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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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Poetic.Injustice
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NPD next month is gonna be insane, Can't wait.
Perhaps, but a good launch is by no means an indicator of continual success. Wii U had a fairly decent launch, much better than PS3 and 360 launches, and then essentially flatlined.
Sony is likely to keep momentum, sure, but it's by no means a guarantee.
bigboss370
Member
Next year is Infamous Second Son, Gaikai, added features (mp3, help in someone else's game, suspend/resume), Destiny (PS4 beta first + DLC), The Order, Watch Dogs (exclusive DLC), DriveClub, Diablo 3 (DLC), Ground Zeroes, The Witness, more Indies, perhaps Uncharted....
Nothing stops this train.
Nothing stops this train.
Certainly possible if they have the hardware.
I would have laughed at the idea...but Nintendo seem to be keeping such tight purse strings on their marketing (and what little they are doing is poor) it's hard to see them selling much even in the holidays (I've seen more PS4 and Xbone marketing in the last month than I've seen for the Wii U since its launch 12 months ago).
They have always said the complete opposite. Remember that their most imporant platform currently was supposed to be an impossible niche product in 2010 and onwards. Yet here we are.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Zomg how much you think they could manufacture for this year ?
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/402032195348357120
Wow @ Shu for insisting IGN that it is sell-through.
Wow @ Shu for insisting IGN that it is sell-through.
CaptainTiptop
Member
Oh man, if this is just North America, I can't wait to see Europe lol.
Wow, Gamecube sold that much?
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Apple is pointing at these numbers and laughing. No.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I expect 360 to be just shy of a million units, 3DS well over, and now PS4 hovering somewhere around it.
My initial thought would be a million units first month max. It exceeded that first day. So sky is the limit.
TacticalFox88
Banned
Holiday 2014 is going to be insane.
nextgeneration
Member
Yup, in the grand scheme of things, month 1 sales don't really mean much. You can't put much weight into it. 1 million is phenomenal, but the true test will be during the non holiday months.
NemesisPrime
Banned
How many of those are replacements? 
A million units a month.
Cirekiller
Member
What I got from your post was you essentially saying that Sony games and consoles "do nothing for you" and even though the GameCube and Xbox (OG) didn't sell as well as the PS2, you still enjoyed the games you got on them. Thats fine, and you can and should enjoy what you like, but coming in here only to try and downplay the numbers and then talk about why the numbers don't matter to you isn't fine.
Your original question on why Sony is getting so much praise was fine, if you don't think that people are happy that Sony is getting rewarded for months of the right messaging and specifically targeting the group of gamers that would go on GAF, thats your opinion. But don't bring in your "I don't like Playstation games" into a sales topic and expect not to get called for being off topic.
I won't continue with this conversation any longer.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
With Europe launch in 2 weeks it's pretty safe to assume the PS4 will have outsold WiiU lifetime sales by the end of the year.
Nintendo never stood a chance anyway. The only reason they did good with the Wii is because the other two fukked it up. Not this time. Sony is doing everything right.
TacticalFox88
Banned
Shu telling these mofos how it is.
Is it really that bad?
boyshine
Member
Almost everything is going to the UK. The rest of Europe gets scraps. I only know numbers for my own chain, but I hear it's the same in a lot of countries. There's not going to be any real stock available this year. It's all going to pre-orders, and it doesn't even cover those. From a retail perspective a delay probably would've been preferred.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
There's like 30, 000 on ebay lol.
gundamkyoukai
Member
So i guess depending on how much they make before hand they could sell 3 million plus this year .
As I mentioned earlier, don't forget Planetside 2. I have a feeling that it will have an explosive launch.
deputyspade
Member
I always found the xbox lineup of games to be very "murrican" centric and not very diversified. Sony definitely has much more diversity, especially when you account for all the jrpg's. Too many shooters and moneyhatted third party exclusives for my taste.
I am totally thinking uncharted 4 is a 2014 holiday game, just like the original.
Always never good to assume. Nintendo assumed the Wii U would take off and that people wouldn't be idiotic enough to assume it was a peripheral. Look how that worked out.
Canis lupus
Member
Would you be so kind to post the NPD sources for those?
This actually means PS4 is the biggest console launch in NA. (yes NPD doesn't cover Canada but Canada is 6x smaller than US so its not gonna make a huge difference for the other consoles.)bigboss370
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Acquiescence
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Aye, North America is territory to be taken over, but Europe remains homeland for Sony. The amount of shipped units will be insane I imagine.
Why would a game that's been out for a while be explosive?
BlackBuzzard
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maverick40
Junior Member
The PS4 is not comparable to the Wii u. The Wii u is a shit console with nothing going for it.
Would you be so kind to post the NPD sources for those?
It's the biggest launch in the world. NA was kind of obvious
N64 was actually sold decently in NA. It was a disaster in JP though. The N64 hype probably carried over. I wasn't all that big into games then so I don't really have the best perspective on it.
Nah, Sony can probably produce and deliver 3m units by the end of the year, and Nintendo will probably sell an additional 600k units
No, it's not a shit console with nothing going for it.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
About 1.2m per month right now. I expect they are running at over 100% capacity which is why the QC is quite poor.
TacticalFox88
Banned
Yup!
Fall 2014 pretty much decides who wins this generation. If MS is still behind, by then...they aren't catching up...ever.
oconnomiyaki
Member
Oh no, I'm calm. But I'll elaborate on the vanilla comment. Say you go to a restaurant and on the desert menu there's nothing that really tickles your fancy, but there's some vanilla ice cream. It's a safe bet, relatively inoffensive. That's how I feel about the PlayStation brand. If I own one, then there's things I can pick up on the console, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one just to play those games. In the past, I've been one of those people to own all the consoles because I was young, had no dependents, and a large disposable income. I'm older now -- damn the generation has been long -- and those things no longer hold true. I no longer get every new piece of tech or every gaming console just because. So if vanilla is the only thing on the menu that appeals, maybe I'll just skip desert.
For the record, I don't think the 360 did a particular good job of offering up an alternative flavour. Because last generation we saw so many exclusives go multiplatform, and because anything remotely adventurous often saw the studio shuttered, it's been one of those menus where I'm just like "Fuck it, I'm going to McDonald's."
When I was a teenager, Wipeout was one of the reasons to look at a PlayStation. Today, Sony closed the studio because it wasn't successful enough. Times change, people grow old.
Oh, and Uncharted isn't vanilla, it's chocolate. I'm a strawberry man, myself.
EDIT: Just so I'm clear on why this line of thought has come up, I think that 1 million sales is great for Sony, but I don't necessarily agree that it's great for gamers. Well, at least not all gamers. Indeed, if Sony dominates this generation and forces the other competitors to throw in the towel, then for some gamers that will actually be a bad thing.
Unknown One
Member
Some of the Wii-U fans were looking for an excuse for the poor performance so they blamed the market.
Cirekiller
Member
lol, for those who still doubt it. don't blame em though, this is mighty impressive.
Yup, last nail in the coffin for the unbelievers. No way even the most blinded people can misinterpret this post.
Except Nintendo's consistently high quality first party games. Come on, you may dislike Nintendo but let's not hyperbolise.
maverick40
Junior Member
Yes it is. Outside of GAF the console doesn't even exist to the general consumer.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Given that launch definitely. Depending on how much stock they get out this month they might be able to hit WiiU's US total in its first month. That's a slight gamble, and no guarantee it stays such a sought after console, but this is a great showing.