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PS4 outselling Xbox One nearly 2-to-1 on eBay
Sony’s system also seems harder to find at online retailers.
A few weeks before the Xbox One and PS4 launched, we noted
that pre-orders for Sony’s system were seeing higher resale demand on
eBay, both in terms of price markups and total auctions. That trend
seems to be continuing after release, with the PS4 producing nearly
twice as many auctions on the site than the Xbox One, according to one
analyst.
“Looks like around 65k PS4s and 33k Xbox One's have sold on [Ebay] to-date,” Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian tweeted as part of a report analyzing the overall market for eBay goods this holiday season. Last month, a report directly from eBay said that 10,000 PS4s sold on the site the weekend after launch. For comparison, eBay sold about 40,000 Xbox 360 systems through early December after that system’s launch in 2005.
The healthy eBay lead for the PS4 might suggest that there is more overall demand for Sony’s system compared to the Xbox One going into Christmas, but it could also be a reaction to the supply chain in the retail market. The Xbox One has generally been easier to find new in stores in recent weeks and is currently in stock at a number of online retailers, while the PS4 sold out almost everywhere and tends to disappear quickly when it does show up in stores.
It’s hard to know if that current retail availability is itself due to differences in overall supplies or in consumer demand; both consoles were running relatively even in overall worldwide sales earlier this month. We’ll know more on which console actually had a better holiday season when we hear about December console sales sometime next month.
“Looks like around 65k PS4s and 33k Xbox One's have sold on [Ebay] to-date,” Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian tweeted as part of a report analyzing the overall market for eBay goods this holiday season. Last month, a report directly from eBay said that 10,000 PS4s sold on the site the weekend after launch. For comparison, eBay sold about 40,000 Xbox 360 systems through early December after that system’s launch in 2005.
The healthy eBay lead for the PS4 might suggest that there is more overall demand for Sony’s system compared to the Xbox One going into Christmas, but it could also be a reaction to the supply chain in the retail market. The Xbox One has generally been easier to find new in stores in recent weeks and is currently in stock at a number of online retailers, while the PS4 sold out almost everywhere and tends to disappear quickly when it does show up in stores.
It’s hard to know if that current retail availability is itself due to differences in overall supplies or in consumer demand; both consoles were running relatively even in overall worldwide sales earlier this month. We’ll know more on which console actually had a better holiday season when we hear about December console sales sometime next month.
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