You really think they sold 500k in the week following launch and black Friday? If they could logistically pull that off they would of had them available at launch or black Friday and sold 1 million plus in November NPD.
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PS4 sells 134,000 units in Spain; The One fastest selling console called The One
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You really think they sold 500k in the week following launch and black Friday? If they could logistically pull that off they would of had them available at launch or black Friday and sold 1 million plus in November NPD.
Yeah but the question was total global number
I really don't know.
I imagine like every other country, the people buying these are mid twenties or above with jobs.
A week in WW sales in December plus those 8 countries for the whole time should be enough to selll 500K.
Hydrargyrus
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One of those is mine!
One of those is mine!
qa_engineer
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but which of the two was the FASTEST selling console of all time? You know, because that's the "metric" that matters.
Sons Of Anarchy
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Damn what a beat down
GribbleGrunger
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I think he's referring to Europe.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Tbh, I just hope Sony is investing in bigger data farms as we speak. All these sales talk just makes me think of how slow the network is going to be soon as everyone tries to hop on at the same time.
Yep!!! I've pointed out several times that promotion ended up being a flop.
Where is this 2 million coming from? Did I miss an announcement? You would think MS would make a big deal about it. Also, it is do-able. But most of those would have been sold in US.
You're right.
DonaldDuck
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Oh dear that's even bigger than I thought.
Anecdotal evidence from last two days in Córdoba (a somewhat depressed city in south of Spain) is that xbo is stocked in respectable amounts in several commerces and that ps is available in shortest quantities.
Last gen saw a 3:1 ratio in favour of ps3 but piracy helped xts and was common to have two units, one rogue and other regular for online purposes.
Plus is helping doubtful buyers. It's great value for money. I see a great future for PlayStation here. But problem is... What about USA? Sony May be losing potential buyers there because not having enough stock...
Or maybe Banderas is spending his fortune buying every ps in Spain during Holidays...
Anecdotal evidence from last two days in Córdoba (a somewhat depressed city in south of Spain) is that xbo is stocked in respectable amounts in several commerces and that ps is available in shortest quantities.
Last gen saw a 3:1 ratio in favour of ps3 but piracy helped xts and was common to have two units, one rogue and other regular for online purposes.
Plus is helping doubtful buyers. It's great value for money. I see a great future for PlayStation here. But problem is... What about USA? Sony May be losing potential buyers there because not having enough stock...
Or maybe Banderas is spending his fortune buying every ps in Spain during Holidays...
SolidSnakex
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Isn't a PS4 with FIFA still cheaper than the Xbox One FIFA bundle in Europe? If so then i'm not sure why some thought it'd be a big deal.
Relaxed Muscle
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That doesn't sound much egyptian to me
He actually was born in Egypt. Yeah, I know, but Inmortal and all is just one name he used while being in Spain.
I think most of us saw the writing on that particular wall before the the 2 country crap.
James Sawyer Ford
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This goes to show you that shipments have been pretty decent since launch, they've just been selling out immediately giving the impression that supply is low when really there's just a ton of demand.
I think we're going to see something similar in the US. December NPDs will at least match PS4's launch month in the US. I'm hoping they reach 1.5 million though.
I think we're going to see something similar in the US. December NPDs will at least match PS4's launch month in the US. I'm hoping they reach 1.5 million though.
EdwardTivrusky
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That doesn't sound much egyptian to me
He was born in Egypt according to lore and moved to Spain by the 15th Century and took that name. He's an Egyptian living in Spain but he obviously spent a lot of time in Scotland at some point
On Topic: That's a crazy ratio so far. I knew Spain were going to be skewed towards Sony but not by that much, not even close.
Katana_Strikes
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I can't see it being 500k yet... only down to the fact that I don't think Sony has managed to restock the UK is such sufficient quantities rather than a demand there to make that so quickly. And/or Sony would have perhaps issued a new PR? But it should be somewhere around 400k give or take a few ten thousand units. It's certainly over 300k though and last week going off the software charts saw a nice batch of PS4 units hit the UK.
Possibly but the 500k for the US assumed 300k for the rest the world in that time frame. There is a 800k gap between the known sales and the number given by MS.
And seeing how the sales fell in Spain I don't doubt something similar played out across other European launch countries.
