Microsoft’s upcoming eighth generation console Xbox One will outship Sony’s PlayStation 4 at launch, according to Colin Sebastian.
Robert W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian stated in an investors note that Microsoft’s reversal on DRM And Always Online Policies are doing wonders for the console.
“Despite losing the headline battle at E3, Microsoft’s Xbox One appears to be regaining some momentum, in part due to the used and online policy tweaks.
Importantly, our supply chain checks suggest Microsoft may have the benefit of a 2-3x unit advantage at launch compared to Sony’s PS4,” said Sebastian.
He also expects both consoles to have launch shortages and the ‘$100 price difference won’t matter in the launch window for early adopters. Microsoft is “working with channel partners to lessen the gap,” he noted.
The analyst said that Nintendo’s Wii U needs a price cut to be competitive and “the fate of the platform will likely rest on the popularity of Nintendo’s holiday software lineup.”
Both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are out sometime in 2013.
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I still don’t believe that Xbox One will outsell the PS4. Microsoft have just dug a hole and now they are trying to go back on their own polices we wonder what they will try to do next. Also out of the people I know who are pre-ordering next gen, non of them are buying the Xbox One.
hahahahaha it will outsell the PS4 vhands down, i knew this day would come, PS4 won at E3 but that is where it stopped for them, from now on the Xbox One will take over with success and outsell the PS4
name one just one feture of the Xbox one that is better then the PS4 and be honest about it. dont go saying a bunch of random crap that even u urself know is fake and dont go making shit up either. we all know Xbox is a failure it was always a failure and it will forever be a failure. PS4 is the clear winner here
Hope every one know Xbox is doing a rush job sony had the ps4 in development for a long time now, Xbox one is going to suck that’s why there is no games for it coz Microsoft didn’t plan to lunch this soon they jumped the development faze and when strait to production and the fannoobs can say what they want still wont change that xbox is the weaker console and think about it they turned the always online off who is to say thy wont turn it back on in the future it is already programmed in and all the fannoobs are so busy drooling that they don’t see the weak point like the rush job and the always online and paying the game makers and Microsoft a fee that stuff can be turned on in a blink of an eye they fought about it once who is to say they wont again in the future .
what has this analyst been smoking….
he has been smoking truth my friend, nothing special about the PS4 at all, wouldn’t expect anything less from the Xbox One as we all know it will outsell the PS4, as this analyst said
You are not biased at all
With Microsoft changing…well everything but the name. The Xbox One became more like the PS4 than ever before, I’m sensing from your comment that the only thing special about the Xbox One is its made my Microsoft.
Personally I feel both consoles offer quite a bit over the current gen, but theres still something awfully uneasy with Mircosofts stance and the fact they’re keeping stuff that should be free (like the DVR game recording) behind pay walls leaves a bad taste in my mouth
i try to remain neutral in these arguments (meaning i’ll probably still only buy one console but it doesn’t mean i’ll hate the other console) but i’m steering more towards the playstation 4 as it’s more affordable. also as good as it is to see Microsoft getting rid of all the stuff that put people off the xbox one i find it a little off putting that there’s nothing to stop Microsoft bringing back those charges in the future. but at the end of the day if you look at the big picture you can’t really trust either of the console companies. it’s almost like being offered 2 different drinks that you know are both spiked
oh please. Xbox has lost this battle before it even started. mark my words u that reporter and everyone else who thinks the Xbox one will outsell and out perform the PS4 will eat ur words come launch day. everyone with a brain stem knows that the PS4 will make bits of that stupid fail box. have u seen the E3 segments for both these consoles? the PS4 ran away with it. Xbox is in trouble big time
Might outsell the ps4 in the US. But this will hurt em; “Microsoft rates countries in varies tiers; the United States and most
European countries land in the first tier and thus will receive the Xbox
One in November. Other countries like Japan won’t be receiving the unit
early 2014. A list of other countries including Taiwan, Singapore,
South Korea, and India won’t be getting the console until late 2014.”
Thats a lot of ps4’s that will be bought some million copys extra, I personally love the xbox but if i have to wait until until 2014 for a copy, my guess Q2 since the last batch will go out in late 2014 in some countries.. Then Im pretty sure i’ll buy myself a Playstation 4
I think his main point is the shortages in production that the PS4 is facing. If Microsoft really can supply 2-3x more consoles than Sony, it does not bode well. I’d have thought Sony would have learned with the PS3 launch, though at least they did a good job on the pricing.
