People lead us to believe that the Xbox One wasn't selling by posting random pictures of boxes, but NPD proved them wrong.

The sales guy at my Best Buy says they sell about the same number of PS4 and XB1, give or take a couple, but they sell all the PS4 on Sunday when they come in, and the XB1 just sells steady all week with no supply issues. If people had to show up at a certain time or place to get the XB1 they probably would, but there's no real reason to.

But if they sell the same amount, what difference does it make at this point in the gen? I really don't think anyone is walking into a store wanting an Xbox and then saying "Oh there's too many of them on the shelf. I better not buy it."

How is being outsold by a small margin "dominating"?

We have no idea what the demand is beyond the first few million units.  Take a One Direction concert at  you locla arena.  The first 20,000 tickets sell out in 5 minutes.  It doesn't mean that they could sell an indefinite number of tickets for that show.  (Otherwise they would play giant football stadiums every night or play the same arena for a week straight).  We don't know that there are 10 million cutomers in NA that would buy a PS4 if only the supply were there.  Might be.  But it might be supply +10k instead of supply +10M/  (It's somewhere in between, obviously, but you get the point.)

Sure I did. pbroy said that they should hide XBones to make it look like they're in high demand, so people buy them up thinking they won't get them later. You said that that was dumb.

Then I said that it's not really true about hiding objects to give the illusion of demand and then gave you the gasoline example.

I then said that this doesn't work for consoles. When I said "not really", I was addressing the artificial demand suggestion more so than the XBone itself. That's why I brought up the point that the XBone isn't a commodity. Meaning that people aren't inclined to buy it just because there appears to be less of it. 

I guess I was replying to the both of you, telling pbroy that his suggestion doesn't work in this case but also telling you that artificial demand (in some instances, such as gas) would work for selling a product. 

TL;DR Commodity vs. luxury

Are people still doing this? After 2 months? How many times is MS gonna have to prove that they're selling systems? We get it, there's more X1 supply shipped to stores than PS4.

How?

A console with overshipped supply sold 40k units more than a consoles heavily supply constrained.

I think NPD just proved the oposite... proved them right.

The best selling console this month according to NPD was the Xbox One, not your PS4.

That what I wrote... my PS4 is one unit alone... a console with supply in all US sold 40k more than a console SOLD OUT in all US.

Funny bucause it goes against what your claims

Excellent point as always, Smeggy. Anyone who does anything other than play video games within 24 hours of getting a new system obviously doesn't enjoy it.

Something is clearly very wrong with the PS4.

What's even more funnier is the console that sold less hardware has sold more software:

Some good #NPD SW facts: #XboxOne YTD 2013: 4.8M retail games vs. 4.2M for PS4. COD & BF4 both sold better on #XboxOne.

Some good #NPD SW facts: #XboxOne YTD 2013: 4.8M retail games vs. 4.2M for PS4. COD & BF4 both sold better on #XboxOne.

— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) January 17, 2014