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Nuvendil said:
For those interested, the Wii U has dipped in to 56 in the hourly, but two of those spots are due to something that surprised me: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse jumped way up to 32 and Mario Party 10 jumped to 46.


Better than last year at least.



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Ps4 dropping in price officially in spring.



Intrinsic said:
Maybe we should start focusing on how big a gap Sony will build again before the end of this year. Cause if PS4 wins this NPD, I don't see what or how XB1 will take any month between now and November. And even that is debateable cause we know uncharted 4 and halo will launch within a week of each other.


Agreed.  See, the thing that people don't realize is that Xbox won December 2013 also, and the gap was only 100k or so.  This time the gap is 600k.  So the real question is whether the Xbox One will be 1 million units behind come January 2016 even with another steller holiday. 



Tachikoma said:
Ps4 dropping in price officially in spring.

Link?



 

The PS5 Exists. 


GribbleGrunger said:
Tachikoma said:
Ps4 dropping in price officially in spring.

Link?


Why would it.  I mean seriously.  If people keep buying it at the current price... what difference does it make.



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Angelv577 said:
Nuvendil said:
For those interested, the Wii U has dipped in to 56 in the hourly, but two of those spots are due to something that surprised me: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse jumped way up to 32 and Mario Party 10 jumped to 46.


Better than last year at least.

Yeah, a lot better.  I'm really surprised, the Wii U has done absolutely terrible on Amazon for a long, long time.  But then again, the list price is now (finally) at MSRP so that's probably why.  That and opinions on the Wii U have greatly improved.  We'll see how long Nintendo can make it at that $299 price though.



CosmicSex said:
Intrinsic said:
Maybe we should start focusing on how big a gap Sony will build again before the end of this year. Cause if PS4 wins this NPD, I don't see what or how XB1 will take any month between now and November. And even that is debateable cause we know uncharted 4 and halo will launch within a week of each other.


Agreed.  See, the thing that people don't realize is that Xbox won December 2013 also, and the gap was only 100k or so.  This time the gap is 600k.  So the real question is whether the Xbox One will be 1 million units behind come January 2016 even with another steller holiday. 


Yup! November does not matter.10 months to 2 months is a much bigger factor.Halo 5 will boost the X1,but how far ahead will PS4 be by then?



Shadow1980 said:
RJ_Sizzle said:

Probably because most of the buyers were parents looking for a cheap holiday deal for the kids. It says Xbox on it, comes with mutliple games, it's $349 or lower = good enough. Problem is this is a really fickle type of customer that's only good for the end of the year.

This is exactly my thought. I imagine the COD marketing exclusivity deal might have helped a bit as well. But overall, the only plausible explanation for why the XBO was handily outselling the PS4 in November & December but has gone right back to being outsold by the PS4 this month is due mainly to "casual" holiday shoppers looking for the lowest price tag on a machine that'll play all the big third-party games, likely non-gamer parents buying systems for their kids. Hell, my parents bought me a Sega Genesis instead of a SNES back in Christmas of '91 because it had a lower price tag, even though they knew I was a huge Nintendo fan. But now that it's back to mainly just gamers buying systems now, PlayStation is still carrying strong momentum and a healthier brand name. Pricing is important in determining how well a system sells, but it isn't everything. All other things being equal, the cheaper system should always win, but things are rarely equal.

I was pretty much dismissed, when I said this then lol.



Insidb said:

I was pretty much dismissed, when I said this then lol.

I don't understand why.  Your thought was completely logical and an obvious posibility.



CGI-Quality said:
Tachikoma said:
Ps4 dropping in price officially in spring.

You should word this as an opinion piece, or people will think you are repeating something official.

But it's a leak rather than an opinion.