All major online retailers were sold out of PS4 until a couple days ago in the US. The PS4 also had no exclusive retail release that week and no special bundle. If retailers don't have the console for sale on their website it means their supplies are too strapped to spare any. In Amazon's case it means it has absolutely zero.
When people say the PS4 is sold out it means that retailers didn't have any to sell online, which is a big deal, and it wasn't easy to find one in stores. My friend had to take a three hour trip to get one about two weeks ago. We've been through this before just to watch the numbers jump up again when retailers sell the console online once more and yet we still have people who downplay "supply constraints". How many times do you guys want to be wrong?
Then on the X1 side we have this. Titanfall Bundle basically giving away their "trump card" for free and a new retail exclusive releasing. Both were available for most or all of that week and the numbers for the X1 in the US went up by about 6,000 or so? It only managed to be enough to surpass a largely unavailable console that week by around 5,000 in North America? I would think that a very available console that just got a new retail exclusive and a bundle giving away its prized title for free not even managing to move 50,000 that week would be cause for serious concern. Looking at the UK, the situation isn't any better.
I was expecting a much larger boost for the X1 than this with all things considered.
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