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MS: Xbox One June 2014 sales more than double May 2014's sales
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Yeah, I had a nice, long phone conversation with the guy and met him with a friend of mine from the office. Came out great tho, XB1 w/ Kinect, Titanfall, BF4, and Garden Warfare, $350.
I would say it's going to be expected at this point by most.
They couldn't say "triple" if it hit 200-230K. Is "2.5x" more eye catching than "more than double" for PR?
I would think the latter is a better statement since it would be easier for people to understand but that's just my opinion.
Killing_Joke
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That doesn't sound too good but not that surprising either. They could have had another low month so maybe the new sku did in fact help but we'll see how long the band-aid holds.
Was hoping for another One/Wii U face off though.
Was hoping for another One/Wii U face off though.
lol, they would have gone with almost 300% in that case.
BlackBuzzard
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Yeah. Im betting its 160-165K.
digoutyoursoul
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No but I think they possibly wanted a bit more resurgence with a price cut and no Kinect. I think they will have a decent winter in US
When you drop the price by $100 it isn't anything to brag about.
Aquamarine
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In comparison to Xbox 360 sales it is:
It's just underwhelming. When you have Microsoft investors who are already hesitant about supporting the Xbox One, and it doesn't perform at the level of the PS4 or Xbox 360 before it...it puts Microsoft in an awkward situation.
A month where they unveiled a new SKU with an official $100 price drop. In June of all months when graduation gifts for teenagers during the summer usually involve brand new video game consoles.
It's not horrible, but it's not good either.
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Graphics Horse
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Not on its own, but is when you consider that presumably a lot of people delayed their purchase to cause last month's drop to 76k. It makes it seem like the kinectless had no sales impact overall.
AstroNut325
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You be the judge. Here is Xbox 360's numbers for June according to Aquamarine:
Steverulez
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They always do a double game pack-in bundle, they will do that again this holiday I think, it pretty much says something similar in the original post Titanfall and Forza 5 is the popular one, maybe an alternate KSR and Forza 5 one for younger audiences
SwiftDeath
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My predictions :'(
Do we have to bring out the chalkboard again?
Kazuma Kiryu
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Yeah, it was mostly expected by everyone for PS4 to win June, but as some folks mentioned on the NPD predictions thread, since it was a "price cut" month, it wasn't a sure result (like May, with watchdogs and ps4).
As for November, we'll just have to wait a few more months to see how things are shaking out closer to that month.
That's true, halo is a big franchise, but it's still just a "hd collection/remaster". I'm still not so sure about it's sales potential to attract new people in order to beat ps4. I guess it all depends how strong Far Cry and CoD will be on PS4 that month to counter it.
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Joe Shlabotnik
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But assuming that May was artificially low (which is likely true) automatically implies that some of June includes delayed price-drop sales. You've got ~230K over two months and there's no way to slice it that looks fantastic for MS's June.
This offer the best picture I think. The announcement of the price cut practically collapsed May sales. We might factor in the fact that the price drop started with the second week in June, so the weekly average post price cut might be a little higher (although it might also be the case that a lot of people bought it in the post price cut week postponing their initial acquisition from May), but overall seems to have very little effect in the big picture.
BlackBuzzard
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What did you predict 200K?
FaultTolerance
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Sunset Overdrive bundle? That could be fun.
For what it's worth this is what price cuts actually do. They virtually never accelerate sales, just simply bump and then slow/eliminate atrophy. The number of people "waiting" on each $x - $y cycle is relatively small. Instead the larger picture is people waiting til the time is right, which is exactly that.. more about time than price.
Anyway.. If it really is 154k for June... I actually feel bad for them. I mean granted the entire market is going to remain down from last gen thanks to the casuals moving on, but to have a strong rise for a gen and a half to having your only bright sales spot being "well we're not selling as bad as Wii U". That's a tall serving of humble pie.
Pretty sure most Wii U owners finally got sick of seeing the chalk board. With that being said I think the only two realistic items you can put on there for the bone is MCC and Halo 5. Once those two are crossed off I have no idea what could really be left.
Canis lupus
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True, it probably doesn't mean much but the consoles and some launch games move up the Amazon charts after e3. Last year Amazon said they saw huge pre-orders for next gen consoles after the conferences, I figured that stays true for any normal e3 and is part of the reason why June is a bigger month than May.
Then they'd have said: We (almost) sold tripled our May numbers.
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They'll continue to tread water.
t_wilson01
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I hope your hope never comes to pass. That would just open the doors for console parity and no one outside of Redmond wants that. If it wasn't for the low sales Microsoft would still be pushing their vision of the future.
