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mdo7
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That's not bad, but I was hoping to see it sell more. Oh well, let see how it does after this.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Five million is respectable, though I am delighted the the PS4 is outselling it.
Shipping five million is not the same as selling five million. Just thought that needed to be mentioned. 2.9 games per console is pretty weak. Did everyone just buy it for Titanfall, Forza Motorsport 5 and Xbox Fitness? LOL, okay, maybe that last one was a joke. Funny how the XBox One is being lauded for selling lots of games when it was supposed to be more of an ultimate media & entertainment hub thingy. |
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enurtsol
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It's only available in the same 13 countries as when it launched last year. PS4 is already available in 52 countries plus Japan - PS4 would do about similar too if it's still stuck with just 13 countries. XB1 would expand to 26 more countries but not till Sept, so in the meantime the 13 countries are getting saturated, plus it's still $100 more expensive and won't be similar price as PS4 till the next holiday season most likely. What's a bit surprising is the 360 still selling 2.7 million games a month. That's a lot at the end of gen life. 360 already has the highest games attachment rate last gen, and that will just add to it. That and 49% of the software market share with XB1 is impressive since gaming is not as it used to be. |
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Beatdigga
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I was about to say, it's not exactly fair given country shipping.
Anyhoo, the 360 still has games coming out for it, and its apps allow it to do a lot (I use it as a backup cable box between the Verizon app and HBO Go), so it's no surprise it still has value. How long that value lasts is another matter. |
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potatochobit
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ships does NOT mean sold.
they got like a full cabinet of them at my local target but the PS4s are sold out. |
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CrownKlown
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No, last time I checked the ps4 is still outselling the one in the US, not to mention in Japan the one will probably have poor sales through its life, and the only other country I heard about having direct comparisons, the UK, the ps4 was also outselling the one. The extra countries the ps4 is released in don't make up that difference, and if they would the one would have shipped to those regions a long time ago. Do honestly think a company would do a price cut like they did with the titanfall bundle this early into the consoles life, before selling the console in regions that would bridge the gap. Probably not. I am not going to say there would be no difference, but the gap would probably still be fairly distant even if they were all sold in the same countries at the same time, given the sales in some of the bigger markets. |
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enurtsol
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^ That is a good point. Even if they're sold in the same countries, there's still one big thing that can't be made up, and that's the price difference. Almost nobody can make up that ground until prices become competitive unless you're Apple.
(I usually treat Japan as separate since it's such an outlier that if XB1 is discounted even cheaper than the 3DS there and it still wouldn't matter; works beyond regular market forces.) |
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varmintx
 Posts: 1198 Location: Covington, KY |
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I was really expecting it to have sold 5 million; the fact that they didn't report the actual sales numbers is rather suspicious. The PS4 isn't even doing that great in Japan at the moment, but it's still killing. Having said that, the XB1 is still the third fastest selling console of all time...not exactly like it's in its death throes. Here's hoping Mario Kart 8 moves a lot of WiiUs as that's the console that is really in trouble.
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Primus
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The countries MS has yet to launch XB1 in are markets where the 360 performed poorly. I wouldn't expect much ground to be made from those areas.
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yuna49
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PS4 outsold Xbox One in March while Titanfall led software sales
Just read this moments ago after seeing it linked from the New York Times. On what constitutes a sale:
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enurtsol
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Some like Korea and South Africa where the 360 did relatively well. Some like Israel and Argentina the 360 didn't launch at all till 5 or more years later, but this time the XB1 will launch within a year. So there's room. |
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kakoishii
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I doubt it. The 3DS is outselling the WiiU by leaps and bounds. Chances are people who really want to play MK8 (this girl right here  ) already own a 3DS and thus won't be rushing out to buy a WiiU anytime soon. If they want to start pushing the system, they need to be releasing more and more desirable WiiU exclusives, not just nintendo exclusives since in a lot of way the 3DS is cannibalizing the WiiU's sales.
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Mister Ryan Andrews
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Games aren't the WiiU's problem. It has games. Plenty of games. More games than Xbone and PS4 do combined in fact. The issue is a shift in markets and attitudes. All the games in the world isn't going to change that. |
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Letthemeatraep
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It's also a deeply unappealling product as well, which obviously doesn't help it's case any either. The controller they came up with for it was a huge mistake. I was genuinely shocked to read that the PS4 had outsold the Wii U's life to date sales already. What a ridiculous turnaround from the early days of the Wii and PS3. Nintendo have seriously messed up. I think they're done in the home console space. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Yes, Nintendo did screw themselves over with their poor marketing of the WiiU and their poorly-made WiiU Gamepad, but I wouldn't necessarily call it quits for them yet, if Mario Kart 8 is anything to go by... |
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