With Wii, the Sunday morning hype events lasted about 18 straight months. It was insane.
Agreed. The One has consistently been available as Microsoft has provided a steady stream to meet demand. They are most certainly manufacturing more than the competition. December NPD is where The One will leave it's mark.
I'm not used to monitoring sales during console launches, but is it normal for the demand/supply issues to not be ironed out, even come January, when people normally buy the least? I said January NPD, because I thought that would be when we'd stop seeing supply constraints since it's not the holiday season. Not trying to say NPD is an end to anything.
And also, it goes without saying, I'm speaking about US demand. I can't believe people in this thread *cough*TommyManberg*cough* are equating US=World in this supply analysis. Sheesh.
Fastest selling console has been in stock at Best Buy for 60 hours now.So, BestBuy.com has Xbox One's and bundles in stock right now.
All PS4's are sold out though.
Holy shit at all the fanboy warfare in this thread....
The PS4 isn't goin to outsell the XB1 3:1 this holiday season( in the US), and there is demand for both, just a lil' more hype at retail for the system that is $100 cheaper, and that is the only real reason. From talking to thousands of people at the retail level, nobody knows the difference, only some of the reviews and the commercials, 1080 vs 720 doesn't mean anything either. The economy still sucks and it's cheaper.... All about price for many parents that want to hook their kids up.
Both systems are selling great, which we should all be happy with a healthy industry.
Both systems have been flying off the shelves and selling out at retail and will throughout the week until after Christmas. I'm more interested to see how many more stores get PS4s again this Sun., as they seem to be really pumping them out every Sun. the last couple weeks.. Best Buy is saying it's their turn again this weekend...
You're acting like $100 difference is not that big of a deal. I would say that $100 difference alone is major. That, and the fact that MS hasn't been able to shake the stink of E3 off successfully. I mean, I still hear people talk about the used games thing! I would think PS4 will sell way more this holiday. And that's not a fanboy thing to say. I'm just sharing my opinion.
Not at all, why do you ask? I think you may have not gotten the joke?Um. U mad, bro? :/
I dunno. You sitting at your comp, rechecking the availability by the hour? :/
Xbox One is incredibly easy to get online. It helps people who are looking for one, to know that.That much is obvious. Still, let's try and keep this thread even tangentially informative for those interested in finding either console.
Holy shit at all the fanboy warfare in this thread....
The PS4 isn't goin to outsell the XB1 3:1 this holiday season( in the US), and there is demand for both, just a lil' more hype at retail for the system that is $100 cheaper, and that is the only real reason. From talking to thousands of people at the retail level, nobody knows the difference, only some of the reviews and the commercials, 1080 vs 720 doesn't mean anything either. The economy still sucks and it's cheaper.... All about price for many parents that want to hook their kids up.
Both systems are selling great, which we should all be happy with a healthy industry.
Both systems have been flying off the shelves and selling out at retail and will throughout the week until after Christmas. I'm more interested to see how many more stores get PS4s again this Sun., as they seem to be really pumping them out every Sun. the last couple weeks.. Best Buy is saying it's their turn again this weekend...
Xbox One is incredibly easy to get online. It helps people who are looking for one, to know that.
And it's incredibly easy to know how long it's been in stock without having to monitor every hour.
If US is really that thirsty for Xbone, MS can always divert our seemingly never-ending stock in Australia:
http://www.ebgames.com.au/
Wow , a $100 mark up for the xbone. No wonder they are in stock there.
That's actually 99¢ below the suggested retail price in Australia.Wow , a $100 mark up for the xbone. No wonder they are in stock there.
Wow , a $100 mark up for the xbone. No wonder they are in stock there.
It's becoming increasingly clear over the course of the day that people are, again, getting emotionally invested in whichever console sells out or sells through. It's, frankly, a little disappointing to watch another thread slowly devolve into a dickwaving contest by proxy. I think we will need an official availability thread that eschews the sales wars bullshit for actual tangible info. As such, people won't feel the need to "come to bat" for their chosen plastic box of choice.
m0dus said:Um. U mad, bro? :/
It's becoming increasingly clear over the course of the day that people are, again, getting emotionally invested in whichever console sells out or sells through. It's, frankly, a little disappointing to watch another thread slowly devolve into a dickwaving contest by proxy. I think we will need an official availability thread that eschews the sales wars bullshit for actual tangible info. As such, people won't feel the need to "come to bat" for their chosen plastic box of choice.
