NPD: PlayStation 5 has highest launch month for a hardware platform in U.S. history.
Rolla
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1/3 of the month already gone in sales and supply.
Germany numbers are rumored to be bigger than the UK by a decent margin. Other parts of the EU is also up in terms of launch sales according to snippets of info available posted on the other site.
gow3isben
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Ps5 also broke unit sales records briggz stop damage-controlling.
And why is it that only Xbox has crippling hardware supply issues and not PlayStation? I remember when Philip tweeted about Xbox's biggest worldwide launch when, if you recall, they only had limited launches for prior xboxes. Philip the spinner at it again!
Also Xbox one had very poor word of mouth from the start and this is selling even worse. SAD!
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prinz_valium
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I remeber when people said the same about cloud computing in general.
It's the usual MS marketing tactic.
No facts, vague messages that imply a big success story: "biggest launch ever", "best lineup ever" and so on.
Then reality comes out and it always tells a different story.
Selling less than Xbox One in the US (<900k)is a huge letdown, in UK they sold 150k units and the fact they have launched in many other countries where their sales are traditionally really poor (so they have probably shipped just 20-30k units for each of these countries) doesn't change the situation.
They definetly handled production scheduling terribly if they're having such severe shipments issues, too bad that this fact is emerging just now while their marketing wanted everyone to believe they were ready since December 2019 when they unveiled their design and Phil Spencer used the picture of their final AMD SOC as his twitter profile image for a good while.... Sony is facing severe shortages as well but they have been able to manufacture more PS5s than PS4s, it's demand that's insane.
Microsoft is definetly having shortages on the XSX (with these terrible shipments is not even that hard) but I'm not even sure the same can be said for Series S which you can already find in stores in Europe.
Let's see what happens in the next few months.
Cyber_hunter026
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Waiting for the next flood of terrible excuses from xbox fanboys
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
BS. Some people haven't even had their preorders shipped yet.
mckmas8808
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There are so many excuses in here, that's it's hard to tell who's joking and who's serious.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Do you guys remember all the hate and concern trolling for Jim Ryan and the way Sony handled communication pre PS5?
It seems like Sony knew what they doing in the end and Jim won in the end.
Sony managed to design an exceptional APU (way cheaper and similarly performant as Xbox) all that while keeping a steady supply of games and readying an exceptional launch lineup and enough supply through a pandamic.
And we had multiple clowns here creating threads dissing Sony management and the way they handled the situation. Funny in retrospect. Funny in retrospect
But it wasn't just GAF clowns that said that. It was the number 1 thought that most video game podcasters and Youtubers were saying too! Most were saying that Sony was too quiet, Jim didn't know what direction to take Playstation, they could be scared of MS, etc. Keep in mind, many of them are now saying the same thing about Sony and PSVR2 and their VR situation in general.
onnextflix5
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Thoes who pre ordered in September are still waiting lol, now that's bullshit
FunkMiller
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There will be thousands of words spilt about this subject over the coming weeks and months, but it all really boils down to one thing:
To sell new consoles, you have to have new, exclusive games.
To sell new consoles, you have to have new, exclusive games.
Goro Majima
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Weird takes in this thread
Microsoft could have Chrono Trigger 2, Half Life 3, Bloodbourne 2, Witcher 4, and others exclusively and still have only sold as many consoles as they did.
People might ultimately be right about demand 6 months from now when supply catches up. But right now it seems like Microsoft just didn't deliver enough units.
Microsoft could have Chrono Trigger 2, Half Life 3, Bloodbourne 2, Witcher 4, and others exclusively and still have only sold as many consoles as they did.
People might ultimately be right about demand 6 months from now when supply catches up. But right now it seems like Microsoft just didn't deliver enough units.
The 8-Bit Raider
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Having some serious DeJaVue
Unknown?
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It also had some momentum from 360. X1 has no momentum.
MilkyJoe
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It's called you can't buy one anywhere since launch day
Agnostic2020
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U wrote bigger than 0.91 u mean <0.91
kyoji
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seems like sony didnt deliver enough units either
A Most Virtuous Cat
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Always has been.
IntentionalPun
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So do I; I use cloud technologies extensively and am doing a cloud transformation / migration architecture right now. I still see a lot of aversion to the cloud from a lot of companies to this day.. plenty have only recently been convinced.
That's a totally different concept though; companies chase what other companies are doing successfully. So once cloud was proven a successful way to save/make more money, the "customers" (companies) came rolling in.
Cloud gaming currently has no real evidence of the kind of customer demand that the Microsoft's and Amazon's of the world want. Consumers are not like companies, there's no profit motive for them.. Not saying it won't happen, but there's a reason Sony isn't going all in right now. They bought a cloud gaming company and it was a massive financial flop for them.
There are plenty of technologies big tech thought would catch on that didn't as well.. so your statements imply a just as myopic of a view as those who denied cloud would take over for businesses.
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We should start looking at sales numbers when amazon stops saying "currently unavailable" on each of those consoles.
Even then I'm not sure what sales numbers really tell us in a context where one company is selling a platform and the other a single machine. Maybe comparing division revenue numbers would make more sense at this stage.
