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Benji (Video Game Industry Analyst) Predicts Series X+S to outsell PS5 in the NA due to more inventory
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Didn't he ask for threads to not be made based on his tweets?
edit: https://twitter.com/benjisales/status/1173589409549246464?s=21
edit: https://twitter.com/benjisales/status/1173589409549246464?s=21
Nah, Benji has at least some insight into the retail game for stuff like allocations and shipments. If he is predicting this, he probably knows that more Xbox got to retailers.
I follow Wario 64 and IGN deals, and I have seen more "Xbox is in stock" tweets than PS5. Since Xbox is weaker world wide than Sony, maybe they sent the Lion's share to the US.
Is that why the rest of the world got fuck all stock of Xboxes? America got them all?
Because "more stock" is sure as shit not the case in Australia. I even got 2 more PS5s the other day without even meaning or trying to.
Because "more stock" is sure as shit not the case in Australia. I even got 2 more PS5s the other day without even meaning or trying to.
It's not really a guess, to be clear, he works at retail and always had a good visibility on inventory for hardware and software. Not for the whole territory, but for a big enough sample to be right in most of his "predictions".
It's kinda surprising for Xbox to bring more stock than PS5 despite a late start in production, but apparently there were more restock on the Xbox side compared to PS5. Sony also has more markets to cover worldwide compared to Xbox, I believe.
People were saying that Switch might break the Wii or DS record for November.
PS4 sold more during launch month (November). XBO sold more in december (more stock)
Yes, seeing as we know Microsoft went hard on building S models because it's more affordable.
Big miss by Sony in not getting the inventory out there.
Even bigger miss by Nintendo as this is their 3rd year and there shouldn't really be shortages.
And a nice win by MS in getting units out there. Though anecdotally it doesn't seem like they were that far ahead of PS5 if at all. Its not like you can fix an Xbox anywhere either.
Even bigger miss by Nintendo as this is their 3rd year and there shouldn't really be shortages.
And a nice win by MS in getting units out there. Though anecdotally it doesn't seem like they were that far ahead of PS5 if at all. Its not like you can fix an Xbox anywhere either.
Reasoning makes zero sense. They both are making as much as they can make. The issue is time not money.
If MS does sell more than Sony, does it matter? I mean.. will that make games on XS better?
Just wonder why this would be a problem..
Just wonder why this would be a problem..
I remember Sony taking Nov and MS taking December. But it's been a while.
Edit: looks like others already clarified.
A salient point here is "in NA". MS has every reason to focus their stock in NA given that it's one of only a couple strong territories for their brand, and why not see if they can get that "Best selling console in NA" headline? I don't think this suggests that MS has more stock overall. We'll see if anyone puts out numbers.
I felt like anybody could tell but gaf is so gullible
been saying this shit for years
It means it may not reach the highest of highest console sales records mostly because of a lack of Cyber Monday in NPD's November calender and Switch stock
Yea he's not an analyst and I think the only reason he got into numbers was because he worked at Best Buy and could check preorder numbers.
He doesn't have any more information than us.
He doesn't have any more information than us.
I mean, it isn't a paid analyst, but he has access to some data and analyses that. I'd say he's an amateur analyst, but not a professional analyst. Obviously the same could be said to the regulars in the sales threads, though without (partial) data access.
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