Xbox One Pre Orders: Higher Than Xbox 360, Lag Behind PS4

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TheSting said:

Ssliasil said:
I HAAATE Articles like this, for one simple, reason that PISSES ME THE HELL OFF!

Literally every single Xbox support article ***(AKA biased article that was written to try and save some face for the Xbox brand)*** mentions, "NPD numbers show Xbox 360 outselling the PS3 for the 30th straight month"...

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IN THE DAMN USA FOR CHRISTS SAKE! That's misleading, HORRIBLE, and downright pathetic media coverage! The PS3 and Playstation in general is absolutely smashing the 360 WORLDWIDE yet these damned articles act as if the USA is the world and lead the gullible public into thinking the Xbox is absolutely trouncing the Playstation in terms of sales.

It's a good show as to how shitty media really is.

Isn't NPD North America? 

I believe his point is the article doesn't say "top selling home console in North America for the 30th straight month". Don't know if it's bias or just lazy reporting but either way it's misleading to those who only casually follow console sales.  Heck even some of the less well informed members of this forum have occasionally thought that reports of "Xbox 360 outsold PS3 for the month of..." thought that meant globally and that meant VGC numbers were way off for the month.

The other thing the article confuses is whether that's US pre-orders or global pre-orders. They don't contextualise pre-orders per se, they just say Xb one is pre-ordering ahead of 360. They say that US retailers are sold out of the day one edition, and on Amazon too. But Amazon isn't just a US site. I checked amazon.co.uk and it's still taking day one pre-orders, so I assume the sold out at Amazon only means amazon.com. So does that mean the pre-order rate they're talking about is only USA? Or are they conflating the US sold out statement with global pre-orders?

The article is so stupid as to link to Amazon as a reference within the sentence "Microsoft has announced, however, that Xbox One pre-orders are higher at this point". Why didn't it link to Hryb's actual statement, given that's the subject of the sentence, not the Amazon situation?

There's a lot to criticise about the lack of journalistic competence in this article. Including the unsubstantiated (though likely to be true at least on a global scale) claim that PS4 pre-orders are ahead of Xb one. It's actually not even possible for Sony or MS to confirm (if they wanted to) their relaive pre-order numbers, because neither company knows how many units have been made available for day one pre-order, and neither company knows how many units each other will ship in the first 3-6 months.