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@firefly
I accept all bets that accepted of course, I want as many avatars under my control as possible.

@intrinsic
They're right. the problem is that x1 will sell a huge amount during the holidays, and in that time, ps4 will lose it's 100% bonus.

basically, for every million that x1 sells, ps4 needs to sell 2m. The reason why my prediction seems so impossible is because people think it can't outsell that through the year. But it doesn't need to, because it can reach +100% at least once this year, but that will be gone by early holiday.

The problem also has to do with volume. Early in the year ps4 can easily do 4-1 several times.. but at only 30m total consoles combined, the bet is kind of skewed in my favor...because small numbers and a small total make bigger impacts. However, once christmas rolls around and ps4 and x1 have even just one week at 1m each, it erases many weeks of being 4-1 ratio.
ie, as the numbers get higher and higher, it gets harder and harder to acheive....until the point that one flatlines.



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RolStoppable said:
Intrinsic said:

Simple math says you are wrong. 

As of January 2014, PS4 was ~4.2M and XB1 was ~3.3M. Approximately 30% lead to the PS4.

As of January 2015, PS4 is 18.5 and XB1 is ~11M. That's approximately a 42% advantage to the PS4.

As long as the PS4 keeps selling better than the XB1 every year, then it means its overall lead is growing and it will just be a matter of time. Having said that, I don't think its happening this year, but maybe around 2016/2017.

The same thing was explained to you last summer.

Your conclusion (bolded) is easily disproven when we put LTD by end of 2015 for PS4 at 30m and One at 20m. That translates to 11.5m and 9m for the year, respectively, so the PS4 was selling better in this example. However, the PS4's advantage shrinks to 33%.

EDIT: Something doesn't add up here. At first I thought it was my mistake, but then I realized that it's yours. For the first percentage, you used the Xbox One LTD as 100% basis, but for the second percentage you used the PS4 as 100% basis.

Yeah, it's actually a 68% advantage



vivster said:
theprof00 said:
vivster said:
theprof00 said:

Your avatar is on the line. Don't be fooled. I made this bet because it seems impossible. But it's actually kind of doable.

Don't confuse "doable" with "theoretically possible". Would be awesome if it did but I'm still very pessimistic about the whole gen in general.

It seems kinda unreal and actually I'm seeing PS4 barely at 2:1 weekly.

Again, average weeks is misleading. ps4 is very capable of 200k per week..

ok look, here's just a small breakdown, because now I want that avatar.

last year, ps4 sold 65% of it's total sales over a 42 week period starting january.
And almost 47% by September 1st.

Over the same time it took x1 42 weeks to hit 45% of sales. 55% of sales in the last 10 weeks, and only 2.2m by sept.1 out of 8m....barely 26%

Looking at the numbers for the year:
If ps4 does 18m, then we'll see somewhere around 8m by sept 1.
Same for x1 at say 8m, and we'll see 2m

This would put numbers at sept 1 at 26.8m ps4 and 13.1m x1...even if ps4 sells a full million less (on course for under 15m YTD) it will be close.

I am expecting a ps4 price drop at e3 or even in march, alongside bloodborne.

Chinese national release
Price drop
Big first party releases

How bout this. If I win, I get your avatar for life or until I decide to give it back to you.

The mistake you are making is you're predicting a boost for PS4 while pretending X1 will stay flat. Sure, there is no Titanfall this year but overall the base will be higher, which will make up for the big sellers.

I never bet everything, no matter how sure I am about things.

Let's make it a gentlemen's agreement. If your prediction is correct I will choose myself an Avatar in honor of your mad preduction skillz, or maybe just something in my sig if I can't find something nice. If you lose, you may choose a way to atone in a way you see fit.

You're right, that is what I'm predicting...and it's no mistake.
Perhaps a chicken will be a suitable avatar :D

im just kidding bud. It's a fine wager, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose. I'm just messing around. I do think it will be close though. Probably the closest chance sony has until end of the gen.



