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Xbox Series X|S reportedly passed the PS5 to be the second best-selling console in the UK in April
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Krappadizzle
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Funny coming from you considering your first post in the thread :/
That's not the point; the point is that several times now we've also seen PS5 come in 2nd to Switch (not just in UK but also in America) and I didn't see many people being dismissive of said performance (nor should they have). There have also been people using that in the past to concern-troll the 3rd-place system (Xbox Series) in those results, ignoring the fact MS are also supply-constrained relative to demand and selling through pretty much everything they can manufacture and put on shelves.
There's more than a clear double-standard, I saw it in this thread and in the ReeeeeesetERA thread as well. But hey, folks don't like being told the truth about themselves I guess
Same; the entire idea of console wars is idiotic. I question how some can have "fun" engaging in it, particularly when it leads to pretty toxic behavior in the community and stifles genuine discussion and engagement (never mind the fact Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are pretty much on great terms with each other and likely laugh reading console warrior posts when they have spare time to read any).
However, that doesn't excuse those who engage in it and take it too far, because some do take it too far.
Watching those numbers only tells us one thing. MS did deliver more consoles than Sony in April to the UK. As both are practically sold out, this is the only thing you can get from these numbers.
Might also have something to do with the ship that blocked the route to Europe in April. Or Sony now delivers more console e.g. to the chinese market. As production didn't go up (no free capacities) this might also be an explanation.
Might also have something to do with the ship that blocked the route to Europe in April. Or Sony now delivers more console e.g. to the chinese market. As production didn't go up (no free capacities) this might also be an explanation.
Derift
Member
i got mine from a store... and I got it very impulsively PCWorld at Tottenham court road... they actually had stock for quite a while just before Christmas and even after but then we went into lockdown but I think you could still go to the shop and ask them to bring it to you and you pay at the door... I took a picture of it at the till
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
What part of it is funny? That post simply expresses my sympathy (and bafflement) for people who have to distort something like this into a "win" to appease a brand-aligned console warrior reader base. I'd be extremely distressed being constricted to doing unpaid marketing for a console brand ignoring and/or dismissing the rest of the industry regardless of whether they may have games I'm interested in.
That's not the point; the point is that several times now we've also seen PS5 come in 2nd to Switch (not just in UK but also in America) and I didn't see many people being dismissive of said performance (nor should they have). There have also been people using that in the past to concern-troll the 3rd-place system (Xbox Series) in those results, ignoring the fact MS are also supply-constrained relative to demand and selling through pretty much everything they can manufacture and put on shelves.
There's more than a clear double-standard, I saw it in this thread and in the ReeeeeesetERA thread as well. But hey, folks don't like being told the truth about themselves I guess
Have you seen posts quoting articles from PlayStation fanboy sites that headlined something like "PS5 beat Xbox Series X|S in X?" where the Switch was actually first? Because In that case, yes. I'd judge them exactly the same way. I haven't seen any tho. Not saying they don't exist, but if they do, I've missed em.
If you find it idiotic, why do you care so much that you have to make an unfitting comparison with a forum where people are banned on sight with inane motivations simply for writing something a moderator arbitrarily did not like?
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Unless it keeps going on. If MS can win the supply chain battle, they can continue to press at that mindshare.
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THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
Pretty funny that when the xbox outsells the ps5 it's "amidst it's lagging supply" but when the xbox is outsold by ps5 it's just due to demand - like supply had nothing to do with it.
Darlingcognito
Member
Always an excuse if Xbox comes in second "oh but stock, oh blah blah, oh all they're selling is series s.
Funny the excuses for low Xbox stock are never used when Sony comes second to the switch.
Funny the excuses for low Xbox stock are never used when Sony comes second to the switch.
JerryinSoCal
Member
Can't really tell anything until both are able to be purchased without having to stalk twitter accounts that update in restocks. I have no doubt PS5 will be comfortably ahead the entire generation it's just a more popular global brand but by how much and who makes the most money will be the interesting thing to watch.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Xbox is huge in UK but you could say that for PlayStation as well.
Krappadizzle
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Does PS5 Is The Prefered Console Among Devs According to GDC 2021 Survey count? Tries to undersell that the PC was the #1 preferred platform for developers to further a console war narrative.
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Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
I guess it does yes.
And see my answer.
Perhaps it's be better not to just parrot a clickbaiting website and write one's own title which would be more representative of reality and less designed to trigger console warriors.
Something like "PC Is The Preferred Platform Among Devs According to GDC 2021 Survey"
Because that's what it is.
And I'm not the only one mentioning that.
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Craig of War
Banned
PS5 sales are at 8 million plus wile Xbox Series are at 5 million plus PS5 has a 3 million advantage in this early gen console sales.
Captain Toad
Banned
Aren't they already WAY behind worldwide?
Krappadizzle
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Anyone drawing a line in the sand and picking a side because of this would be foolish.
Captain Toad
Banned
Are they? This is just supply. I don’t see any turning of the tables.
Chip shortages are just effecting everyone and Sony and MS are deciding how much they can allot to each territory every month.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Sore bum city in here.
I would if I could find any in stock
Sony also managed to secure more of amds wafer allocations than MS, maybe that contract has finished and AMD are keeping some of their production capacity for themselves now and it's placing sony and ms on a more even supply capacity.
JerryinSoCal
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Looks like the titles was about consoles not PC, don't see how that's a relevant response.
