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DonFerrari said: I just admitted that long term the shortage had little impact, but we are discussing 1st week in UK. You were given link showing that even months after launch it was supply constrained anyway. And I tried to buy a PS4Pro and a PSVR on Washington in April. I found only one refurbished PS4P and one PSVR available to sale and that was 6 months after release so there wasn't plenty available (and of course there wasn't a high demand, just more demand than supply). Yes Switch is on a different league than PS4Pro, but suddenly is X1X in the same league? Because here we are comparing it. You want to say X1X have more demand without anything to backup but others need to be biased not to see? Switch and PS4P were constrained on release so one can't really say if there were more demand or just that X1X had 18 months of marketing (against almost no marketing for PS4P) or just more sales on week 1. Long term I really don't think X1X will outsell PS4P, and there is that small issue of MS not releasing their numbers at all. |
Marketing is part of the whole sale process... I mean if marketing is driving a higher demand, that's just what it is and at the end the demand is higher (or not) but as you pretend the shortage of the Play Station Four Pro is responsible for the not-so-high initial numbers you cannot dismiss the marketing as being one factor for the Xbox One X highest (or not, again, after one week, hard to say). At this point anyway it is really coming to the point where people who are more interested into the Play Station brand could not find any after few weeks anywhere where people like me could see some available at multiple locations... That or we have a very different definition of shortage.
Underline: From where did you even come up with this? I mean, do you even read anything or try to understand my posts or are you just sticking on some keywords? I'm talking about shortage from the start and comparing the Play Station Four Pro and Switch from the start... Not sure where you saw me comparing any Xbox One X shortage (which does not exist) with the Switch or even mentioning the Xbox One X to be in the same league than the Switch.
For me, the Switch situation is what I call a shortage, when no one really can buy it even if they are willing to check other stores (online or street) than one or two in their vicinity. I do not know anyone who could not find a Play Station Four Pro in 1 or 2 weeks at any moment.
