Impressive enough for sold-in #'s. but sold through would be CRAY! Seems like a lifetime since Sony referenced actual sell through to customers.
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PS4 sells through 1 million units on Day 1 in NA, best start in PS / console history
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Impressive enough for sold-in #'s. but sold through would be CRAY! Seems like a lifetime since Sony referenced actual sell through to customers.
dugdug
Banned
Gotta say, while the games might be a little thin, Sony absolutely nailed launching a new console.
From the early reveal, to telling everyone exactly what they wanted to hear / stealing the show at E3, to the new game annoucements at Gamescom, to the clever ads and slow burn excitement of the last couple months, they didn't really miss a beat.
Driveclub delay was really the only hurdle they missed. Otherwise, a killer year for the brand. Onwards and upwards.
From the early reveal, to telling everyone exactly what they wanted to hear / stealing the show at E3, to the new game annoucements at Gamescom, to the clever ads and slow burn excitement of the last couple months, they didn't really miss a beat.
Driveclub delay was really the only hurdle they missed. Otherwise, a killer year for the brand. Onwards and upwards.
Bet that confirmation of sold rather than shipped must stick in your throat.
Killing_Joke
Member
Sold? Wow. I think this is the best ever, not just PS. Unless Wii had a good launch? don't remember.
Appollowexx
Member
No great feat.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
The RROD became an issue after MS had gained a significant marketshare. People ran out to buy replacement consoles without even calling MS for repairs because they felt that they were missing out playing with their friends. Because of the nature of the RROD that level of brand loyalty is a freak circumstance and probably will never happen again.
That said im still of the view these problems are not dude to any design flaw and is simply down to bad batches from assembly plants that cut corners. Long as sony is pretty proactive, isnt afraid to compensate people affected and recall a bad batch from a retailer or two, they should be fine.
What they categorically cannot do is bury their head in the sand the way Microsoft did in the first few years of the 360s life cycle. There is an issue. Deal with it. Now.
As much as my American brothers and sisters to the south would like to think NA is the US alone, it also incorporated the Canadian and Mexican market.
shu confirms!:
Should add Yosp's tweet to the OP. Sold through over a million is even more impressive.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Damn. That's getting it done, Sony...
Wish I could have contributed but I'm on a budget until Feb. Infamous and less faulty consoles should be around then so it's all good.
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Wish I could have contributed but I'm on a budget until Feb. Infamous and less faulty consoles should be around then so it's all good.
bu bu but the crazies on GAF told me the WiiU's failure was a sign of things to come...
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pieatorium
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it will beat the wiiu's first 10.5 months but Wiiu should do a few hundred k this holiday
shinra-bansho
Member
Hmm, not sure if Yoshida has mispoken, as I don't see the PS4 having sold through 1M units at launch. That would be astounding.
Well on it's way to meeting that fiscal year target though.
Well on it's way to meeting that fiscal year target though.
Neff
Member
Agreed. These shipments should find homes due to launch excitement, but there are several obvious problems with the console, the OS and the controller, and I think the lack of any BC whatsoever particularly is going to come as a nasty surprise for many.
bigboss370
Member
Enjoy you new console Gaf. Lots of great stuff coming your way
thanks. absolutely loving mine, Sony delivered on the promise of Greatness
me too!
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shu confirms!:
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
0.5% would be an exceptionally low failure rate. The failure rate by malfunction in laptops is a little north of 6% (although that usually takes into account a couple of years).
dungtongue
Neo Member
That is an insane number. Good riddance to PS360.
pslayer666
Member
Cool beans. Congrats Sony!!!
You realise PS4 is basically sold out everywhere?
That's 0.5%, so, pretty good?
pieatorium
Member
iirc 400k first week
Why spend more than you have to on marketing if you've sold everything you can make for the foreseeable?
If MS don't have more than Sony in the US, they'll just focus on the global figure. So we'll know if they sell more than 1m because they'll shout it from the rooftops, we'll know if they sell less than 1m because they won't shout about it, but we won't easily know the actual figure if <1m
It seems to be selling out almost everywhere, don't all signs point to them selling through their initial shipment?
Unknown Soldier
Member
I believe Sony has forecasted they will sell (i.e. be able to manufacture, since none will remain unsold) 3 million PS4 by March 2014 or something like that. That's still not Wii U's LTD but if they can keep manufacturing the things at the rate they have been at so far, they should certainly surpass Wii U's LTD by mid-2014.
He has an inside guy that is in the know.
shinra-bansho
Member
Sorry, poor sentence structure.
What I meant was that I don't think the PS4 would have sold through 1M units in 24 hours. I can quite easily see there being enough demand for them to ship that many units to the US though at launch.
If Yoshida hasn't misspoken then colour me very impressed. (Although a 1M launch shipment would also be very good)
TacticalFox88
Banned
European numbers will be batshit insane.
In Japanese he reconfirmed it it is sold through.
Cirekiller
Member
He's at stage 1.
pslayer666
Member
https://twitter.com/amboyes/status/402017082855813120
I suck/too lazy to screen-cap
edit: He deleted it? tsk tsk tsk Adam, you know better than that. You think you could sneak one past us?
Adam Boyes @amboyes said:And an extra special thanks to Antonio. We couldn't have done it without him
I suck/too lazy to screen-cap
edit: He deleted it? tsk tsk tsk Adam, you know better than that. You think you could sneak one past us?
The thumbsticks are still up for debate (though they are turning out to be a problem), but the OS is completely fine and the BC issue has been taken care of through word of mouth and a year of press coverage. It'll come as a shock to some, but not many. Where are you getting this OS issue thing from?
No, no, no they're mostly sitting in a warehouse in a rusty freighter, adrift in the southern ocean. Sony just padding the numbers again.
sleeping_dragon
Banned
The console war is over!Congrat Sony!