DerNebel on 24 December 2013
| dandd said: I don't think MS made a mistake. Keep up with demand in the biggest market in the world. How many sales did Sony delay or lose because people were able to find an XBO and not a PS4? Perhaps we will see a reversal from last gen. The PS3 started slowly and then built momentum over time. Maybe the XBO will also continue to build momentum. Right now, neither system has a must have game. XBO has Ryse, Forza and DR3 and the PS4 has Killzone. I really want to see what kind of impact Titanfall has when it is released. I think that game will be the first system seller on the market for either system. If MS markets the game right, I believe it can move a lot of systems with Titanfall. |
The problem is that MS seems to have completely overestimated demand in the US, look at the link in the OP, compare the X1 with the other consoles, every console is sold out almost everywhere only the X1 is ridiculously easy to find according to this site. This alone shows how MS (and also retailers) misjudged the demand and completely stuffed the channels. All those units lying on the shelves on the 24th could easily be of more use to MS if they had allocated them to a couple more countries, they wouldn't have lost a single sale in the US because of this.
