Same here in germany.
I took this picture on saturday (2 days ago).
Went into two different shops.
No PS4 (all sold). Xbones were lying around.
Customers asked about the PS4.
(New shipment around the 13th-16th Dec.)
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"Xbox One smashes sales records" (Australia), more than double Wii launch
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Same here in germany.
I took this picture on saturday (2 days ago).
Went into two different shops.
No PS4 (all sold). Xbones were lying around.
Customers asked about the PS4.
(New shipment around the 13th-16th Dec.)
So you're saying the fact that the XBO "broke all sales records" means for the period leading up to this report which does not include sales figures of PS4's launch?
Chobel
Member
So Microsoft is doing what they want to do? They said it themselves like 3 months ago, they DONT WANT Xbox One to be sold out everyone, they WANT people to be able to walk into the store and just pick it up. Sony stated this as well, except Sony is failing with this. Its not a matter of having no demand or anything, its just everyone who WANTS an Xbox One already bought one, now they're leaving stock for impulse buys and Holiday Shoppers.
Funny how Microsoft is managing to send enough stock to cover this, cause, you know, yield issues.
Again, this is what Microsoft wants. I already have two friends that bought the Xbox One over the PS4 because of how much easier it is to buy the Xbox One over the PS4, while at BestBuy yesterday I saw an old lady with her daughter (who was in her 40s) ask for a PS4 or Xbox One, and got the Xbox One after they said PS4 is out of stock. Microsoft is succeeding as far as they're concerned.
I wish I had your optimism.
Supply and demand isn't a technicality. It's basic business. If you're too inept to supply the demand, you fail at business.
So Microsoft is doing what they want to do? They said it themselves like 3 months ago, they DONT WANT Xbox One to be sold out everyone, they WANT people to be able to walk into the store and just pick it up. Sony stated this as well, except Sony is failing with this. Its not a matter of having no demand or anything, its just everyone who WANTS an Xbox One already bought one, now they're leaving stock for impulse buys and Holiday Shoppers.
Funny how Microsoft is managing to send enough stock to cover this, cause, you know, yield issues.
LOL @ not wanting their console to be sold out. Those stocks are not left behind because MS want to leave some for impulse buyers and holiday shoppers. Their console is just not selling much. There was never at one point where the console got sold out and then got refilled. It was *always* available because there's little to no interest in it. If holiday shoppers want one, those stocks would have been gone by now. But that's not the case at all. EB even have to do a firesale of the Xbone controller now to attract people to buy the console:
Yeah so this article has no idea if that sales record was broken again a week later?
The article does not specifically say that the PS4 sold less than XBO other than mystery industry sources.
I love it. People were starving for next gen.
Red Chocobo
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Isn't this good for Sony?
Hey look it's Bundy in another positive Xbox One thread letting everyone know the Xbox One isn't actually selling. Pack it up, folks. Anecdotal evidence trumps actual sales numbers.
Dead Prince
Banned
It's good but bad that sony can't supply enough.
yes, but the article also includes sources saying the PS4 sold less during its corresponding launch
npd australia is not the source of the article's claims re: PS4 sales. They almost certainly were excluded because they fell outside of the reporting period. Same reason only 3 days of Xbox sales were included
EB Games Australia did say the PS4 launch from than more than double the PS3.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=726820&highlight=
blankempathy
Member
Ps4 breaks records
"yea good job sony you deserve it."
xbox1 breaks records.
"well its because the ps4 is sold out"
"yea good job sony you deserve it."
xbox1 breaks records.
"well its because the ps4 is sold out"
TheRealTalker
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It is over Sony... I know the best way to sell your company give me a call
Goodacre0081
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Speedy Blue Dude
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The salt man. Its weird. :| I don't see this many users go into PS4 sales breaking records and trying to down-talk them. "Lol what a backwards country buying the PS4 over the Xbox One." I know that post here was a joke, but really this thread (which is a celebratory thread) isn't the thread to try and bring these types of things into.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Except that MS didn't announce this, lol.
jim-jam bongs
Member
This is all Tony Abbott's fault.
We secretly like them, at least it means someone is talking about us.
We secretly like them, at least it means someone is talking about us.
I know, right?! Good thing the Wii struggled until 2008 to meet demands. Helped PS360 a lot.
Hey look, it's UNCMark again. Funny guy.
Always hurt if you post (in his opinion) bad news for certain consoles.
Nemesis_
Member
LOL @ not wanting their console to be sold out. Those stocks are not left behind because MS want to leave some for impulse buyers and holiday shoppers. Their console is just not selling much. There was never at one point where the console got sold out and then got refilled. It was *always* available because there's little to no interest in it. If holiday shoppers want one, those stocks would have been gone by now. But that's not the case at all. EB even have to do a firesale of the Xbone controller now to attract people to buy the console:
Umm, both my closest stores confirmed to me earlier this week that they received their second replenishment of stock of consoles today (so three shipments total since launch)
Sure they didn't replenish after the console was sold out, but they still replenished. I guess it depends on what store you go to and how you want to paint this.
