Krusenstern
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Lock it up if old.
You're sure that it wasn't Statham wo made these graphs?
(Arstechnica) Analysis: Sony continues to widen its console sales lead over Microsoft
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You're sure that it wasn't Statham wo made these graphs?
DannyDanger
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xb1 went from $500 to $350...
Unless a $150 price cut is gonna happen every yr, its not gonna outsell ps4
Unless a $150 price cut is gonna happen every yr, its not gonna outsell ps4
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Xbox One is just too future for you guys.
ChaoticBlue
Member
the ps4 is just a better system. this is reflected in the sales lead over the xbox one.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Hahaha
Newtype-001
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i cant even
MDSLKTR
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LegendofLex
Member
"Xbox One sales have a better YOY growth rate than PS4 sales, but that level of growth still isn't good enough to get Xbox One any closer to PS4's nominal sales."
The point about how long it would take Xbox to overtake PS4 at the current rate of growth really just exists to show how far behind Xbox is - that it'd need to keep this up for longer than it'll probably be on the market (while PS4 growth rates stay relatively smaller) to catch up (which will never happen because that's not how console sales curves have ever looked).
It's basically designed to cut through the spin around Xbox sales growth so people don't try to use it to suggest that Xbox could come anywhere close to a win this gen.
Air Holland
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That bar chart graph of projected YOY sales is breathtakingly useless. If the author of the article is aware enough to note that "console sales patterns decidedly do not work in this way," why even bother creating a set of figures whose base assumptions are explicitly not grounded in reality?
Unless, of course, the intent is to mislead visitors who accept the "trends" suggested by said figures without considering said base assumptions.
Unless, of course, the intent is to mislead visitors who accept the "trends" suggested by said figures without considering said base assumptions.
Yusuf Mehdi redeemed
Plague Doctor
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Xbox One is bundled with each purchase of PS4 in 2023 confirmed.
no wonder it passes Ps4 later. by 2022 MS is giving everyone $700 along a free XB1 at that rate.
Exactly what came to mind. It makes me nostalgic to see console wars embers still burning in some hearts.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
MS did expect a billion console sales this generation, so maybe the Nintendos Wii-NX will fill in the remaining 400 million?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Now that is funny.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Xbox One is just too future for you guys.
Beta tested in the future
No one in their right mind would think that the growth percentage will just stay the same for a decade, it doesn't make any sense.
The only way, I concur
Yh that was
... I still wonder what percentage of him is trolling/clickbait fishing/fanboism? to being serious. Impossible to tell with all these crazy theories and selective data.Palette Swap
Member
Of course.
They didn't have the next decade because by 2035 that annual double digit growth will compound itself into a singularity that will swallow the universe.
Or they could fire that intern before it's too late.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Wait, this makes sense.
It was beta tested in the future!
THEY SENT ALL THE XB1's TO 2024!
It was beta tested in the future!
THEY SENT ALL THE XB1's TO 2024!
Lock it up if old.
I don't get what this graph is supposed to show. What's the y axis? 350 million consoles?
LMAO
This is up there with the Polygon chart.
Then why make that silly chart in the first place?
King Beyond the wall
Member
Is this serious? It can't be serious.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Right? This is without the PS4 substantial price cuts, or emptying their established First Party lineups yet as well.
I do not think MSFT is prepared to unload so much into First Party experiments like Sony did last generation... they are leaning towards the gaming as a service side of things.
Yes. Yes it is.
Just need that 1% of China to buy these consoles.
lyrick
Member
Yes, it's just a summation of the ridiculous graph above it where each console is moving 65-70 Million units in 2024.
to show graphically that it would take until 2024 at the current sales rate for MS to overtake sony in sales?
it's a pretty reasonable chart that shows precisely what it intends to--that it's unrealistic to believe that MS will ever outsell Sony
This chart isn't on same level of the polygon pizza.
This is way worse... way worse.
Spiritwalker
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I don't think Kyle Orland understands the purpose of a counterfactual. You can't just extrapolate data in an absurd fashion, call the extrapolation you did ridiculous, but then come to a conclusion based on it nevertheless.
He pretty much built a data strawman.
No, no it doesn't -- because the percentage YoY change is NOT the relevant statistic to make the projection in the first place. Showing the wrong projection takes 10 years doesn't help us understand what the right projections would say in any way, shape, or form.
LegendofLex
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There was a chart that at one point was posted in association with this article that had Microsoft projecting that the industry growth would just keep climbing after last generation, despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary. The chart seems to have disappeared now. It was really quite hilarious. They thought growth would match the rate we saw with the Wii generation.
If people at a multi-billion dollar corporation can misunderstand the console industry's growth so badly, I don't put it past fans to run with the "Xbox sales growing faster" point to the conclusion that Xbox will eventually catch up to PS4.