NPD: Playstation 4 was the Best Selling Console of 2017 in the U.S.

[quickrick]

LipeJJ said:

quickrick said:

The main reason consoles in high demand like wii, ps2, and ps4 have bad first years is stock problems, they launch during the holidays with just stock enough stock to meet launch demand resulting in them not getting real holiday boosts, which is huge. reading your post above that companies will ship more because of the holidays is false, they usually just ship what they can, switch shipments were very similar to ps4 during the holidays 2.74 million for 27 days vs 4.2 for 45 days. 

You just confirmed my point: they ship what they can. And obviously they prepare better simply bc they know demand for launch will be high bc it's on a holiday. 

most of the time they rush the holiday launch, and are not really prepared at all. wii, 360, and ps2,  switch had more stock then those consoles during none holiday launch. ps3 couldn't launch in europe during the holidays because of stock problems. so everything points to being more prepared as being false. ps4 also couldn't launch in japan during the holidays.