BMaker11 said:
Metroid33slayer said:

So you think in the next 8 months that the ps4 will ship/sell 7.4m units to 1.9m units on xboxone, are you crazy? That's a ratio of 3.9 to 1 from now untill september. I don't know what's worse your prediction that ps4 will double xboxone during september or that the xboxone will only sell 1.9m in the next 8 months.

Other than the last two months of 2014, PS4 was outselling XBone by 2:1 or more for 2014.

And now, Xbone doesn't have the effect of "I might as well get an XBone now because it's super cheap and the price will go back up soon". Couple that with the apparent software drought, exclusive-wise, compared to PS4 in the first 2 quarters of the year + games that are multiplatform but will give PS a bigger boost (Type 0 because Japan, Arkham Knight because of exclusive marketing and content, etc), is it really so far fetched? Not to mention if Sony drops a price cut at E3.

That said, I don't think it'll happen by September. But I took your post to mean "PS4 won't double Xbone at all in 2015". Or is the fact that OP specified September the only thing you have a gripe with?

Outselling a system 2 to 1 isn't the same as outselling it 4 to 1, the ps4 didn't even manage to outsell wii u 4 to 1 for the whole of 2014. As for when ps4 will double xboxone's lifetime sales i predict that the xboxone will sell 65 m lifetime and ps4 110m so i don't think it ever will happen.



RolStoppable said:

The same thing was explained to you last summer.

Your conclusion (bolded) is easily disproven when we put LTD by end of 2015 for PS4 at 30m and One at 20m. That translates to 11.5m and 9m for the year, respectively, so the PS4 was selling better in this example. However, the PS4's advantage shrinks to 33%.

EDIT: Something doesn't add up here. At first I thought it was my mistake, but then I realized that it's yours. For the first percentage, you used the Xbox One LTD as 100% basis, but for the second percentage you used the PS4 as 100% basis.

EDIT2: Alright, setting the record straight. If in all cases the Xbox One total is used as 100% basis, then the advantage for the PS4 is:

End of 2013: 30%
End of 2014: 70%
End of 2015: 50%

in both cases I used the XB1 as my 100% basis. the difference here is in what you believe the annual sales will be. 

But that's putting the PS4 at 30M sold to 20M sold at the end of 2015. Meaning you're suggesting that the PS4 will sell at least 2.3M less this year than it did las year. Don't see how that males sense. While I a, suggesting that that PS4 will sell at least 2.5M more this year than it did last year. So I expect the PS4 to be at at least 36-37M by the end of 2015. 

Either way I get where you are coming from, and for the most part I'm in agreement. I just feel that it will only be a matter of time, if the PS4 keeps doing 2:1+ sale years. 



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How in the world are you guys going to decide who was right and who was wrong? MS is being excessively shy with its Xbone sell-through numbers and you're all assuming that VGC's #s are accurate, which many people on gaf are doubting. People on gaf are putting Xbone sell-through numbers at 9m - 9.5m.

Seriously, 11m sell-through for Xbone is bullcrap. No way Xbone is past 10m.



Meh, this is easy, and this is why:

Up to Sep last year the PS4 and XBO sold ~6m and 2.2m respectively, during this period the only real game of note to come to the PS4 was Infamous. Meanwhile XBO got Titanfall, whilst also getting a $100 price drop. This year XBO has neither of these, whilst PS4 has a LOT more. So whilst XBO MIGHT be up, it won't be up a great deal, whereas the PS4 is almost certain to be up. Personally I'm predicting the PS4 to hit 10m by September, whilst the XBO will only hit at an absolute maximum 3m, meaning the PS4 will have doubled the XBO sales. However more likely I expect 8m Ps4 and 2m XBO.



No. XB1 has decent traction now, and even though PS4 will inevitably stay ahead, it won't double it by September



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Yea, not gonna happen. I don't really see it ever doubling it unless MS rolls over.



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Just one question. How did you come to this conclusion? The numbers just don't add up.