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One week later, PS4 dominates best selling videogame charts for Amazon/Gamestop
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Chiggs
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This.
Clearly, the PS4 has an advantage, but that advantage, unfortunately, isn't nearly what I would like it to be. The fact that the Xbox One is ranking in the top ten on many sites is disconcerting.
DragonSworne
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Why aren't Xbox one games charting but the system is?
Are people buying it for the TV features?
Are people buying it for the TV features?
anexanhume
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Not everyone is buying the same game just because they're buying the system. There's also probably a lot of people planning to go digital only compared to PS4.
Could be, I don't think there are many official announced launch titles for xbone yet, aside from a few third party exceptions like CoD Ghosts, Battlefield 4, etc. I think Dead Rising 3, Forza5 and Killer Instinct are the only first party launch games so far.
hgarrett54
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I think it's really surprising because everyone though the days of crazy hardware bombs was over. (Jaguar, 3DO, Saturn, Dreamcast, etc.)
LunaticHigh
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Software is the real tale here. PS4 and XBOne will offer the same when it comes to digital games. If anything, the PS4 offers a better service for it.
hydrophilic attack
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It's interesting to note how more games are being preordered for PS4. I think this is an indication of two things.
1. Sony won the core gamers, who buy the most games and made the 360 software powerhouse this gen.
2. Less money to buy games when you shell out $500 for a console
1. Sony won the core gamers, who buy the most games and made the 360 software powerhouse this gen.
2. Less money to buy games when you shell out $500 for a console
It's interesting to note how more games are being preordered for PS4. I think this is an indication of two things.
1. Sony won the core gamers, who buy the most games and made the 360 software powerhouse this gen.
2. Less money to buy games when you shell out $500 for a console
Very true. I only bought 3 games at the PS3 launch, I have 5 reserved for PS4.
anexanhume
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I agree. I'm just saying because of the restrictions on physical, people are less likely to see value in it on the Xone and not even bother with it.
MorisUkunRasik
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'it' being the Xbone, correct?
Man-is-Obsolete
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Scalpers going to scalp. If there is going to be a system this fall that will have demand, no matter how big or small, and will have tight supply it is a Xbone. So it is the perfect system to scalp, it's also a dangerous one considering no one may be interested in it after launch and demand could plummet. Still scalpers tried to scalp the Wii U. Between scalpers and actual conusmers buying the systems these systems are going to sell out. The problem for MS is that their supply will be nowhere near Sony's it seems.
Scalpers don't buy games. Gamers do and are heavily favoring the PS4 right now.
Quadraphonic
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The PS3 (As in the CURRENT PS3) is outselling the Xbox One on Best Buy. That's sad.
Chittagong
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It's interesting to note how more games are being preordered for PS4. I think this is an indication of two things.
1. Sony won the core gamers, who buy the most games and made the 360 software powerhouse this gen.
2. Less money to buy games when you shell out $500 for a console
It's true, I have a stupid amount of games pre-ordered for PS4. It's definitely the best launch lineup I have ever seen
- Killzone
- Call of Duty Ghosts
- Battlefield 4
- Watch Dogs
- Assassins Creed IV
- Drive Club
- Knack
This stands up to pretty much any console launch, that many next gen versions of huge franchises have never launched day one on next gen like this. As a comparison, best we got with 360 was a Call of Duty 2 next gen.
hydrophilic attack
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I think it's because this gen went on for so long.
Devs and publishers have been itching for new consoles.
SneakyStephan
Banned
MS can always just sell the 360 if people don't want the xbox one.
No, the Playstation 4 price is 399. The cost of an additional Eye that is optional and unnecessary for the system to work is ~60.
There is nothing difficult to understand about this.
Stop spinning facts to fit your agenda
They probably have not seen Titanfall.
hydrophilic attack
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Have you not been paying attention to the TRUTHFACT thread, as well as other supporting information? Even if there was no backlash, they wouldn't be able to beat the PS4 anywhere in the world, because they have supply issues.
That's probably why they felt they could go with the $499 price. Expect this price to drop next E3, when these issues should be sorted out.
Ultimately if the Playstation 4 can attain a similar install base advantage in the USA like what 360 did that would be good enough. Preferably an even bigger margin so the anti DRM message is stronger to the industry but I'd like Microsoft to stay alive.
