You should, the hdr passtrough is a big easy to use bonus and the smaller cables are something well worth it along with the build in earphones, from what I have noticed is the small version bump really kills the most anoying things that early adopters complained about.

sony understands that the beast cannot be tamed and does not want to lose money on cutting the pro price.

the concern for ps4 in the amazon threads happens every holiday. its annoying cus we all know amazon is completely unreliable and once january hits its back to ps4 domination but it is a little more mind boggling this year due to ps4 having its best year yet in the us yet people still think the tides are turning. granted its only a select few. the xbox one x has been hyped for well over a year now, in fact it was first mentioned all the way back at e3 2016 for fucks sake. xbox has a hardcore fanbase that will guarantee good sales at launch. plus we all know the vast majority are gonna wait till black friday to buy a ps4 for $199. in the mean time though, you just gotta let those who are excited about xbox getting one over on ps4 for the first time since last year have their moment to shine

Or they just realize they already have a substantial lead and Microsoft's formula for the last 4 years is to only focus on the holidays.

I see, x1 if holiday is strong has a good chance of pulling good numbers, though i doubt x1x will push sales close to 10mil. I mean its down YoY. Itll need alot of catching up to do. 7mil is plausible but we dont even have 2016 numbers to base of.

8mil is a possibility but slim imo

But you lose 100k sales of console at 300 dollars to gain 200k at selling at 200 dollars with no profit(obviously Im assuming next to no profit).Just saying that Sony should have announced this 1 week before black friday, so that you profit over that slice of the market that dont follow the gaming industry that much and dont know when there is usually sales and stuff.

In the long run it wont matter much, since the PS4 will sell great either way.

But you lose 100k sales of console at 300 dollars to gain 200k at selling at 200 dollars with no profit(obviously Im assuming next to no profit).Just saying that Sony should have announced this 1 week before black friday, so that you profit over that slice of the market that dont follow the gaming industry that much and dont know when there is usually sales and stuff.

In the long run it wont matter much, since the PS4 will sell great either way.

For 2014, most analyst say XB1 was at 10.5m by the end of the year.

Also from EA statment we can estimate that XB1 was at abour 19.1m by the end of 2015, so if we use 7.5m for 2014, and 3m for 2013, the sales of 2015 are pretty much the same as VGC. So XB1 sales are more like:

2013 - 3m
2014 - 7.5m
2015 - 8.6m

7-8m for XB1 this year are absolutely waaaaaay too much.

So far it sold 1.4m in USA by the end of September (down YOY by 26% compared to 2016 1.89m), and as we know US is a very big part of XB1 sales. It used to be 60%, but the percent is actually dropping year after year. (in 2013 it was 60.6%, in 2014 58.3%, in 2015 57.4%, and in 2016 55.7%) So is likely that this year US sales are a bit less than 55%, this would put XB1 at around 2.6m more or less.

In October XB1 won't sell over 300k, and this is also a very optimist prediction (September was 175k in USA, and October will of course be less than that), so XB1 will most likely be under 3 million when November start.

XB1 is not gonna sell over 4 million this holiday season......

7-8m for XB1 this year are absolutely waaaaaay too much.

So far it sold 1.4m in USA by the end of September (down YOY by 26% compared to 2016 1.89m), and as we know US is a very big part of XB1 sales. It used to be 60%, but the percent is actually dropping year after year. (in 2013 it was 60.6%, in 2014 58.3%, in 2015 57.4%, and in 2016 55.7%) So is likely that this year US sales are a bit less than 55%, this would put XB1 at around 2.6m more or less.

In October XB1 won't sell over 300k, and this is also a very optimist prediction (September was 175k in USA, and October will of course be less than that), so XB1 will most likely be under 3 million when November start.

XB1 is not gonna sell over 4 million this holiday season......

There is a reason these black friday deals are announced almost a week early. It allows people make plans and know exactly what they are gonna channel their money into.

Also, don't forget that its not even about making a lot of money selling 100k consoles at $300. Its about getting 500k people, even if they are buying your console at $200 to actually pick it up, cause those 500k people are gonna buys games, controllers, sign up for PSN....etc.

Honestly, I am even surprised why its taken them this long to drop to $200.

I thought this deal was only for the actual black friday(so end of the month), not at starting at the 1th.Ignore my rambling then!