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Forums - Microsoft - Xbox One Sales on the Rise. Almost 10 million consoles shipped!

TheGoldenBoy on 12 November 2014

Good for MS.



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ironmanDX on 12 November 2014

Wahhhh! I don't want to hear this news.



FATALITY on 12 November 2014
thismeintiel said:
Wow, people are really using this PR manipulation of figures to say we have XBO undertracked? And what are you guys thinking? Like we're seriously undertracking it by 1M-2M units?

No, what this is is MS announcing shipped numbers after they have just got most of the stock for Xmas and Black Friday on its way. Of course, if sales don't keep up, instead of slowly falling (at least going by Amazon), then they are going to have a very small shipment number in Q1 2015.


to be fair the sold 2m in last 2 weeks lol



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super_etecoon on 12 November 2014

Sheesh...this is marketing spin 101. The guy says "shortly" it will have shipped 10 million to retailers. That says absolutely nothing. I consider 2015 to be shortly upon us. This could include post holiday shipments as well as they replenish the channel. Using this info as anything other than spin is being a spin doctor yourself. If that is where you find yourself...and are happy, then congrats.

From Microsoft's perspective, this is a good business strategy. As an intelligent, thoughtful reader of corporate spin, taking it at face value is not seeing the whole picture.



Lafiel on 12 November 2014
colafitte said:
Mr_No said:
PotentHerbs said:
Gotta drop that 10 Mill spin before Sony drop that 20 Mill shipped at PS Event!

Oh, that wll arrive; they will announce 20 million shipped, but not now. It's still too early for them to ship too many consoles. It would be bad if they overcumber the market with too many PS4's too early. Q1 2015 maybe.


If Microsoft achieved 10m shipped before December, 20m PS4 shipped by December is a certainty for me, more than ever. In fact, I already said Sony will ship around 21-22m before 2015.

hmm.. I think shipping 18 million PS4s by years end would be great achivement, much more seems pretty unlikely to me unless this holiday sees a serious raise in excitement for the new consoles



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BMaker11 on 12 November 2014

"Compared to the previous week, Xbox One sales in the US have more than tripled, which is exciting as more and more friends will be playing together this holiday. As we head into the busy holiday season Xbox One led generation 8 console sales in the US for the past two weeks"

I remember when I was "called out" for allegedly saying (I didn't say this, btw) that companies knew the definitive amount of units sold per week with minute by minute tracking. I didn't say this, I said that companies can easily go online to check availability. This was when MS PR said XBone was "sold out at major retailers" back in December 2013, and I said that that wasn't true because Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc showed that they had plenty in stock. 

On this page and on this page

But, come to find out, they do have weekly tracking, if they know sales tripled week on week and that XBone is leading Gen 8 hardware for two specific weeks. Man, I love irony. 



DD_Bwest on 12 November 2014

so is this triple referring to cod week?



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manny10032 on 12 November 2014
Xevross said:

Wow, congrats MS.

This says XB1 should be above PS4 in US in the latest week which it isn't on VGChartz. I'm guessing XB1 should be about 90k in the US in the lastest week then. If that's the case, XB1 sold more than 270k in the US week ending 8th. Wowzas

flooding the channel?



thismeintiel on 12 November 2014
manny10032 said:
Xevross said:

Wow, congrats MS.

This says XB1 should be above PS4 in US in the latest week which it isn't on VGChartz. I'm guessing XB1 should be about 90k in the US in the lastest week then. If that's the case, XB1 sold more than 270k in the US week ending 8th. Wowzas

flooding the channel?

Holy shit!!  And I'm guessing that's just one store.  That looks more like the amount they should have in the back and/or warehouse.  Which means, they probably do have even more in the back and in their district's warehouse.  Flooding the channels, indeed.



 

LudicrousSpeed on 12 November 2014

And I thought the salt in the GAF thread was bad, need a calcium channel blocker just to read this thing LOL.

Oh hey huge corporation spins. Breaking news.