It's much more of a focus than the narratives in the fan communities let on. Otherwise, S models would not have been fire sale every other week for almost a year now. More boxes in peoples hands = more potential of subscribers to your service.
Lol Its a new huge Bethesda game. Wierd thing to downplay....Its gonna sell like crazy obviously.
Really? A few questions come to mind then:
What has he seen? lol
this narrative is flawed.
In the US alone.Holy shit...PS5 selling more than half a million...in february
It is partially true. Microsoft can act on the gaming market like Facebook is doing in the VR one. Spend billions without looking at returns this decade. Sony and Nintendo can't. They absolutely should focus on selling consoles, yes. And the metric has always been accurate for the part that matter most to people like us, the games. The console that sold the most will often have some of the best experiences. Nintendo is often the only exception, in good and bad. If Microsoft didn't care they would already put Gamepass on Playstation and Nintendo systems and touched 10 to 20 millions people on top of the clients they already have. And I talk only of a first party limited Gamepass. Not of the bullshit that they would want Sony and Nintendo to accept.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft know the demand for their console & know how many to ship each quarter . stuffing the channels & not being able to move them is really bad for business & that's the reason MS isn't flooding the market with Xbox Series X like Sony can with the PS5 it's supply& demand. pretending that Series X has a supply issue now that the chip shortage is over is pretty wild lol.
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That can be subjective. Can you quote a number that you think it'll sell at launch?
The fan narratives were so close to saying "MS doesn't need to focus on games like sony/nintendo do" until they went on a 3rd party takeaway spree. So close.
It sold over 350k in Japan that month as well. Close to a million in February JUST for USA and Japan isn't that impossible...we don't know if + 530k from the USA isn't actually over 600k or more, lmao.
In that case, Sony also releases a lot of games on PC (they have likely released as many games as Xbox, if not more, on PC in the last 1-2 years now). And they also have PS Plus, just like Xbox has Game Pass.
Reasons.
Idk a number specifically, but to think a new Bethesda game wont sell well is absurd. Like people are insinuating that it wont sell a lot bc its on Xbox?...lol
Sony's PC initiative and PS plus aren't the same to Sony as PC and GP are to MS.
Seeing a few of the reeee types lose their minds over this is...
It is going to be a very long year for some people. The longest year ever probably.
well...this is why Starfield is such an important release. is going to tell us a lot about the futute. 3 scenarios are very plausible
thus different scenarios can happen once starfield releases.
Record February for the PlayStation brand and it looks like March will be even bigger.2023 PS5 > 538K
2005 PS2 537,904
PS5 will set a new record for Q4 (>6.08 M)
Multiple sources on Google, one for example: https://www.thurrott.com/games/279989/xbox-series-xs-18-5-million-units-sold
That says 18.5 at the beginning of this month. They did not sell over 1.5m since March 1st.
Others say around 20M https://www.vgchartz.com/article/45...orldwide-hardware-estimates-for-nov-27-dec-3/
So, sales matter.
Never said they didn't. Only that its not as much an accurate metric as it has been before. Which is true.
I thought Xbox was around 20 million near Christmas. If they release all the games they have talked about for this year, and have solid Series S pricing this winter for the holiday, they would probably end 2023 at 30 million.
Sales will always be an accurate and important metric to a company that manufactures and sells a product and services dependent on said product.
