Question is. What is the best release date for a game like that? February, September? Clearly all guns during the holidays isn't always the best choice.

Odd... I really thought I had seen 200 million around somewhere... perhaps I mistook them for generation wide numbers...

And those predictions were when I thought the PS2 sold 200M. If it sold 155M, then I need to revise them. The XONE ones were mostly me going by the ongoing trend of the XONE always trailing behind the PS4 by 10-15M units...

That said, if the growth stays the same, we know it'll be upwards of 80M for sure...

Fixed ;)

So Blops X1 being given away with x1s during half of the month (in case you don't know what i'm talking about, during week 1 and 3 of November you could get Blops 3 free with any X1 purchase, and it didn't count as a bundled copy because it wasn't a bundle, despite being paid for in full by MS themselves) only outsold non-bundled ps4 version by 50k? Yep, the switch is real. At this rate next year the PS4 version won't even need bundles to be the #1 sku unless MS extends the promo they did to all 4 weeks of the month

Also means the VGC numbers for the game are wrong (we already saw if was overtracked, now we know PS4 should be #1 sku, not 2, because VGC counts bundles.

I meant in the U.S. alone. This is an NPD thread, after all. Globally, I suspect combined PS4+XBO sales to be in the neighborhood of 150-160 million, less than the combined ~180 million the PS2 and Xbox sold and a bit short of the combined ~170 million the PS3 & 360 sold. One reason is because Japan is a shrinking market and the PS4 will never touch the PS2's numbers there and the XBO is on track to be by far the worst-selling Xbox system ever. Also, the XBO is bombing in mainland Europe, making the region sans the UK almost a single-console market; according to VGC the PS4 is selling well over four times as much as the XBO. Another reason is because I doubt the PS4 & XBO will have the legs the PS2 did, nor do I believe this generation will be as protracted as last generation. But the PS4 & XBO should both do well enough in the U.S. to at least match and probably exceed combined PS2 & Xbox sales (~61.4M according to NPD).

The ongoing trend is the XBO selling a bit more than half of the PS4. For the gap to remain at a constant 10-15 million, the XBO would have to right now start selling at the same pace as the PS4, which it isn't. The gap is constantly increasing.

The numbers I asked several days ago. Thanks for fetching them Boutros.

so 200k BOpsIII gap in favor of PS4 and basically a tie for Fallout 4 (both when bundles are considered)

Or The Order is the better game =p Will people still use userbase and non-holiday as excuses for game flops?

His numbers are all bogus asspulls. Every time I ask for evidence of source he run.