Krappadizzle
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Title should have been "PC Is The Preferred Platform Among Devs According to GDC 2021 Survey." But was titled the way it was to further a console war narrative in favor of PS5. It's very disingenuous. If it was the Console Developers Conference you'd have a point. But it wasn't, so you don't.
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JerryinSoCal
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Not going to happen and so far Phil hasn't done anything but run his mouth and buy studios.gonna be 360/ps3 again. no surprises since the feels of the new Xboxes are very welcoming like the old days. Phil has done a great turnaround job, double confirmed.
SS/SX should edge it in NA, UK
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
Artificially excluding the PC platform from the headline on a site that isn't even console-dedicated means that the title was designed as clickbait to trigger console war reactions, which isn't any better than this.
Again, why not simply title "PC Is The Preferred Platform Among Devs According to GDC 2021 Survey" ? That's what the reality of the survey is. Anything else is a distortion.
JerryinSoCal
Member
No not really, consoles aren't really in direct competition with PC the way they are with each other, PC isn't even a fixed platform. If people want to talk about the console space specifically PC has nothing to do with it.
01011001
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I think PC is a competition for the fact that it seems to become more popular as a gaming platform again. and therefore it can cut into the marketshare of consoles that way.
FlyyGOD
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I could've sworn both consoles had supply constraints due to lack of AMD gpu's. Stop the cap!Gotta be seriously desperate to resort to rumormongering for a "victory" in the race to second place that isn't anything more than "Console manufacturer X managed to put more consoles on the market than console manufacturer Y in a specific month in a specific market, because everything is put in the market is sold."
Writing for a brand fanboy website must be hard...
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
PC is absolutely a platform, and it's absolutely in competition with consoles for people's money.
You have completely missed the point.
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Sealord of Braavos
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The Xbox comeback this gen has to start somewhere.
Seriously though, things looking better for Xbox this time around.
Seriously though, things looking better for Xbox this time around.
intbal
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So... ~12 million consoles are sitting in Scalpers' warehouses.
PlayStaytion
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Finish The Fight !
PlayStaytion
Member
The s is doing something.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
THIS IS HUGE
Krappadizzle
Member
After Nintendo.
Cornbread78
Member
Or you don't give a fuck either way and realize whichever has more stock will sell more at any given moment and both will sell out immediately... #shocking news
vaibhavpisal
Member
gonna be 360/ps3 again. no surprises since the feels of the new Xboxes are very welcoming like the old days. Phil has done a great turnaround job, double confirmed.
SS/SX should edge it in NA, UK
MS can win this gen.
Seriously.
They just need to drop Halo Infinite and Starfield Back to back on gamepass this fall.
There are variables in this. Starfield needs to be ready and infinite needs to be much improved than what was shown.
It will be Gears of War moment from 2006 all over again.
Hawking Radiation
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Product A sells more because more stock available than Product B
Optimus Lime
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It would make a really fantastic PhD in anthropology if a particularly tech savvy and adventurous student investigated the phenomenon of any internet gaming forum thread featuring anything positive about Microsoft or Xbox - regardless of how tepid it may be - degenerating into an incoherent shouting match populated by absolute morons at roughly the speed of light.
If somehow we could harness the dumbness energy that blasts out of threads of this type, we could easily use it for interstellar travel.
If somehow we could harness the dumbness energy that blasts out of threads of this type, we could easily use it for interstellar travel.
Kagey K
Banned
It's shocking to me after these 2 threads, the debate rages on.
www.neogaf.com
You can go through March and April as well if you want, but it's the same as the first 2 with everyone digging in further.
PS5 and Switch sales spike in February | UK Monthly Boxed Charts, record breaking year so far.
Over 200,000 games consoles were sold in the UK during February. The latest data from GfK shows it was a bumper month for the console market, driven by an influx of new PS5 stock and a boost in Switch sales driven by the launch of the new Mario game: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury...
You can go through March and April as well if you want, but it's the same as the first 2 with everyone digging in further.
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THE DUCK
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So what happens if Sony can't ship enough units and somehow MS manages to ship a few more million units over the next year, will this forum implode?
It would be funny to see one console win over a another simply due to supply, I'm not sure that would have ever happened before to this level.
If that did happen, it might be all the momentum MS needs to start to convert more people, press cycles about it leading next gen coupled with gamepass and a strong showing of games this fall.
Or Vice versa, Sony manages to churn out a few million more consoles and it's enough to keep the narrative of dominance alive enough to sway those on the fence, giving them the victory by hardware availability only regardless of all other factors or competition.
It would be funny to see one console win over a another simply due to supply, I'm not sure that would have ever happened before to this level.
If that did happen, it might be all the momentum MS needs to start to convert more people, press cycles about it leading next gen coupled with gamepass and a strong showing of games this fall.
Or Vice versa, Sony manages to churn out a few million more consoles and it's enough to keep the narrative of dominance alive enough to sway those on the fence, giving them the victory by hardware availability only regardless of all other factors or competition.
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Jaguar Victory
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Gotta be seriously desperate to resort to rumormongering for a "victory" in the race to second place that isn't anything more than "Console manufacturer X managed to put more consoles on the market than console manufacturer Y in a specific month in a specific market, because everything is put in the market is sold."
Writing for a brand fanboy website must be hard...
You in the UK physical software sales threads?
skit_data
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Allocations
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I predict Series consoles to take a slight nosedive as well when they launch in China
PS5 preorders begin in China, almost six months after US launch
Beating Xbox to market in the country.
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I predict Series consoles to take a slight nosedive as well when they launch in China
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