We'll never really know but just interesting to try and piece it together.
FranXico
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In Portugal, Sony have been advertising the PlayStation brand insanely! Everywhere I go, big ads for the PS3 and PS4 all over the place. Every single big store I walk into has a GT6 demo cabinet, with people queuing to play it. Even the Vita is popular around here.
I have never seen Sony marketing PlayStation as aggressively as this Christmas here. I can't imagine the situation being any different in Spain.
I have never seen Sony marketing PlayStation as aggressively as this Christmas here. I can't imagine the situation being any different in Spain.
Shin-Ra
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PS3 in addition to PS4 downloads are much faster for me since PS4 launch.
Used to be 1.5 to 2.5MB/sec on PS3. Now it's 4MB or so on both.
James Sawyer Ford
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500K is pretty likely.
They sold 250K in week one, so if we just use a linear extrapolation based upon Spain's numbers, that would place UK sales at a tad over 400K, with one less week of tracking.
And I expect Sony is going to primarily be stuffing the US/UK markets in December over countries like Spain, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them be over 500K in the UK at this point.
qa_engineer
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Early signs of dat existing Gaikai infrastructure. You think they bought them JUST for cloud streaming? nope.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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My downloads are fast right now but I'm hoping they stay that way. It's a two Lane freeway right now until traffic hits. When that will come? Hopefully we never see it.
Hydrargyrus
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Wait...
Haven't you see the milliards of awful green advertising across all the cities in Spain?
The shops promotes what they think it's going to be more profitable, but Xbone has one of the biggest marketing campaigns I remember, pretty bigger than the PS4's one
Valkyria
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True, even on TV. With payed "programs" (hazte un videojuego) that are nothing more than a long advertisement. Ms tried, but that's it.
weekend_warrior
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Spain has always been very pro-Playstation. Most of the people in GAF's MAG/Killzone clans were from Spain.
Hydrargyrus
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Banderas is proud of us right now
Xbone is already losing badly in the UK
Bitmap Frogs
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I contributed.
Truespeed
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The UK is a lost cause. The US is a lost cause. Their only hope now is to reduce the price of the console to $399 or make Kinect optional. It's not a question of whether they'll win or lose anymore, but rather how badly they'll lose now.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Damn man it's only been a month since launch.
It's also a poor one considering MANY people have already pointed put that there is not a supply problem in Spain for the Xbone. They're easy to find.
People there (and lots of other places) want a PS4, not an Xbox. That's the reality and Microsoft is making a huge mistake by only focusing on the US (where they are also behind regardless.)
GribbleGrunger
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There are signs that this COULD be the case but it's too early to set it in stone just yet.
perineumlick
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Should have been first post.
Markitron
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I agree, I was assuming they had turned it around as best they could with my first post. Out of curiosity how does the XB1 compare to the PS3? I know the price and launch times were different (in Europe anyway). That was seen as pretty disastrous but Sony turned it around eventually.
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Isn't the Spanish economy totally wrecked right now?
Yes, specially for micro numbers, but well nearly all big stores (FNAC, MediaMarkt and ElCorteInglés) let you pay the console in three or nine months, and that's what many people do.
All that said there's no more units 'til january 13th overhere.
I guess that would make the sales figure more impressive, right? When you have only a certain amount of people in a bad economy able to purchase a luxury item and it performs well despite that then Sony is doing things well.
Though I suspect the $399 vs. $499 PS4 and Xbox One price differential is making the decision very easy for frugal Spaniards.
The initial conclusion everyone came to when PS4's where nowhere to be seen, including the UK & US - while XBO was in decent supply - was Sony are somehow behind the game in their supply or stretched thinly.
As more figures come out - including the UK software charts were PS4 titles have risen in the charts & XBO titles fallen - is large amounts of PS4 stock is going into the system, but being sold out in no time at all.
I've seen it for myself in the UK, you've literally an hour at most to pick up a PS4 when a store (online or highstreet) gets stock. This is Xbox's second largest market, ad's are never off the TV, consoles have been available for 2-3 weeks, but the software charts aren't showing the bump PS4 is.
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Uy uy uy!!!... mucho bueno!!!... mucha paliza!!!... escondete MS!!!
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