Well, people will be able to play Halo 5 this year. Regardless, it won't help anything.
Speaking of Halo 5. So strange we have heard next to nothing about this game and we will be playing it in a couple months.
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NPD Sales Results for August 2014 [Up4: PS4 #1, XB1 last week sales 2x last Jul week]
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Well, people will be able to play Halo 5 this year. Regardless, it won't help anything.
Speaking of Halo 5. So strange we have heard next to nothing about this game and we will be playing it in a couple months.
Holy shit at Destiny PS4 bring ranked at 13 for the entire year already! XB1 version is pretty close too at #16 on the list. The game must have sold insanely well.
And the Destiny PS4 bundle is already ranked above the Titanfall XB1 for the year... This isn't a battle it's a massacre.
theprodigy
Member
well it did in November, but nobody really cares if you proceed to lose the lead after launch month
SwiftDeath
Member
Call of Duty: Ghosts has a 49% PS4 and 51% XBO revenue split.
From our resident ex-pegasister
Can't believe Madden sold more on PS4 even with the XBO bundle. If CoD sells more on PS4 I think it's fair to say that that'd be the last nail on the coffin.
There really isn't any other game that when mentioned screams Xbox. And any future exclusives simply aren't going to cut it (as amazing as Horizon 2 is, seriously).
Part of me is sad, because it's becoming more and more clear this gen won't be really that competitive. But another part of me, the one that grew up around the PS2 era, really wishes for that blissful homogeneity back. ALL the games, one console.
Oh well, whatever can happen, will happen...
There really isn't any other game that when mentioned screams Xbox. And any future exclusives simply aren't going to cut it (as amazing as Horizon 2 is, seriously).
Part of me is sad, because it's becoming more and more clear this gen won't be really that competitive. But another part of me, the one that grew up around the PS2 era, really wishes for that blissful homogeneity back. ALL the games, one console.
Oh well, whatever can happen, will happen...
I'm tying two different points together because they are intrinsically connected by logic, and one point of the argument contradicts the other.
I harped on the point of being a "first price drop" because it whitewashes the intent and relevance of the pricing movements so far, which is an important thing to keep in mind when talking about sales. For all practical, logical, and revenue-related purposes, the console has had its price drop over time.
Thunder Monkey
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Never going to live that down is she?
Aquamarine
Member
shut up
funkystudent
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Another month. Not much has changed.
I do think MS will be ahead in the NPD's for 1 month this holiday though. Maybe only by a inch and with bundles so big they will be bleeding money but I think it will happen.
If not they will be down until they get the slim out.
I do think MS will be ahead in the NPD's for 1 month this holiday though. Maybe only by a inch and with bundles so big they will be bleeding money but I think it will happen.
If not they will be down until they get the slim out.
RespectThySole
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We'll see, but these are the same indicators that we saw with Destiny and Watch Dogs and I think most know how that went. In August the Xbox One numbers were far ahead of the PS4's in sales. In September the sales are basically the same even with probably much more new PS4 owners this month than XB1 owners.
I'm not saying they all immediately pre-ordered CoD, but it's the next real BIG game out for the PS4 so I could see many doing so as it would be their next purchase.
It hasn't reached mass pre orders yet, but many people have already pre ordered and I don't think that with all the Activision marketing in the coming weeks promoting the XB1 version, bundle, exclusive content, xbox brand strength, etc. that the PS4 version will make up the current gap. Sure, it may be ahead by 1 spot RIGHT NOW due to the massive influx of new owners, but this hasn't been the case since the game was shown off at E3 and there is no real gap in September currently.
Even the XB1 version of Destiny was ahead of the PS4 version for small periods, so I don't think this is really indicative of the larger trend we've seen.
theprodigy
Member
what was that bet even over anyway?
SwiftDeath
Member
Some sports match. A football game maybe?
ProfessorMoran
Member
They can still take China.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
What do you mean? This is already shaping up to be there most competitive gen in well, generations!
