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Xbox One: The best-selling console in America.

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Sony's decision to not include a 4k Blu-ray player in their PS4 Pro directly led me to buying an Xbox One S. I had no intentions to buy the system before that.

With that said, I couldn't be happier with the decision. It's a great system.

Ha, it really is. People spend so much time hating on the thing and they likely don't even remember why. Every time I boot it up I'm like, "damn..but GAF told me not to like this".
 
I find it pretty hilarious to see the haters squirm. If a marketing department doing their job actually irritates certain people, if those people actually let it antagonize them, that's what makes it entertainment.

Between stuff like this and that twitter Xbox One S feature tick thread a few weeks ago it seems MS being emboldened again has got some people very upset.

It's all very amusing.
 
Lol. Kind of funny given the full perspective, but if it's true for a moment, you gotta soak in the limelight, however shortlived it might be.
 
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My cat slept on my PS3 and overheated it.

XB1 confirmed more cat-friendly than PS3.
 
It's good MS is bringing back the competition. I kind of feel that PS4 has lost the momentum a bit in America and it will be hard to get it back even with Pro and PSVR.

Nah, there's a reason they are making the claim now and not with October's numbers. It's going to be a rough 12 months for the Xbox spin squad
 
is the OS on the Xbox one S faster than in the original Xbox one?

I believe the OS speed is entirely tied by how good your connection is to the service. It can be very snappy if so, otherwise, it's janky as fuck.

An External Drive for games is key
 
I believe the OS speed is entirely tied by how good your connection is to the service. It can be very snappy if so, otherwise, it's janky as fuck.

An External Drive for games is key

that would explain a lot, my OG xbox is not as responsive as i would like to, i have 20mb download D:
 
You missed;

Scalebound, Sea of Thieves, Cuphead, Below, Gigantic, Crackdown, We Happy Few, Killer Instinct, Quantum Break, ReCore, State of Decay 2, Ashen, Dead Rising 4, Phantom Dust

And VR is next year along with Scorpio.

Ori, Sunset Overdrive, Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX Plus Alpha, Backwards Compatibility, Forward Compatible, PlayAnywhere

I hope for VR but I'm also disillusioned with MS this very minute
 
So this is the best selling console in America (North America? South America? United States of America? All three?!) based on a very specific period of time in the same way when people say the Xbox One has more games coming out they're only looking at Western-developed games releasing September through November?
 
Was almost tempted to replace my X1 with the One S, but buying all the good games coming out kept me from doing so especially with Scorpio not so far away.
 
This is a ridiculous as saying what if ps4 beats scorpios launch month. It won't happen. Ps4 pro gets an automatic starting point of possibly 300-400k.

Oh I know that but I just keep seeing so many posts stating the same thing.

Something something just wait for November NPD something something crush the Xbox.

Or words to that effect. All I was meaning by my comment was imagine they didnt win when so many people have written that month off as a Sony win already. You got to admit, it would be pretty funny :)
 
Xbox has been on a serious roll, really turned things around I feel. Damage to the brand was pretty severe though.

Commercial makes me think of the movie ads that say "Come see the #1 comedy in America!"
 
That was pretty good...

Could have done without the best selling console in America, that could be false in just a matter of weeks. But overall that was slick
 
people are getting really worked up over something a few marketing people made in a conference room one day.

no, they didnt do this to personally attack you.
 
Weren't people making the same Amazon backed argument for Microsoft not being the #1 selling console last month?

Yep, the problem is amazon isn't a great tracker right now because MS has so many bundles spread out over retailers. On top of that Amazon has been sold out of the Halo bundle for ages.

There are exclusive color and game bundles all over the place in America right now which is spreading the sales out. Hard to use Amazon right now.

For example the Pro has 7 reserves across 3 GameStops in my town, which honestly isn't bad, but also not great. Yet Amazon shows big potential for the Pro based off their charts, but we have no clue how many actual units they are moving to be where they are on said charts. There seems to be a lot of confusion from customers when they hear about it. Sony really need to start advertising the Pro and getting the message out there on it if they want it to sell big.
 
Of course they're including BC in with that library ... but is it actually legal to state 'the best selling console' without adding 'at the moment'?
 
Of course they're including BC in with that library ... but is it actually legal to state 'the best selling console' without adding 'at the moment'?

Watch the video, they never state anything about best selling. All it is is the YouTube header and in the message of the description for the video. The ad literally just advertises the One S and it's features.
 
Cute! :3
But aren't you concerned about the hair getting in? ��

i don't really let meow meow do this, it's a way of making me "play" with him instead. He knows it's the fun box

also the terrible LCD and setup is temporary haha

The power button not being capacitive means he doesn't turn off the box.
 
They' re doing that now because it -looks like- the streak is ending after just 3 months, simple at that.
Amazon October so far
#34- PS4 Pro
#50- PS4
#54- PS4Slim UC4 bundle
#59- XB1S GeoW bundle
#60- PS4 le UC4 bundle
#83- XB1S Madden bundle

From a certain point of view, it's smart and true enough (making sure to put that * as it's not true for the year, let alone YtD).

But they should (and are) indeed be called on the hypocritical BS of saying that sales numbers don't matter for how well Xbox does... until they do.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-microsoft-doesnt-share-xbox-one-sales-numbers/1100-6435219/
 
As someone who really likes his Xbox One, discussions like these make me feel completely alienated on Gaf. The video wasn't sensationalizing anything, and yet some people are calling Microsoft "disgusting" and are really hating on them for nothing really.

You're not alone. I really like my Xbox One too.
 
It's as if some of you are upset that Microsoft has finally had the audacity to actually put up a fight. How dare they.
Honestly...I'm definitely in the Sony camp, but nothing wrong with some good ok marketing.

I remember Sony did the whole "it's moot" talking about competitors sales compared to PS2. This is a little spin, but it's whatever.

I think it might look stupid next month though if Sony wins NPD so maybe they have numbers and know they are ahead again.
 
Nah, there's a reason they are making the claim now and not with October's numbers. It's going to be a rough 12 months for the Xbox spin squad
They can always go back to no of hours played metrics. 🙃
It will be funny if Sony makes a similar video lol
 
Sony's decision to not include a 4k Blu-ray player in their PS4 Pro directly led me to buying an Xbox One S. I had no intentions to buy the system before that.

With that said, I couldn't be happier with the decision. It's a great system.

Yep, Sony's marketing for the Pro sold me on an xbox one as well.
 
It's as if some of you are upset that Microsoft has finally had the audacity to actually put up a fight. How dare they.
Whenever any of these companies make these kind of misleading statements, they get laughed at here. For those with short memories just go back and and read some threads from the PS3 era.
 
I own both consoles, this was a great add, i think fanboyism is huge in here.

It's like football. It's more fun when you root for a team.

nah, not really, but the flack MS got early in this gen, it's nice for them to be rewarded with praise for doing well to come back
 
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