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WindowsCentral: Xbox One X Amazon pre-orders surpass PS4 Pro YTD for 2017
- Thread starter Uno Venova
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Pre season is for suckers.
Yup, an excellent game made even better...
Did you miss how Sony was trying to push the Pro at E3?
Yearsoflurking
Member
I'm interested in the x and how it does at retail. It can either replace the xbox one like a new console or just be a a quick lighting flash. Being the most powerful console probably will make it more interesting
statham
Member
So Sony isn't focusing on Pro? not good news for pro owners. What about VR?
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Right--I'm curious to know these numbers. I'm not surprised a new system is selling well, though.
Nightengale
Member
Ranking matters in Amazon charts, but not so much the numerical differences. It's impressive that X pre-orders has outmatched Pro on Amazon, low shares or not, but being 30 places ahead isn't really effectively comparable.
Like, several situations in the past where PS4/XB1 had significant differences in numerical placement on Amazon charts ended up being less than a 20% volume difference in NPD. Or something like that.
EnVy_CaLiBeR
Member
Wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox One X outsells the PSPro eventually. Feels like Microsoft is marketing the Xbox One X far more than Sony has ever pushed the PS4 Pro.
Jaguar Victory
Member
Looks to have beat the Pro on Amazon UK as well.
48 vs. 60
48 vs. 60
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It's not available for preorder, and probably won't ever be.
You could use that same statement and response to say not good for Xbox One owners. Both are silly.
Welfare
Member
Pro is most likely +400K going with the 1 in 5 stat (PS4 has sold 2M this year in the US) and Amazon is ~10% of the US retail video game market. If that holds true with Pro sales, that's ~40K.
Mikey Jr.
Member
Ohh, my bad. Thought I read somewhere PS4 pro has like 70 titles, and X is up to 110.
Its a good result and shows that Xbox fans are preordering X in record numbers.
Sure there are caveats(amazon only, US only, preorders only ect), but this indicates demand somewhere and is a lot better of a result than other worse possibilities.
I think that Xbox one X will be a higher ratio of upgraders from XB1 than PS4 people to Pro. Sony has likely seen less of a priority to push Pro than MS for X...it makes me wonder why Sony even launched the Pro TBH, they could have coasted off of the slim and gone all in on their own direction, doubling down on the traditional model. Would have been interesting to see how the market reacted to MS with XB1S and XB1X and Sony with just the base and slim options for a lower price tag
Sure there are caveats(amazon only, US only, preorders only ect), but this indicates demand somewhere and is a lot better of a result than other worse possibilities.
I think that Xbox one X will be a higher ratio of upgraders from XB1 than PS4 people to Pro. Sony has likely seen less of a priority to push Pro than MS for X...it makes me wonder why Sony even launched the Pro TBH, they could have coasted off of the slim and gone all in on their own direction, doubling down on the traditional model. Would have been interesting to see how the market reacted to MS with XB1S and XB1X and Sony with just the base and slim options for a lower price tag
Yep, because that statement is absolute nonsense.
OfficerRaichu15
Member
Microsoft yall getting that sweet XBOXX cash now put that into Viva Piñata 3!
Anyway this is terrific news for the industry and seriously hope this revitalizes the brand(hopefully some worldwide).
Anyway this is terrific news for the industry and seriously hope this revitalizes the brand(hopefully some worldwide).
I think a better correlation could be seen by looking at Amazon charts in around Oct 2016 for where the Pro was. As far as I know, Amazon doesn't charge you the full amount until shipment, so these numbers are likely inflated by prospective purchasers looking to secure a console with no real obligation if you cancel.
I feel like that says a lot more about the S' impact.
Woah, I mean't in my personal experience in game stores and with my buddies. I do know Sony was focusing on the Pro more at E3.
Not sure if that's a good thing.
But that could be misinterpreted as a good or bad though.
NecromorphTX
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Hugh Swank
Member
Ha, ha, I literally lol'd at that. Thank you.
Possible, sure, but not likely. The S and X have such a different price point that one would assume they are catering to two different types of customers. Also, to be fair Sony has had a dearth of fantastic games come out over the last 8 months and they also have the Pro. IIRC, they are up 10-15% YOY (NPD) so far. Really strong results for them. The S really has fallen off the pace. I am going to guess that it will show an uptick in September and October as we approach the holidays.
Nightengale
Member
To check best-seller by year, replace X with a number:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/201X/videogames/
To check best-seller by month, replace X/Y with a number:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/201X-0Y/videogames/
Welfare
Member
Oh for sure, like at most, the unit difference is probably not that big. We would need someone from GameStop or Best Buy to weigh in on this to know if the same is even true outside of Amazon and if it is by a good amount or not.
Good news for the One X though.
Don't think many expected the S to completely faceplant so fast. Wouldn't be surprised either way at this point, probably depends on how aggressive MS get with the S' price and how well they market the X.
statham
Member
You guys really love Timdog, a guy who prefers Xbox, really drives some of you to go nuts-so.
I would hope the S sells a shit ton this holiday. It is the more reasonably priced console and it is sleek as hell.
Yeah I keep seeing his name referenced randomly on here, seems his gotten under a few peoples skins.