Of course sales matter.
I’ve long thought the series S was a good idea. Not everyone cares about the highest res possible.
But again, we have the historical sales data.
Historical data of what? Series S sales? How? At most we have Famitsu sales numbers and the ratio of S vs. X there has been quite good.
It’s just not that popular a system.
That popular compared to what? PS5? Sure. Series X? Okay. But that doesn't mean there's seismic scales of difference in popularity between those and Series S. People are acting like it's the leper of game consoles, c'mon.
We don’t even have the data for the day this article is claiming to discuss and there are some people in here claiming some dramatic changing of the tides out of emotional reasons to see their “team” win.
But that's almost always true with Black Friday sales articles :/
The data isn’t there. The sales aren’t there. It’s not a big seller of a system. Just let it go until the actual numbers prove otherwise.
If the data isn't there, how can you claim the sales aren't there? Wouldn't that create a paradox? The actual number will be whatever it ends up being, but just because Series S is less supply-constrained than Series X and PS5 doesn't mean it isn't supply-constrained at
all. I'm sure it's at least a bit constrained in that way.
I never said sales "don't matter". Of course they matter. I never said sales aren't a metric of demand. I said XSS selling doesn't make it the "most popular". PS5 and XSX, I think, are the "most popular" consoles on the market and they are factually the hardest to find.
You can't always measure demand from supply scarcity. Hell, sometimes supply scarcity can be manufactured (as in, fictionalized) to create a perception to drive demand. Disney does that all the time when they take movies out of the Vault for a limited time. Nintendo recently did it with one of those Mario anthology releases on Switch (think it was the one with SM64 and the Galaxy games).
I don't say that to doubt PS5 and Series X are more popular than Series S: they are. I'm just saying you can't 100% use lack of supply as an indicator of demand, because not all supply issues are created the same or even naturally. And a system having supply that's more closely meeting demand (Series S, in this case) doesn't mean it is 100% void of any type of supply constraints.
Personally, I think Series S demand will probably increase for PC users looking for budget emulation options or something to replace 1650 Super GPUs. There aren't really any entry-level GPU options available right now and probably won't be for another six months or more.
If you disagree with that and believe XSS is actually the "most popular" console right now and the sales are a result of that then fine, we can just disagree.
No disagreement there. Just saying if there's anyone holding the idea there's no demand for Series S, that the majority of its sales are from being available and people just "buying to buy", then that idea is fundamentally wrong. People don't buy simply to buy no matter how cheap it is; they gotta have some type of desire for what want to buy, at the very least.
None of what I said is moving a single goalpost. If you want to make "general commentary" then I suggest not quoting someone and associating arguments to that post that simply were not made at all.
Fair enough; up to that post there were just so many other posts basically doing what I commented on, and your post could be perceived as feeding into that.
But it wasn't and I apologize for implying otherwise.