From my perspective, since it's been hard to find both a PS5 and XSX, they have been selling equally. Therefore here is my calculation:
PS5 - 6 million
XSX - 6 million
I get the point. But this doesnt work, because MS claimed they waited for AMD tech and were behind in production. The flip side is Sony were way more ready with stock and development tools.
While they can equally be hard to find, they wont have the same amount of stock available. MS not having as much stock available means any gap will be hard to close IMO. Even when things get back to normal for stock.
But by now the supply is still greater on Sonys side. Nothing to do with newer RDNA2 tech.
IMO this will continue to be an excuse. Unless it was hardware related. They way they came out the gate with next gen pr and info you would have sworn MS would be in a better situation supply wise.
Remember all the " why is Sony so quiet???" talk? Yeah....
When you are expected to sell more, you get the larger supply necause manufacturers want to the one who could sell all their chips fast.
Sound logical. Makes alot of sense.
There where talks of how sony started manufacturing alot earlier. If that is true maybe the headstart on manufacturing earlier allowed them to make improvements to the process and ramp up. They've been doing for decades so something they are way more experienced in then ms.
Yup, some ppl like to act like Sony dont know wtf they're doing...but they have been doing this for many more years than MS. I may have said this already, but I have a theory that the disc and DE PS5 is so easy to switch on the assembly line that they dont really miss a beat.
People still have a hard time with PlayStation success. Using excuses like scalpers and supply.
PS3, Sony’s so called fumbled console, and worst generation, still sold 90M. That’s the baseline for an average PS console sales.
I don’t know what difference everybody is expecting when supply gets normalized PS5 and SX. PS5 will continue to surpass sales records.
The PS3 also launched an entire year later and still managed to catch up to the 360. That means at some point the 360 started selling less consoles.
The PS3 launching an entire year later was hardware related IIRC. The Series consoles launch the same year as the PS5....but they had to wait for AMD tech and thats why supply is lower....
Meanwhile the PS Pro launched about 6 months before AMD tech was available on the market. But MS couldnt get their AMD tech in time?
Okay.