Well, just a few hours ago, we have gotten November's NPD. MS has sold 909K Xbox Ones in Nov. While this is 200K+ less than the PS4s numbers (according to famousmortimer), it is still a great start for the Xbox One. However, this has got me thinking about MS announcing that they have sold 2M to customers 18 days after launch. This is just 3 days longer than when Sony announced 2.1M to consumers after the PS4's launch. The numbers we have now are making me think that maybe MS was overestimating sales.
Here's a few points:
EU & AU - Sony announced sales of 700K across EU and AU for the first 2 days, while MS announced only AU sales of 66K for the first three days. While we don't have overall One numbers, we do have a few bits of info that point to it not selling as well as the PS4. And there's the fact that EU is very much "Sonyland."
UK - Sony announced they have sold a record 250K in the first 2 days of the launch, while the Xbox One sold 150K in the same time period.
Spain - On Dec 10th, the same end date of MS's 2M, Sony announces that the PS4 has sold 80K in Spain to date. They also say the ratio for the PS4 and Xbox One is 3.5:1, meaning that the One had sold just under 23K in the 18 days since its release.
Now, what I'm not understanding is how is MS selling fewer in several regions in the world, some by quite a bit, yet was able to pretty much catch up to the PS4 with only 3 extra days from its launch. And I don't see them getting enough out to the US to make up for the deficit they must have in EU, seeing as they just recently (like the past few days) got more stock to retailers. So, what do you guys think? Did MS just count shipment numbers as sold, possibly including some they may have just shipped recently. Or is there a region where the Xbox One is doing gangbusters?
