Xbox One Sales Dominate on Black Friday, Bundles Account for 90% of All Console Sales - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 November 2014 / 17,905 Views
It has only been two days since Black Friday and market research firm InfoScout already has data about how well each console has sold.
Microsoft had tried to do everything to win this holiday season in the US with a temporary price cut and bundles for the Xbox One and it appears to have worked. The Xbox One accounted for more than half of all the consoles sold on Black Friday.
The Xbox One accounted for 53 percent of the consoles sold, followed by the PlayStation 4 with 31 percent of sales. Last generation console, the Xbox 360, accounted for nine percent of the sales, followed by the Wii U with just six percent, The PlayStation 3 lagged in last with only one percent of the sales.
Consumers were also asked if they bought the console for their kids and 92 percent of people who bought a Wii U said yes. Two-thirds of the people bought the Xbox One purchased it for their kids, while 45 percent of people who bought a PlayStation 4 purchased it for their kids.
90 percent of all console sales on Black Friday came bundled with at least one game. 75 percent of people said yes when asked if the console coming bundled with a game influence their purchase.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Why would you report this information, which is based on a very poor methodology on a site that tries to present itself as a credible video game sales tracker? This is just regurgitation of the press release. How about a bit of commentary, critique and analysis of the quality of the data being presented. Some comparative analysis with infoscout vs VGC from last year maybe to give people some context as to reliability of information. This is just lazy reportage.
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Didn't the same website say Madden was the top selling game yesterday?
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The same site didn't even list smash in the list but had mk8. One site. One price, one user base, all dependent on the demographic of that sites userbase.
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I can't believe Vgchartz would post a news from a random site who is even less reliable than...vgchartz themself. Use your forumers predictions next time, it will be most accurate than this.
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Oh come on... You guys are using that nonsense too? They had MK8 having more sales than both Pokemon and Smash Bros (which wasn't even on the chart btw)
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This same website said the same thing last year. The said Xbone outsold PS4 by even crazier numbers last year on black friday. They were proven to be VERY wrong the next week.
Exactly. What's funny about all of this is that Xbox fanboys are falling for it.
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It's entirely likely the XB1 outsold the PS4 on Black Friday, but it's going to be hilarious seeing the gap is much much smaller, along with VGC's credibility.
Why don't we just wait for npd before posting questionable data ok? Npd release is Thursday December 11. We'll find out then.
So 360 outsold the PS3 6:1? Even though last week the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360? Suuuuuuuure!
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According to eBay, their 2 top sellers were Wii U and the iPad Air 2. Wii U sold 4,000 in just 17 minutes so I would love to see how many it sold in 24 hours. I don't think this is very accurate and even if Wii U didn't sell as much as others, I hope sales see a big increase.
Yeah this is totally legit and not just garbage clickbait i knew someone would eventually post this so called data lol.
Their data is user submitted ("panelists"), so it won't be very accurate, but there's no denying the Xbox One did just fine on Black Friday.
Last year they also had XB1 outselling PS4 2:1, didn't went very well with NPD for them.
I am quite sure that November last year people cited the same source, but PS4 kicked a$$ so, I dont trust this, lets just wait for NPD.
The title of the article is misleading.... it gives the reader the impression that 90% of the bundles sold were Xbox One...
Ok... that was predictable..... what about the handheld sales? How does they compare? I wonder why those guys completed ignored handheld sales.....
X1 should die so M$ would have to release a next gen and not half-ass-gen.
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Some people... boooo hooo... this shows the x1 in a positive way... booooo hoooo... get over it.
Some people... boooo hooo... this shows the x1 in a positive way... booooo hoooo... get over it.
I'm actually not surprised by this outcome. The price drop for the XB1 already made it start selling more then the PS4 in the US while PS4 continued outselling the XB1 in Europe. It's going to be really interesting to see the actual numbers when they finally come out from NPD as well as what VGChartz releases and the press releases from all the companies. Also I find it interesting that they aren't tracking 3DS, I'd imagine that would be a huge seller for the holidays.
william there are so many people who could write better articles than you on here. you're pro xbox 90% of the time too. You've got an agenda we got it but this is a new low.
Last time I checked you're pro Sony so you can't really accuse and talk yourself.
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Have to agree about the quality of his writing. Poor English, many inaccuracies, titles that don't match the content, and limited to no discussion of the data. I'm sure they can find a better writer if they try.
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This would also mean that if the Wii U sold 250,000 in the usa (realistic) then this agency reckons the Xbox 1 must have sold 2.25 million? Just.....wow?
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PS3 is extremely low, and looks like Smash couldn't save Wii-U. Difference between PS4 and Xbox One is bigger than expected. I'm taking this data with a grain of salt for now, though it seems very likely Xbox One won both Black Friday and November NPD.
Smash couldn't save WiiU is a big conclusion from a two-day sample over black friday. Smash also came out last week and has apparently been sold out in a few places in Europe. So it's a bit early to say something like that.
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Well I hope that their prediction is better than last year. Anyway if it's an error it's not vgchartz that will be in position to blam InfoScout.
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The methodology used isn't the most accurate but I believe they were spot on regarding BF last year.
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Well there you go, confirmed by VGChartz. Now let's wait for the haters
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Lol since when Vgchartz is reliable source to confirm this kind of things ? I think that Xbox One won the BF but the only 4 sources that can confirm this are NPD, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Vgchartz made enough articles with (their own) wrong numbers and now they do this with unreliable sources why can't they just wait a source that is really reliable ?
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Lol since when Vgchartz is reliable source to confirm this kind of things ? I think that Xbox One won the BF but the only 4 sources that can confirm this are NPD, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Vgchartz made enough articles with (their own) wrong numbers and now they do this with unreliable sources why can't they just wait a source that is really reliable ?
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"Haters".......Oh sweet jesus. Nothing has been "confirmed". This is just a sampling of data representing a small percentage of the actual number of consumers purchasing consoles on BF. It may be close to correct, it may be way off the mark.
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