Man-is-Obsolete
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By then the damage is already done and Sony will be pimping Santa Monica's and Naughty Dog's games for the coming holiday.
celestial body
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Shouldn't cod:ghosts be number 1 on all lists? makes me question how much they reflect what actually happens.
Wow, didn't see that. That's unexpected...
Yesterday when I checked the chart the Wii U premium system was one slot about the XB1. So the XB1 is rising a bit!
IHaveCandy
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Scalpers.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
If nothing else, excitingly, the sale of all this next-gen stuff pisses on the WiiU Sour Grapes Brigade that have been doomsaying next-gen will experience "even shittier" sales for months.
Even if its seemingly very slanted to PS4 right now, the consumer excitement for true next-gen is palpable
Even if its seemingly very slanted to PS4 right now, the consumer excitement for true next-gen is palpable
hydrophilic attack
Member
Absolutely possible. Even more important is the effect of PS4 having built up a large user base by then, which will lead to more success as these platforms tend to spread virally, as people buy the platforms where their friends are playing.
In fact, I hope this will happen, due to Xbone's horrible policies.
But it is a bit awkward to make up your opinion on all this. I want Xbone to fail because of its practices, but at the same time, competition is good for the industry, and the pressure from Microsoft is what got Sony back on track.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
it has saved people $500 and that's one damn good value to get a ps4 and 2 games or a game and a year of PS+ =p
PolarGamer
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Don't sell the goose before the horse etc. Todays PS3 network is a slow piece of shit. I'll praise the PS4 when it has proven itself.
Someone from my work on facebook. Has pre ordered a Xbone. Sure it is his choice but damn i couldn't hold my self to tell you are just giving up your consumer rights to him. I cannot believe people are doing this by just saying "Oh i do not buy used games or sell them or give them to others" etc. Also posting this dumb picture in the process. I have Xbox and the 360 but i am done with microsoft,just done on how they abuse consumers rights and a lot of people just do not see this.
Disclaimer : This is not made by me saw this in my facebook timeline and how ridicilous this is
hydrophilic attack
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Wow. What is the "console" category even supposed to mean?
How would PS4 be better for digital games? You wouldn't be able to sell or lend either one, and the family sharing - assuming it actually works like we expect now - seems like an advantage for the Xbox side of things.
Karsticles
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How does the XBox get a thumbs up for being a console, but the PS4 gets a thumbs down? Hahaha.Someone from my work on facebook. Has pre ordered a Xbone. Sure it is his choice but damn i couldn't hold my self to tell you are just giving up your consumer rights to him. I cannot believe people are doing this by just saying "Oh i do not buy used games or sell them or give them to others" etc. Also posting this dumb picture in the process. I have Xbox and the 360 but i am done with microsoft,just done on how they abuse consumers rights and a lot of people just do not see this.
Disclaimer : This is not made by me saw this in my facebook timeline and how ridicilous this is
LunaticHigh
Member
I don't really know how sad that is. TLOU just came out. Isn't the PS3 the market lead right now anyway?
DragonSworne
Banned
Good point. Scalpers drove sales for Wii U throughout the holiday season, which is why software sales were so low. Scalpers also don't care about DRM.
I can see the samething happening with Xbox One.
People are going to be disappointed if they're putting so much stock into these types of lists. At the beginning of last generation, people constantly looked towards retail top lists and user annecdotal evidence, and for the most part, it wasn't indicative of the actual market at all. We'll know how these consoles sold once hard data comes into the fold, and not a moment sooner.
It might if Amazon/Gamestop/Best Buy stopped taking X1 preorders. So far they haven't, online anyways.
Maybe if it was one website, or a few anecdotal "my local Gamestop sold out of PS4s!" sure.
But this is multiple websites, and dozens if not a hundred people confirming the same thing about GS and other store preorders- allotments for PS4 are much higher than X1. Not to mention the confirmed yield problems.
Windom Earle
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Even the DS4 is outselling the Xbone in Germany:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sr_bs_1
http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sr_bs_1
With the amount of people I know being paranoid about DRM and privacy issues, I think this console will be very unpopular in Germany.
We had the same exact stuff happen at the beginning of last generation. People constantly referred to Amazon, Bestbuy and Gamestop's top sellers. We had weekly annecdote threads. They were almost always wrong. I'm not saying that the Playstation 4 isn't going to outsell the XB1, but using these sources as a validation for that opinion is completely misguided.
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