So the latest NPD results got me thinking, 5 months after the release of new consoles I really thought by now XBox Series would be outselling PS5 a month or two of those, the reason for that is USA is XBox's biggest market, and from history the XBox One in December 2013 outsold the PS4 even with the whole DRM fiasco and negative PR with a higher price point. It also seems PS5 is not just barely edging the XB Series with sales, the signs shows that there is a decent gap between the sales of the two.
And if you go outside USA it's obvious that worldwide in all markets (including UK, the second most important market for XBox) PS5 is selling more, to the point that I have read analysis that it's 2:1 in favor to the PlayStation and that launch aligned XB Series consoles are selling less than XB One.
Now people are saying "Sony and Microsoft can only sell what they can manufacture" referring to the fact that these new consoles are being soldout immediately after any new stock arrives, which leads me to my question. What are the circumstances that led for Sony to manufacture more PS5's than XB Series consoles? And why did Microsoft allowed them to? People used (They were late on manufacturing because of full RDNA 2) as an excuse, well was it worth it if you are allowing the competition to outsell you 2:1 the beginning of the generation?
I write this thread also in part because I remember hearing "concerns" when Sony revealed the specs of their console and how they are overclocking their GPU, and the reports from Bloomberg that they are cutting the shipments of the PS5, all these lead to speculations that Sony would be having trouble manufacturing their consoles and Microsoft will seize the opportunity of Sony's woes. The reality turned out very different to some people's in head scenarios.
I end my topic with couple more questions from someone who know a little of the hardware making process:
Is there something with the way the PS5 is designed that makes it able to bypass the chips shortage problem a little better than XB Series can do?
Does Sony have better contracts with the console parts manufactures (Including the chips manufactures) that gives them the advantage to make more PS5s?
or was it from the beginning Microsoft knew they couldn't compete with Sony on the hardware sales front specially with no new next gen releases from their 1st party studios to sell these consoles?
Thoughts?
And if you go outside USA it's obvious that worldwide in all markets (including UK, the second most important market for XBox) PS5 is selling more, to the point that I have read analysis that it's 2:1 in favor to the PlayStation and that launch aligned XB Series consoles are selling less than XB One.
Now people are saying "Sony and Microsoft can only sell what they can manufacture" referring to the fact that these new consoles are being soldout immediately after any new stock arrives, which leads me to my question. What are the circumstances that led for Sony to manufacture more PS5's than XB Series consoles? And why did Microsoft allowed them to? People used (They were late on manufacturing because of full RDNA 2) as an excuse, well was it worth it if you are allowing the competition to outsell you 2:1 the beginning of the generation?
I write this thread also in part because I remember hearing "concerns" when Sony revealed the specs of their console and how they are overclocking their GPU, and the reports from Bloomberg that they are cutting the shipments of the PS5, all these lead to speculations that Sony would be having trouble manufacturing their consoles and Microsoft will seize the opportunity of Sony's woes. The reality turned out very different to some people's in head scenarios.
I end my topic with couple more questions from someone who know a little of the hardware making process:
Is there something with the way the PS5 is designed that makes it able to bypass the chips shortage problem a little better than XB Series can do?
Does Sony have better contracts with the console parts manufactures (Including the chips manufactures) that gives them the advantage to make more PS5s?
or was it from the beginning Microsoft knew they couldn't compete with Sony on the hardware sales front specially with no new next gen releases from their 1st party studios to sell these consoles?
Thoughts?
