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JRPGfan on 28 November 2016
Intrinsic said:
JRPGfan said:

I just think its PS4 that took some sales from what could have been XB1 buys.

Sony price matched their PS4 to the XB1's and they won sales on it.

But isnt that what always happens in console sales.... ever?

There is a finite number of people at anytime that will buy into a given type of device. Sales are sales and a win is a win. When MS were doing their Fire sales in the UK the past couple months no one said anything about cheap or price matching.

Then people were say the XB1 is a better value due to 4K Blu-ray and MS momentum bla bla bla. 

It's still too early to call. But I did suggest something like this could happen. I said in one month PS4 could negate every win XB1 has had this far. 

You where right.

The sales gap the XB1 made winning 2 months in the UK, was just doubled by the PS4 now (in 1 week), in that sense its a big deal.



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Kresnik on 28 November 2016

Good to see something positive about the UK industry for a change.



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celador on 28 November 2016

A win of over 50% isn't big now, that's one to remember for NPD



globalisateur on 28 November 2016
Carl2291 said:
I updated your title, which was click bait and inflammatory.

Also moved it to sales discussion.

Objectively we can't say Xbox impress when it's 31% down YoY



Barkley on 28 November 2016
globalisateur said:
Carl2291 said:
I updated your title, which was click bait and inflammatory.

Also moved it to sales discussion.

Objectively we can't say Xbox impress when it's 31% down YoY

True, the original title did need changing, but the current title is like when they give out the "well done" stickers to everybody at school sports day, even those that tripped over their own shoe laces and crawled to the finish line covered in mud with tears of embarrassment streaming down their face. The Pacifying everyones a winner, no hurt feeling title.



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WoodenPints on 28 November 2016

The numbers are pretty much what I expected and here's why for those who don't really follow the UK sales.

500GB Infinite warfare bundle has been at £219 since it launched on 4th december, At 8pm Thursday it dropped on Amazon to £189 for Black Friday weekend until it went out of stock

Sony launched 2 new 1TB 3 game bundles on Sunday 20th November for £249 such as these here and here

Whilst Xbox had the £179 firesles at the start of the month the best Xbox Bundles were the 500GB Fifa 17 and Minecraft at £237 on Amazon and £249 on other big retailers. This priced never droped until 8PM Thursday.

At 8PM Thursday for the Black Friday deals the PS4 dropped a 500GB Uncharted 4 + Fifa 17 bundle for £199 

At 8PM Thursday Xbox One S cheapest bundle dropped a 500GB Fifa 17 + Forza Horizon 3 + Rise of Tomb Raider - £229 - Which was £30 more than the cheapest PS4 bundle even if it had 1 more game.

At 8PM Thursday the PS4 Pro what launched at £349 got a Black friday Bundle that Included 2 games Fallout 4 + Infamous Second Son for £349 - here

Somewhere around 4pm-6pm Friday (I know this as I was browsing deals and it was not price matched at 3.50pm and was price matched just after 6pm) MS priced matched the PS4's £199 bundle with a 500GB Minecraft + Forza Horizon 3 bundle for £199

All this along with the first actual week of PS4 Pro sales as last week was mainly pre-orders has made up a big win for Sony this week, I had been saying that the deals are very poor from MS this year and it's going to get massivly outsold by  Sony and it did.

Sony have been very agressive this holiday so far with prices in the UK and Europe as a whole, I expected we would see £199 bundles for the Xbox One S and PS4 slim but I never expected £199 bundles + a £30 game included with the price.

Just thought I'd share my thoughts of the deals and how I saw Black Friday here in the UK.

 



iNathan on 28 November 2016
Roronaa_chan said:
Big drop for X1 compared to 2015's BF, over 40k less.

Xbox One S is still underpowered, the 4K BR is pretty cheap and it cost more this weekend anyway.

Scorpio needs to come out asap. 



Aura7541 on 28 November 2016
Barkley said:
globalisateur said:

Objectively we can't say Xbox impress when it's 31% down YoY

True, the original title did need changing, but the current title is like when they give out the "well done" stickers to everybody at school sports day, even those that tripped over their own shoe laces and crawled to the finish line covered in mud with tears of embarrassment streaming down their face. The Pacifying everyones a winner, no hurt feeling title.

To think political correctness has leaked onto video game sales discussions



iNathan on 28 November 2016
JRPGfan said:
Intrinsic said:

But isnt that what always happens in console sales.... ever?

There is a finite number of people at anytime that will buy into a given type of device. Sales are sales and a win is a win. When MS were doing their Fire sales in the UK the past couple months no one said anything about cheap or price matching.

Then people were say the XB1 is a better value due to 4K Blu-ray and MS momentum bla bla bla. 

It's still too early to call. But I did suggest something like this could happen. I said in one month PS4 could negate every win XB1 has had this far. 

You where right.

The sales gap the XB1 made winning 2 months in the UK, was just doubled by the PS4 now (in 1 week), in that sense its a big deal.

Ps4 deals still going on in the UK with many bundles.



Oneeee-Chan!!! on 28 November 2016
Carl2291 said:
I updated your title, which was click bait and inflammatory.

Also moved it to sales discussion.

You should update this ot too. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=223037