PS5/XBS Stock Watch: 2024 and Beyond

Welfare · Oct 6, 2021

Since March 2020 consoles around the world have been in immediate sellout status which has plagued the launch of both new gen systems, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Normally there's enough supply to always satisfy current demand so the only way to get a read on console sales is through a general base line over a period of months and typical boosts in demand such as game releases, price cuts, and seasonal trends.

Not in 2021 with PS5/XBS! The biggest game could launch tomorrow but if no retailer has any stock, no consoles get sold. However, that leaves us in a unique situation. Thanks to every major retailer in the US doing online drops and making events out of having stock for each system, we actually have a record for when each console is in supply. We could even map out which weeks would have more stock than the other based on how many retailers have units that week.

This thread's purpose is to be a record of those drops and an archive of previous drops so we can have a timeline for PS5 and XBS.

But don't think this is just for the US! I'm one person focusing on one country. If you live in the UK or Germany, or anywhere else and can provide something similar, then feel free! Depending on how Switch OLED is handled, we could have that join this thread.

I will be using the NPD schedule to determine week to week and what weeks are in what month.

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Welfare · Oct 6, 2021

October 2021 - Week 1 (October 03 - 09)

PS5

Xbox Series
October 06: Best Buy [1]
October 07: GameStop / Walmart / MS Store [2][3][4]

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Welfare · Oct 6, 2021

September 2021 Week 5 (September 26 - October 02)

PS5
September 28: GameStop / Sony Direct [1][2]
September 30: GameStop [3]
October 01: Target / Best Buy / Sam's Club [4][5][6]

Xbox Series
September 27: Best Buy [7]
September 30: MS Store [8]
October 01: Target [9]
October 02: Costco [10]

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Welfare · Oct 6, 2021

September 2021 Week 4 (September 19 - 25)

PS5
September 20: GameFly [1]
September 21: Amazon / Sony Direct [2][3]
September 22: Sony Direct [4]
September 23: Walmart / Best Buy / Sony Direct [5][6][7]

Xbox Series
September 20: Sam's Club [8]
September 23: GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy / MS Store [9][5][6][10]
September 24: Antonline / Adorama [11][12]

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Best Buy had 301 stores selling PS5/XSX. According to insiders and people who went to the stores the smallest allocation was around 50 consoles each and then the more populated cities got upwards of 100 consoles. PS5/XSX should have sold somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 each.

Amazon PS5 Rankings for the week: #4 PS5 $499 / #21 PS5 Digital $399 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was September 20 - 26) Source

Welfare · Oct 6, 2021

September 2021 Week 3 (September 12 - 18)

PS5
September 13: Antonline [1]
September 14: GameStop / Sony Direct [2][3]
September 15: Sony Direct [4]
September 16: Antonline [5]
September 17: Sony Direct [6]
September 18: Walmart [7]

Xbox Series
September 12: MS Store [8]
September 16: GameStop / MS Store [9][10]

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Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

September 2021 Week 2 (September 05 - 11)

PS5
September 10: Target / Sony Direct [1][2]
September 11: Fred Meyer [3]

Xbox Series
September 09: MS Store / Antonline [4][5]

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Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

September 2021 Week 1 (August 29 - September 04)

PS5
August 31: Antonline / Fred Meyer [1][2]
September 02: Amazon [3]

Xbox Series
August 30: GameFly [4]
September 02: MS Store [5]

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Amazon PS5 Ranking for the week: #5 PS5 Digital $399 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was August 30 - September 05) Source

Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

September Full Month (August 29 - October 02)

PS5 - NPD: ?

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Amazon / Antonline / Fred Meyer	Source
2	Target / Sony Direct / Fred Meyer	Source
3	GameStop / Walmart / Sony Direct (3) / Antonline (2)	Source
4	Walmart / Amazon / Best Buy / Sony Direct (3) / GameFly	Source
5	GameStop (2) / Target / Best Buy / Sony Direct / Sam's Club	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: ?

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	MS Store / GameFly	Source
2	MS Store / Antonline	Source
3	GameStop / MS Store (2)	Source
4	GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy / MS Store / Sam's Club / Antonline / Adorama	Source
5	Target / Best Buy / MS Store / Costco	Source

Notes
Amazon Full Month Rankings: #12 PS5 $499 / #15 PS5 Digital $399 (Amazon full month goes from September 01 to September 30) Source

Best Buy had 301 stores selling PS5/XSX on September 23. According to insiders and people who went to the stores the smallest allocation was around 50 consoles each and then the more populated cities got upwards of 100 consoles. PS5/XSX should have sold somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 each.

