DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Translation: ""We have duped retailers by convincing them to tie up revenue in 5 million Xbox Ones that could have been spent on PS4s."
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Xbox One: 5 million units shipped to retailers
- Thread starter Chezzymann
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That's not an unusually high number of stock.
Although normally a console is available in more than 13 countries.. so maybe it is.
Karma for what? Sony fanboys have been the loudest and most obnoxious since the PS2 days, and possibly even earlier.
Darknight34
Member
I'm guessing they will sell through that with ease, E3 announcements should launch both pretty well, if they bring stuff to E3 that's worth while... assuming a lot.
BuggyDClown
Member
lol, that won't be true and you know it.
The Xbox One will have a real price drop, maybe even a large one without Kinect. E3 will see a bunch of games for it, we'll have some great holiday software and the system will be doing much much better.
Valkyria
Banned
Something, something, beam, mote and eyes.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
I'd guess not even 4 million if I base it off the Best Buy I went to. Unsold Titanfall bundles on top of normal bundles they got months ago according to the guy I talked to. It looked like the Wii U but unlike Nintendo, that they forced an absolute shit ton of supply that is nowhere near demand.
Now that's a surprise. Not so much because of TF, but rather the significant retailer price drops for the bundles (which by itself already amounts to a price drop).
The forum doesn't lean anywhere. It only gives that illusion because the PS4 is the more popular console right now. Last Gen people were saying this site was mostly 360 owners.
Neogaf couldn't be more equal of all platforms.
Dragonborn
Member
Man I feel that at this point MS E3 will be a huge disappointment. Some of you guys are expecting way too much
Those aren't sold to consumer numbers.
So while Sony is selling a million PS4 per month MS manages only to ship 250k per month to retailers. Combined with the fact that PS4 was outselling Xbone in the Titanfall month I expect some reactions from MS. Will be an interesting E3. Either MS has to cut the price and take the hit or offer a Kinect-less SKU.
i'm pretty aware of that.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
All they have to do is beat Sony.
TheRagnCajun
Member
At the rate it seems to be selling, that's hypothetically 2 months inventory.
March has been filled with unofficial price cuts and bundles of the Xbone. And they still lost.
This is actually a good performance for Microsoft. It's an expensive console, bear in mind, and they've had a solid start to the generation all things considered. It just skews perspective when PS4 is going all Super Saiyan. Granted I'm sure the actual sell through of Xbox One is closer to the 4 million side than the 5 million side. It's still impressive however.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Which might be quite difficult considering Sony seem to be really holding back on a lot of stuff up until now. Maybe E3 is when they decide to reveal.
Yeah them indies
GHG
Gold Member
The general public don't buy consoles based on how they perform at e3.
When has a good e3 performance ever resulted in an immediate positive impact in sales?
serversurfer
Member
"Larry? Didn't you already make a pickup this morning?"
funkystudent
Member
That is really, really bad. I honestly expected 5+ million sold - 6 million shipped.
The thing must be dead outside of the US and UK
Oh E3 will be fun.
The thing must be dead outside of the US and UK
Oh E3 will be fun.
With almost a million on shelves...?
RustyNails
Member
I'm just glad that MS is still doing well for a $500 console. Hopefully this will keep Sony on it's toes, and will force MS to focus on more on it's 2nd party studios. As for Nintendo...I'm not really sure what one can do with WiiU.
Shipping 1.1M (Worldwide) in 3 months to retailers is good?
Is it a $500 console? It was widely on sale for $450 with Titanfall included in the US this month. That basically made it a $399 console. $389 if we call Titanfall $60.
missing from the discussion so far and of absolute importance.
HOW MANY XBO HAVE THEY MANUFACTURED?
there are 5 million shipped to retail, but how many are sitting in warehouses not sold to anyone.
i have trouble believing that MS pulled the manufacturing back to 350k/month on Jan 1. They might have scaled it back to 500k/month which still means they have 450k sitting in their warehouses not sold to anybody. god forbid they have manufactured more.
when is this tier2 launch?
HOW MANY XBO HAVE THEY MANUFACTURED?
there are 5 million shipped to retail, but how many are sitting in warehouses not sold to anyone.
i have trouble believing that MS pulled the manufacturing back to 350k/month on Jan 1. They might have scaled it back to 500k/month which still means they have 450k sitting in their warehouses not sold to anybody. god forbid they have manufactured more.
when is this tier2 launch?
But they're not "shut" everywhere else. My point is XB1 isn't doomed. The US is going to be where they make their hay. I'm not ready to say the XB1 is a failure.
I'd guess their initial contract for manufacturing was for a fixed number of consoles for at least 6 months as production lines are expensive to start up, so a manufacturer would want a lock in for X consoles for Y months.
Graphics Horse
Member
5 million is what they said they'd do in their financials, no? So they were going to push for that at any cost.
No need for drama when they shipped 5 mill in 5 months. Not yet anyway.
No need for drama when they shipped 5 mill in 5 months. Not yet anyway.
I'm thinking end of May, with the Watchdogs bundle.
Also looking at the graphs, we may get the first PS4 shipped number as 10m at E3
Darknight34
Member
You uhh... Added a 0 there.
Justice_Bolt
Member
Yeah of course Sony has no AAA games in development...
FranXico
Member
uh... thought it was too much. I misread. Thanks.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Uh... what. It says 360 sold 111,000 in the US in March....
it's not insanity, but it's pretty normal for a healthy platform, particularly one priced so high. the xbox 360 was at 3.2m in the same ltd timeframe, ps3 was 3.5m, gamecube was 3.8, and xbox was between 3-3.5m.
I'm pretty sure Sunset Overdrive is a blockbuster.
legacyzero
Banned
Microsoft really needs to bring the heat at E3, or it'll be a really long gen for them.
Edit: However, I really like Phil Spencer, so there's that.
Edit: However, I really like Phil Spencer, so there's that.
I remember the Dreamcast 'destroying' Sony at E3. That worked out real well. The only real E3 moments that have had some kind of translation into the real world we have seen in recent years has all been Sony. Sony imploding themselves at E3 2006 and Tretton just going to town on MSFT last year. Tretton last year is one for the ages.
In time for E3? Would Sony have enough hard data to declare 2:1 at E3 if they make it by then?
I mean if they don't drop much further, they can still be a relatively successful system if they retain a consumer painful profit first approach.