which is why many adopted the PS3 later on.



Hmm, pie.

ethomaz on 20 November 2014
tak13 said:
ethomaz said:
DerNebel said:

Btw, this just underlines that the german PS4 announcement was sold through even more. About 2.3m (maybe more depending on where the PS4 stands) PS4s+X1s sold in the UK in mid November versus about 1.2m PS4s+X1s in Germany in mid October. Very plausible.

If Xbone only outsold the PS4 the last three weeks after the 1m announce then you can be sure PS4 number is around 1.4m.

1.4m UK

1m Germany

Seems right.

I'm just curious about the others countries.

i doubt that ps4 is undertracked in uk. Vgc seems that tracks it pretty well there!Let me remind you that vgc had ps4 at 1m before sony uk announced that they sold 1m. Also mcv uk had said that ps4+xbone was at 1.8m as of 27th September(vgc had ps4 at 1.1 and xbone before the adjustment down by 70k,at 797k)!Vgc  undertracked xbone in October,as for ps4 i don t think it s undertracked in UK.:P

It is.

If not Xbone outsold it way more than 3 weeks in a row... and there is the 50k avg per week between the two.

VGC is being pretty useless in tracking sales.



S.T.A.G.E. on 20 November 2014

Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.



soony_xbone_U on 20 November 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.


This is Uk, not US



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DerNebel on 20 November 2014
tak13 said:
ethomaz said:

If Xbone only outsold the PS4 the last three weeks after the 1m announce then you can be sure PS4 number is around 1.4m.

1.4m UK

1m Germany

Seems right.

I'm just curious about the others countries.

i doubt that ps4 is undertracked in uk. Vgc seems that it tracks pretty well there!Let me remind you that vgc had ps4 at 1m before sony uk announced that they sold 1m. Also mcv uk had said that ps4+xbone was at 1.8m as of 27th September(vgc had ps4 at 1.1 and xbone before the adjustment down by 70k,at 797k)!Vgc  undertracked xbone in October,as for ps4 i don t think it s undertracked in UK.:P

There's nothing to doubt here, simple logic dictates that the PS4 has to be undertracked in the UK. At the time of the 1 million PS4 announcement in the UK it was said that the X1 had about 2/3 of that so about 660k.

That was the Destiny week so 9 weeks earlier, this article says that the X1 has outsold the PS4 in the UK for the last 3 weeks, meaning that for the other 6 weeks the PS4 has outsold the X1 and thus build up its lead over the system.

So what this tells us is that the lead of the PS4 was about 340k in September, then it grew for six more weeks, then it became smaller for 3 weeks at the end of which the X1 crossed the 1 million mark. The PS4 not being undertracked would mean that the gap in the UK has shrunk to about 250k (assuming vgchartz shows the PS4 at 1.25m at the 15th) in 3 weeks basically, do you see how that is unrealistic?



DerNebel on 20 November 2014
soony_xbone_U said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.


This is Uk, not US

They have tons of holiday deals in the UK as well.



S.T.A.G.E. on 20 November 2014
soony_xbone_U said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.


This is Uk, not US

Oops! Didn't MS drop the price in the UK as well?



soony_xbone_U on 20 November 2014
DerNebel said:
soony_xbone_U said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.


This is Uk, not US

They have tons of holiday deals in the UK as well.

Yes, but the pricecut to 329 in Uk was way before the 50$ pricecut in the US
And there is no way the price will go back up again in the UK, because the Ps4 is also selling for that price at most retailer.

Thats the difference between US and UK pricing.

S.T.A.G.E. said:
soony_xbone_U said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Lets see how great this surge is once their price goes back to $400 in January. It's good to be taking advantage of the holiday season because this is Microsoft's strongest point of the year.


This is Uk, not US

Oops! Didn't MS drop the price in the UK as well?

Yes, but in September and not marked as "teporarily"



ICStats on 20 November 2014

If Amazon UK is anything to go by, this is not true.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/2014-11/videogames#1

November ranks:
#38 XB1 + FIFA
#39 PS4 + COD
#65 PS4 + GTAV
#77 XB1 + COD + Forza 5
#79 PS4 SKU
#87 PS4 + FIFA
#92 PS4 + Destiny



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