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A company winning the month where they released a new console is not really something of note tho.
Sony complete dominance at the beggining of this gen?
Same could be said for the Scorpio tho.
Ah shucks.
Need the deets.
Never seen the Lion King?!?
FinaruDensetsu
Member
That's in line with Phil Spencer's directive though. He didn't want to encourage console wars, so celebrating console demand in general makes sense.
ethomaz
Banned
Nah the 50 million PR was just because they lost NP... ohh wait.
jmaine_ph
Member
No way. It was the best Black Friday week in PlayStation history and the Pro came out.
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
Nope, but a gold one should do the job
Melchiah
Member
Ah, thanks. I've never seen the movie.
Yeah if the gap was considerably big then you're right. Are we getting any numbers soon?
I wouldn't compare the Xone S with the Pro tho. I might be wrong but the Pro is more in line with Scorpio and not Xone S.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Unless....you don't have a console of choice and just enjoy talking about the business side of the industry.
But the type of people these threads attract make that impossible.
Giant Panda
Member
The Knack 2 rumors began in late November though...
michaelius
Banned
Are you suggesting that such a thing would be impossible for almighty Knack ?
Goose_Se7en
Banned
I guess I know what I'll be having for dinner tonight.
I should have known better to bet against Sony, especially with the Pro releasing. I, in fact, bought one myself. I thought MS was going to be able to sustain its momentum going into Nov.
I should have known better to bet against Sony, especially with the Pro releasing. I, in fact, bought one myself. I thought MS was going to be able to sustain its momentum going into Nov.
bananafactory
Banned
Sony has marketing for RDR2? Thats news to me
Next week we'll get some number leaks.
Now that Black Friday and Holiday sales will begin to slow down, it's going to be interesting to see how MS does their song and dance for about 11 months until Scorpio releases. If done right they could generate a fair amount of hype, if done poorly it could mean tough times for Xbox. (probably going to be the latter, especially in the dog days of summer)
As for Sony, they're in a great place balancing hardware, imminent software and future software for fans to be excited for. Well done.
As for Sony, they're in a great place balancing hardware, imminent software and future software for fans to be excited for. Well done.
Man you need to get on that! lol
I believe that was for WW sales during BF, not specifically for US.
It remains to be seen if PS4 is up/down YoY in the States.
Hydrargyrus
Member
Back to the normality, the king's comeback.
Congrats to Sony, again!
Congrats to Sony, again!
The Last One
Member
The game's dlc is even timed exclusive iirc.
They're still being outsold though?
Jawbreaker
Member
Eh, people just like making predictions and having fun when the results roll in. It's not too dissimilar from friendly banter over sports teams.
Aceofspades
Banned
Lol hilarious, yeah total player on Sunday Nov 27 is up 40% thanks to PS4
That was hilarious
When you put it like that, then it's looking tougher for the Xbox. They're gonna have to fight tooth and nail to get gamers excited for their console over Sony's.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/10/20/red-dead-redemption-2-playstation-and-rockstar-games-announce-partnership/
Must be sizable to have a blog post about it. Probably in line with what they do for Battlefront, CoD, and Destiny.
semiconscious
Gold Member
Yup. When it was revealed they announced a partnership and said the first footage was shown on a PS4.
I also wouldn't be shocked if they have ME:Andromeda partnership as well.
bananafactory
Banned
Didn't people here were saying that the last PR about the 50 millions was a damage control statement? Or it was a link to a twitter meltdown?
Damn, didn't catch that one before. They are talking consoles, nor Xbox in the "most sought" products; they are including PS4 in their own statement lol
Damn, didn't catch that one before. They are talking consoles, nor Xbox in the "most sought" products; they are including PS4 in their own statement lol
Again: BF is not the entire month,and sales centralization around the BF/CM holiday has been accelerating.
Consider a sum of sales in a gaussian spread over the entire month with a wide Full Width Half Max, now change that FWHM to be narrower and narrower to the limit where you approach a delta at BF/CM. The integral under the curve (that is, the sum of sales) is unchanged, but you have an increasingly larger and more extreme spike.
If I reduce my total sales by some % but also decrease my FWHM by a suitable degree (centralizing sales around my gaussian center) then I can both have a drop YoY in sum totals but an increase at a given point.
Melchiah
Member
I'm not really a fan of Disney's animated films, but it might be worth watching with my girl, since she likes it.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
Yup get used to it here. When Xbox wins it's "all hail phil spencer". When Sony wins it's usually "return of the king" or some other such nonsense.
You do realize the months Xbox sold more than PS4 means nothing worldwide?
It always was dominance.
Yeah I guess it's amazing... but didn't MS only turn things around by releasing a new console as well?
Or 'the Phil Spencer effect!' .
It's a bit stupid but it's playful and harmless.
Dash_Riprock
Member
This is the second year in a row Microsoft's "ignore everything but the Holiday Season" strategy has failed. I think a change in tactics is in order...
But GAF told me without a 4k Blu-Ray drive no one would want the Pro!
But GAF told me without a 4k Blu-Ray drive no one would want the Pro!
Rellik
Member
Read 2 posts above lol
I'm not really a fan of Disney's animated films, but it might be worth watching with my girl, since she likes it.
If you like Macbeth and Hamlet, you'll enjoy it. It's basically a combo of those two but with lions haha
Knack 2 announcement was so great it caused people to buy up all the PS4's before it was even announced.
Being serious for a second, it would have been an embarrassment for Sony if they had not won last month, they needed to launching Pro as they did.
Being serious for a second, it would have been an embarrassment for Sony if they had not won last month, they needed to launching Pro as they did.
jmaine_ph
Member
I didn't know many countries observed Black Friday.
Jimmyfenix
Member
don't watch lion king 2
michaelius
Banned
Ehh I don't know why they surprised - their own pricing strategy makes Pro a no brainer as you get so much more for small premium.
They already started that transition.