forevercloud3000 said:
gergroy said:
| forevercloud3000 said:
IDK man, slight is not how I would describe it. Most of the Industry Analysts I have seen are going with Pre Order Sales Data, Trending searches, etc. And they all point ot PS4 selling at least double XBO numbers. When they have garnered a couple millions under their belt by December's end it will become obvious to the broad public which one to jump to because like the lemmings the common consumers are they will go with whats most popular. Not saying XBO numbers will be bad by any standard, just not nearly as good as PS4's. Not to mention Sony can simply sell to far more countries than MS whose strongest features will not be ready in many for a while. Japan launch early 2014 I believe and at that point PS4 will have a market that MS obviously cannot touch. US is XBO's only fortress of solitude and its not looking like they will have that same lead.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/25/xbox-one-ps4-will-each-ship-25-to-3-million-in-2013-says-analyst
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425191,00.asp
There is a couple of articles about the most recent analysts talking about sales of the two. Any recent analysis points to a slight edge for one of the other. The only reports i could find saying more than 2 to 1 for ps4 is from before the x1 was before the 180.
It doesn't matter if you can sell in more countries if you are supply constrained. Demand for these consoles is such that their sales will be determine by supply for well into next year. I have no doubt the ps4 will sell more in the long run, but initially it will be fairly close.
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But what I am saying is Sony simply has the ability to ship more than MS at the moment. It could change but the reason MS can't has something to do with yields. Sony is releasing in more territories right off the bat, if you had MS and Sony only able to ship at the the same exponential rate, selling out each time before being replenished, Sony ends up gaining a sizable lead in no time.
Example(Hypothetical): PS4 has 25 Countries x Z # of Consoles (x4 shipments before years End)
will still forever come to more than....
XBO has 10 Countries x Z # of COnsoles (x4 shipments before years End)
With the general rule that all or most of the 10 COuntries coincide within the 25 Countries.
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?? are you suggesting the number of countries has something to do with the number of consoles being produced?? that doesn't make any sense. You don't ship a fixed variable of a console to each country. The amount of countries the system is available in has abosutely nothing to do with supply.
The reason microsoft is launching in fewer countries has to do with xbox live and kinect speech support, has nothing to do with production supply. The countries the x1 is launching in will actually get bigger shipments than the ps4 initially if they are matched in production ability, of course, almost all of the launch supply of both consoles will be coming to north america...