The second GameStop in PS5 Week 5 was a limited region in store event. A few thousand would have been sold, not on the same level as an online drop.

Target will sell Xbox Series X|S whenever they get stock. This is opposite of what they do for PS5 and what every other retailer does which holds onto stock until a specific day. For example if Target stores received Xbox units on September 13 those stores would sell them that day. If PS5 were sent on September 13 they would not be sold until Target's set date of September 19.

General reading of the month, Weeks 1 and 2 are the slow weeks. Week 3 should is an improvement, I would say Week 4 is the peak of the month, then Week 5 is the second best week. The below is my reading of the week to week. ~ = similar sales to the above. + = up from week above, - = down from week above.

Week 1
~ Week 2
+ Week 3
++ Week 4
- Week 5

Star Ocean · Oct 7, 2021

Excellent Analyses.

Upcoming NPD Results will be interesting.

Xevross · Oct 7, 2021

Great thread, will be interesting to follow. Does your prediction of PS5 having a massive (~500k) month for September still hold, Welfare?

I wonder how much stock of PS5 Amazon got, that could be the biggest difference.

Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

Xevross said:
Great thread, will be interesting to follow. Does your prediction of PS5 having a massive (~500k) month for September still hold, Welfare?

I wonder how much stock of PS5 Amazon got, that could be the biggest difference.

Right now I'm predicting around 450K. Xbox has been disappointing in comparison. I would be shocked if it goes over 300K.

Xevross · Oct 7, 2021

Welfare said:
Right now I'm predicting around 450K. Xbox has been disappointing in comparison. I would be shocked if it goes over 300K.

PS5 over XBS has two Amazon drops, an extra Walmart drop, more at target (?) and two antonline drops. I guess that's quite significant, also I think Sony direct tends to sell more than MS store right?

RexNovis · Oct 7, 2021

WelFare already making waves I see haha. Excited to see more *interesting* sales threads from ya man

Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

Xevross said:
PS5 over XBS has two Amazon drops, an extra Walmart drop, more at target (?) and two antonline drops. I guess that's quite significant, also I think Sony direct tends to sell more than MS store right?

Yeah I believe Sony Direct sells more than the MS Store. Just in general PS5 sends more stock than Xbox. I think two big parts are 1) The cloud servers needing X chips which just got finished and 2) The Halo Xbox. June showed Xbox can have plenty of units, but right now they could be self limited until November.

^Thanks Rex!

Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

August 2021 Week 4 (August 22 - 28)

PS5
August 24: Sony Direct [1]
August 25: GameStop / Walmart / Walmart / Amazon [2][3][4][5]
August 27: Target [6]
August 28: Meijer [7]

Xbox Series
August 24: GameStop / Walmart / Antonline / HEB [8][8][9][10]
August 25: Walmart / Walmart / Amazon / MS Store / Antonline / Dell [11][4][12][13][14][15]
August 26: MS Store / BJ's [16][17]

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Amazon rankings for the week: #2 PS5 $499 / #5 Series S $299 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was August 23 - 29) Source

Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

August 2021 Week 3 (August 15 - 21)

PS5
August 17: GameStop / Sony Direct [1][2]
August 19: Sony Direct / Costco [3][4]

Xbox Series
August 17: GameStop [1]
August 18: MS Store [5]
August 19: Costco [4]

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Welfare · Oct 7, 2021

August 2021 Week 2 (August 08 - 14)

PS5
August 10: Target [1]
August 12: Walmart (2) / Best Buy / Sam's Club / Antonline [2][3][4][5]
August 13: Antonline [6]

Xbox Series
August 11: MS Store [7]
August 12: Walmart (2) [2]

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Welfare · Oct 8, 2021

August 2021 Week 1 (August 01 - 07)

PS5
August 03: GameStop [1]
August 04: GameFly [2]
August 05: Walmart / Antonline [3][4]

Xbox Series
August 05: Walmart / Dell [3][5]

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Welfare · Oct 8, 2021

August Full Month (August 01 - 28)

