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The One and Done;95225749 said:Good for them. Great job informing misinformed customers on The One so they can make an educated decision if they can't get both.
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The One and Done;95225749 said:Good for them. Great job informing misinformed customers on The One so they can make an educated decision if they can't get both.
******** was the source...Forbes just put out an article saying the wii u sold more units than the xb1 the week before Christmas
DaaaaamnForbes just put out an article saying the wii u sold more units than the xb1 the week before Christmas
Because Microsoft has overloaded every store with units. And demand is not as high as expected.
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******** was the source...
For better or worse this thread is pretty much a case study on what happens when you lose consumer confidence in your product line.
Ah...didn't know it's bannedYes I saw the source and laughed.....it's a banned source
I went into a GameStop today after lunch just to kill some time while I was waiting to meet up with my cousin. I looked in the PS4 section for a but and then looked at 3DS games for at least 10 minutes. Then I walked over to the Xbox One section and immediately an employee says to me "you look like a guy who needs an Xbox One" and starts selling me.
I explain that in the last month or so I had bought myself a Nexus 5, iPad Air, PS4, and 3DS XL and would not even be considering another new toy for quite some time. He seemed like a really nice guy though so I asked "do you have an Xbox One?" He laughed and said "no I have a PS4!" like I had just insulted him or something. I thought that was pretty amusing.
Another customer came in and another employee immediately tried selling them on the Xbox One as well. Anecdotal evidence but in my experience they are pushing the Xbox One pretty hard.
Or that.Because they have piles of these things cluttering up their back rooms and they want them gone.
Because they have piles of these things cluttering up their restrooms and they want them gone.
Bing has over 30% control of search market in the US and continues growing share and moving steadily each quarter towards profitability. Bing powers search on Yahoo, Facebook, Apple's Siri, and Amazon's Kindle Fire now. I'd say Microsoft is doing a damn good job competing in search considering everything. Lumping Bing in with Zune and Kin (a product that was cancelled a month after release) is just pure ignorance.
They're trying to clear the air that they absolutely helped pollute. I find this slightly amusing.
I don't see consumer confidence being the main issue long term or the primary contributor to any hindrance to a possible slowdown in current sales. I see non-gamer disinterest being a bigger issue that Nintendo has also met face-to-face with (ignoring Nintendo's missteps for a moment). That disinterest would include price point and mind/timeshare conflict with non-console products.
For over a year now I have felt that the market would shrink, but I think it could be said that if you exclude non-gamers the market shrunk last gen. Setting Wii sales aside, look at PS2/XB sales vs PS3/360 sales. PS2 and XB were on the market for 6 and 4 years respectively before their successors hit the market and their final combined totals came in at ~180M. PS3 and 360 were on the market 7 and 8 years respectively before their successors hit the market and as of now their combined sales are ~160M. I see it being a struggle for them to pass that 180M mark after such a long gen before successors were released and now with those successors on the market.
I work in retail and haven't seen a PS4 at my store since the week before Christmas. Here's the kicker though, we've sold out of Xbox One's thrice. It's the same with the PS4's. The only difference is we've received another shipment of Xbox One's but no PS4's. I've been suggesting the Xbox One to the people who haven't been lucky enough to get their hands on a PS4. I own both and feel they're quite similar, so much so that you can't go wrong with either one. Chatting with customers, I've come to find that it's not that they don't want one, it's the price. If only it were $50 cheaper, I think those waiting for a PS4 would be more inclined to purchasing an Xbox One.
Worth to wait, since the system is going to be supported for 6-7 years.
Wow. How embarrassing, oconnomiyaki.
I tend to agree, I was ambivalent about MSs involvement with the Xbox brand until the XO launch and now recognise that ever since the launch of Kinect thats its been steering its trojan horse in the wrong direction to even appeal to me. Telling your prospective audience that they arent ready for their (poorly communicated and realised) vision was just the last straw...And the primary issue. in my opinion, that caused that PR nightmare is Microsoft itself. They're toxic to brand right now. I know it was brought up before, and even then wasn't met with a lot of acceptance, but I really think the Xbox brand should be spun away from Microsoft itself. The corporate culture of Microsoft has drove away a lot of the heads that made the Xbox an actual competitor to Sony and Nintendo. The current heads are just empty suits that don't get why the 360 was as successful as it was. How else would we have gotten TV, TV, TV, TV, Television, Sports, Sports, Sports, Sports, Xbox is a water cooler, Call of Duty, Call of Duty, Call of Duty, Call of Duty, a dog I care about, and "Titanfall, have you seen the bitch?".
Those same heads are still there. The same heads that decided that disastrous DRM. The same heads that made the console as much as a basic launch 20gig PS3. As long as those same heads remain I have 0 faith those same policies won't show up again somewhere down the Xbox brand line.
I work in retail and haven't seen a PS4 at my store since the week before Christmas. Here's the kicker though, we've sold out of Xbox One's thrice. It's the same with the PS4's. The only difference is we've received another shipment of Xbox One's but no PS4's. I've been suggesting the Xbox One to the people who haven't been lucky enough to get their hands on a PS4. I own both and feel they're quite similar, so much so that you can't go wrong with either one. Chatting with customers, I've come to find that it's not that they don't want one, it's the price. If only it were $50 cheaper, I think those waiting for a PS4 would be more inclined to purchasing an Xbox One.
Don't care either way but when I walked into Gamestop last week to pick up a copy of AC4 for my PS4, the PS4 demo station was off but the Xbox One was on with Forza on it.....and it looked AMAZING. Nearly sold me on the system.
Don't care either way but when I walked into Gamestop last week to pick up a copy of AC4 for my PS4, the PS4 demo station was off but the Xbox One was on with Forza on it.....and it looked AMAZING. Nearly sold me on the system.
Don't care either way but when I walked into Gamestop last week to pick up a copy of AC4 for my PS4, the PS4 demo station was off but the Xbox One was on with Forza on it.....and it looked AMAZING. Nearly sold me on the system.