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[Captain Toad]

1. I was talking about the main Bethesda studio. Todd Howard's games.

2. There is no actual proof of the best selling platform for Fallout 4 being PS4. Stop saying it unless it comes with proof. 3rd person that has said that now and shown no proof to back it up.

Your proof that Bethesda never relied on their games selling well on PlayStation?

You sound like one of these people last gen who said nobody knows if PS4 is outselling Xbox One because Microsoft hasn't officially released numbers.

Go look at the various monthly game sales last generation for Fallout 4.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Your proof that Bethesda never relied on their games selling well on PlayStation?

Right here ----> (_*_)

 

[bxrz]

Your proof that Bethesda never relied on their games selling well on PlayStation?

You sound like one of these people last gen who said nobody knows if PS4 is outselling Xbox One because Microsoft hasn't officially released numbers.

Go look at the various monthly game sales last generation for Fallout 4.

My proof is Todd Howard literally saying they never prioritized PS versions of their games. If they relied on the PS fanbase, they wouldn't prioritize them last.

Now whats your proof?

 

[DeepEnigma]

My proof is Todd Howard literally saying they never prioritized PS versions of their games. If they relied on the PS fanbase, they wouldn't prioritize them last.

Now whats your proof?

They never prioritized Xbox either. PC was always their lead platform and then ported down from that.

He just won't say that about his new employer, since all that was, was a PR misdirection piece. Him and Philly P are in good company with how they conduct interviews and what information they ambiguously speak.

 

[Kvally]

Phil....WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? Get your inventory figured out.

 

[onQ123]

Phil....WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? Get your inventory figured out.

He will when they make a cheaper to produce Xbox Series X/S

 

[Nothing1234]

He will when they make a cheaper to produce Xbox Series X/S

That split motherboard must be difficult.

 

[MasterCornholio]

That split motherboard must be difficult.

I believe overall the PS5 is just easier to make. Mostly thanks to its simpler design. Sony obviously thought about the ease of manufacturing when they designed that system.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I believe overall the PS5 is just easier to make. Mostly thanks to its simpler design. Sony obviously thought about the ease of manufacturing when they designed that system.

That's been in the design philosophy since the PS4 architect team was formed.

 

[MasterCornholio]

That's been in the design philosophy since the PS4 architect team was formed.

Yep plus Microsoft having to juggle two systems probably doesn't help. I can see why Sony stuck with one SKU and the fruits can be seen with the sales they have.

 

[TheGodfather07]

My proof is Todd Howard literally saying they never prioritized PS versions of their games. If they relied on the PS fanbase, they wouldn't prioritize them last.

Now whats your proof?

Who cares what Todd Howard says?

Imagine you own a business and sell more of your product to one customer over the other, who do you prioritise? How does it make sense to prioritise the one you sell less to? It makes no sense on any level. Of course Bethesda prioritised PS over XB. This is basic stuff that a child could grasp.

Let me make it even easier for you. If Bethesda were still 3rd party and had to release either exclusively on PS or XB, who do they choose? Remember business perspective. Not personal feelings.

 

[Woopah]

What happens in December?

Nintendo holiday sales tend to be weighted towards December, while Sony/MS holiday sales are weighted towards November

Welfare is a Xbox fanboy that always have the perfect excuse why Xbox is not selling well in US. You can find Xbox hw everywhere but he is always ready with a new bs

Matt from NPD/Circana is saying the same thing about Series X supply, and he's not an Xbox fanboy.

 

[MasterCornholio]

Nintendo holiday sales tend to be weighted towards December, while Sony/MS holiday sales are weighted towards November

Matt from NPD/Circana is saying the same thing about Series X supply, and he's not an Xbox fanboy.

It seems like its an issue with both. Issues with demand for the Series S and issues with supply for the Series X. Its probably why the numbers look weird at the moment.

 

[Woopah]

It seems like its an issue with both. Issues with demand for the Series S and issues with supply for the Series X. Its probably why the numbers look weird at the moment.

Agreed, MS has several issues to work out.

 

[Pedro Motta]

That split motherboard must be difficult.

Every component on the XSX seems harder to build. Great build quality tho, but MS put themselves in a position to be at a loss for a very looong time.

 

[Joramun]

The tweet shows 'XBS', does it mean the Series S only? If so, where are the Series X stats? Shouldn't it be combined?

 

[DeepEnigma]

The tweet shows 'XBS', does it mean the Series S only? If so, where are the Series X stats? Shouldn't it be combined?

Xbox Series consoles. Both.

 

[Henry Panic]

I believe overall the PS5 is just easier to make. Mostly thanks to its simpler design. Sony obviously thought about the ease of manufacturing when they designed that system.

