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No, the Xbox One isn’t in trouble


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I could care less about if a console isn’t selling or it is selling like hot cakes. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I love playing games. I recently bought a Nintendo Virtual Boy – with two games. Did the system fail miserably? Yes.

Here’s the truth: Publicly, there are two ways to get the retail numbers for the PS4 and Xbox One sales. First, be a stockholder for either Sony or Microsoft. Second, be a paid subscriber to the NPD – National Purchase Diary – monthly sales data. If you aren’t either, you probably have to rely on what the companies say about their console success (or failure). If you look at that data, Microsoft and the Xbox One are doing fine. Sony is taking water in their television division and working to sell off their VAIO computing division. But then, the PS4 is doing good.

Why did I say all this? To encourage gamers to do one thing – PLAY. Don’t worry about how awesome your system is. Don’t feel the need to proclaim like you are a Deep South tent preacher how superior your system is when compared to any other system. My question is – if you have time to bash other systems or point out flaws around the clock, why aren’t you playing your own system?

Here’s my video comments about the current state of video games:

Willie Jefferson

31 Responses

  1. kftgr says:

    I completely agree. I love how you single out Yahoo. I don’t know what’s worse there, the articles or the comments.

  2. JD says:

    Just read this article, and this seems like the appropriate place to bring it up.

    the sales numbers for February just came out, both Domestic and worldwide.

    with the PS4 overwhelmingly at the top , beating out the 3DS which had the top spot in December and January.

    the 3DS behind the PS4 by a significant number.

    then in 3rd is the PS3.

    then in 4th is Microsoft

    followed very closely (by about 12,000 units) by the Wii U

    now really ask yourself, is Microsoft’s new console in trouble? the numbers would say so

  3. stockbroker says:


    Please educate yourself before you quibble with me.

  4. Jangor says:

    Ever wonder what a deranged, foaming at the mouth, fanboy whose life revolves around which multi-billion dollar company is selling more hunks of plastic, as he hunkers in the basement pecking away at his smartphone screen in nerd rage looks like? Well look no farther… Behold @JD below

    • JD says:

      Really? I mean really? lol. Because I stated facts about the consoles, and happen to clearly have a different view than you. You think you know the intimate details of my life? Including vocation, financial status and method of responding to your inane asinine assumptions?

      Get real, I can proudly say you are wrong on all counts, like unequivocally completely incorrect. Of course you didn’t have much of a shot, considering that so few of the country actually has a basement, I mean if you go west at all, they practically don’t exist. Which is odd.

      Sorry junior, Sony is just clearly without true rival. That’s just a fact of the industry, 3 years not withstanding. You might want to try to keep on topic, and the topic would be the state of consoles today. And if your going to be objective about it at all, you know everything i said is true. Of course if you were objective you would have kept on topic, and not so much with the personal attacks on the person you don’t know and will never have to answer to.

      score 1 for internet courage!…..pathetic

  5. Tristan Cofer says:

    Excuse me sir, I am, I am, in fact, a stock holder of sony and I haven’t been able to receive any of said information regarding the sales of the Playstation 4. However, being a share holder, it pertains a great deal to me when sony announces that 6 million consoles have been sold as it is another sure sign that Sony is starting to recover from its obvious blunders. On the contrary, I also believe it is quite entertaining to see a console bashed, regardless of which one, if only to view the hilariously spiteful comments.

  6. My problem is the lack of console exclusives and new releases. I have an Xbox One and a PS4 and I’m tired of walking into the store and seeing the same 8 games for both consoles, week in and week out.

    Obviously this will be getting much better in the coming months. I’m pretty excited about Titanfall (after playing in the beta) and, as a racing fan, the PS4 has a great lineup coming.

    With that said, 2014 has been boring as hell thus far.

  7. PL says:

    The difference is sales from 360 to ps3 and now ps4 to One is two things and two things only. Has nothing to do with power or games. It has everything to do with who comes first and who comes cheapest. End of story.