Even though I’m pro Xbox One, even I will concede that the PS4 will sell more at launch, but in a years time, I think the tides will change. I’m guessing X1 will be the console of choice by November 2014.
Nobody wants an Xbox aside from brainwashed idiots.
I will say reading what the public are saying online, and speaking to my friends and what their friends are saying its PS4 all the way, the only people who seem to be getting an Xbox One are those 360 fanboys
im getting both lol im a sony and microsoft fanboyxD gpt deadrising and cod for xbox one and battlefield and killzone for ps4..the watchdogs for ps4 and assassins creed for xbox one and next year dont even get me started lol im broke:D
Amusing how they claimed they couldn’t undo the things they implemented, now we’re here.
It doesn’t matter which console outsells which, all that matters is which console’s exclusives you prefer. They’re all good consoles in their own respect (and yes, I’m even talking about Nintendo,) but which one you get should be based on what type of games you enjoy and not what the populace favors…
So you mean to tell me no one, and I mean no one, learned the fact that Xbox 180 was for the money?
As a game purchaser, and player myself; I saw no game that will sell consoles during Microsofts’ presentation. Games are what sell consoles, not gimmicks that are later reversed, and in some cases removed completely because of customer outrage. I feel Microsoft is still miles from a positive consumer response, at this point they’re months behind and still trying to hogtie the remnants of its former solid fan-base. Read the fan threads, they tell the tale…
you mean Sony fangirl
If you think about it, Billy is a Sony fan, as am I. You are a Microsoft fan. We both buy consoles for games, there’s no difference…
Only difference is Xbox is crap and can’t wait to see the new one to RROD 2 and hear the fanbithces like BX cry online about how awesome that shit is and how they are going out and buying new ones Ps only reason xbox 360 sold so much as it did coz of fanbitches like bx buying replacements and like telling every one my console is so old and still working
We got Killzone in-game footage, for our FPS. And you got a HALO cinematic…A la “Halo 3″…no in-game footage, which means its another two years off. How does that launch feel?
@zachlowe:disqus
You must use some logic.
PS4 have more than 1 million pre orders already. It will release in 32 Countries, with a price way more cheaper.
Xbox One will release in 13 countries and with a price more expensive.
PS4 32 Countries > Xbox One 13 Countries
PS4 $399 > Xbox One $499
Facts are facts.
Pretty much the Analyst is wrong, the Analyst said that in July, way before the Gamescom announcements, he is ignoring the facts I mentioned.
Now the question is what have you been smoking? ^The Lone Xbot^
this analyst is clearly a troll.
all it takes is one update patch, and the xbox one can be back to the pos it looked like back when it announced all its idiotic ideas.
lol now wouldn’t that be funny. Real them in, then hit them with the fees.
Sony is doing the last thrust announcing Uncharted 4 in Gamescom.
not with those delays, bruh
Clearly this guy is biased. Xbox has lost. Exbox fans abandoned them for PS4. They are desperately changing everything to catch up. PS4 will outsell Xbox outright plus Microsoft X1 has abandoned nearly all of Europe until 2014. Here’s a shovel M$.
This article’s findings were a paid ad from MS
rofl nice one bro
If the Xbone out sells the PS4, I am going to lose what is left of my faith in humanity…..Why would you go back to someone who pretty much tried to fuck you without permission and expected you just to sit back and take it.
Lmao, that is exactly what I’m sayin. All my friend that own a 360 are getting a PS4. Who knows what they might try to get away with later on!
The letters on the Xbone controller looks familiar, and so does the D-pad, hmmmm COPED OFF NINTENDO!
I can see the Xbox one holding some ground in the USA but as a worldwide platform the PS4 will take it hands down.
Most people must have forgotten that every feature on the Xbone is locked behind a paywall, and that Microsoft and the NSA are working hand-in-hand. I’m fairly certain that the Xbone will not have any launch advantage over the PS4 in terms of sales.
I work for a retailer that sells both these systems, and we reserved literally 5 times the number of PS4s compared to XBones. People just weren’t that interested in the Xbox–and Microsoft wouldn’t let us reserve more than 35 boxes. To me, that doesn’t bode well at all.
Dudes, just check the poll in the right side.That says a lot more to me than the “study” of some kind of analyst.