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PS5 Has Outsold Xbox Series X|S 2 To 1, Newly Revealed Sales Data Suggests (www.gamespot.com)
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[โ€“] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm hardly a Sony Stan, but you can call me one if it makes you feel better when I say... I have no idea what you're talking about.

hardware component shortages that were notably specific

What was specific to the PS5 that wasn't shared by the XSX? The specs of are almost identical. Same AMD processor, same generation and architecture, same amount and type of memory. Any supply chain woes that affected one almost certainly affected the other.

Except for that insane proprietary memory expansion card that Xbox uses that cost $200 per TB. It took them 3 years to come up with cheaper options. Meanwhile Sony just uses off the shelf NVME drives whose price has been slowly decreasing ever since the pandemic.

The PS3 was underpowered

It is well documented that the PS3's weakness was the complexity of it's design not necessarily how powerful it was.

the PS5 enabled and enriched scalpers

This is such a confusing statement, it's Not Even Wrong. You make it sound like Sony built scalpability into the PS5. You're angry at the inanimate object? Not what the awful people did with it? People scalped the PS5 because it was in higher demand, not because it was made of gold.

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