Even then I'm not sure what sales numbers really tell us in a context where one company is selling a platform and the other a single machine. Maybe comparing division revenue numbers would make more sense at this stage.
LordBlodgett
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You are absolutely right for 1/3 month being done. Expect to see PS5 numbers beat all in December in NA.
IntentionalPun
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There likely isn't a single metric Sony doesn't crush MS on revenue wise.
They shipped more units, and seem to be replenishing those units faster than MS has.. the revenue from PS4 in the past few quarters has absolutely stomped all over Xbox as well.
Sony dominates in overall revenue, and even likely dominates the subscription revenue game, certainly are killing MS in profits in that area. While PSNow isn't as big as GamePass, PS+ is far larger than XBLG... and GamePass's actual revenue right now is questionable. There are loads of people who got GamePass for $1 for 2-3 years. They only count as XBLG revenue for now.
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So MS launched in waaaay more countries vs 2013, but didnt have enough units available this time.
Sony did similar, just Japan in IIRC. The pandemic didnt really affect Sony tho.
There's some story there, maybe we will get the truth about it all.
Sony did similar, just Japan in IIRC. The pandemic didnt really affect Sony tho.
There's some story there, maybe we will get the truth about it all.
Self High Five
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MS are not blindly shipping consoles without due diligence. Their obviously estimating how much consoles will sell through.
There is no evidence to suggest MS "just didn't deliver enough units". For all we know they're just meeting demand. Xbox One was readily available soon after launch despite shipping more units in NA compared to today.
iHaunter
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Demon's Souls was Top 3 in Sales in US and Top 4 Sales in UK.
prinz_valium
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Sure, fair points.
We'll see in the next 5 to 10 years.
I just see it as the perfect fit for markets like India and Africa. The biggest mobile markets of the world in 2050
Shadowstar39
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Well people were buying xbox 1 X thinking it was a series X. You would think MS would of learned something from Nintendo with the WiiU and "new" new nintendo 3ds for horrible naming schemes that confuse people are make people and the buy the old gen model, or think their gift recipient already owns it.
Lionel Richie
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Aw you guys are really cute celebrating second place to the "peter pan syndrome" console.
Yes, I remember you friend.
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Thirty7ven
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I watched a kinda funny podcast on YouTube, a couple of weeks before launch, and they were lowballing about PS5 and saying how there was a lot more hype for Xbox, and complaining about the marketing. These people are clueless and they were sucking MS's dick essentially because MS was giving dick away.
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Caio
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Almost always, XBox 360 gave Sony some serious competition, and have dominated in NA, but yes we have to consider PS3 launched a year later and was much more expensive and harder to develop for. Sony really learned from their mistakes.
Seriously I was expecting a much more competitive XBox this new Gen, anyway it's early, hopefully it will show some muscles later on, we'll see.
IntentionalPun
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For sure; it's totally possible it'll take off...but there's still a ton of questions on the table.
The scale at which people will adopt both cloud gaming and even "subscription service" gaming is a total unknown.
These companies have some target for the combination of number of customers and the price of the server side tech lowering. It's a bunch of companies that have money to burn to try things in case they take off so that they can be one of the first and get that market share.
And there's a bunch of catch 22's.. as it becomes cheaper to run a server for gaming, it will become even cheaper for devices to run those games natively. It already is a catch 22; the most popular mobile games are MOSTLY games that hardly would benefit the end user if they were hosted on a server. They download / install fairly fast and run just fine on literally 100s of millions of phones.
And let's face it that's exactly what they are targeting; they are all jealous that Apple has sat on their ass doing not much in the gaming space, but raking in more profits from gaming than traditional gaming companies.
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Ash Sparrow
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So Xbox sold out without any big games Wow
The 8-Bit Raider
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One of the most memorable and regretful purchases I made in my life...Need for Speed was cool though
Silent Viper
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You all forgetting that Sony launched PS5 in 10-12 countries with US getting biggest allocation whereas SX launched in 40 countries with limited allocation to each territory. Xbox one launched like PS5 is launching now that is in 13 or less countries with US getting biggest share.
Right now MS is selling every unit they are making, its getting instantly sold out everywhere. Real test for SX will be next year once launch hype is gone.. I think MS doing far better in multiple territories that they did with One. Series console sold better in Japan as well compared to One.
Im not damage controlling, just stating the facts. PS5 will continue to sell more this gen, no doubt but launch sales are affected in US by amount of allocation they did compared to One.
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The main estimate I've seen is at VGCharts which was estimating 2.1-2.5 million units a few weeks back.
MiguelItUp
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Because of the PS4's success and COVID, this isn't too surprising.
That being said the XSX is doing pretty well for itself as well!
Happiness all around.
That being said the XSX is doing pretty well for itself as well!
Happiness all around.
v_iHuGi
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Knitted Knight
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Interesting numbers.
Yoboman
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Coulomb_Barrier
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Yes that was a good indicator of where we were at but few were paying attention curiously when those figures landed.
mckmas8808
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Now ask yourself why didn't they deliver enough units in America (their largest country by demand in the World).