PS5 - NPD: ~310K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	GameStop / Walmart / GameFly / Antonline	Source
2	Walmart (2) / Target / Best Buy / Sam's Club / Antonline (2)	Source
3	GameStop / Sony Direct (2) / Costco	Source
4	GameStop / Walmart (2) / Amazon / Target / Sony Direct / Meijer	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: ~190K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source
1	Walmart / Dell	Source
2	Walmart (2) / MS Store	Source
3	GameStop / MS Store / Costco	Source
4	GameStop / Walmart (3) / Amazon / MS Store (2) / Antonline (2) / Dell / BJ's / HEB	Source

Notes
Amazon full month rankings: #6 PS5 $499 / #10 Xbox Series S $299 (Amazon full month goes from August 01 to August 31) Source

Target will sell Xbox Series X|S whenever they get stock. This is opposite of what they do for PS5 and what every other retailer does which holds onto stock until a specific day. For example if Target stores received Xbox units on August 13 those stores would sell them that day. If PS5 were sent on August 13 they would not be sold until Target's set date of August 19.

General reading of the month, every week for the PS5 was good to great. It would seem like Weeks 1, 2, and 3 were around the same level with Week 4 being the peak week. Xbox Series in contrast looks to have slowly built up over the month, peaking in Week 4.

Since we have somewhat accurate NPD results, we could map out sales like this. Not meant to be 100% accurate but a good visual.

Week #	PS5	Xbox Series
1	50,000	20,000
2	60,000	35,000
3	60,000	35,000
4	140,000	100,000
Total	310,000	190,000

Welfare · Oct 9, 2021

July 2021 Week 4 (July 25 - 31)

PS5
July 26: Meijer [1]
July 27: GameStop [2]
July 29: Walmart [3]
July 30: Target [4]

Xbox Series
July 27: MS Store [5]
July 29: Walmart / MS Store [3][6]

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Welfare · Oct 9, 2021

July 2021 Week 3 (July 18 - 24)

PS5
July 20: Sony Direct [1]
July 21: Costco / Meijer [2][3]
July 22: Amazon [4]
July 22: Walmart [5]
July 23: Bust Buy [6]
July 24: Target / Meijer [7][8]

Xbox Series
July 20: GameStop / MS Store / Adorama [9][10][11]
July 21: Best Buy / Costco [12][2]
July 22: Walmart / MS Store [5][13]
July 23: Best Buy / MS Store / Costco [14]

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Amazon rankings for the week: #3 PS5 $499 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was July 19 - 25) Source

Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

July 2021 Week 2 (July 11 - 17)

PS5
July 14: Best Buy / Antonline [1][2]
July 15: GameStop [3]
July 16: Sony Direct / Sam's Club / Antonline [4][5][6]

Xbox Series
July 14: Best Buy [7]
July 15: GameStop / Best Buy [8][9]
July 16: MS Store / Antonline / Adorama [10][11][12]

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Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

July 2021 Week 1 (July 04 - 10)

PS5
July 06: Antonline [1]
July 09: Target [2]

Xbox Series
July 08: Adorama [3]

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Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

July Full Month (July 04 - 31)

PS5 - NPD: ~260K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Target / Antonline	Source
2	GameStop / Best Buy / Sony Direct / Sam's Club / Antonline (2)	Source
3	Walmart / Amazon / Target / Bust Buy / Sony Direct / Costco / Meijer (2)	Source
4	GameStop / Walmart / Target / Meijer	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: ~160K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Adorama	Source
2	GameStop / Best Buy (2) / MS Store / Antonline / Adorama	Source
3	GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy (2) / MS Store (3) / Costco (2) / Adorama	Source
4	Walmart / MS Store (2)	Source

Notes
Amazon full month rankings: #11 PS5 $499 (Amazon full month goes from July 01 to July 31) Source

Target will sell Xbox Series X|S whenever they get stock. This is opposite of what they do for PS5 and what every other retailer does which holds onto stock until a specific day. For example if Target stores received Xbox units on July 13 those stores would sell them that day. If PS5 were sent on July 13 they would not be sold until Target's set date of July 19.

General reading of the month, Week 1 is the lowest selling week and possibly next to nothing for both consoles. Target that week was noted to be a small drop. Week 3 for both is also clearly the peak. PS5 Week 2/4 are around the same thanks to Week 4 having Walmart and Target in place of Best Buy and Sony Direct, and XBS Week 2 has more stores than Week 4.

Since we have somewhat accurate NPD results, we could map out sales like this. Not meant to be 100% accurate but a good visual.

