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Originally Posted by chemgear
I still have to believe that Microsoft will try to do things to turn it around. Master Chief and a price drop in the same month has to do something to the numbers - not just slow the gap grow but maybe turn it around. What would a $100 price difference do?
Interesting that the pace of sales from a "lifetime" and "after initial launch" view. The Xbone had a big initial launch volley but has really slowed down since. Current sales rates are looking to be 6:1 PS4 to Wii U and about 3:1 versus the Xbone.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/1...onsole-market/
Our estimate was that Sony had at least 59 percent of the market share in the battle between the PS4 and Xbox One. Since then, newly released numbers, plus a new look at some assumptions about the Xbox One market, have us revising Sony's share of that market upward. We now think it's in the 65 to 67 percent range.
Regardless, both Wii U and the Xbox One sales have been absolutely dwarfed by the PlayStation 4 in recent months. The PS4 has shipped roughly 63 to 68 percent of all "current generation" consoles in recent months. That's significantly better than the (still impressive) 48 to 49 percent of the shipments that Sony can claim over the life of the current console generation. In fact, the shipment of six million PlayStation 4s from April to September is only slightly below the lifetime shipments for either the Xbox One or Wii U, and that should tell you something about how well Sony's system has been doing of late.
Even with the updated numbers, our overall analysis of the state of the console market is largely unchanged for now. With at least one-third of the two-console market, the Xbox One is still a big enough presence that developers and publishers shouldn't feel comfortable ignoring it. But Sony's dominance over the last six months or so should be worrying for Microsoft. If those sales trends continue—or get better for Sony through the holiday season—the Xbox One could easily end up in the same also-ran sales position that the original Xbox (and GameCube) were in during the PlayStation 2 era.
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By "turn the tide" I mean maybe slightly better for a couple months...Xbone is never gonna catch PS4. PS4 has some massive exclusives coming down the pipe and they will actually be exclusives...not exclusive for a bit and then better version on on PC.