Analyst: Xbox One will outsell PlayStation 4 at launch

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The Xbox One will enjoy higher launch window sales than the PlayStation 4, opines Colin Sebastian of Baird Research.

"While many forecasts still give an edge to Sony/PS4 in North America sales, we continue to expect similar or even slightly higher sales of Xbox One by the end of the launch window," Sebastian told investors.

The conjecture is backed up by data from eBay listings, which shows Xbox One mark-ups 60 percent north of the console's $500 price tag whilst those of PS4 are just a tick lower at roughly 50 percent more than its respective $400 asking price.

The analyst divines the platform holders will collectively move between 5 million and 6 million units globally by the end of the year. The soothsayer also foretells retailers will have a hard time keeping stock on shelves.

"Retailers in our checks indicate there is consumer demand well in excess of supply, as evidenced by fast sell-outs of incremental unit allotments, such as at GameStop," Sebastian noted.

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Insignia115Posted:

BONDGUY8514697
cm8724
Pashtun
muddyrope
Lia
DemonSurfer Everyone i know is getting PS4 tbh.The only reason 360 sold was a) it was cheap and b)it was easy to flash.Don't believe everything you read,especially on biased sites ;)
PS4 definately has a better games line up overall and Microsoft are obviously mainly targeting America as that's the only place 360 is more popular ... the country where they play "Football" with your hands... says alot.


If anything, your comment is biased. You're basing your opinion off of your friends alone. I don't see why you are hating on the Xbox One, just because it has a different marketing platform doesn't mean it sucks or is any better than the PS4. It is down to you and your opinion alone because it will be you who plays the console.


Me and all my friends are getting the PS4, all except 1 who thinks the Xbox one will be better, but the specs have proven the PS4 to be greater, and I dont use all these apps to watch these on the 360 because I have a TV, which I dont watch because I use my console for gaming, yes its a personal opinion but the majority of people I know are getting the PS4 so from my perspective the PS4 is selling more
Same here. I surveyed my Video Game Design class and all of them said the PS4 was the better console but 1. That one guy is getting an Xbox One and he thinks Saints row 4 is better than GTA V. Makes me think what kind of people actually buy the Xbox One.


just cus he has a preference in a certain game doesn't make him diff..if he feels he thinks Saints Row 4 is better than GTA in his eyes..than so be it..that's his opinion on what he likes..Makes me think what kind of people actually believe everyone has the same taste


All you people are talking about specs, when you don't realize that the specs on consoles make no difference. Even the PS4 or Xbox One had 16GB of RAM, it would not change how the game is in any way (unless it is console specific). Say you bought a copy of CoD Ghosts for your upgraded Xbox with 32GB of RAM, and expected a lot of things to be better, but in theory, nothing will change. It is a game designed for both the One and PS4. It won't change how many players are in the game or how it looks. It has already been optimized.


You don't know what your talking about.

The PS4 wins in the raw performance ie, Tflops but the Xbox has dedicated hardware that isn't included & cant be counted, so 1.3 Tflop's with dedicated hardware that does a hell of a lot for free on the system, vs PS4 1.8 Tflop's that's has no dedicated hardware to take tasks of the CPU or GPU.

Also with RAM;

The PS4 Ram has a faster overall clock speed, but higher latency (only affects the CPU) the Xbox one has lower clock speed but a lot lower latency. (great for the CPU)

Also the PS4 can't read & write at the same time, where the Xbox one can.

"The PS4's GPU can read/write to it's 8GB of GDDR5 at 176 GB/sec only

The ONES GPU can read/write it's 8GB of DDR3 at 68 GB/Sec
The ONES GPU can read/write it's 32MB SRam frame buffer at 102GB/sec
The ONES GPU can read/write to its 4 Move engines at 25.6 GB/Sec

The ONE GPU can read/write to all of the above simultaneously"

Also the PS4 uses 3.5GB Ram for the OS, the Xbox uses 3GBS (& maybe reduced to 2GBs)

Also the Xbox has advantages in the Audio department, can have double the audio assets ingame (voices, sound effect eg.) & also has the advantage in dedicated hardware for tiled resources. The PS4 has to use the software approach to do this, again this uses CPU & GPU resources, where the Xbox its free.

There are a lot more things the Xbox one has dedicated hardware for.

The could is being used for games that want to do AI as an example in the distance or off screen.

example;
We have a game that has hundreds of AI fighting in the distance, this can be done on the Cloud & when we get closer the system takes over for the processing of AI, this example is how the new Halo is going to use the Cloud & be an always online game.

Basically the Cloud is used for stuff that isn't indirect contact/vicinity to the player/players, so if the PS4 wants to render huge battles in the distance it has to use the CPU/GPU, where the Xbox one gets it free. (or the price of a data packet, ie, internet bandwidth)


So overall its not just a clean & dry situation here, each console has its advantages, but overall there round about the same.

B*tch !

ToursPosted:

FrenzyRG
boolad137 Because of the constant competition between both microsoft and sony, I think they are both going to sell equally high amounts.


That is very unlikely in my opinion, I think PS4 will outsell the xbox, I guess we just gonna have to wait and see.
This right here, Is probably THE dumbest post I've ever read on TTG. Congratulations

SeikoPosted:

FrenzyRG
boolad137 Because of the constant competition between both microsoft and sony, I think they are both going to sell equally high amounts.


That is very unlikely in my opinion, I think PS4 will outsell the xbox, I guess we just gonna have to wait and see.


