i was looking for tie ratios for platforms, and although i'm as skeptical as the next person about vgchartz, i found these charts interesting.
http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/pla...-Ratio/Global/
Interesting to me were the ratios of where the platforms were selling versus previous generations; interestingly enough XB1 is selling at similar (but not exact) ratios as the 360 across geographies. PS4's sales in North America are 10% or so higher than Europe, where the PS3 was about 20% higher in europe than north america. to me, it says that XB1 so far has been losing North America and i think that sounds reasonable.
PS4 has sold more games in NA than XB1; 1.2 million games by volume on sales of 15.4 million games to XB1's 14.2 million. Interesting figure though, PS4 is selling over 2:1 in volume in games in Europe over XB1 (15.8 to 6.6 million).
The tie ratio is higher for the Xboxes of every generation over the same generation PS globally (including this generation), which speaks to why Microsoft needs to shift consoles.
Interesting numbers which should be well known to Microsoft; i expect discounts on hardware to continue to help shift XB1s. I would also think that Sony would price match as far as they could, however at some point Microsoft can sell the hardware and lose money on every console sold, whereas Sony cannot sustain that.
On a side note, i saw that the AMD chip in the XB1 looks like it will get downsized which will save manufacturing costs and perhaps have those discounted sales from the preceding paragraph not hurt so much.
interesting stuff!