Didn't the xbox one sell around 77K in May? So double that number will be at least 154K. More than double will probably be over 160K in this case.
SwiftDeath
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I predicted 149k for XB1 this month :\
Already off by at least 6000 units
Edit: Wait since June 9th? The game is still on!!!
I'd think there'd be a decent amount of people buying a PS4 earlier to play TLoU, Madden, and Diablo 3. Plus, don't black hardware usually always sell better than white?
And_Gignac
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Aaaw I wanted the Wii U to outsell the xb1. Maybe in September.
Graphics Horse
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I predicted 149k for XB1 this month :\
Already off by at least 6000 units
:lol
I have a feeling my PS4 estimate is going to be too high, we'll see.
Triple will be 228K most likely if we look at the may numbers. They would have said more than 2.5 times if that happened.Since the article says more than double since June 9th wouldn't that be more than 38.5K every week after June 9th unless I'm missing something which will make it possibly over 174K+. I highly doubt the amount the Xbox one sold per week stayed consistently above 38.5K per week after June 9th.
What comes out for Wii U in September?
hydrophilic attack
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They didn't say #1 platform so I guess PS4 still won the month. Not really surprising. While the XBO did have a price drop, it is still the same price as the PS4 for inferior hardware. Of course, you can make a case for superior software on XBO, but none of that software was released this month.
So I think the people at MS are not worried; they probably never expected to come out on top this month. What is important is that the console will be $399 when Master Chief Collection launches. That is their chance to carve out a lead, for a month or two.
NPD thread will be fun. I need to come up with a trolling angle for that thread, whatever the outcome
So I think the people at MS are not worried; they probably never expected to come out on top this month. What is important is that the console will be $399 when Master Chief Collection launches. That is their chance to carve out a lead, for a month or two.
NPD thread will be fun. I need to come up with a trolling angle for that thread, whatever the outcome
Mass Effect
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More deals, more bundles (Halo MC bundle?). Right now there really isn't much else except wait until some of the big games come out.
They have exclusive marketing deals with Dragon Age and Evolve right? Advertise the fuck out of those games to associate them with Xbox. Maybe that will help a little.
freakzilla3000
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No doubt the kinect-less and a strong E3 showing helped these numbers.... PS4 looks like an unstoppable monster though (at least in America).
Can't wait to see the official numbers tomorrow.
Can't wait to see the official numbers tomorrow.
Not really, no, but I figured using 'fun' in what I believed was a clearly sarky fashion was a bit nicer than saying it's gonna be "saltsville" (or whatever it is you lot normally call it) up in here.
If you want me to be straight about it though: "I can foresee a lot of upset taking hold if PS4 ends up outselling Xbox One this month".
Better?
Chobel
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They'll say "almost triple".
Jimmyfenix
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well considering PS4 is outselling Xbone everywhere it's seems like unstoppable monster worldwide.
*cept Japan cause i forgot the situation there
SwiftDeath
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About all I think we can draw from this is that PS4 > XB1 for June considering they didn't say they were best-selling assuming they get early reports like we were talking about in the other thread
Doesn't say much though. I'm worried about my PS4 numbers as well
They'd probably say that if it was 2.4 times as much.
They didn't say #1 platform so I guess PS4 still won the month. Not really surprising. While the XBO did have a price drop, it is still the same price as the PS4 for inferior hardware. Of course, you can make a case for superior software on XBO, but none of that software was released this month.
So I think the people at MS are not worried; they probably never expected to come out on top this month. What is important is that the console will be $399 when Master Chief Collection launches. That is their chance to carve out a lead, for a month or two.
NPD thread will be fun. I need to come up with a trolling angle for that thread, whatever the outcome
Even if somehow MS wins November it won't be by much and early next year Sony has a better line up with The Order and Bloodborne so there going to get further away.
So the numbers the PS4 is selling aren't good ? Saying any product is selling at a rate qualitative to that of the PS4 is impressive.
DangerMouse
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Yup. Plus delayed sales for May due to the early price cut announcement, it could drop further for August perhaps.
Yeah.
I hope Xbox One does better & better. I have a PS4, my brother has the One. I don't want to see this new current gen becoming a cakewalk for Sony, and above all, I want a healthy console/games industry in general for all dedicated game platforms as much as possible.
I also certainly don't want this gen to be another 7 or 8 years long like last. I still say five to six years would be fine (that was the norm) and therefore I want next gen to start in 2018, or 2019 at the latest.
I also certainly don't want this gen to be another 7 or 8 years long like last. I still say five to six years would be fine (that was the norm) and therefore I want next gen to start in 2018, or 2019 at the latest.
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