PS4 was released earlier than the Xbone in 1 country only - the US.
For all the other countries, the PS4 was released 1 week after the Xbone. In fact, the Xbone benefitted from releasing world-wide on the 22nd because the console market internationally is BIGGER than the US, so SONY was the one who was at a release date disadvantage.
Also, if you're so interested in sales given equal amount of weeks, you should remove the last week of PS4 sales in the US, not the first week. But again, the PS4 was released 1 week AFTER the Xbone, so you should actually remove 100,000 from the Xbone's total while keeping the PS4's sales the same.
Going by insider's numbers from NeoGAF, MS lied and the real number sold was 2.8 million. Accounting for the 1 week sales advantage that the Xbone had, we remove 100k from the Xbone sales number and we get 2.7 million vs. 4.2 million for the PS4.
What would happen if we limited numbers to the same countries as the ones Xbone is selling in? Take away 50,000 - 100,000 units from the PS4 total and then re-add 50,000 - 100,000 that SONY would have sold if they were sold in the bigger markets. PS4 is still in massive demand compared to the puny demand of the Xbone. Those units still would have been sold-out within hours.
Furthermore, you're overestimating the impact most of those countries have in the grand scheme of things. The overall impact of those countries in regards to sales is negligible, which is why Microsoft chose to overship 1,000,000 consoles in the US instead of allocating them in the markets the PS4 was at. Despite that, the PS4 and Xbone are selling neck-and-neck in the US. In the US, estimates place the PS4 weekly sales at 74,500 and the Xbone at 75,000. Microsoft should be VERY worried about this. Had there not been a dearth of PS4s in the US, PS4 weekly sales would have trumped the Xbone weekly sales.
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