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thelalaby said:
Ninsect said:
Seece said:

Also XB1 won last week.


We have PS4 > XB1

Source?

The article in the OP, go to the link to read the whole thing

It's not in the article.

"Sales of both next-gen consoles were up sharply week-on-week in the UK last week as retailers offered some great Black Friday deals.

Overall games hardware sales (both consoles and handhelds) soared past 300k units, a retail source has told MCV. Home console sales in the UK are at this point double were they were at the same stage in 2013, although the handheld market is down by almost a third.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One saw sales double week-on-week, with Xbox One again just edging ahead of its rival.

This continues Xbox One’s recent momentum, which has seen it reach 1m sales in the UK a little over 2m months afterPS4 did the same, although it falls short of the barnstorming victory Microsoft’s machine apparently saw in the US over the weekend.

The gap between Xbox One and PS4 continues to narrow, with Xbox One deals a more visible presence than either PS4 or Wii U both on the High Street and online this weekend."



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kowenicki said:
poklane said:
kowenicki said:
poklane said:
 

Yeah, XB1 really showed that when there was nothing exclusive releasing and there were no deals going on during Q1-Q3 this year.

So, tell me what changed?  what do you think did this?  Could it.... no... surely.... please dont tell me price is 95% of the reason..... it cant be that because people ridiculed that opinion.

The only reason XB1 is outselling the PS4 in the UK (and US) currently is that it's having way better deals than the PS4, deals Microsoft wont continue into 2015. If the price is even then PS4 will outsell it.

I know, I agree.  But when I said price was a massive factor earleir this year many many people scoffed and said no... PS4 is just better in every regard, price isnt relevant.

Price is THE major factor... always is, always will be.

Well, in defense of the people who "scoffed" your opinion earlier this year:

You were screaming from the heavens that price was 95% of the reason sales were low, and once it was cut, sales would skyrocket. Then the price was cut to $449 at major retailers in March/April and $399 with Kinect removal.....and nothing happened.

Kinda disingenous to make a "I was right all along" comment, when you weren't



kowenicki said:
man-bear-pig said:
Even right now you can get a PS4 with TLOU:R for £289.99. Cheapest Xbone bundle is the £299.99 AC bundle which is sold out


You mean they dropped the price by $100 (£60) and threw in a free game already??  no way!

Seriously, people need to get over this prce drop thing as being one sided desperation. 

This isnt the last gen or the previous gen.  This is the current gen... and it seems that both are prepared to go aggressive in price asap.


Yeah i just posted that, the PS4 lovers thinks its only the Xbox that is dropping its price .....

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kowenicki said:
Demesne said:
kowenicki said:
psrock said:
Congratulations to Xbox on edging out the PS4 in the UK last week.


for the last 5 weeks...


Wow congratulations i guess, but didnt PS4 more then edge out X1 in NA for 11 months.  

Seems when you are down and out even a week or two is casue for gloating and acting arrogant.  That will really bite you in the ass i predict.  Given people affinety to bump old threads to ridicule peopel.  Truth be told most deserve it so no harm but plenty loughs to be had.  

I think winning November and probably now December in the UK is significant... if you dont then fine, but I then wonder why you are posting in this thread?


Given amount its winning by and how much it took to achive it io see little to no significance in it.  Sorry iv been selling good for over a decade, iv seen this happen enough to understand it and know this is a temporary thing.  Unless MS is to announce an official price cut to be the BF price bundle price.



Ninsect said:
thelalaby said:
Ninsect said:
Seece said:

Also XB1 won last week.


We have PS4 > XB1

Source?

The article in the OP, go to the link to read the whole thing

It's not in the article.

"Sales of both next-gen consoles were up sharply week-on-week in the UK last week as retailers offered some great Black Friday deals.

Overall games hardware sales (both consoles and handhelds) soared past 300k units, a retail source has told MCV. Home console sales in the UK are at this point double were they were at the same stage in 2013, although the handheld market is down by almost a third.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One saw sales double week-on-week, with Xbox One again just edging ahead of its rival.

This continues Xbox One’s recent momentum, which has seen it reach 1m sales in the UK a little over 2m months afterPS4 did the same, although it falls short of the barnstorming victory Microsoft’s machine apparently saw in the US over the weekend.

