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Zippy6 on 21 March 2023
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shikamaru317 said:
Zippy6 said:

We don't really know how much PS5 is beating the Xbox Series in last couple of months in the UK. Yes PS5 has received massive gains YoY but we don't know how far behind it was last year where Xbox won Jan/Feb 2022. It's definitely not as bad as 5:1 though.

Absolute worse case scenario for Xbox in February (assuming they only outsold PS5 by 1 unit last year) is 3.6:1, can't work out January unfortunately as no Xbox YoY data but as PS5 improved 98% in January and not 316% like February it's probably close to 2:1 at worst.

Don't know if there's anyway to see UK estimates for VGChartz anymore. It's on the legacy weekly charts but that's it.

You're right they should be looking at trends though.

I may have been thinking about US instead of UK with the 5:1. The gap has been dismal here. If you follow Welfare on twitter, an independent console sales tracker, his tracking has shown Xbox stock in the US falling off a cliff at the same time that PS5 stock is skyrocketing. Something catastrophic seems to have happened to Xbox production. 

That is a roughly 9:1 gap he is tracking in the US for March NPD. He notes that it's not a demand issue, Series X is very much so still high in demand, it's only Series S that isn't selling well at the current price, but for some reason Xbox just aren't making anywhere near enough Series X stock still. Phil needs to correct this and fast. It's time for the first official price cut on S, and time for Xbox to sign some huge chipset production contracts for Series X. 

Just to follow up on this after what Trunks said (100+, 500+, 1000+) the numbers are like this after 23 days of march.

Xbox Series X/S: Between 6,500 and 29,443 sales
PS5: Over 48,000 sales

Series S = Between 4,300 and 21,457 sales
Series X = Between 2,200 and 7,986 sales

In Feb after 23 days the Xbox Series minimum was 21,600 over triple this months minimum. I mean there is the chance that all those 100+ are actually 499 to get that 29,443 maximum but it's very unlikely.

Series X stock in USA is shameful.

Last edited by Zippy6 - on 21 March 2023