Eh but PS4 has a $150 mark up in Australia and its sold out.....
I don't think Australia was allocated very large quantities of stock. It certainly didn't beat the X1's biggest console launch in history
It's herd behavior, you know? It's just one of those less-than-endearing features of humanity that you can't change without the physical equivalent of "coding to the metal", our cognitive levels were always a bit of a stopgap solution, what with having the high-speed, low-bandwidth priority overrides for the reptilian hindbrain rather than the sort of unified access cognition that would be better off for modern living, to say nothing for how much more efficiently we could operate if we weren't designed to trigger off visual cues that largely have lost relevance to our modern living conditions, causing any number of false positives and failures to recognize important input.
I daresay that it all happens at such a completely subliminal level that we display our crude biases without even being aware we're doing so!
Gamestop: Can't check availability due to work firewall.
My store got 9 each of XBO and PS4, opened at 8 am. By 10 am all the PS4s were gone and we had 10 XBOs
... annecdotal but make of it what you will
My Target store got 9 each of XBO and PS4, opened at 8 am. By 10 am all the PS4s were gone and we had 10 XBOs
... annecdotal but make of it what you will. Didn't really expect another shipment, this is the third in 4 weeks. Maybe shortages will be short lived?
It's herd behavior, you know? It's just one of those less-than-endearing features of humanity that you can't change without the physical equivalent of "coding to the metal", our cognitive levels were always a bit of a stopgap solution, what with having the high-speed, low-bandwidth priority overrides for the reptilian hindbrain rather than the sort of unified access cognition that would be better off for modern living, to say nothing for how much more efficiently we could operate if we weren't designed to trigger off visual cues that largely have lost relevance to our modern living conditions, causing any number of false positives and failures to recognize important input.
I daresay that it all happens at such a completely subliminal level that we display our crude biases without even being aware we're doing so!
Either that or the 9 got sold and they restocked 10 morelol is this real?
Someone returned an XB1 and no one bought one?
Hilarious if true
lol is this real?
Someone returned an XB1 and no one bought one?
Hilarious if true
I think it's less the content of the message, and more the delivery .
I think you missed the point of that little joke.
It's becoming increasingly clear over the course of the day that people are, again, getting emotionally invested in whichever console sells out or sells through. It's, frankly, a little disappointing to watch another thread slowly devolve into a dickwaving contest by proxy. I think we will need an official availability thread that eschews the sales wars bullshit for actual tangible info. As such, people won't feel the need to "come to bat" for their chosen plastic box of choice.
Wow , a $100 mark up for the xbone. No wonder they are in stock there.
Other proposed names included more exotic suggestions such as the austral, the oz, the boomer, the roo, the kanga, the emu, the digger, the kwid, the dinkum and the ming (Menzies's nickname).
Honest and true, our team leads were cracking up about it. To be fair to the xbo we did sell a few by the time my shift was over. Larger investment and bad press will slow the sales, but MS will (probably) fix most issues and time will erase early pains.
Haha. That seems like a bullshit answer from an employee sick of getting calls asking if PS4 is in stock. I mean, really, their firewall prevents them from accessing their corporate VPN? WTF.
Polo67 was right. Microsoft has mastered supplying shipments by mitotic reproduction. Flawless.My god xbox ones are experiencing uninhibited exponential growth.
All this tells me is that Microsoft's retail strategy is a lot smarter than Sony's. As a result of smart planning and concentrating on tier one countries like North America, they actually have the supply to meet the demand and are therefore in a very enviable position. I wouldn't be surprised to see them sweep December's NPDs. Sony is learning a tough lesson about what good is having a more powerful, cheaper system if you don't have enough of them to sell and they're really starting off this generation on a bad foot.
Also always wondered why their currency is AU dollars and not AU pounds. Anyone?
edit: because of decimalisation apparently. Weird.
So did someone return an X1? In exchange for a PS4 perhaps?
Where did the tenth unit come from? I must know...
Not just the decimalisation. It had something to do with the Spanish dollar (which the US dollar is based on) being quite a popular trading currency all around the world, including several common wealth nations.