The first major PlayStation 4-Xbox One battle may end in a draw
With the PS4 selling over 1 million units in a day, it would seem to many that it has a big chance of outselling the Xbox One in the long run. Economists have studied the sales and past console sales, and the have projected Xbox One sales numbers. The numbers projected suggest that the sales will come very close to eachother in terms of console sales, and both will beat out the Wii U. The graphs on the article also suggest that the PS4 will have a negligible lead over the Xbox One and Wii U's sales. They also have statistics from past generations of consoles. In the past three generations, analysts suggest that no one in particular will take a huge lead in sales like the 6th and 7th generations. In the 6th generation, the PS2 outsold both the Gamecube and the Xbox combined by a long shot. In the 7th generation, the Wii outsold the other consoles by a fairly large margin.
These sales statistics make a lot of sense to me. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One have been ravenously marketed throughout 2013. The Wii U has already had a year to accumulate sales and they're obviously much lower than its predecessor. There are a multitude of reasons for this. For one, the "core" gaming audience (people who play games for several/multiple hours a week" were mostly disappointed with the Wii as a console. It catered much more to a casual crowd and used a gimmick (motion sensing) to attract sales. While it was successful, I believe that it alienated many core gamers and influenced their decision on what console to buy for the next gen. Hence, the Wii U's sales. As far as the Xbox One and the PS4 go, the fact that they are projected to be in a deadlock of sales is not surprising to me. The amount of marketing and news coverage for the both of them have been huge, and hype is high for both. To be honest, earlier this year I had assumed the PS4 was going to outright destroy both of them. My reasoning was that the PS4 had more player friendly options, like no DRM (Digital Rights Management) needed to play games and a lower price point for the console (both of these are things the Xbox One initially didn't have). Since then, Microsoft has remedied these setbacks and, overall, the consoles are on very equal footing.
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