Microsoft claims Xbox One sold out worldwide; Retailers beg to differ

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prayformojo said:

shikamaru317 said:

This report is ridiculous. You can't judge a console's sales based on anecdotal evidence from a handful of stores. The fact that it's been consistently sold out at online retailers and the fact that even those local retailers that are reporting having Xbox One's in stock only have a few clearly shows that demand for the Xbox One is quite high.

If it were "quite high", then why didn't one single person bid on my GFs Xbone on Ebay? Check that, not one single VIEW lol. Yeah, that's right. The thing was up there for five days and didn't even get a single view. It was listed for market value, with free shipping. She was planning on getting some extra Christmas money but had to return the thing instead.

 

I think the Xbone will do fine, but it's clearly not in high demand.

I agree with this. I believe XB1 will do fine to some extent, at least in English-speaking countries. MS needs to understand something. They are too Anglo-centric, and do not have a global vision. Their brand awareness is overestimated, most of which was because of price advantage and network effects, which are entirely gone. So, instead of trying to measure up with Sony globally, with over-ambitious unrealistic and insincere goals, MS needs to focus where they are better supported (English speaking world), with a more humble and sincere stance.

Now, though, they are far from that, with their insincere, deceptive, arrogant, manipulative, sinister, and worst of all, badly executed disoriented policies. A benevolent dictator may be better than an incapable elected president, but an incapable dictator is the worst. Microsoft is trying to be a dictator, but is not even capable of being a good one; then don't!