Xbox One production may slow down or stop to give retailers a chance to shift inventory

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McGran said:

Puppyroach said:
Wasn't Sony's original predictions 5mn shipped PS4 by end of march, and everyone saw that at the time as a great achievement. Sony crushed their prediction, yet MS reach that mark, and people think that is bad? A drawback in production, isn't that quite common for the april-June quarter?

Not sure everyone thought it would be a great achievement but it did at least let us know the benchmark for success Sony was setting itself.  In hindsight, given the actual performance, it looks like quite a soft target.  Therefore from today's perspective it doesn't look that great for MS even though they achieved the target Sony had set.

Yes it's a bit harsh on MS since they are performing well and are still tracking ahead of the X360.  It's just the PS4 has set the new benchmark for success and Xbone can't match it right now, so by comparison it looks bad.  It's not unique to gaming, it's just human nature.  If your football team is having its best season ever that's great, but if they're still trailing far behind their local rivals it's just not going to seem that great after all.

Sony has never used shipped numbers for the performance of the PS4, they did with the PS3 I believe.

That being said, their prediction was 5 million SOLD, not shipped by March. It is April 25 and MS is still sub 5 million sold.