Xbox One Xbox One dominates Black Friday

[diamondback8]

Xbox One fans, rejoice! Black Friday brings great news.

The sales numbers are in and Microsoft has taken the top spot with the Xbox One. According to this little picture from Evil Avatar:

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Xbox One takes the top spot in the console category. It rakes in 31% share, despite the fact that it's sold at full price.

The news isn’t entirely bad for Sony as sales were evidently constrained by limited availability of its new PlayStation 4, which launched on Nov. 15, one week ahead of the Xbox One. But it does suggest that Microsoft succeeded in preparing its supply chain for a torrent of sales.

At No. 2 was Microsoft’s older Xbox 360 console, which had a 30 percent share. The Xbox 360 sold for $180 at Target and at a door-buster price of $99 at Walmart. Meanwhile, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 tied for third with a 15 percent share each. The PS3 sold for $149 at Walmart and $199 at Target while the PS4 sold for $399 at both chains.

Well, not bad right? My thoughts are: congratulations to Microsoft on this one. Yup, they really did well for the Black Friday sales. It's too early to say if either console (PS4, Xbox One wins the holidays since it's just about to hit December but this already shows Microsoft has been prepared. But yes, like what the source says, PS4 has sold out since it's release in USA 3 weeks ago so this seems a bit biased.

Still, interesting to see Microsoft rise. Well, December is about to hit up so let's see what Sony can do. What do you guys think? Happy Microsoft won the Black Friday?

Source: Evil Avatar

 

[Jedioutcast]

Infoscout released figures showing that, although it seems like the Xbox One is the inferior and less popular system by so many news accounts, it is in fact selling just fine-or at least at some places. I wonder if this is due to the fact that Xbox One launched so close to Black Friday and that retailers we restocking their PS4s or perhaps most of the people that wanted a PS4 had already had time to get their systems way before Black Friday. What do you think?


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Source: Venturebeat

For an inferior system (per IGN), it kicked butt...

J

 

[Fullmetalpanic009]

Hands down to Xbox one. They've made a great improvement from the last console. This will be the new age of gaming console and new games. Congratulations Microsoft. Please keep up the good work and give us more exciting gadgets and games to choose from.

 

[Claptrap]

Haha, what is there to rejoice for for fans from these sales? I mean, it's not like fans are the ones getting money from them anyway...

 

[rayblack]

Haha, what is there to rejoice for for fans from these sales? I mean, it's not like fans are the ones getting money from them anyway...

Dominating in the sales chart on Black Friday is a very good way to measure the XBONE's future success and popularity. The more money Microsoft makes, the more quality support, products, and hardware we'll get from them in the long run. It will be interesting to see a chart like this a week from now, after more sources are available.

Remember not to wish too hard that the other consoles/companies will fail- competition is what makes great products!

 

[KN1GHTMARE]

Haha, what is there to rejoice for for fans from these sales? I mean, it's not like fans are the ones getting money from them anyway...

Well fans benefit from the competition

 

[sc_shark]

For an inferior system (per IGN), it kicked butt...

J

Haha, what is there to rejoice for for fans from these sales? I mean, it's not like fans are the ones getting money from them anyway...

Dominating in the sales chart on Black Friday is a very good way to measure the XBONE's future success and popularity. The more money Microsoft makes, the more quality support, products, and hardware we'll get from them in the long run. It will be interesting to see a chart like this a week from now, after more sources are available.

Remember not to wish too hard that the other consoles/companies will fail- competition is what makes great products!

xbox one outsold ps4 because microsoft was smart enough to leave stock for the holiday's.. allot of the ps4 an boys are saying how you see xbox ones on the shelf and still availiable where ps4 are sold out. ps4 may have sold more initial units at launch butthey blew thru the stock.. microsoft is trying to keep it available if consoles are selling so are games they all go hand in hand. people tend to drop a load at launch and get the games they want off the bat. with systems still selling so are all the other products for it.

 

[mareebaybay]

This was not a surprise to me, seeing as how it is the better system and it was release closer to Black Friday as well.

 

[Canon]

These numbers are a little misleading because of the available stock issue, as sc_shark pointed out. I think with an ample amount of stock of both consoles, the cheaper price tag will always have PS4 outselling Xbox One.

 

[wbeans650]

Yeah the stock thing kinda makes it not as rejoiceful and the fact that it doesn't include Gamestop, BestBuy, etc.

