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PS4 passes 63.3 million shipped (as of June 30)
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Aaah, I see. Makes sense. Thanks
Congratulations, Sony. It looks like they're on track to hitting their 78m target by the end of the fiscal year.
You already answered your own question. You truly expect Sony to ship 6.7M consoles during the next three quarters? That's a ludicrous prediction, and it sounds like you're trolling.
You already answered your own question. You truly expect Sony to ship 6.7M consoles during the next three quarters? That's a ludicrous prediction, and it sounds like you're trolling.
butman
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Melchiah
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Wii?
There are gaffer here who bought for around 1/5 of the current price back in 2012-13.
KillerMan91
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If games division hits that revenue forecast of 1,980 trillion yen this FY it will be new record for console manufacturer. Previous record was Nintendo during height of Wii & DS era when Fy2008 they had revenue of 1,838 trillion yen. Of course operating profit wise not going to touch Nintendos record from that year (555 billion yen).
Not yet but that starts to change this year. Nintendo shipped around 15 million Wiis during FY2010. Sony is forecasting 18 million for this FY and I don't see reason to doubt them hitting that.
Not yet but that starts to change this year. Nintendo shipped around 15 million Wiis during FY2010. Sony is forecasting 18 million for this FY and I don't see reason to doubt them hitting that.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
isn't it ahead of Wii on the same life period?
Everyone insists in this idea, even though a handheld is, clearly, a console? (i.e. a video game console).
If, each time you all say console, you mean, home console, maybe you should start using the appropiate term!?
because, apparently, a handheld is not a console
potatohead
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Dont think so ps2 was 99 late in lifecyle I don't see ps4 getting there
100 million more is still far away and price will be moat important factor
Devilgunman
Member
China growth y/y is big*, and justifies the huge amount of attention Sony as a whole are putting on it.
*Smaller base, but it's already larger than 'other areas' and out of AP I think it should be near South Korea
Revenue from China + Pacific Asia is already larger than the US counterpart. It's funny that these regions aren't being discussed very often.
Easily if Sony can get the PS4 down to $99 with a late cycle hardware revision. Even if $150 is as low as it goes I still think they have a shot at 200 million units with the much larger gaming market and power of the Playstation brand.
Throwaway123456789
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Uhm, have you been paying attention to how much it's sold every year?
They sold 20 million in FY 2016
They sold 17.7 million in FY 2015
They sold 14.8 million in FY 2014
This first quarter is just a 200k drop year-over-year, or less than 6 percent. If this keeps up they'll hit 18.8 million this fiscal year.
For them to hit your hat-eating shock number of 75 million, they would have to have a staggering 30 percent drop the rest of the year. That's very unlikely.
If they drop a couple of million this holiday season, which is absolutely possible, it still means they'll hit almost 77 million. I don't see this train stopping for no reason.
This just isn't going to happen. 150 or 200 million is a crazy number. PS2 was introduced and sold well in a bunch of countries late and was a cheap DVD player, and the PS3 launch was such a disaster people didn't want to upgrade. A PS5 would most likely kill off any PS4 sales.
MisterR
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It will easily pass the Wii.
I don't think so, i don't think any console will oursell the ps2 whilst there's 3 big consoles on the market tbh
Omnistalgic
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I'm not sure about that. I think PS4's library is really strong. Good enough to sell alongside PS5 I think. Remember, many people only want a console when it has 2000+ games on it. $150 PS4 would do well I believe in other countries.
I don't think it'll surpass PS2 though, but become the 2nd best selling home console around the 125-130 mark.
HeWhoWalks
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Yes, a SKU like this would need a Firmware Update. The thinking was cheap and slow eMMC Flash for the OS ( which is about 100GB ) and every thing else on the external memory the user has to provide.
A SKU without the Blu-Ray drive would also be possibility.
LMFAO!! Robot trolling is funny as shit.
phantasmic_glaive
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Lawd 😂
Neuromancer
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The #fortheplayers ad campaign really backfired.
We will know much earlier, Sony will announce a sold through number probably at CES and it will be over 70 million
Want a bet? (On surpassing wii)
Hydrargyrus
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Congrats, fantastic numbers!
