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PS4 sold 250k, Xbox One 100k in Germany
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SolidSnakex
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Dreamgazer
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What were the numbers you have in mind?
Frankfurter
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Microsoft is soo doomed in Europe.
Wonder when 3rd party support dries up.
*Bows to the master*
Frankfurter
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I'm pretty sure they'll never need to worry about that. It should be sufficiently easy/cheap to port from Xbone to PS4 (/vice versa), so even in the extremely unlikely case of say a 4:1 sales ratio I do think Xbone will get pretty much everything the PS4 gets (minus the Sony first/second party exclusives obviously). The issue for Microsoft is that this won't help them. Playstation has the better brand, the more powerful hardware and it's cheaper.
Microsoft needs to find sth. Kinect related that makes people buy tons of consoles.
The store I frequent had orders from higher up to sell all of the PS4's they had on hand over the weekend. Any stores that had excess stock on Saturday were to transfer them to stores where they would sell (Typically college towns or stores with traditionally higher rates of consumers that purchase cheaper games/consoles)
Haunted
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Surprised it's only a 2,5:1 ratio, there's so much negative mindshare surrounding Microsoft, the console, the early announcements, everything I assumed it would bomb even harder.
That said, PS4 domination this generation seems virtually assured. The question now is how hard the XB1 is going to get beaten.
edit: people are quoting supply constraints? huh, I've seen a couple PS4s lying around at the big stores, wasn't aware.
That said, PS4 domination this generation seems virtually assured. The question now is how hard the XB1 is going to get beaten.
edit: people are quoting supply constraints? huh, I've seen a couple PS4s lying around at the big stores, wasn't aware.
To quote from the PES thread about whether or not it will get an XB1 port:
Some games will not be ported if the XB1 is heavily outsold, it will depend on the game''s budget, the games historical association, the games sales figures and potentially any marketing deals.
Obviously all of the big games will be ported but some of the smaller ones will not.
Sword Of Doom
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I hope it's not short term moneyhats. Nobody wins when that happens
Both Australia and Oceania are/can be used to describe the continent. Both answers are correct.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/continents.htm
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
http://www.whatarethe7continents.com/
SwiftDeath
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Does anyone have the list of countries the PS4 has launched in to date? I know it's 53 countries but damn if I can find a list
France?
I could be wrong but I distinctly remember a deal site posting about PS4 being available on Amazon.fr for christmas delivery.
They must be absolutely thrilled, what with how long it takes regular people to download the updates in order to play the games on relatively decent broadband!
I can just imagine them down at McMurdo Station seething at the lack of a progress bar:
"Can we still not play Forza 5? It's been updating for 5 weeks now!"
There was one floating around in the closed 4.2million thread.
If ea would have stayed a Nintendo partner or partnered with Sony Xbox would be dead. I hate EA now.
Jk
rokkerkory
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PS4 doing some good damage
SwiftDeath
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Yeah, I've seen XBO's in multiple MediaMarkt and Real stores. No PS4 so far.
You can get xbones at amazon germany within 24h if you pay for overnight express or just wait 2 days and get it shipped for free.
PS4? Might take some months xD
I can confirm that. I went to MediaMarkt several times in the past weeks. I've yet to see a PS4 out in the wild. Xbox One on the other hand was available - even the bundle with free FIFA was in stock the last time I checked. So I bet the numbers would be even higher in favor of PS4 if they could ship more to retailers.
Rogue_Ledr
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This is why I question Sony's commitment to an Asian launch in February. The need for more systems is in U.S. and Europe.
Sony wins Asia by default.
They should wait till at least summer for the Asian launch.
Sony wins Asia by default.
They should wait till at least summer for the Asian launch.
and austria
qa_engineer
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That and I'm sure being cheaper while more powerful has something to do with it as well.
I don't know anyone here in austria that is interested in xbones and of course no one would import them. They are piled up to the ceiling in every store here!
Graphics Horse
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They've already launched in practically every asian country.
Saw that in MM in Klagenfurt and Villach with my own eyes last December. Half of palette of X1s and clerk said 'Yeah, we sold two this week to some foreigner, every PS4 goes for preorder and this will go on until February"
TacticalFox88
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Still wonder what they're going to do about China. Whoever "wins" there will probably *own* china indefinitely.
NeOak
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I think few have ordered their console on amazon.de
Hesemonni
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There's people who are going to buy Xbone no matter what and then there's PS4 which everyone wants to buy and is heavily supply constrained. They just couldn't ship more of those.
This is kind of mind blowing.
Here in Brazil it's widely accepted that Oceania is the continent, as described by Jules d'Urville. That's how we're taught in schools down here. Or at least how I was taught all those years ago.
I'm browsing through related articles on Wikipedia right now... And it seems that there really is a distinction (English version, Portuguese version). This is off-topic as hell, but, huh. I wonder if it's a recent change and younger folks are being taught differently from how I was, or if it's a matter of regional differences in terms of what's accepted in the academic geography circle.