Sony PlayStation 4 Outsell Xbox One In The Month Of September 2014

NDP Group, an industry analyst, has released its monthly sales report for September recently. The top sales go to “Destiny” as the top game while “PlayStation 4” topped the hardware sales. According to the report, the console sales were up 200 percent for September 2014 versus the same time last year.  Basically the sales were up 136% for September on yearly basis.

The lowest year-on-year month sales for hardware comparing this year and last year is for the month of January with the figure of just 17%. This is because January 2013 was a five weeks reporting period while January 2014 is a four weeks reporting period. Moreover, January comes after December which is a holiday period and normally there are a lot of sales during this period and thus people’s spending power is higher in December month.

Another reason for the high sales figure for “Sony Playstation 4” is that the bundling strategy of selling “Destiny” game and “PlayStation 4” in one package. Sony says that “Destiny” is the most-played PS4 game with total gameplay hours five times higher than the next-most-played games. Sony claims that the “social sharing” is reaching to 450,000 hours of life gameplay. However, from this figure, we do not understand what it actually means or how is the calculation came about. However, it does sound impressive.

Therefore, Sony PlayStation 4 is outselling Xbox One Sales in the month of September, nearly tripling the August Sales.

Sony PlayStation 4 Outsell Xbox One In The Month Of September 2014

Xbox One prices slashed to $399

 

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer has agreed on Microsoft’s changed attitude towards Kinect. These changes come after a strong consumer feedback about the high costs and being forced to use the Kinect. Xbox one console has been available in the markets with kinetic at a price of $499, but the company has decided to sell a camera less version of Xbox at a lesser price of $399. 

So all those who don’t require Kinect with their Xbox one can now buy it, that too at a cheaper price. Moreover, if you feel like getting Kinect camera after you buy Xbox one, you may also buy a stand-alone camera later on.

Alternative gaming consoles, such as PS4 are strong competitors of Xbox in the market. Cutting back on prices by Microsoft has put them in a better position as its price is not at par with PS.

Adding to this, Microsoft is also planning to bring a few changes in how Xbox gold works. Previously, it was imperative to pay for services like internet explorer, Netflix, skype etc., to use these facilities on your Xbox. This ensures that customers don’t have to pay twice to use these services on Xbox gold. It is also been expected that Microsoft may launch an Xbox application store.

Even after all these changes in Xbox, it is critical that Xbox gives a strong competition to play station. Now that Microsoft has agreed to make changes according to customer feedback, lets see if the demand goes up or not. 

Xbox One prices slashed to $399