  8. Matt says:

    The arthor’s article is so poorly researched and written he must be a troll.

  9. nunya says:

    They aren’t equally powerful. No, seriously, they aren’t. The PS4 has a more powerful GPU and better RAM for gaming. You can’t make that go away by pretending the differences don’t exist. That doesn’t mean people can’t enjoy the Xbox One more than the PS4, but stop pretending they’re equal in power. They aren’t. It’s petty to force parity where parity doesn’t exist. Just admit that the PS4 is more powerful already. So tired of journalists trying to pretend the Xbox One is as powerful as the PS4. IT’S NOT. You know it’s not. It’s been proven over and over again that it’s not. So stop lying about it on the internet and admit it already.

    Also, this is the internet. We don’t have to love the Xbox One. If you can’t handle that then get off the internet. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot repeatedly this generation and they pissed off a lot of gamers. You want to point your finger at other journalists and call foul, fine. Don’t pretend that the Xbox One is selling well when the PS4 is outselling it 2 to 1 in the US and slaughtering them in the rest of the world. Also, trying to pretend that we don’t know the NPD numbers is just pathetic. We do. If Sony was lying Microsoft would’ve jumped all over them. The PS4 sold about 280k in the US in January and the Xbox One sold about 140k. In the rest of the world the PS4 outsold the Xbox One about 3 to 1 overall. So pretend everything is all sunshine and daisies for the Xbox One if you’d like, but Microsoft has a problem whether you want to admit it or not. Titanfall is their last chance to stay relevant for a while. They better hope it pushes a ton of consoles or the hype train will leave them behind.

    • Travis says:

      First off Both the PS4 and The Xbox one use the same Amd Gpu as Amd saved thousands by creating in bulk for both companies. Second The Xbox has a faster Processor Clock speed rating to compensate for the Slower RAM modules. The PS4 has faster RAM modules but they both retain the same amount of GBs So you argument that the “PS4 is more powerfull” is null and void. when it comes to benchmarks they perform the same! What it comes down to in the end is exclusive titles to each system and what games gamers are more interested in PERIOD! Because if it came down to the most powerfull system winning this competition well then none can hold a match to a P.C. End rant

    • nunya says:

      LOL what? No, the GPU is not the same in both consoles. AMD does provide the chipset for both GPUs, but it’s not the same chipset. The PS4 has about a 50% more powerful GPU. It’s well known. Where have you been?

      What does the CPU and/or GPU clock speed have to do with the RAM modules? Absolutely nothing. In fact your argument makes absolutely no sense. The fact that Microsoft increased the clock speed for the GPU and CPU means that it doesn’t evenly divide into the clock speed for the RAM which means data gets to sit around once it gets to the RAM until the next clock cycle. Obviously this doesn’t take too long, but your argument shows an incredible amount of ignorance while trying to play off knowledge. Bandwidth has absolutely nothing to do with clock speed at all. Clock speed is how many cycles occur per second for the specified hardware part while bandwidth is the amount of data that can travel along the bus per second. Bandwidth is also referred to as data transfer rate.

      They both affect the overall power of a console, but data transfer rate is not dependent on anything else. In order to get any real measurement of power from clock speed you have to include compute units. Sony wins there overall. Clock speed for memory is less important than you think. So long as it can send information to the GPU and CPU before their next clock cycle, it doesn’t overly matter. You can have a memory controller with a higher clock speed than the system can handle, but it’ll just automatically lower the clock speed to what the system can use. The main memory pools clock speed is generally higher than CPU and GPU clock speed. It’s not really an issue.

      On benchmarks they don’t perform the same. In GPU benchmarks the PS4 performs substantially better. In CPU benchmarks the PS4 wins as well, though by much less of a margin.

