RowdyReverb
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It would be cool if somebody annotated that chart with each console's price drops and major hardware revisions
Are you trying to derail this thread?
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PlayStation 4 sells 9 million in the U.S.
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BinaryBear07
Member
Reading these numbers is making it harder and harder for me to decide which console to get (PS4 or Xbox One) I don't have friends that play consoles so that factor is out.
Transistor
Banned
How does sales numbers factor into your choice?
You're talking about 360's bump starting at month 22? That's only because Halo 3 came out in September 2007, whereas Halo is coming out in late October this year.
KillerMan91
Member
Why are people calling me negative? Is it because I criticise Sony? I'm not a fanboy. I call them out on stuff that I don't like (which is a lot but they deserve that). It's that simple.
BinaryBear07
Member
More sales = more people to play online with and better communities
Making ludicrous statements is a factor, I suppose.
GravityInsanity
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justgames7604
Member
I don't get it? As soon as they figured out this problems, CEO of MS (not xbox division head) made a huge point of fixing it, clearing the use of billions of dollars to address the problem.
anyway, that's a big number. A lot of people have bought a quality console.
Such as...?
Don't base your console purchase on which is selling more. Look at the games/services/features.
Price comparisons would be great when comparing sales from the 2 generations, but last gen's consoles didn't really have to deal with cross-gen games in the same way. Fifa 16, NBA 2k16, Madden 16, MGSV, CODBLOPS3,Destiny, Tomb Raider, Persona. New entries in big franchises/genres still on old gen consoles surely has to be partially responsible for the closing of the gap.
Referring to the future as looking dim due to current gen *only outpacing last gen by 40% at this point in time.
Just ridiculous.
dragonyeuw
Member
lol, not likely, but a good honest chuckle nevertheless.
Hahaha!
Duxxy3
Member
Short of a massive price drop I don't see it happening.
...Scatter...
Banned
Does that include pack-ins?
Edit: It does. Per IGN
Wii Fit 2007 22.67 Million
Wii Fit Plus 2009 20.86 Million
Wii Play 2006 28.02 Million
Wii Sports 2006 81.99 Million
Wii Sports Resort 2009 31.89 Million
That's almost 200 million of that software right there.
Did you intentionally leave out performance?
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Nice fantasy
this was a gif when the xbox one was the leading hardware sale for 2-3 months in a row IIRC
Ninja Scooter
Member
The race is over. It's going to be close in NA and a landslide for Sony worldwide, which in itself is a pretty big L for MS because they gave up their stranglehold on North America.
... You're fantasizing as well.Nice fantasy
So hilarious you had to edit it out of your post.
Classic overbought signals and gravestone doji. Expect a long bear market.
I hope your day job is unrelated to analyzing graphs.
Mexico?
I mean, that might have something to do with said "down period" now seeming to encompass January through October. Also, some people like to include actual market leaders like PS2 and Wii when making comparisons and analyzing industry health.
Oh, the post season. Ironically for the GIF, the current gen lines never crossed.
To what do i have the pleasure of fantasizing to, dear etta?
Shipping consoles off to Texas to be patched up on top of the same design flaw was not exactly fixing anything as evident in folks going through multiple RRoD rounds. If they really wanted to fix the problem they should have replaced the faulty consoles with a brand new one with the new design. The whole RRoD debacle caused me to lose trust in Microsoft products.
I also addressed this, but I think it was a joke that we missed
It had to be, right?
I hope so.
Wii Sports was sold separately in Japan. Sony and MS also bundle heavily games with their systems and they count as software sales, this is nothing new.
RowdyReverb
Member
I think we'd see some drastic measures before either company let that happen. They don't want investors getting spooked.
No, but shouldn't that fall under "games"? After all, I didn't say "Exclusives". I'm not looking to get into an argument over this bullshit, though for the record I've had a PS4 since launch and still waiting on the price to drop further/Scalebound to get an XB1.
PS2 disk read error wasn't that widespread, You can pretend it is but that doesn't make it fact. Xbox 360 red ring was prevelant and widespread that pretty much if you had a elite / original 360, it would red ring. The slim fixed this or at least seemed to for the majority of systems but it was a big issue until than.
OP, maybe you should hang around in sales threads more often?
Your assumptions are off the mark, considering the price-cuts to come and software to be released the coming few years.
These consoles are hitting their strides, well the PS4 at least.
It would have been prudent to hold off on making this thread until this holiday season passed, in order to gauge the gap with last gen, considering we're getting minor price-cuts and big AAA software this season.
Your assumptions are off the mark, considering the price-cuts to come and software to be released the coming few years.
These consoles are hitting their strides, well the PS4 at least.
It would have been prudent to hold off on making this thread until this holiday season passed, in order to gauge the gap with last gen, considering we're getting minor price-cuts and big AAA software this season.
Probably the one with games you want to play.
You can leave Wii Sports out of your calculations if you want (remember to do this with other systems too), and it still says Wii owners bought 8 games per sold console on average.
900 million+ pieces of software. Let that sink in for a moment.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Actually, you are the touchy one. Couldn't handle the negativity to your post so you removed it. Now doubling down that everyone else is wrong. Quit yer bitchin'!I'm still a little shocked by the response to my original comment in the OP. I don't participate in much Sales-GAF discussions so I didn't know that you guys were so touchy.
its not just you. this guy has the most negative personality I think on this forum. everything sucks for this guy.
...Scatter...
Banned
Did you see what 200 million of that was? So the real attach rate is prob around 7 to 1.
Welp, xbox fans gotta lap up what victories they can this gen it seems
True
I didn't want the thread to revolve around my comment. I still stand by it though.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
By an incorrect statement.
Which was...?