PS4 takes the top locaction in November. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-the-top-selling-console-in-us-for-november-201/1100-6433020/
The PS4 won Christmas, but the retailers still don't care. The Xbone still holds the top spot with the best kept shelves. Here's two examples that I looked at this weekend. Walmart... You see the Xbox One as soon as you enter the department -- it's right there at the start of the isle. The PS4 is way back by the restrooms. Target has a different configuration. The video game isle has the Xbox on one side and the PS on the other. This is the Xbox side. This is the PS side. It's got a smaller space and bare in mind that it's also mixed with PS3 and Vita games. The case is missing all of the PS blue trim and where's the display unit??? Horrible. Right in front of this section is the best seller cube. And it's mixed with Xbox One & PS4 titles. I should have included it but I wanted a close up of that sad "display" case. I'm convinced that Sony just doesn't care about their own product. What's gotten into them? They used to really push the PlayStation brand. Now all I see is Xbox.
Well we could spin this any which way we want because we have no idea of the facts behind MS marketing financials and Sony marketing financials. But the one fact we do know is that Sony is not just killing it in general but also beating down MS in console sales without the same retail presence as MS. Like for example, looking at these cases, we can just say MS has a ton of unsold stock in these retail stores while Sony is having a hard time keeping their consoles in stock. But on the other hand, it could just be that MS logistics teams are on the ball while Sony's needs some work. Retail presence is a thing of the past anyways. Online shopping is really hitting retail stores hard and out of all those games you see on those shelves, only a handful are relevant. What you don't see is that for a lot of those games, the store probably is only carrying 2-3 on hand at a time since it never sells.
Fully stocked because no one is buying it. Anecdotal: my local Target is always fully stocked with Xbox Ones but can't keep PS4s in stock.
Target wasn't stocked up on Xbones this Friday. And the PS4 section looked about the same as it did last time. But then again, there's no love on this side of the isle either, because that box on the top hasn't moved an inch. It kind of looks like they just sold one PS4 since last month. Probably why they needed the sale.
Thanks for the update. Can you take a picture of the aisle every week? I think that locaction is a great barometer of the sales war and provides some very useful informaction.
You're right. The snap shots should be accompanied with an article from a reputable source. http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-us/beta/ Ubisoft is giving the Xbox One the first slot on their Division beta page. Why, you ask? A quick Google search revealed why. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...one-owners-are-more-valuable-than-ps4-owners/ Put all those numbers together, and it suggests the average Xbox One user is worth about 24 percent more than the average PS4 user for Ubisoft's latest quarter (€7.94 or $8.93 per Xbox One user vs. €6.42 or $7.22 per PS4 user, to be precise). If you extended the outlook to the past nine months of Ubisoft earnings, individual Xbox One users still look about 18 percent more valuable than PS4 users. ...Ubisoft's revenue split suggests the Xbox One may be more attractive to publishers than its raw hardware sales numbers indicate.
According to Ubisoft, they are selling more than twice as many games on both PS4 and PC as Xbox One. Ubisoft basically says this current generation is a race between PS4 and PC sales. PS4 is in the lead for Ubisoft sales, PC has seen a huge rise in sales and is in a close second place and could overtake the PS4 at some point, and the Xbone and WiiU are nonstarters that aren't even outselling last gen consoles. The Xbone probably has the top locaction on their page because unlike the PC and PS4, it needs all the help it can get. And Xbones are sitting on the shelves while PS4s are always sold out because people are actually buying PS4s.
@Alpolio: you also forget that the Xbox is winning the important game case battle. With Xbox games weighing 2.5g less than PS4, that adds up to an important 4.3% transportation saving for Ubi and others. Factor in increased shelf height and more hours per spend by top 5% whale market then you'd have to be on swamp gas to think Sony is winning this war.
I googled that and I found a drop test. The Xbone won with flying colors. Microsoft obviously learned a great deal from the RROD fiasco. This does bring up a side note that I have. My PS4's disc eject is starting to go out. I just wish that I saw that drop test in 2013. Oh well... Lesson learned. Now back on topic. I found another site that features the Xbone first. http://www.newegg.com/Gaming/Store I bet they based this on that drop test. You know, NewEgg is all about build quality.
Hmmm. The last time I heard someone mention swamp gas as a sales factor quaid was still here. Conspiracy theory intensifies.
Xbox has been down for 7 hours. Microsoft needs to work on service uptime instead of focusing on Top Locaction..
Rise of the Tomb Raider has already sold three times as many copies on Steam as it sold on the Xbox One in the same time frame. lol http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-first-month-pc-sales-almos/1100-6435094/ This was supposed to be one of the Xbone's big AAA timed exclusives, but it sounds like it's way more popular on Steam. This is a good example of why Quantum Break needs to be on Steam. No one owns an Xbone, and no Steam release of the PC version = guaranteed flop.
That really wouldn't help MS either. That would just confirm that MS bought time exclusive rights for a game that nobody really wanted. It's quite mind boggling what MS was thinking when acquiring the rights for tomb raider.. it was never a huge title begin with. I'm not sure if you guys followed the launch for the game on the Xbox. Black ops 3 launched on the friday before it came out. Then it launched on Tuesday alongside Fallout 4. It was the worst timing ever for microsoft.. they completely screwed themselves over with it.