Week #	PS5	Xbox Series
1	10,000	1,000
2	60,000	40,000
3	125,000	89,000
4	65,000	30,000
Total	260,000	160,000

Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June 2021 Week 5 (June 27 - July 03)

PS5
June 29: Best Buy [1]
July 01: GameStop / Walmart / Sam's Club [2][3][4]

Xbox Series
June 29: Best Buy [5]
July 01: Walmart / Costco [3][6]

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Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June 2021 Week 4 (June 20 - 26)

PS5
June 23: Amazon / Sony Direct [1][2]
June 24: Best Buy / Costco [3][4]
June 25: Antonline [5]

Xbox Series
June 22: Amazon / Walmart [6][7]
June 23: GameStop / Target / Best Buy / Costco [8][9][10][11]
June 24: Best Buy [12]
June 25: Costco [13]

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Amazon rankings for the week: #4 Xbox Series X $499 / #5 PS5 $499 / #6 Xbox Series S $299 / #57 PS5 Digital $399 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was June 21 - 27) Source

Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June 2021 Week 3 (June 13 - 19)

PS5
June 14: Walmart / Antonline [1][2]
June 16: Target [3]
June 17: Walmart / Sony Direct [4][5]
June 18: GameStop / Sam's Club [6][7]

Xbox Series
June 14: Sam's Club / Antonline [8][9]
June 16: GameStop [10]
June 17: Walmart [4]

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The Xbox GameStop drop was an in store event across all GameStop's nation wide. I “surveyed” over 60 pictures/stores and came to the following average store amount. Note that some people didn’t post a pic, only stating what the store had. This led to a lot of them only posting the X number, not the S. There is a correlation between the number of X to S sent, so any missing number can be filled in pretty accurately.

702 confirmed X
162 confirmed S
89 confirmed combined (No split given)

Just off that, it’s an average of ~15 Xbox’s, but many S are uncounted because of posters only caring to reveal the X amount. Of the available X and S numbers, there is a consistent ~65:35 going on. If a store got ~18-22 X, they would get ~8-12 S. ~4-8 X, ~2-4 S. You get it?

Factoring that in, that total number averages out closer to nearly 19 Xbox’s sent to each GameStop. GameStop Twitter also confirmed all stores were receiving units. There were 3,192 stores in the US as of January 30 and GameStop noted they plan to further downsize. Assuming a slow rate in the 4 ½ months since then, I would put GameStop down to nearly ~3,000. Maybe closer to ~3,100.

That would mean a good range of 55,000 - 60,000.

Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June 2021 Week 2 (June 06 - 12)

PS5
June 07: GameFly [1]
June 08: Antonline [2]
June 09: Antonline [3]

Xbox Series
June 08: MS Store / Antonline [4][5]
June 10: Best Buy [6]
June 11: Sam's Club [7]

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Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June 2021 Week 1 (May 30 - June 05)

PS5
June 03: Best Buy [1]

Xbox Series
June 03: Best Buy [2]

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Notes
I had written down that a small PS5 Digital Edition drop happened at Walmart this week at like 4AM but I've run into the problem where Twitter only shows the last 3,200 tweets of an account and I can't find it reported anywhere else. It was most likely a tiny amount but still needs to be noted.

Welfare · Oct 10, 2021

June Full Month (May 30 - July 03)

PS5 - NPD: ~250K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Best Buy / Walmart*	Source
2	GameFly / Antonline (2)	Source
3	GameStop / Walmart (2) / Target / Sony Direct / Sam's Club / Antonline	Source
4	Amazon / Best Buy / Sony Direct / Costco / Antonline	Source
5	GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy / Sam's Club	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: ~330K (Based on ranges through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Best Buy	Source
2	Best Buy / MS Store / Sam's Club / Antonline	Source
3	GameStop / Walmart / Sam's Club / Antonline	Source
4	GameStop / Walmart / Target / Amazon / Best Buy (2) / Costco (2)	Source
5	Walmart / Best Buy / Costco	Source

Notes
*See Source Post

Amazon full month rankings: #13 Xbox Series S $299 / #16 Xbox Series X $499 / #22 PS5 $499 (Amazon full month goes from June 01 to June 30) Source

Basically XBS outsold PS5 2:1 at Amazon.

Target will sell Xbox Series X|S whenever they get stock. This is opposite of what they do for PS5 and what every other retailer does which holds onto stock until a specific day. For example if Target stores received Xbox units on June 13 those stores would sell them that day. If PS5 were sent on June 13 they would not be sold until Target's set date of June 19.