It's not unlikely that you might be stupid though.

FrenzyRGPosted:

boolad137 Because of the constant competition between both microsoft and sony, I think they are both going to sell equally high amounts.


That is very unlikely in my opinion, I think PS4 will outsell the xbox, I guess we just gonna have to wait and see.

BONDGUY8514697Posted:

cm8724
Pashtun
muddyrope
Lia
DemonSurfer Everyone i know is getting PS4 tbh.The only reason 360 sold was a) it was cheap and b)it was easy to flash.Don't believe everything you read,especially on biased sites ;)
PS4 definately has a better games line up overall and Microsoft are obviously mainly targeting America as that's the only place 360 is more popular ... the country where they play "Football" with your hands... says alot.


If anything, your comment is biased. You're basing your opinion off of your friends alone. I don't see why you are hating on the Xbox One, just because it has a different marketing platform doesn't mean it sucks or is any better than the PS4. It is down to you and your opinion alone because it will be you who plays the console.


Me and all my friends are getting the PS4, all except 1 who thinks the Xbox one will be better, but the specs have proven the PS4 to be greater, and I dont use all these apps to watch these on the 360 because I have a TV, which I dont watch because I use my console for gaming, yes its a personal opinion but the majority of people I know are getting the PS4 so from my perspective the PS4 is selling more
Same here. I surveyed my Video Game Design class and all of them said the PS4 was the better console but 1. That one guy is getting an Xbox One and he thinks Saints row 4 is better than GTA V. Makes me think what kind of people actually buy the Xbox One.


just cus he has a preference in a certain game doesn't make him diff..if he feels he thinks Saints Row 4 is better than GTA in his eyes..than so be it..that's his opinion on what he likes..Makes me think what kind of people actually believe everyone has the same taste


All you people are talking about specs, when you don't realize that the specs on consoles make no difference. Even the PS4 or Xbox One had 16GB of RAM, it would not change how the game is in any way (unless it is console specific). Say you bought a copy of CoD Ghosts for your upgraded Xbox with 32GB of RAM, and expected a lot of things to be better, but in theory, nothing will change. It is a game designed for both the One and PS4. It won't change how many players are in the game or how it looks. It has already been optimized.

cm8724Posted:

Aussieguy Microsoft must be offering lots of money to many different people to say good things baout the Xbox1 specially since many know that thier console can't even run COD Ghosts in 1080P.


omg??? thats a huge huge difference..... ..the quality is going to be drastically different (sarcastically)..please gtfo...stop being a fanboy..Both Systems are going to be good and offer diff things.

AussieguyPosted:

Microsoft must be offering lots of money to many different people to say good things baout the Xbox1 specially since many know that thier console can't even run COD Ghosts in 1080P.

cm8724Posted:

Pashtun
muddyrope
Lia
DemonSurfer Everyone i know is getting PS4 tbh.The only reason 360 sold was a) it was cheap and b)it was easy to flash.Don't believe everything you read,especially on biased sites ;)
PS4 definately has a better games line up overall and Microsoft are obviously mainly targeting America as that's the only place 360 is more popular ... the country where they play "Football" with your hands... says alot.


If anything, your comment is biased. You're basing your opinion off of your friends alone. I don't see why you are hating on the Xbox One, just because it has a different marketing platform doesn't mean it sucks or is any better than the PS4. It is down to you and your opinion alone because it will be you who plays the console.


Me and all my friends are getting the PS4, all except 1 who thinks the Xbox one will be better, but the specs have proven the PS4 to be greater, and I dont use all these apps to watch these on the 360 because I have a TV, which I dont watch because I use my console for gaming, yes its a personal opinion but the majority of people I know are getting the PS4 so from my perspective the PS4 is selling more
Same here. I surveyed my Video Game Design class and all of them said the PS4 was the better console but 1. That one guy is getting an Xbox One and he thinks Saints row 4 is better than GTA V. Makes me think what kind of people actually buy the Xbox One.


just cus he has a preference in a certain game doesn't make him diff..if he feels he thinks Saints Row 4 is better than GTA in his eyes..than so be it..that's his opinion on what he likes..Makes me think what kind of people actually believe everyone has the same taste

PashtunPosted:

muddyrope
Lia
DemonSurfer Everyone i know is getting PS4 tbh.The only reason 360 sold was a) it was cheap and b)it was easy to flash.Don't believe everything you read,especially on biased sites ;)
PS4 definately has a better games line up overall and Microsoft are obviously mainly targeting America as that's the only place 360 is more popular ... the country where they play "Football" with your hands... says alot.


If anything, your comment is biased. You're basing your opinion off of your friends alone. I don't see why you are hating on the Xbox One, just because it has a different marketing platform doesn't mean it sucks or is any better than the PS4. It is down to you and your opinion alone because it will be you who plays the console.


Me and all my friends are getting the PS4, all except 1 who thinks the Xbox one will be better, but the specs have proven the PS4 to be greater, and I dont use all these apps to watch these on the 360 because I have a TV, which I dont watch because I use my console for gaming, yes its a personal opinion but the majority of people I know are getting the PS4 so from my perspective the PS4 is selling more
Same here. I surveyed my Video Game Design class and all of them said the PS4 was the better console but 1. That one guy is getting an Xbox One and he thinks Saints row 4 is better than GTA V. Makes me think what kind of people actually buy the Xbox One.

GossipPosted:

This should go without saying.