dmillos said:
Hi @Kjartan This was an interesting fact that motivated me to check, Some years it is tough to determine what is the equivalent for this week, I did it with all the weeks that included Christmas eve sales (they must end after the 23rd). Like you mentioned this was a pretty low week in sales in comparison with past years. There seem to be a few others below 1M but this seems to be the lowest after last year. One important comparison is with the launch of the consoles, On the launch of the PS4 and XOne, the two companies combined for over 1.5M basically more than double than this time around. Hopefully this can be fully attributed to low stocks and the companies trying to have a record launch. I might be calculating different weeks than what you did, but in any case your message is very interesting to point out. |
I forgot about 2019, my bad. We have indeed chosen different weeks for 2017 and 2018 but it doesn't really matter in the end since these are still higher than 2020.
Of course the low stock for the new consoles are a factor but I also strongly believe that Xbox but especially Playstation were not agressive enough with XB1/PS4 and that were potential for better sales.
Nontheless I'm not too concerned about their fate for next year, especially if they have stronger software to support the consoles.
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