Supply and, overall demand is what determines sales. Xbox this gen is a more attractive brand to buy into.
I agree that Xbox is the better console to this point. But I 100% disagree with your stance of how demand is playing out so far this generation.
Go to any Target, Best Buy, Walmart etc. There are Xbox Series S consoles on the shelves. In some cases there are hundreds. The Series X has been available for weeks at a time on Best Buy and Walmart websites. You can order a Series X RIGHT NOW on Best Buy.com. Then look at the resale sites. They are selling for just over MSRP. Now try to find a PS5 anywhere. When they become available online, they are gone within a minute. Resale is still averaging in the $800’s. The demand for the PS5 is MUCH higher.
These sales breakdowns are playing out the way they are because Xbox has done a much better job with supply. But you can’t say there’s more demand for the console. There’s zero indication of that.
Consoles being on store shelves should be normal when we're coming up on 2 years into a console generation.. so technically, it's not that the demand for the Series S is low because no one wants one, it's just that the supply is actually able to meet demand.. And if you can easily find a Series X "right now", as you seem to be indicating, the same applies there..
And that I believe, as I said, is because the Series S is just much cheaper and easier to produce than either the Series X or PS5.
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