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'PS4 To Outsell Xbox One 2:1' Says Analyst

Nowgamer: "According to social media analysts, the PS4 looks set to outsell the Xbox by a factor of 2:1.

This figure was reached by looking at tweets regarding the PS4 and Xbox One and picking out which console twitter users said they were going to buy."

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Gazondaily3819d ago (Edited 3819d ago )

Sounds right to me. A combination of price, superior hardware, better PR and all, it all makes sense.

TimmyShire3819d ago

Hard to expect Xbox One will outsell the PS4 when there's so much negativity surrounding MS and its console. I do wonder if gamers = more sales or if Christmas might impact this ratio, but as you say the PS4 is cheaper too so...

Peppino73819d ago

MS won't sell more than Sony unless they were to come out a year sooner like last gen. That's the only way MS would be ahead with its current situation ie. Price and policies.

Hellsvacancy3819d ago (Edited 3819d ago )

I'm not defending MS, but you must remember not everyone uses N4G or other gaming sites, my dad will likely buy a XB1, he likes the idea of the camera, and the TV stuff, he's not a gamer, he'll probably play some of the COD campaign

Iactually swore at my dad when he said he liked the idea of XB1 "are you f-in crazy man"

Millions of those people exist though an will see the XB1 as a TV companion rather than a gaming machine

mikeslemonade3819d ago (Edited 3819d ago )

Peppino^
They still got last place when they came out earlier.

As far as this generation I think it's gonna be 3:1 PS4 to X1. Or somewhere between 3:1 or 4:1 like the PS2 to Xbox Original.

^Hellsvacancy
It takes a while to convert people back. Everyone was saying that about the PS2 and they must get it so they can play Madden and GTA, and then a few years later the 360 was the "COD player". Now the PS3 picked back up the momentum and now the PS4 will finish it. We are already seeing converts here on N4G.

mcstorm3819d ago

Well if this is true than I think its a big plus for Microsoft because the one is only out in 13 country's at launch where the PS4 is out in 32 country's.

For me I could not care which console sells more as long as all 3 do well again this generation as having 3 selling well is better than 1 for us gamers.

abzdine3819d ago

so if PS4 sells 140million like PS2 X1 will sell 70? i think it's still a big accomplishment after all bad news surrounding x1 everyday.

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come_bom3819d ago (Edited 3819d ago )

Unless Microsoft radically changes the Xbox One (much lower price, Kinectless SKU, big exclusives, big exclusives, big exclusives, improves their offering with the XBLA Gold service, etc) and gets a much needed positive PR, the world sales will vastly favor the PS4. I even think the 2:1 is a bit low. My predictions, IF the X1 continues the same route until now, i would say 3:1 or more... unless Microsoft gets a stoke of luck like Nintendo did with the Wii.

There is always the USA where Microsoft sells a lot of consoles...

OlgerO3819d ago

It will probably be about equal in sales in the US in about a year with xbox one. and will outsell xboxone 2 to 1 in the rest of the world

Drewidian3819d ago (Edited 3819d ago )

The PS4 WILL outsell the Xbox One up to 3:1, which is great if you are into the PS4, until MS announces its partnerships with the Cable and Satellite companies with deals like "agree to a 2 year contract and get a free or low priced($99 - $199) Xbox One". Then the Xbox one will overtake and outsell the PS4 by a long shot since there are significantly more people who watch TV and would willing to jump in for such a low price. Once the cable/satellite companies start pushing it, it won't be a contest.

If MS gets that casual TV market, Fitness market, Skype to kick in to daily adoption, and gets devs to make apps and games work across all of its ecosystem, it may be able to do what the Wii did in getting average users to adopt en mass. The gamer market is at best maybe 200M regular users, but there's far more other people who watch TV and do other things besides gaming.

DVAcme3819d ago

Microsoft seriously has an uphill battle this gen just because of how much they've been stepping on consumers' toes since the system got announced. They've been touting "features" and establishing restrictions that cause knee-jerk overly negative reactions in consumers. Meanwhile, Sony's been keeping a business model that's pretty much business as usual for them with the added bonus of positive PR from their reactions to MS's goofs. Not only that, but they really turned it around for the PS3 even though it had such a rocky start. They used a slow-and-steady approach to come up equal to Microsoft this gen, which is impressive considering the heavy lead MS had on them at release. Sony just seems like the more consistent company right now.

mistertwoturbo3819d ago

And the fact the PS4 is launching in double the amount of territories around the world.

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TimmyShire3819d ago

Even from my own anecdotal experience I've got far more people on my social media excited for the PS4 than the Xbox One, so I'd be surprised if this was untrue.

shivvy243819d ago

I only know 2 friend getting the x1, the rest are getting ps4

MasterCornholio3819d ago

Of course it will since its the most popular console for gamers.

Nexus 7 2013

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Goku7813819d ago

Three more days till midnight launch to start proving it. Can't wait.

isa_scout3819d ago

God dude, I was trying to distract myself from the fact that it comes out so soon because the wait is killing me. Thanks for that, now my stomach is all in knots from excitement...lol
It's crazy to think that in 3 days my PS3 and 360 will be last-gen hardware.

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mkis0071h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows901h ago(Edited 1h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Leeroyw1h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno44m ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak27m ago(Edited 18m ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.