Fairly large German games etailer Spielegrotte.de wrote this in a mail to customers today (from Google Translate with a few corrections for understanding purposes by me):
TL;DR: Xbox One preorder supply lasted for the first 35 seconds of preorders. MS didn't respond to inquires from the etailer about more consoles.
TL;DR: Spielegrotte receives 450x more PS4s than Xbones despite "almost identical" preorder numbers.
Source - Google Translate
Update:
xHunter made available the full mail from Spielegrotte. I want to highlight those three statements additionally:
- Xbox One preorders were in the three-digit range after the first five minutes
- more than half of the Xbox One consoles within the first 35 seconds after the console went up for sale were standard editions
- "every other specialist dealer receives the same disastrous numbers from Microsoft"
Update 2:
CTLance translated the whole mail.
"[...] We get - no joke - just as many consoles, that it is sufficient for the first 35 seconds (no kidding!) Orders. [...] But since we of course know about the interest in the console we have early realized we have made ​​attempts at conversation with Microsoft before gamescom first contact and a total of 5 messages that are definitely arrived, remained to this day really without any response or reaction, "
TL;DR: Xbox One preorder supply lasted for the first 35 seconds of preorders. MS didn't respond to inquires from the etailer about more consoles.
"To those [Sony] we have also brought forward our very considerable preorders, our priority has been recognized and the quantities were clear early on promised. From Sony we now receive about 450 times as many consoles such as Microsoft, although the preorder numbers were almost identical."
TL;DR: Spielegrotte receives 450x more PS4s than Xbones despite "almost identical" preorder numbers.
Source - Google Translate
Update:
xHunter made available the full mail from Spielegrotte. I want to highlight those three statements additionally:
- Xbox One preorders were in the three-digit range after the first five minutes
- more than half of the Xbox One consoles within the first 35 seconds after the console went up for sale were standard editions
- "every other specialist dealer receives the same disastrous numbers from Microsoft"
Update 2:
CTLance translated the whole mail.