PS5 and Xbox Series X|S Sales Match Previous-Gen Launches

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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Since launching in November, the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 have become highly sought-after items that are sold out everywhere. Ironically, this hasn’t equated to record-breaking sales for either company. Research Director Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis has published a report showing how next-gen console sales have matched the previous launches.

Xbox Series X|S sales (2.8 million) almost match the Xbox One (2.9 million), while the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 both sold 4.2 million units. Supply constraints have been a factor, but Sony expects to reach close to 8 million sales by...

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[LazyGamer]

So, economies are down, but demand for home entertainment devices is up, thus sales evened out?

Interesting to see it in numbers

 

[Denpepe]

Seems they could have exceeded them by a lot if they had a better idea of demand, especially ms seems to have wasted a lot of opportunity.

The series s is somewhat available over here (as in every now and then there a a couple available), but I want a disc based one and those are MIa since the preorders sold out, haven't even heard of new inventory on the series X

 

[LazyGamer]

Seems they could have exceeded them by a lot if they had a better idea of demand, especially ms seems to have wasted a lot of opportunity.

Risk vs. reward; the demand likely isn't going away, and the risk of overproducing is pretty high, since the cost is probably pretty high given that TSMC is making the SoCs.