Internally.

But from the outside the X looks much simpler than the PS5.

I think that's what's been throwing off the layman folk who are still surprised X is having these problems because on the outside it's a shoe box compared to star trek tower.

Sony has changed the insides of the PS5 to make the console even easier and less costly to make more than once.

For some reason either Microsoft is being stubborn and refuses to do the same, or they are in a position where there's little they can do.

 

[mckmas8808]

It's free on Gamepass, why would it be? People played it and moved on.

If this is the thought process, then I feel bad for those Activision devs if they do get bought out by MS.

 

[Henry Panic]

• they have not released a 10M unit selling game in almost 10 years

Care to post those Xbox software sales charts from 2013-2023 here and have a mod verify the documents?

We don't even know Halo 5 sales, hush.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Care to post those Xbox software sales charts from 2013-2023 here and have a mod verify the documents?

We don't even know Halo 5 sales, hush.

If any of their games in current year have sold over 10m, we would officially have heard about it. They would reverse their going silent with the quickness.

What we do know straight from MS's mouth to the CMA, is that Game Pass cannibalizes sales, and we have seen sales charts after sales charts where games that go on Game Pass never chart for them. Numbers shown or not.

 

[TheGodfather07]

Why is the series x having supply issues though? Nobody seems to know. Why just the US aswell? There's no supply problems in the UK. You can buy directly from Microsoft. It seems like Microsoft themselves are simply prioritising xbox series s. Even in ads, series x is nowhere to be seen. Series X is an afterthought for Microsoft. They want to push series s.

Configure your Xbox Series X | Xbox

 

[mckmas8808]

This were his estimates before the record numbers were revealed by Piscatella. He had to quickly edit hist post after that.

Do people realize that in some respects we should be comparing the full PS5 sale numbers to Xbox Series X numbers only? Like if we are determining how many people are playing current gen games at their highest resolutions and features in the console space.......the PS5 is doing 3-5 times the numbers of the XSX.

 

[Kvally]

3 months after release, 343 stated that they sold through 5 million copies of Halo 5 (confirmed here by Frank) . Pachter had a meeting with Microsoft later on and confirmed that Halo 5 had sold over 10 million.

Sadly, MS never announces sales numbers for their games, so we have no idea how many copies they have sold of games. They are more focused on letting us know 30 million people played Forza Horizon 5.

 

[Kvally]

Why is the series x having supply issues though? Nobody seems to know. Why just the US aswell? There's no supply problems in the UK. You can buy directly from Microsoft

They are hard to find here in Norway too.

 

[TheGodfather07]

They are hard to find here in Norway too.

But why? There's no shortage of parts anymore. It feels as though Microsoft themselves are prioritising series s production over series x. Everytime I see an ad, its always series s and never x.

 

[mckmas8808]

Yep plus Microsoft having to juggle two systems probably doesn't help. I can see why Sony stuck with one SKU and the fruits can be seen with the sales they have.

I remember the days on GAF when people said that making the Series S would be the secert win for MS versus Playstation. And that it was such a good idea, that PS should have had a PS5 Mini.

 

[Kvally]

But why? There's no shortage of parts anymore. It feels as though Microsoft themselves are prioritising series s production over series x. Everytime I see an ad, its always series s and never x.

No idea. I remember Phil said last year that 2023 will be the year that they are hoping to be caught up so you can see them in stores.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/phil...ill-be-supply-constrained-until-2023.1640667/

RIP Eddie!

 

[Henry Panic]

If any of their games in current year

Which isn't what he said, he said the last ten years.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Which isn't what he said, he said the last ten years.

What game would have from them? Halo 5? Nah. I think it peaked long before since it did not have tradition 10m legs on sales charts after the initial frontload. It fell off charts. and MS did not have the console volume for that Now if they made a PC version at the time, then maybe a different story.

Don't believe Pachter's BS.

 

[Woopah]

Do people realize that in some respects we should be comparing the full PS5 sale numbers to Xbox Series X numbers only? Like if we are determining how many people are playing current gen games at their highest resolutions and features in the console space.......the PS5 is doing 3-5 times the numbers of the XSX.

Sales have never been about the number of people "playing current gen games at their highest resolutions and features". Its about the number of boxes sold.

 

[Henry Panic]

I remember the days on GAF when people said that making the Series S would be the secert win for MS versus Playstation. And that it was such a good idea, that PS should have had a PS5 Mini.

S has nothing to do with Xs component difficulties. I keep seeing people have brain farts coming to this conclusion.

The S sku not existing would barely change anything for assembly.

