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We know the gap was 1.1m before Dec and Nov, so what do you folks think the gap will be stretched to by the end of THIS year? I'm going to say 1.1m - 1.2m but MS won't grab as many back as they did last year. The duries out on whether it will close the gap at all to be honest.



 

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GribbleGrunger said:

We know the gap was 1.1m before Dec and Nov, so what do you folks think the gap will be stretched to by the end of THIS year? I'm going to say 1.1m - 1.2m but MS won't grab as many back as they did last year. The duries out on whether it will close the gap at all to be honest.


1.3 million without price cut, 1.6 million with price cut



thedawghousev2 said:


1.3 million without price cut, 1.6 million with price cut

I thought about going higher but as usual I copped out. I can defnitely see that's possible. I reckon they'll grab around 250k back by the end of March.

January: 60k - 70k (adjusted up because of Amazon and Gaf insiders)
Febrary: 70k - 80k (because of The Order)
March: 90k - 110k (because of The Order momentum and Bloodborne)



 

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Aeolus451 said:
I'm gonna have to disagree with the majority of posters on this thread. I believe that the xbone will win the US. A lot of people are forgetting or forgiving the DRM debacle. Americans have horrible memory and they love shooters which is MS's focus in terms of new IP's & first party games. MS has tunnel vision on the states and it will aggressively do whatever bundles or price cuts to beat sony there. Including trying to appeal to more casuals.


Umm...what?



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thismeintiel said:
AlfredoTurkey said:


Funny, I own a PS4 and none of my friends have one.

The more you start off your posts like this, the more I (and others) will believe you don't own one.  Especially when what follows that is always a post to dismiss or downplay the PS4.

@ OP

I agree.  If Amazon continues to be 100% right, then it seems even a $50 price advantage, with 2 free games thrown in, isn't enough to compete with the PS4 in the longterm.  And this year, the PS4 should definitely be dropping to $349, as well.  Is MS really going to try and drop it an aditional $50, just to compete in the US?  I seriously doubt it.  I mean thanks to their holiday cuts, XBO sales may have exploded for two months, but revenue from Xbox was still down 20% compared to a quarter where sales weren't that great.  We'll have to see what they decide to do this November, though.

On a side note, gotta love the irony in someone saying we shouldn't care about sales on a sales site.  Especially when they are one of the most frequent posters in this very thread. 


lol yeah i've seen on multiple occasions alfredoturkey saying no one he knows has a ps4



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Neither will win the US easily. Will finish up close either way, currently likely the PS4 just edging it out as no way MS will let the US go without a fight.



lol imagine if xbox one wins npd, how stupid i would look



KBG29 said:
It will be a very interesting race. I expect both consoles to take off like crazy once Sling TV and PlayStation Vue arrive. For the first part of the year Sony has a huge advantage in the games department, and with the addition of PlayStation Music Powered By Spotify, they look to have the best multimedia in every field as well.

I think the winner is going to come down to who can make their console more convienent. The more apps, the more reasons to buy, and the more demographics it opens up to. We are at the point were the console is the center of the television experience. The only thing left to do is take over non entertainment consumer time. This means shopping, art, programming, word processing, spread sheets, photo editing, general web use, e-mail, etc.


You just described a PC :D



Shadow1980 said:
Oh, and for those who think Halo 5 will make a huge difference, keep this in mind: a combination of Halo 3 and a price cut were not enough to provide a truly sustained boost to 360 sales. The combination of those two factors did make September 2007 one of the best non-holiday months ever for the 360 in the U.S., but sales were down 30% the next month, and by spring of 2008 the 360 was back to where it was before the price cut. Furthermore, subsequent Halo games appear to have had a negligible effect on hardware sales.

One of the lessons that the history of game sales teaches us is that individual software releases by themselves rarely have the ability to provide any kind of substantial long-term boost, much less carry an entire system by itself. The number of titles that fit this description probably numbers no greater than half a dozen, and the seventh generation suggests that no future Halo game will ever be added to that group. The fact that Halo as a franchise has not seen any real growth since Halo 3 (first-month sales were flat from H3 to Reach to H4, and VGC cumulative data also indicates very similar performances over time) lends further credence to my claim that Halo 5 will not be a significant factor in long-term Xbox One sales.


Gah! I usually love it when you post facts brother but not in this case because I need the X1 to win the US. >____<



So you think the PS4 is going to win in the US just because it's CURRENTLY selling higher on Amazon?

Going by that logic the Xbox One won the US already then because during December it sold the most on Amazon as well and was winning.

So I guess Xbox One is destined to win the US easily, according to this.