It’s doesn’t have to be freely available sitting on shelves to be meeting demand, that would be exceeding demand. That is when you start capturing impulse buys or substitution buys (no PS5). You can increase sales by say having a display of Xboxes with a sizzle reel of games playing and people walking by go “oh wow that looks cool” and they buy something they were never planning on buying. So meeting demand =/= achieving maximum sales potential.
Meeting demand is simply being able to supply those who want one, and I’d say Xbox is close. In the US where demand is higher we can’t go in a store and buy a Series X, but we can order one online. I don’t see why it would be harder than that to get one in Japan. Now if you want to say there isn’t enough supply such that Microsoft can go on a marketing blitz confident that if someone sees a TV ad they can walk into a store and pick one up, sure that is a thing. So how about meeting “current” demand, but still constrained in increasing demand?
So excited for NCAA Football. Will probably be my most played sports game this generation if it’s even…“OK”. This generation looks like it’s recapturing some of the best missing pieces from the 360 era.
People always forget that AAA games from third parties move consoles too. I think the Xbox console shortage will continue to pick up strength from August onwards. Literally every AAA will sell Xbox consoles.
Best case scenario for Xbox is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is day 1 Gamepass this holiday (obviously isn’t guaranteed since the Activision deal would need to close soon for this to happen.)
Worst case scenario for Xbox is they have no big first party games to support Gamepass for the holidays but Xbox still sells literally every console due to excitement over third party AAA games and the console shortage.
My point is, unless for some reason the game industry delays every game, even in the worst case scenario Xbox sells every console produced so long as AAA games are being released.
I brought this up in another thread but curious to see what others think Sony should do. Should Sony temporarily stop producing PS5’s to build its cloud?
Sony should lean heavy in native PC versions and use that as its streaming base. They’d still have to sort out 3rd Party Streaming though, so this is no magic bullet either.
I believe japanese exclusives can only improve Series S sales at best and even then it is hard to say if they are selling all of them or not. Because no doubt Series X is always sold out.
Its nice to see sizable quantity of Series X sell over there, more than the few hundred they had before. It would be nice if they could bump up to 10K to 15K SeriesX and same 10K to 15K SeriesS per week. I think 100K a month overall for Series Consoles would improve the perception.
I hope the demand is there to sustain 100K - 120K monthly. Like you said, we don’t know if there is oversupply or not.
Japanese Twitter users seem legitimately excited when they post about getting a new Xbox. Anecdotally I’d say Forza Horizon, Gamepass, and Microsoft Flight Simulator are the biggest drivers of console sales in Japan.
I liked one post one post the other day and it must have messed with my algorithm because I was getting non stop posts from Japanese users with news Series consoles lol
No. Sony should continue to focus on PlayStation 5 and while doing that, focus on getting their exclusives on PC day one via Steam and Epic Games Store.
Crazy how Xbox is doing almost 9k in a dead month…with no real AAA exclusives right now. Good on them for this. Hopefully Soul Hackers does well even though it has no physical in Japan. Hopefully the digital sales do well.
That might never happen due to S being digital only and Xbox physical games just aren’t stocked over there properly. IF youre’ a hardcore Xbox fan in Japan and want to buy physical games you’re gonna need to pre order or buy online most of the time. Especially now with more digital focus.
won’t be ready until next summer. That game is going to sell a lot of casuals a new console.