This is black friday shoppers we are talking about here, they always go for whatever has been marked down and on sale.
If MS "won" then good one them. I would be interested to see how they can keep the kind of deals they're offering going into 2015.
If they can't - then all if this is rather moot isnt it?
Looking forward to how Microsoft accounting's going to obfuscate a mission billion dollar this quarter.
They basicly need to keep the 329/349 price regardless unless they want a sales collapse in january.
People will just wait for the next sale cause they know now how low MS is willing to go.
No way MS raises the price again.
Everyone gets a sales collapse in January. As a proportion of a years sales, January doesn't matter very much. November and December matter a great deal.
Winning November is huge for Microsoft. It doesn't win them this console war. That's probably already lost. Well done, Sony! But it keeps them relevant and in the game. It increases their install base at an absolutely critical time. Consider this: last month I read several articles implying that MS might start losing out on 3rd party games if the ONE kept selling so anemically. A strong showing this holiday season makes those articles redundant.
"Might"....MS might well have outsold PS4. However the title should reflect this is a poll really as its not claiming MS did outsell it merely the trend in the poll indicates it might have.
Everyone gets a sales collapse in January. As a proportion of a years sales, January doesn't matter very much. November and December matter a great deal.
Winning November is huge for Microsoft. It doesn't win them this console war. That's probably already lost. Well done, Sony! But it keeps them relevant and in the game. It increases their install base at an absolutely critical time. Consider this: last month I read several articles implying that MS might start losing out on 3rd party games if the ONE kept selling so anemically. A strong showing this holiday season makes those articles redundant.
Looking forward to how Microsoft accounting's going to obfuscate a mission billion dollar this quarter.
Anecdotal, but at my work both Xbone and Wii U best PS4.
As in Xbone not getting some multiplats? Yeah you need to stop reading the sites with those articles.
Eh Microsoft will bury this deep in the stock report. It's like the loss never happened.
Good, the xbox deserves it imo this year.
From smaller Japanese publisher, they are right.
They basicly need to keep the 329/349 price regardless unless they want a sales collapse in january.
People will just wait for the next sale cause they know now how low MS is willing to go.
No way MS raises the price again.
To get this data, InfoScout uses two smartphone apps that reward consumers for uploading their purchases by taking pictures of their receipts.
Tell me more about this loss...
From smaller Japanese publisher, they are right.
I can't imagine how much annoying shit will coming from Major Nelson & company if xbone 'win'. They dropped the balls with every single prediction in favour of xbone, this year. The only reason why I hope it not happen it's for people like them.
Eh Microsoft will bury this deep in the stock report. It's like the loss never happened.
Those type of games will mean nothing to the market MS aims at.
The sale is going until Tuesday. Maybe after that?Disregarding the Aqua post, if it's such a landslide how come MS hasn't played its theme music yet?
Tell me more about this loss...
Satya Nadella said:In computing and gaming, we expect revenue to be $3.5 billion to $3.8 billion [Oct-Dec 14]. This range reflects growth in Xbox One consoles over the last year, but a mix shift to lower price SKUs announced last June. With the momentum we are seeing with Surface Pro 3, we expect units to grow sequentially.
That's some quality high level statistics there, Fred.
Now tell me about those ancient aliens that created humanity.
Love your HoI 2 avatar. If only it could play the Dad's Army theme.
This is what's dangerous about their price drop. They pretty much ingrained in the people's mind that they can go as low as $329 for their system. Common sense will dictate that if they return back to their regular pricing, people would just wait for he price to drop that low again to buy.
Disregarding the Aqua post, if it's such a landslide how come MS hasn't played its theme music yet?
I don't know what market MS trying to aim, but I think they want to sell more machine.
Those games are quite important to Asia market, which include China.
Disregarding the Aqua post, if it's such a landslide how come MS hasn't played its theme music yet?
I visit threads like just to see posts like this one.Ugh if they take a lead anywhere gamers have lost.
Are they? Because from what I've read they might as pack up and go home considering the peformance of the xbone in Japan and other asian areas.
The US has always been the market they want because they aim at shooter fans. Hence the countless first on xbox stuff for CoD.
not really. the ps4 is more closely related to last gen's second place console. that system's second and third novembers were around 500k and 750k respectively. it's not a stretch that if the microsoft was outperforming the ps4's perfectly fine sales on a weekly basis of about 2:1 that it would have built up a lead of about 100k or so before black friday even started. the xb1 with a 200k-300k gap over the ps4, where the xb1 is around wii/ps2-levels of second novembers (around 918k), isn't too hard to picture to be honest.
It's the Sega strategy all over again; when Sega knew they weren't going to be able to beat PS1 they just needed to find a way to stay relevant at the most important times, and maybe take 2nd place. They also had the most aggressive holiday bundles during that gen.Everyone gets a sales collapse in January. As a proportion of a years sales, January doesn't matter very much. November and December matter a great deal.
Winning November is huge for Microsoft. It doesn't win them this console war. That's probably already lost. Well done, Sony! But it keeps them relevant and in the game. It increases their install base at an absolutely critical time. Consider this: last month I read several articles implying that MS might start losing out on 3rd party games if the ONE kept selling so anemically. A strong showing this holiday season makes those articles redundant.
Microsoft stock is up quite a bit year on year, investors don't give a shit about the X1.Looking forward to how Microsoft accounting's going to obfuscate a mission billion dollar this quarter.
How will they hide a divisions loss?
Haha. It's the pricing. Games? That's preference. Controller? Preference. Better bundle? Preference.
It's the price. Overall, the PS4 is a better console, if it wasn't, it wouldn't be selling as well as it is, despite MS giving the house away. Let's not kid ourselves,
Um.. both?This year or this month?
Better console how? because it has some cross platform games at higher resolution?
Meh.
No way division is losing money this quarter. XBOX 360 sales and Minecraft is still a top seller. Gold subscriptions, accessories a cut of all titles sold, etc.
Wasn't there an Engadget article a while back saying XBO chipset costs were down due to new manufacturing tech? I thought I read something like that.
WiiU - why u no decrease price???
Minecraft made up that 2.5b investment already?