Really deserved
Really deserved
Acquiescence
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Yeah, it'll so pass the Wii. My money's on it ending up somewhere between the PS1 and PS2, but closer to the former. So 115 million units or something like that.
5 more and it'll overtake the 3DS. Think about that!
5 more and it'll overtake the 3DS. Think about that!
DriftingSpirit
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I say 110-120M LTD.
SolidSnakex
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Yeah, a very small gap between them. 102.49 for the PSone and 101.63 for the Wii.
LegendofLex
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No.
Wii was at 73.97 million at this point in its life.
The PS4 forecast for this year (18m units) would only get PS4 about 3m units toward closing the 10m unit gap vs. Wii's FY3/2011 sales (15.08m sales). I'm more curious what the drop will be like next year if we maintain Sony's expectations that PS4 peaked last year.
I fully expect Sony to remain behind Wii until the point in Wii's life that Wii U was introduced. How far it goes after that depends entirely on how long the software support continues/when a hypothetical PS5 comes out. Wii's worthwhile software pipeline was basically done two years before Wii U launched, so PS4 is going to be working from an inherent positional advantage due to the inevitability of sustained third-party support.
pretty done
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Pro was still needed for the 4K push.
4K is whats hot right now, and they would have looked like idiots pedaling 1080p and lower while MS would be doing native 4K. I know I would switch my main console if one of them was last gen as fuck while the other was actually supporting my TV's res.
As a whole, but as mentioned below, Sony Finance is the other big earner and is just Japan. Without it I'd think the Japan share is way worse.
Only Fate/GO. But that's a wild, wild success even if it's under Aniplex/Sony Music rather than SIE (Still Sony, so meh). 5th (!) worldwide in global revenue in Q2
https://sensortower.com/blog/top-mobile-games-q2-2017
Yeah, China particularly should be talked about more, as well as SK/HK/Taiwan/SEAsia. Many of these countries (not all) are either weaning off their prior piracy reputation (thanks to DRM in many cases, and subscriptions like PS+ for the rest), or companies moving to models that have served the area well previously.
It wasn't long ago that there was little talk about how in Asia the majority in revenue in gaming was free to play due to piracy... Today we have mobile gacha and free-to-play models with microtransaction galore that's driving revenue in same said places.
Folks put ridiculous amounts of money that would cover multiple new games into Fate/GO rolls. Peek in the official US thread if you need evidence of that.
Katana_Strikes
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And this was including only a couple days of Crash sales 😱😜
I hope you ask this in the next Xbox sale thread.
Yagami_Sama
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Impressive.
Not sure how many years Sony plans to keep the PS4 alive, prior to PS5, but they might reach numbers close to PS2.
Not sure how many years Sony plans to keep the PS4 alive, prior to PS5, but they might reach numbers close to PS2.
What??? That would be a 100% YoY decline...
So 20M for 16/17 and you say that "maybe" they'll hit 10M for 17/18??
O my..
Devilgunman
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Another sector generating significant more revenue is their imaging. Sony full-frame mirrorless camera are just killing it.
DriftingSpirit
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Slim.
The PlayStation Pro makes up approximately 20% of current PS4 sales.
So, the slim, by margin of 4-1.
Expect a similar ratio for the Xbox One S to the Xbox One X.
AmuroChan
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Looking at their track record, usually around at least 3-4 years post-new console. They only just stopped manufacturing PS3's earlier this year.
Wow, it's less than 1 million. So, unless something catastrophic happens, the PS4 should pass both. (Also, if I ever thought a console could beat the PS2 was the Wii, but jesus, that thing collapsed)
DriftingSpirit
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LegendofLex
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That's what happens when you have only one major (and underwhelming) first-party tentpole software release in the last two years before the successor launches.
It's frankly miraculous that Wii kept going for as long as it did with the support it was getting from Nintendo post-2010. I think a lot of that has to do with some of its titles continuing to have appeal long after launch + Just Dance, Skylanders, and other third-party success stories continuing to have modest success.