Though to paint it as "there's little to no interest" is just the worst end of the hyperbolic spectrum and I literally cannot with this attitude.
It's always fun to discover that the console war is actually a war for some people. Fight on, soldier.
Crocodile Dundee has a Xbox One?
Ban Puncher
Member
So Microsoft is doing what they want to do? They said it themselves like 3 months ago, they DONT WANT Xbox One to be sold out everyone, they WANT people to be able to walk into the store and just pick it up. Sony stated this as well, except Sony is failing with this. Its not a matter of having no demand or anything, its just everyone who WANTS an Xbox One already bought one, now they're leaving stock for impulse buys and Holiday Shoppers.
Funny how Microsoft is managing to send enough stock to cover this, cause, you know, yield issues.
Yes, MS has amazing, near infinite supply and can thus restock every other day to make sure there's always an XB1 on a shelf somewhere.
This makes perfect sense considering they had to cut to 13 countries from 21 for their launch, of course.
Nemesis_
Member
People don't understand that competition is actually a good thing. I've been shocked to find people my age and older actively gunning for both MS to "fail" and exit the console market, and for Nintendo to become a handheld only business.
As if that'll make everything "good". Competition is what you need to breed success and motivation from the companies and manufacturers.
But I am legitimately shocked to find presumed adults wishing for the demise of any of the companies. It's just pathetic and immature.
Maybe not for Nintendo, they don't seem concerned with competition lol
Wrong console says who? Why doesn't Xbox One deserve success? It has a great OS, wide feature set, is innovative, has the best gaming controller of all time, and has the best software at launch of the big 3.
LiquidSolid
Member
So Microsoft is doing what they want to do? They said it themselves like 3 months ago, they DONT WANT Xbox One to be sold out everyone, they WANT people to be able to walk into the store and just pick it up. Sony stated this as well, except Sony is failing with this. Its not a matter of having no demand or anything, its just everyone who WANTS an Xbox One already bought one, now they're leaving stock for impulse buys and Holiday Shoppers.
Funny how Microsoft is managing to send enough stock to cover this, cause, you know, yield issues.
Again, this is what Microsoft wants. I already have two friends that bought the Xbox One over the PS4 because of how much easier it is to buy the Xbox One over the PS4, while at BestBuy yesterday I saw an old lady with her daughter (who was in her 40s) ask for a PS4 or Xbox One, and got the Xbox One after they said PS4 is out of stock. Microsoft is succeeding as far as they're concerned.
This might be the worst possible defence you could come up with.
pants
Member
I'll kickstart this action
Chobel
Member
No sarcasm, right?
Salvor.Hardin
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I've noticed a general lack of understanding of competition on this board. The go-to defence for PS4 dominance seems to revert to the PS2's success and library of games. And I can't begin to explain just how incredibly flawed that logic is.
If we cut loose Australia, the number of hot women with cute accents on the planet will plummet to dangerously low levels.
R3TRODYCE
Member
lmao
There is no logic, it's simply favoritism.
Chobel
Member
Explain to me, PM me if you want. Why should I as consumer care if one console maker failed?
Whiteshirt
Member
I'm not surprised, the price difference is $50 AUD, even less since Microsoft is packing in FIFA which is what every dude in Australia plays anyway.
I have no idea what the PS4 is so expensive in Australia, besides Sony Australia is beyond useless. I've had enough trouble with them regarding high end prosumer hardware where they're basically unable to match US or Europe stock availability for whatever reason.
I have no idea what the PS4 is so expensive in Australia, besides Sony Australia is beyond useless. I've had enough trouble with them regarding high end prosumer hardware where they're basically unable to match US or Europe stock availability for whatever reason.
Ninja Of Chaos
Member
Competition implies someone loses at the end of it.
So, uh, why would wanting a company to fail/lose (due to what a person may perceive as failures by said company), be anti-competition?
Nemesis_
Member
The worse is when I see things like "I wish that Kingdom Hearts wasn't multi platform" or "Why did Dead Rising have to go to Playstation 3 and eventually Wii"?
:/
Wow that's more then I've expected. Makes me really wonder how much of the innitial 1m where sold in mainland europe.
Uk was 250k right?
No numbers on NA? But it has to be at least 600k, right?
That leaves less then 100k for whole mainland europe (the countries it launched in anyways) for the launch weekend.
Edit: So UK was 150k, puts mainland europe below 200k which is reasonable I would say.
Uk was 250k right?
No numbers on NA? But it has to be at least 600k, right?
That leaves less then 100k for whole mainland europe (the countries it launched in anyways) for the launch weekend.
Edit: So UK was 150k, puts mainland europe below 200k which is reasonable I would say.