The Xbox GameStop drop in Week 3 was an in store event across all GameStop's nation wide. I “surveyed” over 60 pictures/stores and came to the following average store amount. Note that some people didn’t post a pic, only stating what the store had. This led to a lot of them only posting the X number, not the S. There is a correlation between the number of X to S sent, so any missing number can be filled in pretty accurately.

702 confirmed X
162 confirmed S
89 confirmed combined (No split given)

Just off that, it’s an average of ~15 Xbox’s, but many S are uncounted because of posters only caring to reveal the X amount. Of the available X and S numbers, there is a consistent ~65:35 going on. If a store got ~18-22 X, they would get ~8-12 S. ~4-8 X, ~2-4 S. You get it?

Factoring that in, that total number averages out closer to nearly 19 Xbox’s sent to each GameStop. GameStop Twitter also confirmed all stores were receiving units. There were 3,192 stores in the US as of January 30 and GameStop noted they plan to further downsize. Assuming a slow rate in the 4 ½ months since then, I would put GameStop down to nearly ~3,000. Maybe closer to ~3,100.

That would mean a good range of 55,000 - 60,000.

General reading of the month, Weeks 1 and 2 were dreadfully slow. This was made up for by explosive Weeks 3 and 4. This aligns with the end of the quarter (April - June) which makes sense. The same happened with March and September.

Since we have somewhat accurate NPD results, we could map out sales like this. Not meant to be 100% accurate but a good visual.

Week #	PS5	Xbox Series
1	10,000	10,000
2	2,000	25,000
3	95,000	90,000
4	88,000	175,000
5	55,000	30,000
Total	250,000	330,000

Welfare · Oct 11, 2021

May 2021 Week 4 (May 23 - 29)

PS5
May 24: Best Buy [1]
May 26: GameStop [2]
May 27: Target / Amazon [3][4]

Xbox Series
May 24: Best Buy [5]
May 26: GameStop [2]
May 27: Target [6]
May 28: Costco [7]

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Welfare · Oct 11, 2021

May 2021 Week 3 (May 16 - 22)

PS5
May 17: Sam's Club [1]
May 19: GameStop [2]
May 20: Walmart / Sony Direct / Sam's Club [3][4][5]

Xbox Series
May 17: MS Store [6]
May 18: Target [7]
May 19: Target [8]
May 20: Walmart / MS Store / Antonline [9][10][11]

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Starting this week, Target changed how they would sell Xbox Series X|S.

Welfare · Oct 11, 2021

May 2021 Week 2 (May 09 - 15)

PS5
May 12: GameStop / Sony Direct [1][2]
May 13: Best Buy [3]

Xbox Series
May 11: Xbox Insider [4]
May 12: BJ's [5]
May 13: MS Store [6]
May 14: Antonline [7]

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Xbox Insider is something that starts here but no one really reports on it since you have to own an Xbox One to take advantage. It's technically a thing after May 11 but I don't know when the drops happen.

Welfare · Oct 11, 2021

May 2021 Week 1 (May 02 - 08)

PS5
May 06: Walmart / Best Buy [1][2]

Xbox Series
May 03: MS Store / Costco [3][4]
May 05: GameStop / Best Buy [5][6]
May 06: Walmart / MS Store [7][8]
May 07: Costco [9]
May 08: MS Store [10]

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Welfare · Oct 11, 2021

October 2021 - Week 2 (October 10 - 16)

PS5
October 11: Best Buy [1]
October 13: Target / Sony Direct / Antonline [2][3][4]
October 15: Dell [5]

Xbox Series
October 12: Antonline [6]
October 15: MS Store [7]

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Sony has announced they will have PS5's available to be directly purchased from them this holiday and are opening up registration. Source

Welfare · Oct 17, 2021

October 2021 - Week 3 (October 17 - 23)

PS5
October 19: GameStop [1]
October 20: Sony Direct [2]
October 21: Best Buy / Sony Direct [3][4]
October 22: GameStop / Sony Direct / Sam's Club / Antonline [5][6][7][8]

Xbox Series
October 17: Target [9]
October 18: Amazon / Antonline / GameFly [10][11][12]
October 21: MS Store [13]
October 22: Antonline [14]

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Amazon rankings for the week: #8 Xbox Series S $299 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was October 18 - 25) Source

Target is now selling Xbox in stores again.

