PS4 and ONE. The wisdom of 33 countries versus 13.

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Captain_Tom on 17 September 2014

This is a funny flashback post. What the OP didn't realize is that focusing on too few territories at once can over-saturate markets. That is exactly what happened, and one of the reasons that the Xbox Ones sales dropped off a cliff. However Sony created a situation in MORE territories where people were climbing over each other to the consoles due to insanely high demand.

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thismeintiel on 17 September 2014

Captain_Tom said:
This is a funny flashback post. What the OP didn't realize is that focusing on too few territories at once can over-saturate markets. That is exactly what happened, and one of the reasons that the Xbox Ones sales dropped off a cliff. However Sony created a situation in MORE territories where people were climbing over each other to the consoles due to insanely high demand.

Well, the One's problem wasn't excess supply. It was low demand after the initial few weeks. What MS should have done was take all those unsold XBO's in EU and spread them out to other regions. It would have helped their weekly sales a little, plus make it so they didn't have to announce they were slowing down production so retailers could sell the 100Ks of unsold XBOs. That announcement made their situation look worse.

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Madword on 17 September 2014

thismeintiel said:

Captain_Tom said:
This is a funny flashback post. What the OP didn't realize is that focusing on too few territories at once can over-saturate markets. That is exactly what happened, and one of the reasons that the Xbox Ones sales dropped off a cliff. However Sony created a situation in MORE territories where people were climbing over each other to the consoles due to insanely high demand.

Well, the One's problem wasn't excess supply. It was low demand after the initial few weeks. What MS should have done was take all those unsold XBO's in EU and spread them out to other regions. It would have helped their weekly sales a little, plus make it so they didn't have to announce they were slowing down production so retailers could sell the 100Ks of unsold XBOs. That announcement made their situation look worse.

Yeah regardless of the countries they distributed in, the exccitement/hype for it hasnt been that great, and I suspect though they would have benefited from more users initially would still be seeing a big drop off.

I think at the time it might have seemed like a good plan, Sony is spreading thin, we can sell more in the USA and get ahead of them there and build up some steam, what they didnt know was that more people wanted a PS4.

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Fusioncode on 17 September 2014

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DonFerrari on 17 September 2014

And they were Tier 2 because of language support not because they are insignificant in units moved right? At least I heard this a lot.

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thismeintiel on 17 September 2014

Madword said:

Yeah regardless of the countries they distributed in, the exccitement/hype for it hasnt been that great, and I suspect though they would have benefited from more users initially would still be seeing a big drop off.

I think at the time it might have seemed like a good plan, Sony is spreading thin, we can sell more in the USA and get ahead of them there and build up some steam, what they didnt know was that more people wanted a PS4.

That and Sony was actually quite good at making them quickly. It was really only Dec-Jan that they fell really behind because of the crazy demand for it in other countries.