Its actually pretty exciting. About time we had a real fighting landscape. Going to be great for consumers
ethomaz
Banned
I'm sure MS can PR the best and fastest selling console in China in three weeks.
Don't see how it does. "The Xbox One System" was originally Kinect and the XB1 hardware. It used to be the only SKU available. That SKU still exists and it's the same exact price as it was at launch.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Sony be like...
Ok this made me roll. Someone should Simpsonize Kaz and Shu for that gif.
speculawyer
Member
Good showing by EA. I'm surprised BF4 is still up there.
I wonder how well GTA V is going to do. Looks good based on all the TLOU sales.
Activision looking good too . . . and Destiny will obviously be big next month.
This game is a monster. I still don't get but I've bought 3 different versions (for my daughter).
PeakPointMatrix
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Happy to see PvZ up there. Means there'll be a healthy community for a while. Hopefully it nudges Insomniac to create a new classic Ratchet styled multiplayer game akin to the Deadlocked/UYA days. There's a severe lack of cartoony explosive competitive online games.
funkystudent
Member
I think November will be decided with if GTAV HD comes out this year or not.
I guess Sony still has the co marketing on that so I expect a bundle. Would be the only new pack in they have this holiday after Destiny unless they do a Far Cry pack in?
MS tied up pretty much everything else and anything Sony had got pushed to 2015
digoutyoursoul
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I hope you are wrong
Eh, pretty sure last gen will end up being much more competitive than this one.
Aquamarine
Member
Silly you can say my name in references to posts I make...it's okay~
Better sales or sales parity just for the sake of competition is not how competition works.
YUP. a $400 million dollar NFL deal to use their tablets and the announcers STILL call them ipads
Mass Effect
Member
Oh not this again
digoutyoursoul
Member
Minecraft would of been a perfect fit for a Wii U bundle imo. The game pad would of been perfect for it. Fuck sake Nintendo.
Freeman
Banned
Major Nelson :"But what about us?"
Phil Spencer : "We'll Always Have
RespectThySole
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Most $500 skus don't have the name Call of Duty attached to the box so I think you would be misguided with that assessment. The CoD bundle is also far outselling the Sunset bundle so there's also that.
Jimmyfenix
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Phillip needs a big W.
WhiskerFrisker
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Seriously? Why is Microsoft allowing this to continue? That's ridiculous
Last gen had 3 strong competitors. Even the PS3 with all its faults did great in Europe and managed 80m+ total sales. I think the difference is like 20m between the Wii and the HD twins. Closest generation since SNES vs Genesis. This gen has only one real competitor with PS4. XBO is a disappointment, and the WiiU is a colossal trainwreck.
What?
ProfessorMoran
Member
I wonder what Ted Price is thinking right now, we can talk about "retaining IP rights" and all that but at the end of the day it's about selling as many copies as possible and making money, having the IP isn't going to mean much if the game doesn't sell a whole lot.
Mass Effect
Member
lol really?
Wait, what. You can't be serious?
SwiftDeath
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Whipped Spartan
Member
Npd is practically pointless compared to PS2 days. Top ten was routinely selling over 500k in fall and 250k in other months. It was only single SKUs too. Games sold numbers have to be down huge since then.
Everytime we see the real numbers number three down sold under 500k with every SKU counted. I wouldn't be surprised if LoU sold 200k in August.
Everytime we see the real numbers number three down sold under 500k with every SKU counted. I wouldn't be surprised if LoU sold 200k in August.
ProfessorMoran
Member
Lmao.
Chobel
Member
I'm assuming you mean US only and you're totally ignoring Nintendo.
Freeman
Banned
Good luck explaining that after it has been said over and over again for the past year.
illmatic22
Banned
Seriously.
SwiftDeath
Member
Yeah about that. I would be very very very impressed if TLOU PS4 managed 200k in August considering it's ~270k in July