      Oh, the ridiculous logical fallacy that if you wanted a more powerful system you should just buy a PC again? Well, in that case we should all go out and buy $3000 PCs so we can have the best gaming rig possible (it’s actually more like $8000, but I’m trying to be reasonable here). If we can’t have the best, why settle for less right? No, that argument is ridiculous. If I can pay $100 less for a console that play multi-platform games better, then why wouldn’t I? Besides, I already own a gaming PC. I bought a PS4 for all the games I can’t play on my PC. There’s plenty of them. I like gaming. If there were games I wanted on the Xbox One I’d buy it as well. Maybe I will one day, who knows. The argument isn’t about which console is better, because that’s completely subjective. You stated that the PS4 is not more powerful than the Xbox One, and that’s complete nonsense.

  10. Steve Houston says:

    I love how you call for people to stop bashing consoles and then half the posts center on bashing the other guy. Neither system has enough good software to interest the masses yet and I doubt anyone is influenced by system or company bashing. I know bashing has taken place since the original Pong and copycats were released (“my generic moving square game is better than yours”) but frankly, every system has its own merits, including the Virtual Boy (I can loan you some of the better games if you like).

  11. J says:

    Firstly, the systems are not equally powerful. This fact has been well established. Don’t underplay the importance of more power for $100 less.

    Secondly, it’s “I couldn’t care less…”, NOT “I could care less…”.

    Thank you.

    • Geovanni P says:

      Funny how Sony fan’s all justified paying 500-600.00 for a PS3 which was always well over 150-200.00 more than the 360, based off of all these potentials it had but were never realised and had nothing to do with *gasp* games! Now when microsoft does it, it’s such a horrendous issue. When the PS3 tried to boast all those media features it was heralded as a true next Gen system over the 360, which in comparison was just a gaming machine as far as Sony fan’s were concerened at the time and it still won the war. Now the Xbox one grants a more advanced and robust option for media and suddenly microsoft doesn’t care about gaming but Sony does? I have read the game reviews seen the side by side graphics, none of these small advancements will make a differnce for Sony now just like they didn’t then. Most of the next gen games are all receiving the same scores and there is only about a 300,000-500,000 difference in sales which is irrelevant since both consoles outsold both of the predecessors in the first week. Regardless these system sales and games scores shouldn’t be anywhere near close if the PS4 is oh so superior. People will be enjoying the xbox one while PS4 fans will still be waitong for game designer’s to bring out the systems full potential to back your claims, becauae as of right not all we have is specs and a few next gen games and ports that just look a little brighter on the PS4. If that’s all the superiority the PS4 has right now then PS4 fans are simply grasping for any straws.

    • nunya says:

      Your argument is one huge red herring fallacy. It also stinks of bitterness. The PS4 is outselling the Xbox One by a considerable amount. Who really cares? Just enjoy your console and admit reality. Life will be much more enjoyable. I promise.

    • Geovanni P says:

      Im enjoying my console, its just funny watching Sony Supporters use every little bone thrown to them so they can bash xbox one and the people enjoying them all day. My system is 50% more powerful blah blah blah, I have seen this minimal advancements in Sony’s favor side by side and IMO, If it was never mentioned you wouldn’t have even noticed it but it is just one more thing to use in the never ending Xbox one bashing over very miniscule differences just like they did with the PS3. Your sales argument is laughable both systems are doing far suoerior to their last gen counterparts, nobody was in trouble before and nobody is in trouble now.

  12. Falconus says:

    It’s trouble for Microsoft. They had market dominance with the Xbox 360, and now they’ve lost it. As a business, you don’t want that to happen. And don’t pretend it happened without a reason.

    The systems have significant differences, and the consumer has a clear preference. If what people are saying upsets you, that’s your problem. Interesting how when people don’t like to hear something, all of a sudden it’s a terrible thing to talk about at all.

    Xbox fanboys have gotten downright deranged. They are like a vicious pack of rabid wolves, tearing apart anyone who says anything positive about any other platform.

    Guys, it’s a game console. It’s not your religion, and it is not a sacred cow, and MS will not send you any gamerpoints for the best rage-filled rant towards anyone you suspect of playing Titanfall on anything but the Xbox One.

