What's happened from the new year up until now really doesn't mean much in terms of the eventual next gen sales outcome. Without knowing the launch and near future line ups, with next to no game play shown, and with Lockhart being an unknown, along with the console prices, everything is still up for grabs.

Assuming the quality and volume of games were all there for both, while a $499 XBSX announcement would create a quake, a follow up $399 PS5 would shift continents. That could be followed up by the biggest aftershock known to gamers in the form of a $299 Lockhart however.

At this point in time, it looks as though next gen just may come down to the wire. Exciting seeing these two go blow for blow. 10 rounds, or 12 ?...

This pole is a lie, I'm 100% sure this was not down worldwide, if it was there was no way xbox would have 38.5%, make this poll in Europe and it would be like 10%, make it in Japan and it will be like 0.5%

The answer to your question is "Vgchartz users". When XBO announced backwards compatibility, the overwhelming response was "I bought a PS4 to play PS4 games. If you want to play old games, keep your old console. BC doesn't matter."

I think it will all come down to the games. If Sony keeps dropping first party bombs while MS keeps failing to deliver with their exclusives, we could see an even bigger gap than we're seeing this gen. Also, price point is very important, so if Series X ends up being $100 or more expensive, it's gonna be a tough one for MS.

Considering how IGN is but a fraction of the entire userbases out there for both systems, this doesn't surprise me. IGN also has more using PS4's than Xbox/PC/Switch.

It'd be more interesting to see multiple parties holding multiple twitter polls with that question, then tallying them all up after a couple of months. I think we'd see different results than what IGN presents. You also have to factor in the fact that MS fumbled the gen early in, and Sony basically had the gen on lockdown, mindshare and all.

Whatever happens, I believe that the PS5 will be successful enough for Sony to keep on doing what they do. I will get to play amazing games on it, and that's all that matters.

The 360 was a pretty big success while the ps3 was struggling hard at the beginning, though. At least until MS dropped the ball and went completely crazy with Kinect, that is. This gen things took a complete u-turn but I don't think the hardware or the terrible marketing at launch caused MS this gen. It's more the fact that MS has been pretty lackluster when it comes to their exclusives. Hopefully this will change next gen but just look at how we're closing current gen. It's basically: Dreams, Nioh 2, FF7, TLOU2, Ghosts of Tsushima Vs. Halo Infinite. 

We have discussed this numerous time.

Launch aligned PS3 was always ahead of X360. Year shipment on same years I think only one time X360 outsold PS3. And also PS3 ended ahead.

If we were to use your concept them X1 was winning against Switch for almost this whole gen.

We will really see it when Amazon open up pre-sale circa June when formal consoles and prices are released.

I find it hard to believe that anyone that has a PS4 and has been buying games digitally... would abandon that library and jump in with another platform. I said this years ago, this is exactly why MS was pushing the whole cross-platform online thing hard.

If MS does what they are supposed to do (which is up yet game output and give people reasons to buy their console outside, halo, gears, and Forza) I fully expect their position to be better next-gen. And that would come at the expense of some PS market share. But not y more than 10-20% better. Anything higher would require some major fuck ups on songs part.