In fact, would Xbox even have 10M sales right now if it wasn't for the S selling during these problems? Probably only 5-7M if X was by itself.

Phil took things as they came instead of planning ahead when it became obvious this would be a problem in 2021. COVID delayed openings and the last of the restriction policies globally that year gave him enough time to do so, but he didn't.

You can only blame Xbox for this situation. They started the generation on good footing, and now there's a chance that's all about to go away.

Coincidentally. The games expected to help Xbox Series X|S back in the early days were also all delayed because of bad or lack of decision making.

Game Pass only works if there's games on it people want to buy a console for, but all the games that were marketed to be those didn't come out because of delays. Even Halo was delayed need we forget.

Almost 3 years later and that leeway is almost gone.

 

[Topher]

Sales have never been about the number of people "playing current gen games at their highest resolutions and features". Its about the number of boxes sold.

Yes, but that is because typically the internals of every box from each company is the same.

 

[Henry Panic]

What game would have from them? Halo 5? Nah. I think it peaked long before since it did not have tradition 10m legs on sales charts after the initial frontload. It fell off charts. and MS did not have the console volume for that Now if they made a PC version at the time, then maybe a different story.

Don't believe Pachter's BS.

We simply have no way of knowing, and Halo 5 had better legs than 4, which sold nearly 9M and 5 was bundled well for a time.

Then there's Players Unknown, TF, and others we don't know the sales of because Microsoft dropped sales number reporting 9 years ago.

Even your previous comment is questionable for the same reason. If Hifi sold 5M hypothetically, I doubt they would announce it.

Even if COD still sells after the purchase 20M copies, they probably won't announce it either.

I hope they'll still give us franchise lifetime however, I want to see when COD becomes the best selling game franchise of all time. I'm convinced it's invincible and learned to no longer doubt the games ability to rebound from low selling entries that still sell 12M easy.

 

[DeepEnigma]

We simply have no way of knowing, and Halo 5 had better legs than 4, which sold nearly 9M and 5 was bundled well for a time.

Then there's Players Unknown, TF, and others we don't know the sales of because Microsoft dropped sales number reporting 9 years ago.

Even your previous comment is questionable for the same reason. If Hifi sold 5M hypothetically, I doubt they would announce it.

Even if COD still sells after the purchase 20M copies, they probably won't announce it either.

I hope they'll still give us franchise lifetime however, I want to see when COD becomes the best selling game franchise of all time. I'm convinced it's invincible and learned to no longer doubt the games ability to rebound from low selling entries that still sell 12M easy.

We have a better idea based on lifetime system sales. We can parse that from tradition splits and sales charts legs of first party games that sell over 10m.

The Xbox One sold a hair over half the 360 in lifetime sales and Game Pass was also introduced just under 4 years into its lifecycle.

All that are major factors against 10m sellers. The game was heavily frontloaded, then dropped off the charts and had slow console sales and a sub service going against it the remainder of the gen.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Lmao people hiding behind the lack of numbers.

Halo 5 didn’t sell ten million, that game had no hype nor momentum after release. Halo 4 barely got to ten million, let’s not start making up fantasy worlds just because MS got caught blushing too many times with their sales numbers.

 

[TheGodfather07]

No idea. I remember Phil said last year that 2023 will be the year that they are hoping to be caught up so you can see them in stores.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/phil...ill-be-supply-constrained-until-2023.1640667/

RIP Eddie!

who's gonna create all the threads on neogaf now!?

 

[Baki]

It's maddening he does these estimates and every time his PS5 numbers are lower than what transpires and his Series figures are higher. funny that. He's only off by the best part of 100K for the PS5 figure...

In fact someone tallied his estimates to what is leaked eventually and his Xbox numbers on average are 5-10% higher and PS5 5-10% lower or something can't recall the exact figures!

He's meant to be a sales guru but has this obvious ingrained bias that influences his estimates.

You can't do much with the limited data available. Their estimation model is simple and relies on gut feel (by their own admission). That's why folks should not consider estimates to be actual numbers.

 

[Henry Panic]

If any of their games in current year have sold over 10m, we would officially have heard about it. They would reverse their going silent with the quickness.

What we do know straight from MS's mouth to the CMA, is that Game Pass cannibalizes sales, and we have seen sales charts after sales charts where games that go on Game Pass never chart for them. Numbers shown or not.

I know I replied to this already,. But SoT looking into it more sold over 2M without GP or Steam, and a few months later sold 5M in 2018.

Separately it was reported over a year ago that the later release on Steam sold 5M copies on Steam alone.

That's already more than 10M copies. Rare themselves supported these numbers.

