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Microsoft Earnings: 1.2 million Xbox One's shipped in Jan-Mar, 5.1M total (3.9+1.2)
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BruceLeeRoy
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Yeah me either it's crazy how many people on my friends list are playing that game still.
Your posts of late + that avatar has been absolute GOLD
Glorified G
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lol, who is arguing this? I replied because you called online play a killer app yet such a small portion the userbase had bothered to pay for gold, remember it's 50% of people who bothered to connect their console online at all, most of them are not even connected online period. Nothing in my post had anything to with how much or little profit MS has made on live
In all honesty a $399 Xbone with Kinect and a Halo 2 anniversary bundle could be a pretty killer deal this holiday in the US.
Just wait, Sony will be running around in panic like headless chickens. I wouldn't be surprised if Shuhei Yoshida resigns and Andrew House just drinks himself into delirium. They have a world of pain incoming.
Edit:
Xbox One is a killer deal right now. But indeed, a $399 Xbawx One with Halo would be killer even beyond just killer.
Imperfected
Member
Would you say it's the Dexter of deals?
No, you probably wouldn't; no one watches Dexter anymore.
Night Angel
Member
If Xbox wanted to be Dexter they'd have to add back all of the always online DRM right near the end of its life cycle.
I don't think anyone wants that.
RealityPales
Member
When you put it like that, I'd buy it.
I'd buy that for a dollar
Whipped Spartan
Member
I think the only way MS gets a spike in sales at E3 or later is a two SKU approach. They already put the $450 price out there to help move inventory for the Kinect bundle with a game and it's not catching on in Europe. That price has been out there for well over a month at every store but game stop. How could you expect to go back no. It would hurt sells.
I fully expect this to happen by or at E3:
$350 No Kinect core bundle.
$450 W/Kinect and a game.
I fully expect this to happen by or at E3:
$350 No Kinect core bundle.
$450 W/Kinect and a game.
The Kinect SKU will not sell if they sell two SKUs including one without Kinect.
Pretty much. They've invested so much into Kinect that making an SKU without it will kill the project.
Glorified G
Member
First time ever that a 'tard pack would be much more popular than the more expensive model. I expect they'll stick to the one sku approach.
Triggerhappytel
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Well, this thread was made on the 24th April which is I assume when all the data became available. It'll probably be similar this month, so another twelve days or thereabouts?
Fallout-with-swords
Banned
These are pretty great compared to last gen, but yeah PS4 numbers make these look relatively poor.
Pound_lb003
Member
5.1 shipped, so they may not have sold 5 mil yet?
This thread is old brah.
Steverulez
Member
That was by 31st March, so they might be at 5m now, depends how close they were to 5m sold back then (not that close I suspect) and we're getting towards the season were less consoles are usually sold?
It will be interesting to see if they give numbers on how many the Kinectless sku sold specifically although I doubt they will except for a few words on "increased demand" or something
I think the Xbox One was just approaching 4 Million back then. Since then (post Titanfall launch), the Xbox One sales have gone down... Combo of the usual drop during the Spring season as well as just the system not having a big exclusive. I don't think they are at 5 Million yet. Think current sales are more so close to 4.5 Million.
The new SKU will help. A decent number of people on the fence were waiting to see if the Xbox would get to $400 and many of the same ones don't care about kinect so the new SKU is good in that sense. However, the new SKU isn't going to help that much during months in which the system doesn't have many big games so don't expect a crazy increase for this upcoming NPD. There definitely needed to be a $400 (or less) SKU before the huge Fall/Holiday gaming season though. Don't think the Xbox One will overtake the PS4 in sales anytime soon (in America and especially worldwide obviously) but the November and December NPD may be close in terms of PS4 vs. Xbox One sales.
family_guy
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Amazing how they lost all three of those advantages. If only they released a year earlier. They were sitting on 360 since 2005. It's amazing how unprepared they were.
shadowsdarknes
Member
We haven't had a PS4 sales update in awhile.
And as far as Wii U goes, it's not selling. It's probably not even at 7 million sold to consumers yet. No sense in reporting the sold numbers until you have to. They aren't good numbers.
I suspect maybe 8.5 million Wii U's sold by the end of the year at 24-25 months.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Who's been giving you constant PS4 sale updates? It certainly hasn't been Sony. Their last official word was in April AFAIK
I believe MS wont outsell PS4 ever again in the USA, the shift has happened already.
Sales will always read that again always be close but PS4 will always edge it out in the NPDs from now on, their wont be a time where MS blows out PS4 in a blink of an eye, them days is dead.
Sales will always read that again always be close but PS4 will always edge it out in the NPDs from now on, their wont be a time where MS blows out PS4 in a blink of an eye, them days is dead.
Well ...
Possibility #1: Kinectless SKU in June => Will soon know (but this I doubt)
Possibility #2: HALO MCC => This is possible in my opinion.
The US gap between the PS3 and Xbox 360 was bigger but yet, the PS3 had a few months when it beat the Xbox 360 in NPD.
I think the Xbox One can do it (whether this year or possibly in the future) with the combo of a major exclusive + the usual huge Holiday season boost. We'll see though.
It's possible that in the one region, MCC may end up causing sales parity or maybe beat PS4 in NA for a month or so. Assuming most MCC buyers don't already own the console.
I wouldn't say ever. There were months where the original Xbox managed to outsell the PS2.
Neuromancer
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Never say never. I doubt it will ever become a trend though.
Leyasu
Banned
I would. This gen was lost before the consoles even launched!
I only have an xb1 as well
Sword Of Doom
Member
They're talking aBout both the 360 and XB1 and given their history with wording it means sold to retailers.
1.2mil XB1
800k 360
shadowsdarknes
Member
I can see the PS4 and XB1 being neck and neck during the holiday season.
But otherwise, the PS4 clearly has the market lead here and the gap will continue to widen.
OverHeat
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That's what you get when your the company that people expect to have the most powerful hardware and you deliver an underpowered system, hope Microsoft is realizing that.