    A comment on the “shut up and play” logical fallacy… If you love your Xbox One, how do you have time to post on the internet about it?

    Anyway, I hope the thing about being a journalist was a joke.

  13. Guest says:

    Thank God there are some people in the world that still have sense.

  14. Odessa Brown says:

    I have the first x box that came out. It no longer works. How do I get the music off of it

    • Falconus says:

      Take it to a PC store. They should be able to grab the files off of the HDD. Maybe even the Geek Squad at Best Buy.

    • nunya says:

      The original Xbox uses FatX for the file system format. Windows won’t recognize it. If you take it to a computer repair shop that has Linux systems they can probably copy the data to a disc for you, but I doubt they’ll do it without proof that you actually own the music. Not to mention they have to open up the Xbox to get to the hard drive, and I doubt they’ll do that for you. You’d have to get the hard drive yourself and bring it into the shop. It’s probably better to just let the music go. It would cost you a good $50 – $100 to get it done if they’re even willing to do it for you. You also need to know where the music is located in their file directory. You can probably look it up on the internet, but the computer shop will almost definitely have no idea.

  15. keaundre says:

    The Xbox One didn’t sell 3.9 million consoles. They sold around 3.5 million. They shipped 3.9 million.

  16. Jason B says:

    Preach it! The best article yet on the console wars. Shut up and PLAY!

  17. J. Mack says:

    Amen!! The console fanboys (especially the PS4 fanboys), have behaved horribly on XB1 websites, blogs or postings. I like both systems and im old enough to know the only ‘side’ to be on is your own or the industry’s.

  18. Gonzalo says:

    Thank you thank you thank you!!! I’m with you. Even though I’m more of an Xbox guy, I can appreciate the PS system. That’s why I own both. However, these PS fans just don’t know when to shut up.

    To me, if a PS fan thinks their system is superior, there’s no need to prove it. Just be quiet and enjoy your system.

    Both systems are great in their own way.

    • W. Smith says:

      Well said!! Biased towards Microsoft PC/Xbox, but yeah, the PS4 hate is ridiculous! Competition is good Sony fanboys! Just found and bought a PS4 on Dell, buying into the hype, regretted it after 24 hrs. NO GAMES compared to Xbox1 yet…Killzone is a glitch filled mess of a game, looks gorgeous, but that’s it! Knack…come on, seriously?? Still playing Dead Rising 3 and Forza, and yes even Ryse a little bit…Specs mean nothing…learned that as a kid during the Genesis, Turbografx, and SNES battles. GAMES mean everything…and Microsoft has em now, and A LOT more in the pipeline. If you want to know how Xbox is doing…ask Microsoft stockholders…stellar year, and compare that to Sony. Mark my words…Sony will no longer exist in 5 yrs as independent company…PS4 won’t carry a company…ask Sega about that? Granted Sega didn’t sell other electronics…but Sony has been decimated in every other market…sold PC division…Sony TV’s, stereos, etc.??? Lost their edge to Samsung, Apple, and anyone else for that matter. Sony fanboys just pissed a software company came in out of nowhere and showed them up w/Xbox 360. Atari, Coleco, Intellivision, Sega,….Sony!

    • JD says:

      @ W.Mith- I don’t understand what all the fuss is about honestly. with the exception of a few years while the PS3 caught up to 360 Sony has ruled the gaming industry for the last 20 years.

      I understand brand loyalty, but I don’t understand people who act like Microsoft has “stood up” anyone.

      How did they do that? by living in Sony’s wake? The Playstation brand will own the gaming industry much like it has for most of the last 20 years. While I don’t approve of Microsoft’s presence in the gaming industry as a whole, since they don’t understand or care about gamers or gaming in general. I know they will constantly produce ignorant gamers and of course be barking at Sony’s heels.

      I just wish Microsoft and gamers would understand the 3 years you had with the 360 on top of the gaming world was the exception, not the rule. It’s over know, so know your role, play your glorified set-top box. And stop acting like Microsoft is something that they aren’t.