Interesting. Thanks for doing the comparison. I think lots of people, myself included, were expecting the XBO to start slipping below the sales performance of the 360.

Well you included Ratchet and Clank. That series hasn't been hot since the PS2 days and rapidly loss popularity last gen. The first one PS3 and the PSP one are the last big ones, the others sold under or close to a mill. Im sure Ni OH Nier can potentially manage at least a mill.

Isn't vita overtracked, though? I guess it already passed.

I'm impressed by 3DS's boost. Looks like Fire Emblem: Fates still moved consoles even with the 3DS being fairly old at this point.

At this rate, it's 12 weeks before ps4 doubles xb1

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It's not overtacked that I know of. I just saw a thread with posts saying the Vita is undertracked. I don't know either way, but the numbers I see say the Vita is ahead by approximately 800 000 units. So I figure, it's likely ahead by approximately 800 000 units. Close-ish in some ways, but at the rate the Wii-U is selling, a realistic date for the Wii-U to pass the Vita is the 12th of Never. Of course, it still could pass it in sales. This race actually intrigues me!

Further more, MS isn't stupid. Why bait the lion? as it stands, (espeiclalu if u look at the MB or the new 12xx PS4 models) the PS4 probably has a BOM under or around $300. The XB1 is probably around that it a little more right now. MS can drop the price of the XB1 to $249 and enjoy a minimal sales boost in NA but will still probably be unable to outsell the PS4 at $350 for more than a month. All the while taking a loss on the hardware. 

Then a month later sony can casually decide to drop the price of the PS4 to $299 and boom, everything XB1 had achieved would be wiped clean and then the ps4 will be at an even higher monthly aveegae and the lead will increase at an even more embarrassing rate. 

MS can as twisted as it may sound, rest easy in the knowledge that Sony will probably not drop the price of the PS4 till they do. 

Doesnt quite work that way. in the industry all things have a fixed price point till something better or cheaper comes along. To explain:

The APU in the XB1/PS4 cost exactly what it cost to make in 2013 as it does today, maybe even more if you factor in inflation. And that will remain the same until the chip foundaries that mak e them switch to  14/16nm process from the 28nm they are still on today. Memory costs go down as fabrication process improve too. For chips, it's that you can make more chips with one wafer disc and for memory it's that you can fit higher capacities in fewer modules. 

Right now the PS4 is using 8 modules less of memory cause they moved from 512MB modules to 1024MB modules. that amounts to about a 40-45% reduction in memory cost price for them. but the APU and disc drive still cost the same to make. As for the HDD, that's funny, cause at some point it starts costing you more putting in 500GB than it does putting in 1TB. 

Simply put, don't look at the time. look at the tech, that should tell you when propwr cost reductions are coming. The foundary that makes their APUs just started spitting out their first batch of 16nm chips. but the likes of Nvidia and AMD gets first dibs on those. Expect to see the tech in the ps4/xb1 sometime next year. then we get slim.versions of the consoles and then we can start talking about sub $250 consoles or less. 

When 14/16nm fabrication hits consoles, they basically get 4 Chios for what it cost them to get one right now. They can also do away with the fan/heat sink or out in a smaller cheaper one. Put in a smaller PSU, smaller board, smaller case, smaller box, lower shilling cost or shipping more for the same prices.... hell, if they really wanted to push it, they could make the consoles discless and price them at $199 then make u pay $80 for a USB disc drive if you insist you want to use a disc. 

I got you amigo.