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What is the Highest Position Switch Will Reach?

The Number One Spot 9 31.03%
 
Second is Good Enough 15 51.72%
 
Third isn't Too Shabby 5 17.24%
 
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DonFerrari on 16 October 2021
Pemalite said:
DonFerrari said:

Fair point.  But at least on my thinking I always thought something like 2/3 X, 1/3 S for Xbox and 1/5 Digital and 4/5 Physical for PS5 at least in the start. During gen if one or another  makes more success sure production will increase accordingly to that.

Brazil would be a "low income nation" if we look at per capita, and even here for some reason (GP seems like very successful and Ultimate for Cloud as well) the Series S is also the one that is regularly available in stores while the other 3 is like one batch a month on sale for 2h. I don't think there were ever a gen like this, even gen 7 it was only Wii that was constrained for such a long time. Gen 8 Xbox was constrained only on the Holiday launch, but in January was already possible to find in stores (some countries even had day one editions in March), PS4 had been on regular supply by April or so in most countries and Switch was like 1 year more or less of constrained. I'm really curious to see if AMD boss was right with the second semester of 2022 having the consoles not being supply constrained anymore and how everything will change with that (distribution per models, per region, and gap between plaftorms in those regions and WW).

I would not be surprised if supply constraints continue into 2023... Fabs don't get built super quickly unfortunately... But once we head into 2024 and 2025, we will have an influx of fab capacity, which should place downward price pressures with some luck.

AMD's wafer supply could continue to be eaten up by GPU (Radeon, FirePro etc') and CPU (Ryzen 6000 series with extra 3D cache.) in 2023.
Remember TSMC's biggest customer (Apple) moved on from 7nm and that freed capacity didn't improve supply constraints on CPU's, GPU's and APU's much... So a late 2022 could see improved capacity, but I would imagine supply constraints would definitely continue to exist as new state of the art fabs haven't come online... The bet is for other markets to move from 7nm to 5nm, giving more capacity to the consoles.

Plus consoles need more than just the APU, they do need GDDR6 memory chips, NAND chips, NAND Controller (With Ram), Optical drive controller (With Ram), South Bridge, Powersupply components and IC's, Ethernet controller, Regulators, Capacitors, Resistors, LED's and more.

Any shortage on one of those components will hold back the production of consoles.

Ironically, this is one instance where Nintendo's insistence of using older/outdated technology has paid off in spades.

I would guess by 2023 or 2024 even Series and PS5 will have already moved to a smaller node so the 7nm being freed won't help much =[



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DroidKnight on 16 November 2021

PS5 shifts GameGear a spot down to 23rd whilst claiming the 22nd spot. Not to be outshined, Xbox Series has claimed the 24th position knocking the Atari 7800 down to 25th. The gap between the PS5 and Xbox Series continues to grow.



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Kakadu18 on 16 November 2021

Shifting Gears, lol. Good one.



DroidKnight on 07 December 2021

North American positions as of November 27th 2021.

               

There was no change as of yet, but there are some notable mentions.  There is a good chance PS5 will be overtaking the WiiU next week and then it will begin its long climb to the GameCube.

For the last 3 weeks the Xbox Series has begun to eat away at the lead the PS5 has held over it.  The lead was stretched to approx. 1.2 million at one point and has now been diminished to below a million.

Xbox Series is creeping up on the GameGear, but it is not certain it will surpass it next week.

The Switch continues to inch its way closer to the PS4, but the month that it overtakes it is still not clear.



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super_etecoon on 07 December 2021

is keeping us well apprised of the pole positions of the three active racers...oh wait, wrong thread, nevermind



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DroidKnight on 21 December 2021

Chart pics have been updated to December 11th 2021.

The Xbox Series consoles have moved up a position to take over the 23rd spot, bumping the GameGear down to 24th.

With the adjustments made to hardware sales numbers it slowed the Xbox Series upward progress by just a bit, but really affected the progress of the PS5.

Originally thought the PS5 would overtake the Wii U last week, but lack of stock and adjustments resulted in it's failure to do so. Maybe next week?

Notable mention:  The gap between the Xbox Series and the PS5 has been reduced to 690,000.  

We still have 3 more December weeks with some consoles receiving massive inventory restocks. 



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m0ney on 21 December 2021

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d21lewis on 21 December 2021

I think we get a repeat of the 7th gen. Xbox wins NA. PlayStation wins the world.



JackHandy on 21 December 2021
d21lewis said:

I think we get a repeat of the 7th gen. Xbox wins NA. PlayStation wins the world.

Yeah, a lot of people don't know this but, the 360 beat the Wii in NA which is pretty shocking to say the least. When you think about how much of a pop-culture phenomenon the Wii was, it's hard to believe anything could top it. But it happened.



eva01beserk on 22 December 2021
d21lewis said:

I think we get a repeat of the 7th gen. Xbox wins NA. PlayStation wins the world.

I dont know about that. We have to see if this momentum stays after the hollidays. Cus we have seen how xbox spikes during hollidays gains some ground the slowes down right after and PlayStation gains ground again. Or if the ground gained during the holidays outpaces the ground Sony takes back the rest of the year. 



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