Yeah, seemed like b.s. to me. I don't think Xbox is likely leading in any state to be honest, the differential is just too great.
I did expect their sales numbers to improve dramatically though with the reduction in price. To see they are still lagging behind suggests gamers are probably miffed that the Xbox One sans Kinect offers 40% weaker performance for the same price as the PS4 yet again, without the Kinect which is what was supposed to make up the difference.
Well we don't know the June numbers, so the effect could still be good for the kinnectless One. Likely not, may, June, July suck for consoles. For example only two times did 360 pass the ps4 in may sales, 2006, and 2011 (kinect release year).
The US has been ps4 every month besides December. I believe the difference would be somewhere around 700k ahead at this point. Certainly not insurmountable, but ps4 is already profitable on hardware alone, and the xb1 has a higher bill of materials than ps4, and ddr3 has likely bottomed out, while gddr5 is not close to that. Sony should be able to rapidly reduce price without losing money.
@jack, I didn't mean to sound like I was calling you a fanboy, just pointing out that I found that funny.
I'm sure both consoles are good, but unless I can get an xb1 for under 200 around fable release I will never know. I hate exclusives, and I am not buying a system for a single exclusive again, like I have in the past. Been burned too many times now.
The idea of exclusives is beyond stupid to me. I know that is the "draw", but fuck that. I don't want to drop 400 bones to just play fable, or 3 bills to play Zelda.
In all honesty I bought a ps4 because I like the controller. If the console was weaker I likely still would have bought it. If it was more expensive, likely not. Xbox then would have been a higher value.
My favourite exclusives are Fable, Zelda, TLOU, Infamous, and Heavenly Sword. I can live without a single one of them so long as I get my call of duty zombies. When that comes out I won't play another game.