Dr_Jarko · Oct 21, 2021

In Japan seems like series S is getting more widely available, is in stock in Amazon since a couple of days (still in stock now) and I even saw 2 in my local GEO store selling at retail price this weekend. No sign of availability for Series X or PS5 though.

Welfare · Oct 26, 2021

October 2021 - Week 4 (October 24 - 30)

PS5
October 26: GameStop / Amazon / Sony Direct / Gamefly [1][2][3][4]
October 27: Target [5]
October 28: Walmart / Antonline / Costco [6][7][8]
October 29: GameStop / Best Buy [9][10]

Xbox Series
October 26: GameStop [11]
October 28: MS Store [12]
October 29: Best Buy [13]

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Target is now selling Xbox in stores again as of October 17. Multiple reports over the week of people buying Series X's from there.

Welfare · Nov 1, 2021

November 2021 - Week 1 (October 31 - November 06)

PS5
November 01: Walmart [1]
November 02: Walmart / Costco [2][3]
November 05: Walmart [4]

Xbox Series
November 01: Walmart [1]
November 02: Walmart / MS Store [2][5]
November 03: Best Buy [6]
November 04: MS Store / B&H [7][8]
November 05: Walmart [4]

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Welfare · Nov 1, 2021

October Full Month (October 03 - 30)

PS5 - NPD: ???

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1		Source
2	Target / Best Buy / Sony Direct / Antonline / Dell	Source
3	GameStop (2) / Best Buy / Sony Direct (3) / Sam's Club / Antonline	Source
4	GameStop (2) / Walmart / Target / Best Buy / Amazon / Sony Direct / Antonline / Costco / Gamefly	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: ???

Week #	Stores	Source
1	GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy / MS Store	Source
2	MS Store / Antonline	Source
3	Target / Amazon / MS Store / Antonline (2) / GameFly	Source
4	GameStop / Best Buy / MS Store	Source

Notes
Amazon full month rankings: #11 PS5 $499 / #30 Xbox Series S $299 (Amazon full month goes from October 01 to October 31) Source

Target began selling Xbox in stores again October 17.

GameStop had two limited in store events selling PS5 in certain states. Limited reported pointed to stores having up to 50 units.

Yes, the PS5 had no drops in Week 1.

A general reading, we know Sony plans to match/exceed PS4 shipments in the same time frame, and has generally kept to that with worldwide shipments of PS5 life to date only being 400K behind PS4. PS5 continues to sell out in the US while PS4 was readily available by this point in the year, and for a comparison the PS4 sold 297K in the October 2014 NPD. The only downside to PS5 this month is the complete lack of sales in Week 1. Technically, PS5 is only going to have 3 weeks of sales. To compensate, they put up a hell of a fight in stocking the PS5. Every major retailer saw supply and most retailers saw multiple restocks. I would say that sales should have been trending up every week, peaking at Week 4.

Xbox was a bit more spaced out but one big blind spot is Series S. Who knows where that's selling most of the time because only the Series X gets mentioned by stock watchers. GameStop always has an All Access option and Target could be a good reason as they don't publicize when Xbox drops, Amazon will always get mentioned since they get stock like once a month, maybe two. All we are left with is Series X and, this month was alright? I would say Week 3 was the peak thanks to Amazon, then Week 1, Week 4, then Week 2. One thing to note about Xbox is that throughout the year it has progressively grown, from the absolute bottom of January to what I would say is nearly double that now. The brand is also historically a major holiday performer so maybe we get surprised by the amount of units available this month. Microsoft did make note that they managed to ship more units than expected last quarter, so maybe.

Welfare · Nov 1, 2021

May Full Month (May 02 - 29)

PS5 - NPD: <160K (Through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source Post
1	Walmart / Best Buy	Source
2	GameStop / Best Buy / Sony Direct	Source
3	GameStop / Walmart / Sony Direct / Sam's Club (2)	Source
4	GameStop / Target / Best Buy / Amazon	Source

Xbox Series - NPD: <170K (Through calculations)

Week #	Stores	Source
1	GameStop / Walmart / Best Buy / MS Store (3) / Costco (2)	Source
2	MS Store / Antonline / Xbox Insider / BJ's	Source
3	Walmart / Target (2) / MS Store (2) / Antonline	Source
4	GameStop / Target / Best Buy / Costco	Source

Notes
Amazon full month rankings: #8 PS5 $499 / #78 Xbox Series S $299 (Amazon full month goes from May 01 to May 31) Source

Target changed how they would sell Xbox Series X|S on May 18 (Week 3) to no longer being an "event" as in not hoarding supply for weeks for one massive drop, but to instead sell units as they came in.

