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GI.Biz - Xbox Series X|S and Elden Ring top the charts in busy March [UK]
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Congrats to From, it's great to see Elden Ring doing very well. also the Xbox drop in the UK must have been huge, hope this is replicated in the US.
Not surprising, Series X was in stock on Amazon UK for about 2 weeks and was consistently in top 10 best selling before going OOS.
Is it true about MS and Apple buying up a lot of the chips or just internet rumours?
Just wondering how long MS can outship Sony or if it will just be ups and down for them both.
Just wondering how long MS can outship Sony or if it will just be ups and down for them both.
Microsoft are doing really well with Series stock. Even during the times with lack of X consoles, S was always available (at least in EU) and people had option. Now is even better with a lot of X consoles available.
Well deserved for Elden Ring btw.
Well deserved for Elden Ring btw.
Yah finally able to get an XSX in the US with relative ease. Hoping the same happens for PS5 soon.
I have yet to see a Series X or a PS5 in stores here in Sweden (I've seen multiple Series S') and it's been 1,5 years. Fucking crazy...
Had to buy them both through the internet (not through scalpers tough!).
Had to buy them both through the internet (not through scalpers tough!).
Here in Canada it's still impossible to get the Series X or PS5. They both had stock at Amazon CA on March 30, and that was gone in a minute. Still gotta pay 900CAD to get one from a reseller/scalper on Ebay. BestBuy/Gamestop? Forget it.
Series S + the Switch has always been available though.
Grats to Elden Ring as well!
Series S + the Switch has always been available though.
Grats to Elden Ring as well!
I finished on PS5 and rebought on Xbox Series X just because the remote play features are better on Xbox. Playing at work on lunch with S22 Ultra and Razer Krishi.
I love this game.
I love this game.
Its getting better here in the Netherlands.
Far away from walking into a store and easy get one tho. But online stores have them in stock more often then before. So if you pay attention you can get it easier then before. Still some online stores only like to do bundles tho. With crappy headsets, docking stations etc. Wich sucks.
Far away from walking into a store and easy get one tho. But online stores have them in stock more often then before. So if you pay attention you can get it easier then before. Still some online stores only like to do bundles tho. With crappy headsets, docking stations etc. Wich sucks.
I said this in the previous sales thread but there are weekly console drops of PS5s across many outlets in the UK and if you follow the stock alert Twitter accounts id be surprised if you *couldn't* get one.
The issue must be the overall amount just isn't that high.
The issue must be the overall amount just isn't that high.
This weeks Argos and Smyths drops disappeared in an instant... Currys were doing £750 bundles, which is probably out of the reach of many, but if the stuff in the bundles was stuff you wanted (1TB, games etc) or would have gotten anyway, they were available for quite a long time. GAME's bundles are daft - t-shirts and the like. AO and GAME restocked this morning.
Definitely feels like Microsoft have a better handle on providing the UK with a steady flow of stock.
Edit: GAME have some game + controller bundles available right now
It was rumoured and now with alot of stock appearing it might be true. But dont think we never will know officialy.
It might be true, but I think these chips are bought way in advance.
Another possible explanation is that MS planned from the beginning to focus on XSS production for the first year and slowly shift to XSX as the production cost of the larger console decreased.
Apple doesn't factor in here. Microsoft might be competing with Sony on the output of AMD chips on the N7 node from TSMC, but Apple has been on N5 for a few years and has dedicated fabs by TSMC for their stuff.
It's not just buying chips, it's paying above rates for prioritised queue positions. MS justifies this because they are also playing with azure data centres so they can order a crap ton of volume
It was definitely a strategy. MS have paid over the odds for priority in supply and supply chain preference. This is now bearing fruit.
The volume commitment through Azure is certainly paying dividends. It makes Xbox a more attractive customer for those further down the supply chain.
No doubt, some console warriors on twitter will see this as "moneyhatting" hardware, as both have done with software in the past (with the baddie MS this time being seen as depriving gamers of the real console they want by brute force). But it is pretty standard practice.
