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derpysquirtle64 said:
curl-6 said:

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

Xbox One was selling at baseline of 40k consoles per week for the last two-three years. Increasing the production lines to be able to produce 200-300k consoles per week is extremely expensive and is not gonna achieve anything except getting consoles straight out to those people who are spreading set on buying it anyway. The second factor is the components. I don't think I need to explain that AMD provides more chips to Sony than to Microsoft because of the last gen consoles sales. And I think you don't even need to be a top industry analyst to come to the conclusion that the demand for PS5 is higher than for Xbox Series X|S.

I get that demand is obviously lower for Xbox, but with Series numbers this low yet the Series X at least apparently all sold out, it just seemed striking that the current numbers were all they could muster, unless they're not even trying to meet demand and just figuring they'll cruise on hardcore early adopters for the moment and make more consoles once they start getting some actual games out the door.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 14 February 2021