I'm pretty sure MS shifted production priority to Series S rather than Series X. they can ship almost 2X as many S units for what it would take to make one X.
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I'm pretty sure MS shifted production priority to Series S rather than Series X. they can ship almost 2X as many S units for what it would take to make one X.
Both PS5 and SX are selling every unit there is to buy, pretty much instantly. And the S is also selling very well.
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SE5 only had a few days I think so i would maybe expect it to Show in June somewhere
I'm assuming they probably bought the same amount of wafers and manufacturing space last year as this year but now they don't have to fill up server racks with some of their supply so it's all going to market. Of course replacing the server blades with XSX was a great idea that should pay off in the long run, but had they not allotted those systems for the upgrades last year, I think they'd probably be ahead in NA right now and it all just comes down to the fact that they have consistently been buying more capacity. I think they will continue to do so.
Short answer to what has changed: They are done upgrading the server blades and so the vast majority of manufacturing capacity they bought is going to market.
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Is the Switch's continued success going to push Nintendo's Switch successor further into the future? I mean, the Switch is still topping hardware sales and it has to be dirt cheap to produce by now despite increased manufacturing costs due to shortages.
I wonder if kirby is gonna be a new evergreen mario party and switch sports seem likely its insane how well switch games continue to sell.
There is nothing more to it if PS5 is simply every single unit that's produced and can't keep up with the demand.
I would just accept now that we're all still going to be looking at the current specs of the Switch as the default model for another year yet at a minimum. The new model will arrive when it arrives, but it's never been as imminent as some folks are hoping for.
2022 has been dire for new releases, industry has actually been kind of lucky that Elden Ring has been such a big crossover hit and is like 200 hrs long.
I mean Sony said their stock is being emptied in literal minutes, which definitely seems to be the case as two years in people *still* can't easily get a PS5 compared to the Switch or even Series S which is more readily available from retailers. Demand is definitely highest with PlayStation still, despite having the lowest stock.
This is my feeling too. I just don't see an incentive for Nintendo to take the risk on a new platform and deal with the shortages that are hampering Sony/MS
Is it really that dire when 7 out of the top 10 titles all came out in 2022? I could understand if it was specifically AAA being a bit sparse, but folks are still buying plenty of recent titles.
The king returns to claim his Elden throne.
Also do my eyes deceive me or is GTA V not in the top 20? What happened?
Elden Ring could do it.
Eh, lets be honest. Only Starfield will kill Skyrim.
Also do my eyes deceive me or is GTA V not in the top 20? What happened?
Elden Ring could do it.
Eh, lets be honest. Only Starfield will kill Skyrim.
GTAV hasn't charted ever since Take Two stopped giving digital numbers.
Any end in sight to the supply constraints for Sony? Seems like they're really hurting on the HW front.
People can be really out of touch. I still remember people arguing that TES6 should pivot to look more like The Witcher, but that's just opting out of a blue ocean into a red one. Nobody really makes games like BGS does, it's like Smash Bros with its own little mini-genre. People mention the glitches and someone was arguing that they should cut out the ability to drag and drop items the way they do if it would make the games less glitchy. But I would argue most of the memes and the fun content (mods, videos, etc...) all come from the way BGS games remember where you drop and move items and people. If all the swords become static drops instead of real objects, then you lose the magic.
I hope they re-release Skyrim as a game you can install on your ship's computer in Starfield lol
"Look at how janky it looks!!"
Me: "Oh hell yeah. Give me the bugs!!!"
Is Kirby going to eventually outsell GT7? It's right behind it without including digital. That'd be mighty impressive for the poyo.
Subscription services gonna step up. At least I have some old titles to go back to in the interim.
I've been so close to spontaneously purchasing a Series S every time I see it, even though I already have a Series X
Would love to get some full Switch Sports numbers soon. Given NPD doesn't do Nintendo digital and this is based on revenue, they must be kinda wild. I didn't even realize this had a package release to be honest, feels like one the majority of people would snag digitally - and if that is the case, this will post some huge numbers when all is said and done. I basically only play bowling (occasionally a game of tennis or volleyball) and me and the wife somehow have logged 40 hours in already. It is kinda the perfect nighttime drinking game, don't need to pay a ton of attention and carries on at a slow enough pace to still have conversations throughout.
Yep people are specifically talking about the bugs regarding wanting Bethesda games.
I know that there's nothing to really gain from the sales numbers apart from who was able to make more systems in a given month. My question (that was poorly worded/poor explanation) was simply wondering what's changed behind the scenes for MS to get more consoles out than PlayStation several months in a row, when last year it was flipped towards PlayStation.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I've been trying and failing to get a PS5 since last year and it feels impossible still. Demand is definitely higher for PS5 (which makes the shortages feel worse) but I'm more curious what's changed on the supply production side for Microsoft to have seemingly boosted production while Sony is seemingly falling behind. Like, I'm sure part of that is the Series S and the production split starting to favor that, but I can't see that being the full reason given Xbox is ahead in both sales and revenue.
I'm not intending to be doomist or anything despite how that sounds, just curious what's changed in the last year or so to allow MS to make more Xbox systems
I'm sure they're deeply frustrated, but there's nothing to be done about it now. They just have to ride it out and hope for a miracle to get them to meet demand.
Hindsight being 20/20, I'm sure they would taken MS's approach more seriously when designing their SKUs, but I don't think many people expected XSS to take off as much as it has.
Well said. I've also seen the comments before where people think BGS should make their worlds static and my eyes almost roll out of their sockets. I've said before there's no other dev out there making "Skyrim-likes" even though they're enormously successful and it's probably because it's really damn hard. Even simple stuff like being able to talk to characters and progress quests no matter where the NPC is in the whole world. I mean there's a reason in every other game NPCs are static or conversations can only take place in cut scenes. I'm playing Oblivion on my Steam Deck right now and that game still does stuff that most open world RPGs do not.
Nah. You don't want to wait until your console is dying before you get the successor out- you want that in the chamber ready to go long before that point.
The Switch is Nintendo's only hardware platform right now- it would be terrible for their business if they weren't prompt at replacing it, or at least starting a gentle transition.
Oh yeah and the readily available stock for XSS is helping by the boatloads, not to oversimplify its success.
Elden Ring surely has legs. Hopefully Arceus will keep selling well until the end of the year, too.
I guess Microsoft really played smart with suppliers to keep producing XBS at a steady pace while PS5 can't keep up with last year.
I guess Microsoft really played smart with suppliers to keep producing XBS at a steady pace while PS5 can't keep up with last year.
