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trunkswd said:
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Sony has more manufacturing lines than Microsoft does.  Plus Sony had PS5 manufacturing lines up and running 2 or 3 months sooner than Microsoft did with Xbox Series X|S. 

eva01beserk said:
trunkswd said:

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That just brings the question of why they where late or have less manufacturing lines?

With the resourses MS has manufacturing lines at least this can only be by choice. Lets just remember that by this time last gen the xbox was stocked everywhere and ps4 hard to find. Dont think this can be answerd as simoly as sony was more prepared. We are talking about multi billion dollar companies here that spend a ton on market research. 

RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

If both are sold out, why does Xbox Series have so much less supply than PS5?

Because Microsoft planned with smaller production than Sony to begin with. For years the PS4 has outsold the XB1 by a ratio of more than 2:1, so the XSX|S's current supply is looking okay in comparison to the PS5.


Another thing that could help Sony compared to MS is the higher number of SoC per wafer, as it chose to use in its SoC a significantly smaller GPU running at higher frequency. This obviously just affects periods of components shortages, but as soon as the supply chain will return to normality, all and only the other factors will influence production and sales.



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