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Forums - Sales Discussion - January NPD 2023 Thread - PS5 #1, NS #2, XS #3 - Dead Space #2

Oh, that's a surprising say to see the Switch being flat YoY in the US.
As for the PS5, this is it's year so it's domination throughout might be a given(except in May because I believe Zelda will boost the Switch hardware on top of it).
And the XboSeries is truly a story ups and downs for a company that still has difficulty with it's software pipeline. Will Starfield truly be the game to actually push the console towards X360 level or simply stay along the lines of the Xbone ...



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I expect the PS5 to outsell the Switch at the weekly numbers for at least a couple of weeks. Right?



Is the NSW up YoY in only dollar sales or is it also up YoY in units?



Farsala said:

Is the NSW up YoY in only dollar sales or is it also up YoY in units?

It seems that on dollar only, possibly more OLED’s sold than last year, but the article doesn’t explain it 



trunkswd said:
DonFerrari said:

Gotcha, from the charts for WW you put I do remember seeing quite a gap between both so I was surprised to hear USA it is already behind even with reception being so much better.

Xbox One had a decent first couple of years before sales fell off. Our estimates have Xbox Series X|S ahead of the Xbox One worldwide by 1.13 million units. Though the gap did shrink over the holidays. 

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/456126/xbox-series-xs-vs-xbox-one-sales-comparison-december-2022/

I haven't been following montlhy sales as through as I did last gen. But I do remember last gen people faulted X1 sales on the rocky start and lousy reveal, when in the end their first years were better than the ones after they made the corrections (which basically nulls the claims of why X1 was being outsold by PS4). Series also seemed to start a lot stronger than X1, but seems like it will be heading same direction of X1 which is odd for me considering that Series S is generally on low stock and X mostly sold out (I had the impression demand was a lot stronger and with MS improving manufacturing capabilities I expected healthy increases in sales instead of the decrease in USA and now europe).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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SKMBlake said:
trunkswd said:

June 9th, 2014 or I believe is month 8 for the console.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/254664/kinectless-xbox-one-priced-at-399-releasing-june-9th/

Oh they went quick, I recall you could buy an Xbox One with a Samsung TV back then

It was quick because that wasn't a true price cut, it was a repacking removing the kinect. A real price cut took longer to come (I would guess about 24months).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari said:
SKMBlake said:

Oh they went quick, I recall you could buy an Xbox One with a Samsung TV back then

It was quick because that wasn't a true price cut, it was a repacking removing the kinect. A real price cut took longer to come (I would guess about 24months).

yes I know, but it was shorter to say "price cut" rather than "understanding that people weren't that found of the Kinnect and thus deciding to remove it as a mandatory bundle, hence reducing the price of $100"



DonFerrari said:
trunkswd said:

Xbox One had a decent first couple of years before sales fell off. Our estimates have Xbox Series X|S ahead of the Xbox One worldwide by 1.13 million units. Though the gap did shrink over the holidays. 

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/456126/xbox-series-xs-vs-xbox-one-sales-comparison-december-2022/

I haven't been following montlhy sales as through as I did last gen. But I do remember last gen people faulted X1 sales on the rocky start and lousy reveal, when in the end their first years were better than the ones after they made the corrections (which basically nulls the claims of why X1 was being outsold by PS4). Series also seemed to start a lot stronger than X1, but seems like it will be heading same direction of X1 which is odd for me considering that Series S is generally on low stock and X mostly sold out (I had the impression demand was a lot stronger and with MS improving manufacturing capabilities I expected healthy increases in sales instead of the decrease in USA and now europe).

X1 was highly competitive with the PS4 in the early years. This is despite the forced bundling of the Kinect. The reason being of course is that they had a decent software lineup in the first year or 2. However the PS4 trucked along with more software releases while eventually the support for X1 dried up. MS found this to be a huge issue and they are trying to dig themselves out of this hole with money.



Farsala said:

MS found this to be a huge issue and they are trying to dig themselves out of this hole with money.

And yet they have the same issue all over again



@trunkswd You have the Xbox total’in NA at 9.76 million as of 31 december 2022 but here https://twitter.com/Cadreinth/status/1617183759912128513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1617183759912128513%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

they said 8.73million as of 30 November 2022, did they really sell 1 million Xbox in December ?