A general reading is that despite the plentiful restocks, not a lot of units were sent. PS5 in particular since it's the lowest month so far this year. PS5 looks to have started low in Week 1 and grow throughout the month.

Xbox was a bit more sporadic. Week 2 looks like the low point with Week 1 or 3 being the peak, Week 3 depends on if Target got a ton of stock to "commemorate" the switch in selling Xbox consoles.

Welfare · Nov 11, 2021

November 2021 - Week 2 (November 07 - 13)

PS5
November 08: Walmart / Best Buy [1][2]
November 09: Walmart [3]
November 10: Costco / Gamefly [4][5]
November 11: Best Buy / Sony Direct [6][7]
November 12: Target / Sam's Club [8][9]

Xbox Series
November 09: Costco [10]
November 10: GameStop / Best Buy [11][12]
November 11: Target [13]
November 12: Target [14]

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Since Target sells Xbox whenever it arrives in stores, technically it's a potential all week availability, but since I saw some tweets on it might as well mention it.

Welfare · Nov 15, 2021

November 2021 - Week 3 (November 14 - 20)

PS5
November 15: Best Buy [1]
November 16: Sony Direct [2]
November 18: Walmart / Best Buy / Sony Direct [3][4][5]
November 19: Target [6]

Xbox Series
November 15: GameStop / Walmart / Target / Best Buy / Amazon / MS Store / Antonline / Costco [7]
November 16: MS Store [8]
November 17: Sam's Club [9]
November 18: Walmart / Best Buy / MS Store / Costco [3][10][11][12]
November 19: GameStop [13]

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[13] Xbox All Access was available before the 19th but I didn't see anyone comment on it.

Notes
Amazon rankings for the week: #94 Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Edition $549 (Amazon weeks are from Monday to Sunday, so this week was November 15 - 21) Source

[7] Best Buy estimated to have sold ~14K based on 177 stores having an average of 80 units.

[11]Xbox Series S Fortnite and Rocket League $299 Bundle was announced and sold at "participating retailers" November 18. GameStop has it listed as Unavailable with a release date of November 18, Amazon says it releases January 31, 2022. Best Buy website won't sell it until December 02, Walmart and Target don't show it, and the MS Store forces you to bundle it with additional games and accessories which boost the price to a minimum of $380. Any retailer not the MS Store that would be selling is either waiting until Black Friday or is already selling it in store potentially.

Microsoft is now sending out emails with direct links to buying an Xbox Series X: https://gamingintel.com/microsoft-xbox-series-x-restock-invitations/

SoonyXboneUhh · Nov 15, 2021

Welfare said:
November 2021 - Week 3 (November 14 - 20)

PS5

Xbox Series
November 15: GameStop / Walmart / Target / Best Buy / Amazon / MS Store / Antonline / Costco [1]

[1] Halo Series X Launch, every store listed either had pre orders or sold units the day of. Best Buy estimated to have sold ~14K based on 177 stores having an average of 80 units.

Was Best Buy just the ~14k in store, or also online sales for the Series X Halo Bundle?

Welfare · Nov 15, 2021

SoonyXboneUhh said:
Was Best Buy just the ~14k in store, or also online sales for the Series X Halo Bundle?

In store only.

Welfare · Nov 21, 2021

November 2021 - Week 4 (November 21 - 27) * Black Friday Week

PS5
November 22: Walmart / Sony Direct / Costco [1][2][3]
November 23: Amazon [4]
November 25: GameStop / Meijer [5][6]
November 27: Amazon [7]

Xbox Series
November 21: Amazon [8]
November 22: Walmart / Best Buy / Amazon [1][9][10]
November 23: Walmart / Antonline [11][12]
November 24: Amazon [13]
November 25: GameStop / Meijer [5][6]
November 26: GameStop [14]
November 27: Antonline [15]

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Amazon weeks go from Monday - Sunday and Series S was sold on Sunday, so technically it appears in Week 3's rankings. Series S with 1 day placed #10 Source
Actual Week 4 rankings: #2 PS5 $499 / #22 Series X $499 / #30 PS5 DE $399 Source

[11] Series S will be available in store at Walmart on Friday 5AM local time as well

Target sell Xbox in stores now so any day can have stock.

