src said:
Well there you go. Because PS and XB are the with sets with the least overlap (largely due to their third party support). PS2+XB = 175M PS3+360 = 170-180M PS4+XB1 = 170M If Playstation makes gains, it usually means Xbox loses out. Its far more likely that's the case than the overall set for both growing substantially. What people do not understand about stock. The stock they get from TSMC is decided on their sales potential. There's a reason Sony was given 16M chips and XB 8M. That's the sales expectations. Furthemore, PS5 is stock constrained while selling 16M. XB is stock constrained while selling 8M. All while PS5's have higher resale value. This tells you about expected and received demand. |
As mnementh said, following your logic, PS5 should sell worse than PS4. Because even if these numbers provided by Ampere are correct (Xbox selling 6.7m), it still is ahead of what Xbox One did at the same point in time. According to VGC it was at 6m by the end of September 2014. And you seem to contradict yourself by the end of your post by mentioning stock, claiming that both consoles sell as much as the manufacturers can produce. What's the point to evaluate demand based on sales at this point, then?