But they never gave us TOTAL numbers of SoT. This proves that even Rare who is the most transparent Xbox studio is still not giving us helpful sales numbers. Helpful enough to know SoT sold more than 10M copies, but nothing else.

Like how many SoT copies sold from 2018 to 2023 excluding Steam?

For all we know SoT is about to eclipse 20M and we will never know unless someone takes a pic of a document and puts it on a forum.

Xbox has issues giving us First party sales.

Third party too, but sometimes they do reveal them sometimes: https://screenrant.com/pubg-8-million-copies-xbox-one/

8M for pung in 2018, likely way over ten.

 

[PixelatedBeast]

I expect starfield to give a good boost due to all the Bethesda fans on PS who will buy an xbox to play the game.

Naw, lol. Aint nobody chasing a company to throw money at them, when they took money to cut off 45% of their community. Going out to spend 500.00$ for one game, with stiff animations, poor FPS controls and glitches in 2023......when they can play games like Spiderman 2, GT7VR or HFW DLC.

 

[Henry Panic]

No idea. I remember Phil said last year that 2023 will be the year that they are hoping to be caught up so you can see them in stores.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/phil...ill-be-supply-constrained-until-2023.1640667/

RIP Eddie!

Damn, that's from August too.

He also had one he brought up often of them saying that before Black Friday but I can't find it.

News is going to be slow from now on since no one else can find this stuff.

 

[Kvally]

Damn, that's from August too.

He also had one he brought up often of them saying that before Black Friday but I can't find it.

News is going to be slow from now on since no one else can find this stuff.

True. No biggie to me though. I’m looking forward to all the upcoming games this year.

 

[Varteras]

Yep plus Microsoft having to juggle two systems probably doesn't help. I can see why Sony stuck with one SKU and the fruits can be seen with the sales they have.

Obviously we won't know for years yet, but this may go down as yet another monumental blunder for Xbox. Whatever advantage they thought they were getting with their hardware choices seem to be blowing up in their face.

 

[Woopah]

Yes, but that is because typically the internals of every box from each company is the same.

Not necessarily. It wasn't for GameBoy / GameBoy Colour, PS4 / PS4 Pro, DS / DSi, 3DS / new 3DS and Xbox One / Xbox One X. Platforms having different SKUs with different power levels isn't new.

 

[Topher]

Not necessarily. It wasn't for GameBoy / GameBoy Colour, PS4 / PS4 Pro, DS / DSi, 3DS / new 3DS and Xbox One / Xbox One X. Platforms having different SKUs with different power levels isn't new.

That's why I said typically. Those are all iterations from a base unit released at a later date. In the case of the handhelds, they effectively replaced their successors. Has there ever been a situation like Xbox Series S and X where two SKUs had this much difference in processing power released at the same time and competed against each as well as other consoles from the start? Seems like a unique situation to me.

 

[FrankWza]

Since there's a series shortage, they must both be selling at crazy prices on auction and aftermarket sites comparable to when the PS5 wasn't available at retail. Right?

 

[Varteras]

Since there's a series shortage, they must both be selling at crazy prices on auction and aftermarket sites comparable to when the PS5 wasn't available at retail. Right?

StockX is selling them at retail price or below. So, no. Even in a shortage, they're not selling for marked up prices. At least on that site.

Spoiler: StockX

 

[yazenov]

The only shortages MS is facing is the lack of demand, not the lack of supply or components. The sooner people face the reality, the better it is for their mental health. There is no turning things around for MS this generation, even after the Activision Blizzard deal concludes. Its just wishful thinking at this point.

The only X factor will be introduced when the Switch 2 will launch. Otherwise, the sales results will be the same from now on till next generation launches. Rinse and repeat for the next 5 years.

 

[Woopah]

That's why I said typically. Those are all iterations from a base unit released at a later date. In the case of the handhelds, they effectively replaced their successors. Has there ever been a situation like Xbox Series S and X where two SKUs had this much difference in processing power released at the same time and competed against each as well as other consoles from the start? Seems like a unique situation to me.

It is unique to have them launch at the same time, but that's no reason to compare the sales of all PS5s against just one SKU of Xbox Series. All SKUs should be included when comparing platform's sales.

 

[Topher]

It is unique to have them launch at the same time, but that's no reason to compare the sales of all PS5s against just one SKU of Xbox Series. All SKUs should be included when comparing platform's sales.

Yeah, that is the way it has been. Don't think Sony ever released PS4 Pro numbers separately. I don't know. I can see arguments for and against breaking XSS numbers out from XSX, but it doesn't really matter since Microsoft doesn't release numbers regardless.