GameStop Analysis: https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/ps5-xbs-stock-watch.24/#post-17017

Microsoft is now sending out emails with direct links to buying an Xbox Series X

allan-bh · Nov 26, 2021

So, any idea of how was the supply for PS5 and Series X on this black friday?

Welfare · Nov 26, 2021

allan-bh said:
So, any idea of how was the supply for PS5 and Series X on this black friday?

Nothing today. I have estimates for GameStop yesterday that are ~50K PS5 and higher for Xbox. Will post that later.

Welfare · Nov 26, 2021

GameStop - Thanksgiving Recap
Like in June, GameStop stores posted public info on how many consoles they would have. I have scoured +100 stores and have some data to share. PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and Switch were sold and 2,541 stores were open on Thanksgiving. I won't focus on Switch since I barely found reports on that.

To start off, it seems like PS5 was available in every store. Didn't see one posted that had 0 PS5. Unfortunately, many only cared to post the PS5 number. That doesn't mean there were no Xbox, just they went unreported. Now, the Series X actually had a number of stores where they didn't get sent. Apparently Microsoft fucked up and couldn't get the units out in time? Series S on the other hand was more available and I would bet is in most stores that appear to be PS5 only. That doesn't mean Series S is at every store either, I did see some stores that didn't have them.

PS5
At 102 confirmed stores (4% of GameStop's), PS5 sold ~1,900 units. That is an average of 18-19 consoles per store. The great thing is that this average was found very early and if I were to only count the first 50 stores, the average is in the same range. Any range of stores, this average holds up.

Extrapolated to 100% of stores, that would equal somewhere between 45,000 and 50,000 units.

Xbox
Because of more limited data, my confidence in this is way lower.

At 42 confirmed stores (1.65% of GameStop's), Xbox Series X|S sold ~1,200 units. Series X was ~530, Series S ~630. 2 reports were vague "Xbox" so I took that as both which was 45 additional combined units. There's a mix of stores that had X only reported, S only, and X with S. I believe every store that had the X also had the S.

The X averaged 20-21 consoles per store (26) and the S averaged 24-25 per store (also 26). Looking at it, almost every store had more S than X, and if X>S, it's only by a few units. Sometimes S would be way ahead of X, one store had 24 X, 47 S. If I went to each store that had an X but no S reported and just made S equal, S jumps up to ~880 (nearly 1,500 total) across 39 stores, or an average of 22-23 per store. Again, that's only assuming the S were equal to X. In all likely hood, most of these stores would have more S, keeping in line with the other 24-25 average.

Comparisons
Looking only at confirmed stores that had both PS5 and Xbox (either SKU), there were 35. Xbox lead PS5 by ~380 units. I suspect many remaining stores had Series S.

Looking at PS5 v S, S almost always had more units. 6 out of 24 stores PS5 equaled or had more than S. At worst, on average if a store had both the PS5 and S, they would be equal or have an S lead.

I can't give a clear estimate for Xbox because of the lack of confirmed stores. The best I can do is low ball?

If only ~80% of stores got the Series S (2,000), then the S sold between 44,000 and 50,000 units.
If only ~70% of stores got the Series X (1,800), then the X sold between 36,000 and 40,000 units.

X could have been lower? S higher? It's hard to say, so maybe a bigger range is needed. Series S could go as high as 60,000 if in 90% of stores and Series X could go as low as 26,000 if only 50% of stores got it. Combined would range between 70,000 and 100,000

In general, Series S looks to have been a match for PS5. Those should've been near equal, with it being likely S sold more. Add on the X and Xbox looks to have taken GameStop during Black Friday week.

This does not include any of the Series S that was sold online at the same time, so adding that, it's highly likely Series S sold more than PS5.

Quick Edit: It appears more Series X will be sold today? If it happens that only grows the gap in favor of Xbox.
Not as quick edit: More Series X was sold today.

SoonyXboneUhh · Nov 26, 2021

Is there some regional pattern on Gamestop stores missing Xbox consoles? That would put more merit to the claim of shipping / destitution issues. So it might not been the manufacturing this time, but logistics.

The remaining units should hit the stores in December then.
I also heard about some people getting the Series S bundle shipped from Gamestop already, while others have to wait longer.
That seems to be related to their distribution centers, too.

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