Switch and PS5 Sales Drop, XS Sales are Flat - Global Hardware Jan 30-Feb 5

[Pionner]

aTokenYeti said:

Pionner said:

Ok but the SS doesn't make up that much for SX sales. SS has been in stock for months.

As someone who has worked in retail, I can tell you that something being in stock all the time does not at all mean that it’s struggling to sell, at least not necessarily. Our highest volume items would get weekly and sometimes daily stock replenishment. 

The overwhelming majority of current Xbox sales are going to be the Series S precisely because it is on store shelves when nothing else is 

My point is January NPD proves the SS is not selling that well enough to make up for when SX is out of stock. Nobody expected PS5 to sell the most January. SS is always available and a simple restock makes PS5 win NPD. I expect this to happen for many months this year. 

eva01beserk said:

Pionner said:

Ok but the SS doesn't make up that much for SX sales. SS has been in stock for months.

I'm thinking the ss was only in demand during the hollidays as people really needed anything at all. Now we are back to it being in readyly available everywhere. Its the only console ive ever seen in a store. I also dont get why they insist on having the xbox in the us above the ps5. 

Yeah the holidays is one thing. Outside that SS is the least demand next gen console. Again, January shows it's not enough to beat a low stock PS5.

Wouldn't be surprised if the February 10th restock alone already outsold the SS.   

RolStoppable said:

There's not much of a point in fighting over PS5 sales on a regular basis. Sony announced that they plan to ship 2.0 million units this quarter, divided by 13 weeks you get 154k on average. When VGC shows right around that number globally, all you can complain about is the regional breakdown. But that's moot when any sales you want to be added somewhere have to be taken away elsewhere.

2.0m is a minimum figure, but this is the final quarter of the fiscal year. The margin of error is traditionally slim during this timeframe, so PS5 sell-through will remain modest for the time being. 

If you're going to base PS5 weekly numbers on the 2M estimate, then vgchartz will be doing some major adjustments in the coming weeks, months, leading up to the next financial report.

aTokenYeti said:

Maybe I’m not being fair or charitable but I still don’t really understand why so many posters here still want to question VGcharts numbers and methods when:

* they have been more accurate than most other estimates, including big firms like Ampere
* why even post here if you think the numbers are bunk

I'm only asking the reason for the weekly sales numbers when actuallity bares something different. Nobody is saying the sites numbers are useless or fake.