The gap between Xbox One and PS4 continues to narrow, with Xbox One deals a more visible presence than either PS4 or Wii U both on the High Street and online this weekend."





 

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kowenicki said:
man-bear-pig said:
Even right now you can get a PS4 with TLOU:R for £289.99. Cheapest Xbone bundle is the £299.99 AC bundle which is sold out


You mean they dropped the price by $100 (£60) and threw in a free game already??  no way!

Seriously, people need to get over this prce drop thing as being one sided desperation. 

This isnt the last gen or the previous gen.  This is the current gen... and it seems that both are prepared to go aggressive in price asap.

Hmm, well, I'm not entirely sure Sony is.  I mean they did bundles sure, but that's not really the same as a price drop is it?  I was also curious, and you'd probably be a good person to ask this, what do you think an appropriate timeframe following BF and other such high deal holidays, is it for a company to officially do a price drop?  Ergo, without pissing off a whole bunch of people who just bought your product, kind of thing?  Or do companies even really care about that?  I was thinking Sony would now be kind of locked into their current price model until at least after the new year+.  Even though we know they're making slight amounts of money on each console sold?

Sony doesn't appear to be as anxious this gen to absorb losses on each console, like they were with the PS3 (though, admittedly, they had to given the cost of the machine...but you know what I mean).  Obviously they could be basically selling the machine for 100-$150 if they were to take as much of a dent per unit, as they did with the PS3, so not talking about that.  I mean more along the lines of 25-50, something marginal?

Anyway, was just something I was thinking about earlier.

OP:  Congratz to the Xbox One, figured they'd do well this holiday, I'm still curious to see what the new baseline looks like post-holiday rush.  But, for now, Microsoft definitely put forth a great deal of effort to move hardware in the UK/US.  So, good to see people acknowledging those efforts.



Seece said:
Ninsect said:
thelalaby said:
Ninsect said:
Seece said:

Also XB1 won last week.


We have PS4 > XB1

Source?

The article in the OP, go to the link to read the whole thing

It's not in the article.

"Sales of both next-gen consoles were up sharply week-on-week in the UK last week as retailers offered some great Black Friday deals.

Overall games hardware sales (both consoles and handhelds) soared past 300k units, a retail source has told MCV. Home console sales in the UK are at this point double were they were at the same stage in 2013, although the handheld market is down by almost a third.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One saw sales double week-on-week, with Xbox One again just edging ahead of its rival.

This continues Xbox One’s recent momentum, which has seen it reach 1m sales in the UK a little over 2m months afterPS4 did the same, although it falls short of the barnstorming victory Microsoft’s machine apparently saw in the US over the weekend.

The gap between Xbox One and PS4 continues to narrow, with Xbox One deals a more visible presence than either PS4 or Wii U both on the High Street and online this weekend."



I ask again. This never states it won last week.

 

Also it's pretty funny that they quote InfoScout for the US lol



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lol MCV quoting infoscout. can we wait for real numbers. MCV is reliable as VGCHARTZ



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man-bear-pig said:

Don't understsnd why people are saying the Xbone had better deals than the PS4...everywhere I seen they were pretty much the same price and the PS4 deals actually were better in some places


this
at least in the uk, u could get incredible great ps4 deals. just like the xb1 ones
in main land europe, u can get great ps4 deal, too. but the xb1 is still always cheaper and u got more free stuff.



Ninsect said:
Seece said:
Ninsect said:

It's not in the article.

"Sales of both next-gen consoles were up sharply week-on-week in the UK last week as retailers offered some great Black Friday deals.

Overall games hardware sales (both consoles and handhelds) soared past 300k units, a retail source has told MCV. Home console sales in the UK are at this point double were they were at the same stage in 2013, although the handheld market is down by almost a third.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One saw sales double week-on-week, with Xbox One again just edging ahead of its rival.

This continues Xbox One’s recent momentum, which has seen it reach 1m sales in the UK a little over 2m months afterPS4 did the same, although it falls short of the barnstorming victory Microsoft’s machine apparently saw in the US over the weekend.

The gap between Xbox One and PS4 continues to narrow, with Xbox One deals a more visible presence than either PS4 or Wii U both on the High Street and online this weekend."



I ask again. This never states it won last week.

 

Also it's pretty funny that they quote InfoScout for the US lol

It's pretty damn obvious that's what it means.