boredandlazy
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Sorry for being uneducated. I might have to start making completely unfounded predications based on the letters spelled out by my bowl of Alphabetti like some other users' here.
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Microsoft: Xbox One leading sales in US since price cut, nearly 10 million sold-in
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Sorry for being uneducated. I might have to start making completely unfounded predications based on the letters spelled out by my bowl of Alphabetti like some other users' here.
IAmRandom31
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He was the smart one who waited 6 months to get that Day One edition X1 from that sale that occurred the very moment the retailer bought the order.
Ok ok I'm done
Handy Fake
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You glorious bastard.
3rdamention
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But it isn't true. Publishers certainly care about whether or not stock is actually sold to the customer because of a continued relationship between publishers and retailers.
That's what the whole credit system is based on that has been implemented like 7 years ago.
Dragonborn
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The kind of gamer who would buy a console just to play it. You underestimate how dedicated the Souls fanbase is.
Thunder Monkey
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That's actually the way software is handled too.
An order is placed based on expected demand. The publisher gets their money, and from there more orders can be placed, or the seller takes a loss on the product. In extreme cases they can be sold back to the manufacturer, but that's really really rare.
This is part of the reason why XboxOne shipments last quarter were kind of worrying to MS, and why they've done this severe price drop for the holiday season. Demand was falling off into WiiU territory. They shipped last quarter only a few hundred thousand units more than WiiU.
On another argument in the thread. I expect $329 to be it's price going forward. If it's honestly helping as much as MS is leading us to believe, they won't raise the price.
I wasn't trying to imply they don't care. Just trying to say it is true where the point of sale is for the manufacturer/publisher.
It happens long before we get the disc off the shelf.
rokkerkory
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Watch they get slammed in Nov by Sony lol
Terrible to gloat wayy to early
Terrible to gloat wayy to early
No waaaay imo. $349 is their official holiday pricing level, so if anything it'd settle at that.
We cannot infer from this PR statement that any decent momentum has been achieved. That's the issue with the statement.
We know it's shipped more than 7.5 and less than 10 but we don't know when they'll get to 10, it could be a week, it could be 2 months.
We know from this statement that it sold more than any other 8th gen console in the first 2 weeks of November and that it sold 3 times more than the last week of October. We know that at the end of October people knew about the new deal, so would have stopped buying, and MCC and a price cut sure as fuck should have helped boost sales. We don't even know if it beat PS4 both weeks or just one.
It is PR with no substance at all.
Pseudo judo
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That really doesn't matter. As far as publishers are concerned they can feel good in knowing 10 million will have been on store shelves before the Christmas season ends.
Amirox, you were demodded for banning people just because you disagreed with thier opinion on Kinect. Your opinion of me really doesn't mean much.
Thunder Monkey
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I meant $349.
Those Black Friday deals just kind of make me seriously think of getting a One.
Officerrob
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Not dedicated enough to buy Dark Souls 2.
Yeah, why correct obvious spin? Let PR do their job y'all.
Okay, then let's not use "don't care." let's use the actual phrasing where publishers allegedly consider shipped the same as sold.
They do not. Otherwise the credit system used by publishers with GameStop or the re-categorization of SKU from new to used wouldn't have been a big deal so many years ago.
Shining Sunshine
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Yeah we should praise companies for being shady and misleading. Kappa.
Their job is to make a compelling product that sells, not mislead people like MajorNelson is trying to do. No one needs your permission to decry something like that tweet.
Pull ahead?
Thunder Monkey
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And I definitely don't support Hindle and his insulting other users thing.
You might think of me as "educated", but that's far from a smart round to take little Hindle.
You might think of me as "educated", but that's far from a smart round to take little Hindle.
Nelson pls.
Mattrick lives
funkystudent
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The 329 bundles have me wanting one.
But I am over here in the EU and Microsoft doesnt give a fuuuuuuck about over here anymore.
Dragonborn
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Bloodborne is the true Souls successor like Dark Souls was to Demons'
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Reported for attempted murder.
dude, this is hilarious. you don't even know why I was demodded. You have it completely wrong. This completely made up story of yours doesn't even share any similarities with why I was demodded lol
You're getting called out for being a Microsoft shill and obvious fanboy. That's what you are. own it bro. No shame in it.
Yeah it's really hard for me to hold off. But ID@Xbox parity clause...
IAmRandom31
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BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
what exactly are you correcting?
what the fuck is so misleading about this? They have clearly said SOLD to RETAIL. Also clearly stated Two weeks. So please explain yourself.
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just saw Major's tweet. lol carry on guys. That is indeed bullshit.
Even with Microsoft taking October and November, I doubt it will faze Sony that much. Like all the PR spokesperson have said before "It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." or something like that.
In terms of sales for a single month, yeah.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!!!!!!
disastermouse
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Will it push the Wii U down?
Oh man this guy. I'm going to grab some popcorn
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It's not even remotely true though. He literally pulled the story from his ass, just like his Microsoft predictions lol
R3TRODYCE
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Oh shit
Handy Fake
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The man's come out swinging. I'm glad I tuned in.
Pseudo judo
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The momentum is obviously real and undeniable. It doesn't take too much research to figure that much out. The only question here are the numbers.
The fuck is this???????
Kazuma Kiryu
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Come on people, you know we would all benefit if you all stopped replying to Hindle right? Then we wouldn't have to read his nonsense so often.
L4DANathan
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Yep. They're just wording it in such a way that people get mistaken to think that's how many are in consumer hands. It's "lying via rhetoric", just like politicians and TV news channels!
But GAF > Internet > GAF you'd be surpeised how many Console PR dudes visit GAF, man even Pachter lurks here. GAF is taken as a sample size of the hardcore gamer. If a game flies here , than most likely other news sites will spin "its a good game according to sources". I use to be skeptical about GAF, but I know they hold abit of marketing power.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Well, that was quick. It's worded in a way to excite Xbox fans about finally catching up to the PS4 when that's really not the case. The emphasis on the week to week jump has me thinking they lost the NPD again and are trying to get out in front of it. We've seen this before.
Both consoles doing well is good for the industry. It's just that MS insists on being sketchy about how they trumpet their success.
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