Should we be umimpressed with XB1's 1 million sales, or super amazed with PS4 sales?

[DonFerrari]

Capulous said:

DonFerrari said:

Not downplaying their oppening... just the argument is that If Sony decided to release on all 30+ regions they said they will (sum of Nov 15 and 29) they would have sold just 1M (which is assuming that they send all their inventory that were ready for Nov 15 to NA), when in fact as you said they already had stock separeted to EU+others... So if they released "WW" on Nov 15 they would have sold 1.5~2M no doubt... We are seeing downplay from both sides.

Why would 1 million Xbox 1 sales be less than 1 million PS4 sales? Xbox 1 basically sold out of their initial stock. If Sony decided to launch in multiple countries, they would probably sell out their initial stock as well. This is why people are saying that the current stock cannot match the demand during launch. The downplaying comes when people are saying that the Xbox 1 sales are less impressive because they launch in more territories than the PS4. That is ridiculous because the current sales are mainly limited by the supply.  I haven't seen any say that PS4 would have sold only 1 million if they launch in multiple countries.

If PS4 has more supply than the Xbox 1, then of course it is going to sell more at launch. So no, people saying that sales numbers are supplied constraint are not downplaying PS4 sales.

Well, maybe you haven't read all posts in the thread, but there are people that said Sony would sell 1M even WW because that is ALL THE INVENTORY THEY HAD (and that is why they delayed the launch to EU 2 weeks from the beggining)... and yes anyone that say that for 1 day sales the supply wasn't the determining factor is a lot crazy... probably haven't had one launch were supply wasn't the problem to have bigger numbers... the only difference this time is that supply was a lot bigger than in previous gen.