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Hmmm Launching in 3x the countries than the xbone doesn't really suggest that
exactly, that's why they had to allocate the shipments differently and that's why it didn't outsold the xbox one in Spain.
This seems crazy to me, allowing Sony to build up an early lead.
To be honest - MS never had a chance here with XBOX.
A little anecdote: Some of my friends had an X360(me included), almost all a PS3, last gen nobody seriously nobody had a XONE.
MS messed up that one generation that was important to keep people in your eco system.
In the US Microsoft might get close to the PS5 numbers, in Europe and the rest of the world Playstation and Nintendo will dominate again.
But that is only my humble personal projection. And to be honest it is not that important anyway - as long as we see three healthy ecosystems that push console feature and games further and further it is a win win win situation for every gamer. :)
These have to be basically supply-constrained shipped numbers, right? Hard to imagine tens of thousands of new Xboxes just sitting on shelves, outside of a scenario like the things being overshipped to Japan for some reason.
there is no series x available in spain, stock is much smaller than ps5.
It appears that the stories regarding manufacturing issues where all false and Sony did supply more consoles than the PS4 launch. Still, the device is extremely supply constrained and the number could have easily been triple or more.
Ah,yea....I forgot Xbox didn't actually have as many units available.
It is more expensive than the PS4 at launch so numbers in terms of dollars are going to be great.
But yeah stock doesn't look amazing for either PS5 of Xbox. And honestly there are people predicting crazy Switch numbers but that doesn't seem to have crazy stock either. Its been sold out of most stores for months where I live. And when they get them in they are gone in a day or two. I would have guessed if you are setting records you have to have record amounts of stock too.
Breaking the all-time record for launch numbers is normal?
Especially when considering low stock
Uhhhh...
PS3 was a big drop, and it took till PS5 to break PS2 numbers. hehe
Lol? I think it is appropriately being read as the biggest launch in history
Edit: got meme'd on
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It's a meme from the PS4 launch. There was an article that mentioned not reading too much into the PS4 launch sales.
I'm fairly sure that will be the case in Europe and Japan. Will have to see how it goes in the US.
I don't think you really need more than the history of sales between Xbox and PlayStation in Spain to know how the generation will play out, but yeah, Sony's brand power is stupidly high right now, and they can sell whatever they stock.
I guess the real question is, has MS made any ground in countries that's not the UK or US? I've heard they're more popular in Brazil and Mexico, but that's it. Meanwhile everywhere else is defaulted to Nintendo or Sony.
PS5 has almost certainly provided more stock than any console launch in history. The comparisons are harder, but it's quite possible Microsoft have put out the second most stock in launch history. That this still isn't enough to satiate demand doesn't make them less impressive.
The thread, and the comment, is about Spain. But even looking worldwide, the second part of your statement is false. PS4 also launched higher than PS2.
Didn't say the contrary... "stock is much smaller than ps5."
you're comparing 2 consoles that have no stock. Microsoft sent very little stock to spain.
Because Spain surely isn't one of their huge markets in EU. That's France, UK and Germany
Obviously those numbers were not at launch, and if we compare launch numbers Xbox sold less and Playstation more than 7 y ago