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thismeintiel on 14 May 2015
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RolStoppable said:
theprof00 said:
Wow, really surprising. I wonder what it means.
Just theorizing here but we have
~200k ps4 Jan
~330k ps4 Feb
~330k ps4 Mar
~175k ps4 April?

Is there a shortage somewhere? That's almost half of last month. How many consoles were preordered for Batman?

Last year there was also a steep decline from March to April and the PS4 went on to have many sub-200k months. So it's neither shortages nor Batman.

Xbox One did better this April than in last year's April and it's pretty clear that the two consoles work as substitutes for each other. Xbox going up means PlayStation goes down.

Don't you think you should wait til June's numbers before coming to that conclusion?  I mean if they had opened up the pre-orders 6+months ago, you'd probably be right.  But considering that it was only a mere two months from launch, I have no doubt many decided to pre-order the Batman bundle and wait, instead of buying a PS4 in April.