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

[Pionner]

RolStoppable said:

Pionner said:  

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.

I don't think VGC has to worry about making adjustments because that's what constantly happens. "PS5 sales should be higher" has been a common theme through most of 2021, but the single-biggest adjustment to PS5 sales ended up being a downward adjustment.

Using Sony's 2m forecast is certainly a better point of reference for global sales than observing restocks in a single country. The few official sales numbers and tidbits we got from January suggest that Sony has been focusing on the USA early in the year while leaving parts of Europe dry. But there's no guarantee that that will be Sony's strategy through the entire quarter.

They were suppose to ship 6.5M PS5 in the holiday quarter. Which would of brought the PS5 to over 20M sold. We all know why that didn't happen and they only managed to sell 3.9M. That was out of Sony's control so i don't why you're bringing that up as if PS5 sales were down because of demand or something. PS5 sales should of been higher based off demand and Sony's sales estimates. So that "common theme" is correct.        

I like how everybody is ignoring January where sales estimates, from everyone, were completely off. Again, nobody expected PS5 to sell the most. "Low stock" and "shortages" didn't matter. Those 3 restocks were more than enough for PS5. SS is always in stock and it couldn't make up for lack of SX sales. Which tells that the demand for that console is not there.

Using the 2M forecast is a terrible point of reference to base weekly sales on cause if Sony ships just 500K more by March 31st then weekly sales estimates will be out of whack.

January sales should teach people enough.