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greenmedic88 on 02 January 2014
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g911turbo said:
greenmedic88 said:
The XB1 doesn't seem to be supply constrained at this time.

I'm not going to keep checking the tracking sites, but post Christmas in NA, the only way to buy a PS4 was through Ebay and there were plenty of XB1s available through most retail outlets.

The XB1 is currently in stock at Amazon and the PS4 is currently going for over $500 through resellers only.

We'll see how long stock issues persist with the PS4. I am a bit surprised to see the XB1 readily available this early. I had predicted both would be sold out/fast sellers at retail as late as March. Clearly this is not the case for the XB1, making the sales trends a bit easier to see clearly in terms of demand rather than supply constraint.

Still too early to be making any open declarations about how sales will continue to develop.

My understanding is that another large shipment of PS4s will be incoming this weekend.

We'll see. If so, it means a potential big bump in sales, which will be reflected about two weeks from now in the VGC numbers.

Mostly I'm curious to see when the initial demand for the PS4 has been met and regular consumers will be able to simply just buy one at retail, or through Amazon at a time of their choosing. 

Once that happens, then there will be a better indicator of the real demand for each platform without supply constraints to muddy the picture. 

I haven't seen one on shelves yet. I've had one opportunity since launch to buy one, which was the half day Amazon had them in stock about a week or so back (almost bought a second one on impulse).