No wonder Sony are delaying some of their bigger games. They want to maximise the pool of software customers for when the games release.
Yeah they dropped a lot of xbox stock into the UK in March. Amazon had series x in stock for over a week so I'm sure a lot of people grabbed one last month.
I've yet to see a ps5 in stock when walking into a normal store that wasn't already reserved but hopefully they can get their stock drops going at the same extent so people can finally pick those up semi easily, but shortages and all mean I'm probably going to end up holding off on a ps5 until early next year.
I've yet to see a ps5 in stock when walking into a normal store that wasn't already reserved but hopefully they can get their stock drops going at the same extent so people can finally pick those up semi easily, but shortages and all mean I'm probably going to end up holding off on a ps5 until early next year.
Congratulations to next gen consoles. They're such a game changer, I cannot stress enough how much Im enjoying mine.
Microsoft have done brilliantly to get so much stock into the UK, it's a pivotal time for them as people want to shift to the new generation. The word of mouth, combined with the stock and the general Game Pass effect will do wonders for the Series machines, as we're already seeing.
Yeah it sounds like MS is just brute forcing their supply by buying up a ton of chips.
Sounds like it's the same in the US.
Sounds like it's the same in the US.
Literally available it's a exageration. The first time that was stock in store was last week on one retailer, the others doesn´t have any stock (even online).
I'm still waiting for a game that will 'define' the generation as something apart from the last, but I do love my Series X and GP. If I can get my money in order this month I have a PS5 I'm gonna let myself open too... can't wait for more dedicated development to shift over properly! Or for the fruits of that development to be released, I should say.
Only a 112K console sales total is just crazy. Going to be a long gen.
Can't believe hardware is already down 46% on last year as they were pretty much impossible to get as is.
Can't believe hardware is already down 46% on last year as they were pretty much impossible to get as is.
Wow Elden Ring did amazing, awesome to see Xbox doing well this gen, means more competition so we get bigger and better games from all involved. The gaming industry probably hasn't been this healthy in such a long time.
Congrats to ER and MS. Last week had a ton of Series X in stores in the US as well. If you wanted one and still don't have it, you weren't really trying.
I hear you. I haven't had any OMG PANT DROP moment either. You might very well call them Xbox One XX and Playstation 4 Pro², and I'm fine with that. I'd still buy them anyway no doubt. The QOL improvements are totally worth it. Blazing fast loading times, quick resume, decent performance and quality modes on upgraded games. It's like buying a solid new PC for 500 bucks and it still has some additional qol like quick resume and the loading times. It's a fantastic leap even running old software.
Apple is always buying up all the chips. However they don't use the same chips as everybody else, they usually get like a year priority on any given node.
It does seem like Microsoft is buying up more chips than Sony but it could also be that Sony is getting bad yields. Remember Sony's chip is clocked pretty high to the point where it needs a massive cooling solution + liquid metal. Microsoft's chip is clocked at a pretty conservative 1800MHz so they can probably get away with less than ideal yields.
This is all speculation at the end of the day.
Starfield might be the first actual current gen only game that hits this, I would say Microsoft Flight sim does this, though it's a pretty niche game haha, cool to boot up and fly around your area though. I think 2023 is when we'll start to get many current gen games that give us the wow factor.
Credit goes to MS for having the foresight with the Series S and being able to up production of the Series X.
In 2022, an available console is a successful console.
In 2022, an available console is a successful console.
I mean I'm totally up for it, I'm very much looking forward to Starfield. Yet I'm happy to give them some room for post launch support until they game hits that wow factor. Don't have anything against Bethesda, but in the few past years I became more lenient with games at launch and I prefer to judge them when they hit their first year, which typically gives studios enough time to polish the base game and possibly add some content if they're up for that.
Yeah it's fine to do a wait and see approach, no problem with that at all. I myself can't have that same restraint, day 1 for me baby haha.
I'm not sure I'd call it "brute force." To me buying chip allotments is called business.
It's not the Xbox One for sure.