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Zippy6 on 06 December 2021
Darwinianevolution said:

Did they undersupply PS5s in Europe? I would have imagine their numbers would be higher, considering how strong Playstation is in Europe. All of this supply issues are making Sony lose a lot of possible momentum.

Also, dang, those japanese PS5 numbers are bad. Japan has trully become a region for portables.

Yes they prioritised USA for stock for BF. Which makes sense as BF is a bigger deal in the USA than here.

Series S alone had more stock than PS5 in the UK for BF.



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Darwinianevolution on 06 December 2021
Zippy6 said:
Darwinianevolution said:

Did they undersupply PS5s in Europe? I would have imagine their numbers would be higher, considering how strong Playstation is in Europe. All of this supply issues are making Sony lose a lot of possible momentum.

Also, dang, those japanese PS5 numbers are bad. Japan has trully become a region for portables.

Yes they prioritised USA for stock for BF. Which makes sense as BF is a bigger deal in the USA than here.

Series S alone had more stock than PS5 in the UK for BF.

Fair enough, but they are still quite undersupplied. The worldwide difference between XBox XS and PS5 is around 60k, if Europe was better supplied, they would have easily got the better sales. The chip drought is real.



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Sogreblute on 06 December 2021
aTokenYeti said:

The Series S got a lot of flack for even existing by some enthusiasts, but I think weeks like this vindicate Microsoft’s decision to make it. It may never be appealing to an enthusiast gamer but I don’t think it has to be.

The funny thing is the people who bash the Series S have never used it or owned it. Yet, the people who do own it or used it actually like it.



eva01beserk on 06 December 2021
Sogreblute said:
aTokenYeti said:

The Series S got a lot of flack for even existing by some enthusiasts, but I think weeks like this vindicate Microsoft’s decision to make it. It may never be appealing to an enthusiast gamer but I don’t think it has to be.

The funny thing is the people who bash the Series S have never used it or owned it. Yet, the people who do own it or used it actually like it.

Almost sounds like if you buy something is probably because you want it.



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PAOerfulone on 06 December 2021

All Time Video Game Hardware Sales List:

1) PlayStation 2 (PS2) - 157,680,000 (155,000,000+ according to Sony) Mar. 31st, 2012

2) Nintendo DS (DS) - 154,900,000 (154,020,000 according to Nintendo) - Mar. 31st, 2021

3) Game Boy (GB/GBC) - 118,690,000

4) PlayStation 4 (PS4) - 116,703,545 (116,600,000+ according to Sony) - Sept. 30st, 2021

5) PlayStation (PS1) - 102,500,000 (102,400,000+ according to Sony) - Mar. 31st, 2012

6) Nintendo Wii (Wii) - 101,640,000 (101,630,000 according to Nintendo) - Mar. 31st, 2021

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7) Nintendo Switch (NS) - 97,116,312 (92,870,000 according to Nintendo) - Sept. 30th, 2021

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Black Friday Week sees the Switch leap-frogging over not 1, but TWO, milestones! Passing 96 and 97 million in the same week with on of the best Black Friday weeks to date. It's pretty much guaranteed to pass the Wii by the end of the year and possibly the PS1 as well.

Meanwhile, the PS4 continues to truck along. 



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kirby007 on 06 December 2021

Well must have been a shitload non oleds on shelves



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curl-6 on 06 December 2021

Switch now less than 20 million behind the lifetime sales of the PS4, and less than 5.5 million behind the PS1.

Switch in North America America > PS5 worldwide, and Switch globally more than double PS5 and just a hair short of PS5 + Xbox Series.

Xbox Series beating PS5 worldwide for the first time is a notable victory.



eva01beserk on 06 December 2021

Doubtful that all of a sudden this huge supply appeared for the Holliday. Does this confirm that they where hording consoles just to fluf some Holliday sale? Instead of releasing it along side some big title to boost sales of such title.



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jason1637 on 06 December 2021
eva01beserk said:

Doubtful that all of a sudden this huge supply appeared for the Holliday. Does this confirm that they where hording consoles just to fluf some Holliday sale? Instead of releasing it along side some big title to boost sales of such title.

Mix of Series S that were already in circulation being brought up and BF stock.



Wyrdness on 07 December 2021

What are the highest BF numbers?