shikamaru317 said:
Yes I'm dead serious. Xbox One has been sold out out every time I've checked US online retailers since about mid June, and it's also sold out at my local Walmart, Target, and Gamestop retail stores. Meanwhile, look at the Xbox One NPD numbers from earlier this year:
XB1 was up YoY for 3 months straight, selling extremely well due to the corona lockdown boost. Then it sold out in mid June, causing it to be down YoY for June. It never got a proper restock in July, and it still hasn't gotten a proper restock in August. So, the question is, why would MS suddenly drastically slow production on Xbox One around about late May? Well, according to a leak in mid May, Xbox Series production began in May. It makes logical sense that the reason why MS isn't producing many Xbox One units anymore, even though it was up YoY in March-May, is because they have converted most of the Xbox One S production lines over to making Series S units. Meanwhile, Xbox One X has officially been discontinued now, so it's safe to say that the Xbox One X production lines have been converted over to making Series X units. |
Your timeline matches up perfectly. It is blatantly obvious that MS has simply slowed the supply chain way down. I’m sure some are ignoring the obvious for console warz, but maybe some of them don’t live in the US and don’t understand how barren the shelves have been for months. I haven’t seen an Xbone of any kind in months. Even controllers seem to never be in stock. Online retailers only offer massively overpriced units from vendors. This is assuming the 17k number is right, for all we know it could be 117k. But I’d wonder where the fuck those 117k were that sold, I sure haven’t seen any.
You can also get great TIV for all consoles right now, including Xbone, which goes to show how slow the supply chain must be. Normally Xbone consoles have poor TIV.
There was also a Xbox One Series S v2 leak recently at Target.
Last edited by LudicrousSpeed - on 17 August 2020