It's kinda like the whole 1 million consoles sold on launch day thing, PS4 only launched in the US/Canada but XBOX Launched in 13 markets. PS4 just barely released in EUR/Australia

 

[sc_shark]

Yeah the stock thing kinda makes it not as rejoiceful and the fact that it doesn't include Gamestop, BestBuy, etc.

It's kinda like the whole 1 million consoles sold on launch day thing, PS4 only launched in the US/Canada but XBOX Launched in 13 markets. PS4 just barely released in EUR/Australia

each gamestop had a specific number of consoles avaliable as a "door buster" its not like they had 100++ in stop to blow thru.. these consoles were held back specifically for black friday. this is not the case with target,walmart and such. its what was still around.

 

[marthyrocks]

Hmmmm... congrats to Microsoft but I think like what the others say here, we can't be surprised about this. PS4 ran out of stock at the moment while Xbox One had some stock ready for it. Of course, as we all know, PS4 only released in the USA and yet, they got 1 million consoles sold. Could be Xbox One did dominate Black Friday because Xbox One had a mammoth of supplies while PS4 was short. Well, December is coming so let's see how that goes.

 

[andrewt]

Those are good numbers, specially when the Xbox One is more expensive than the PS4. Sad I missed the boat on the Black Friday sales, maybe next year. Hopefully. One thing to mention though, as others pointed out, the PS4 would have probably won had it opened in more countries like the Xbox.

 

[thecreed4life]

Those are good numbers, specially when the Xbox One is more expensive than the PS4. Sad I missed the boat on the Black Friday sales, maybe next year. Hopefully. One thing to mention though, as others pointed out, the PS4 would have probably won had it opened in more countries like the Xbox.

Yeah, it could have but remember: PS4 sold a million in its launch in the USA a few weeks ago. Only in the USA. Xbox One sold a million around the world in its launch. Sony's got a strategy. Now slowly but surely, they're doing a worldwide launch. They got Europe, and now, Asia this month.

 

[Claptrap]

Yeah, it could have but remember: PS4 sold a million in its launch in the USA a few weeks ago. Only in the USA. Xbox One sold a million around the world in its launch. Sony's got a strategy. Now slowly but surely, they're doing a worldwide launch. They got Europe, and now, Asia this month.

At least when it comes to Asia, Sony has nothing to worry about at all. Kinda pisses me off that Sony dominates so hard in Japan, it's the reason why a lot of Japanese games I want are PS-exclusive (and this isn't a dying trend, but an intensifying one as sequels to games previously on 360 are becoming PS3-only and such).

Oh well. I think sc_shark is right here, big difference made because of X1 being in stock and PS4 not being in stock.

I bet Cartman is happy about the X1's sales, too

 

[marthyrocks]

At least when it comes to Asia, Sony has nothing to worry about at all. Kinda pisses me off that Sony dominates so hard in Japan, it's the reason why a lot of Japanese games I want are PS-exclusive (and this isn't a dying trend, but an intensifying one as sequels to games previously on 360 are becoming PS3-only and such).

Oh well. I think sc_shark is right here, big difference made because of X1 being in stock and PS4 not being in stock.

I bet Cartman is happy about the X1's sales, too

Hahahahaha XD Yeah, Cartman is definitely happy about that. But yeah, you're right, Sony's got Asia in their hands, can't deny that. As for that PS-exclusive thing, yeah, that is something we can't deny. It's a wonder most of the good Xbox games are third-party ones that you can play on other consoles, with only few exclusives. Well, let's see if Microsoft can turn it around.

 

[Jedioutcast]

Just read an article today about how the PS4 worldwide has sold 2 million units. Wonder how, with black friday sales, the XB1 is doing? On par?

J

 

[KN1GHTMARE]

It's not a sprint guys, this is great but the road ahead will be tough for Microsoft. I think Titanfall will be a system seller and with other exclusives on the way you never know what will be a surprise hit.

 

[jfab]

Oh boy... Another black friday. It does not surprise me that people stampeded to get their hands on the new Xbox gaming console. Say, does it still have that crazy censor that reads your heart rate?

 

[silvananoir]

As long as consoles are selling I'm pretty happy. This just continues to show that console gaming is alive and well and that so called analysts like Pacther need to step off. Microsoft is doing fantastic despite all the naysayers which makes sense, they did a really good job appealing to the casual consumer hopefully they'll be able to keep up the pace.