Someone told me that the US sales for ps4 and xbox one aren't as far apart like the worldwide sales. We all know PS4 is far ahead worldwide, but I went on vgchartz even though it's not a solid source, and the US sales for ps4 and x1 are only about 1.5 million apart.
It's likely a few million apart, there's really no way of knowing though unless you went back and tracked the last 44 months of NPD results. The real divide between the Xbox One and PS4 is in Europe and Japan, in North America, the UK and Australia they're very competitive with each other.
Xb1 and PS4 sales are competitive in the US, UK, and Australia as EndofAugust previously stated. Japan and Europe lean heavily towards the PS4, while South America (Aside from Argentina) lean heavily towards XB1.
I've seen old charts on Neogaf when PS4 were only leading by a bit...
VGchartz is a joke
Then do you have an idea of which source for international sales isn't a joke?
The only reason why VGChartz isn't considered a credible source is because technically, credible sources don't exist for 'sold through' figures. Hardware manufacturers don't actually know how many of any product is being sold to consumers, but they gauge overall sales based on demand by the retailers. In short term, retailers may over-purchase a product out of anticipation, leading to a false perception of sales, but in the long term, retailers would not continue demanding a product if it isn't selling through to consumers.
So if Sony has sold 60 mil ps4s to retailers from launch till now, they can roughly guess that perhaps 90% of that amount changed hands from retailers to consumers, but they don't know for sure. And without even going into detail about how NPD obtains their results, and let's say NPD's results are spot on.....Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo still do not know their international figures with certainty.
Very interesting considering the horrible launch for the X1, they really aren't that far apart. If I remember correctly, the X1 was more expensive than the PS4 at launch. Honestly, I'm impressed that they are so close considering all the factors. I guess the US really loves Xbox, I predict the scorpio and the lower priced S bundles to close the gap but the PS4 will still probably win this gen in the USA. Thank you for the info.
Very interesting considering the horrible launch for the X1, they really aren't that far apart. If I remember correctly, the X1 was more expensive than the PS4 at launch. Honestly, I'm impressed that they are so close considering all the factors. I guess the US really loves Xbox, I predict the scorpio and the lower priced S bundles to close the gap but the PS4 will still probably win this gen in the USA. Thank you for the info.
Just out of curiosity, are you planning to present a selective argument of comparison between PS4 and X1 sales figures in the US only? Because obviously, such a narrowing of sampling size works favourably for X1 fans. And if those figures are correct, then the US only makes up for 30% of the total PS4 sales to date, while it makes up for 55% of X1 sales. So it'll be a classical selective comparison between the X1's majority market versus Sony's (perhaps) largest single market but not majority market.
The PS4 is probably at very least 6 million ahead in NA. XboneX with its checkerboard time travel projection 4k, just like the competition, will not change things.
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