January NPD 2023 Thread - PS5 #1, NS #2, XS #3 - Dead Space #2

[DonFerrari]

Farsala said:

DonFerrari said:

I haven't been following montlhy sales as through as I did last gen. But I do remember last gen people faulted X1 sales on the rocky start and lousy reveal, when in the end their first years were better than the ones after they made the corrections (which basically nulls the claims of why X1 was being outsold by PS4). Series also seemed to start a lot stronger than X1, but seems like it will be heading same direction of X1 which is odd for me considering that Series S is generally on low stock and X mostly sold out (I had the impression demand was a lot stronger and with MS improving manufacturing capabilities I expected healthy increases in sales instead of the decrease in USA and now europe).

X1 was highly competitive with the PS4 in the early years. This is despite the forced bundling of the Kinect. The reason being of course is that they had a decent software lineup in the first year or 2. However the PS4 trucked along with more software releases while eventually the support for X1 dried up. MS found this to be a huge issue and they are trying to dig themselves out of this hole with money.

That is also my understanding. X1 problem wasn't the poor reveal, tv, tv, tv, forced kinect, more expensive or less powerful (also the reason why X1X didn't really outsold PS4Pro when both launched). The problem was after the first couple years the games didn't come (as they didn't on the end life of X360) coupled with PS4 really doing everything ok to right and having the games so it followed a general "ps curve".