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DNAbro · Sep 17, 2014

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/09/17/destiny-ps4s-biggest-software-launch-yet/#sf4690508

What a week! Since Destiny launched one week ago, it has officially become the biggest PS4 game launch in North America ever. The game broke records for being the fastest purchased and most played PS4 game during its first week on sale. In fact, last week was our single biggest PS4 hardware sales week since Christmas 2013! Thats a lot of PS4s. Thanks, Guardians!

Sacrifice me to the Hive if old.

Mikey Jr. · Sep 17, 2014

So no including Christmas 2013, right?

What was PS4's biggest month?

RealityPales · Sep 17, 2014

Boom.

When do we cross the 15 Million consoles sold mark?

This year?

Toki767 · Sep 17, 2014

So who's doing the math to see how many PS4s sold last week?

David Lo Pan · Sep 17, 2014

Greatness indeed.

Amir0x · Sep 17, 2014

damn that's gonna be some month for PS4.

Acquiescence · Sep 17, 2014

The NPD results will be interesting.

Feichaw · Sep 17, 2014

Expected.

Bundle + heavy marketing = lots of consoles sold.

KoopaTheCasual · Sep 17, 2014

Toki767 said:
So who's doing the math to see how many PS4s sold last week?

My calculations put it comfortably over 15 units.

RealityPales · Sep 17, 2014

Feichaw said:
Expected.

Bundle + heavy marketing = lots of consoles sold.

Quite a bit of exclusive content too!

Sharpeye · Sep 17, 2014

Mikey Jr. said:
So no including Christmas 2013, right?

What was PS4's biggest month?

Launch month was the biggest month I believe with December being the second biggest, this bodes well for September sales.

demigod · Sep 17, 2014

White ps4 helped a ton, yeah i bought a 2nd one. Going to give my nephew the black one.

Eggbok · Sep 17, 2014

I wonder how well the inevitable GTAV bundle will sell.

wapplew · Sep 17, 2014

Acquiescence said:
The NPD results will be interesting.

This have turn into a meme now?

FunkyPajamas · Sep 17, 2014

KoopaTheCasual said:
My calculations put it comfortably over 15 units.

Pulling numbers from ******** is a bannable offense, you should know that.

Canis lupus · Sep 17, 2014

Predicting 500K PS4's sold for Sept NPD.

shwimpy · Sep 17, 2014

Wait, bigger hardware sales than launch week? Holy shit.

edit - oh, since.

my bad.

illmatic22 · Sep 17, 2014

PlayStation bet on the right horse.

fatigues_gasolini · Sep 17, 2014

How many units a second is what I want to know

Glass Rebel · Sep 17, 2014

Sony was smart to support it as they did. Immediate benefit in hardware sales with no long-term damage to their own brand.

Amir0x · Sep 17, 2014

shwimpy said:
Wait, bigger hardware sales than launch week? Holy shit.

didn't say that. it said biggest hardware sales since Christmas, so any week for PS4 since January basically and this week beat it.

it's the biggest PS4 software launch so far though.

alr1ght · Sep 17, 2014

shwimpy said:
Wait, bigger hardware sales than launch week? Holy shit.

No. Read the quote.

Raist · Sep 17, 2014

Toki767 said:
So who's doing the math to see how many PS4s sold last week?

Well I don't think we can really do any math. PS4 sold ~860k in december, that's all we know.
It was a 5 weeks coverage months, so ~172k per week.
Since they mention "2nd best week since Chirstmas" I'm guessing that particular week in December must have been the highest one of that month. But it's tough to make any reasonable prediction. Likely well over 100k I guess.

TIMtationX · Sep 17, 2014

Yikes.

RedHotChimiChanga · Sep 17, 2014

100 billion ps4s by the end of the year.

AndrewDean84xX · Sep 17, 2014

Awesome.

bananafactory · Sep 17, 2014

RedHotChimiChanga said:
100 billion ps4s by the end of the year.

100 billion consoles isn't cool. You know what's cool? 100 trillion.

Amir0x · Sep 17, 2014

while it's undoubtedly going to sell quite well (PS4), i will say this

it really sounds impressive, but the biggest post-holiday week sales for PS4 wasn't insanely high or anything, so this number could be like 120k-150k for Destiny week or something. Could of course be higher too, but there's a huge potential range here.

GhaleonEB · Sep 17, 2014

last week was our single biggest PS4 hardware sales week since Christmas 2013

Edit: ah, re-reading.

Still, impressive.

Requiem · Sep 17, 2014

YOU'VE AWOKEN THE HIVE!!

AbandonedTrolley · Sep 17, 2014

illmatic22 said:
PlayStation bet on the right horse.

Hey didn't Microsoft see a hardware increase on the launch of Titanfall?

hodayathink · Sep 17, 2014

IIRC, the PS4 did about 900K in the US in December. If you were to spread those evenly out over the 4 weeks, that comes out to about 225K per week as the low-end estimate.

Edit: Got the number wrong (860K) and December was a 5 week month. So 172K is the baseline if all weeks were equal, which they aren't. I'd say that more shopping happens Christmas week than the couple weeks before it (last minute shoppers), so unless there wasn't a reship for that week, I'd say the number is probably closer to 200K for the week.

Amir0x · Sep 17, 2014

GhaleonEB said:
I wonder if they mean biggest week since December, or the week of Christmas. The wording seems to indicate the latter, in which case, holy freaking crap.

says since Christmas, so I would guess they're not actually counting Christmas week. It's smaller than Christmas week sales it seems, but higher than anything since. Which makes the potential weekly numbers range really huge.

KillerMan91 · Sep 17, 2014

RealityPales said:
Boom.

When do we cross the 15 Million consoles sold mark?

This year?

Easily. With great christmas 20 million is possible at least when it comes to shipped numbers.

Psycho_Mantis · Sep 17, 2014

illmatic22 said:
PlayStation bet on the right horse.

Indeed.

TatteredHat · Sep 17, 2014

I wanted a white PS4, the fact that Destiny came with it was a nice bonus.

bud · Sep 17, 2014

at this point, why invest in buying exclusives when you can just settle for an exclusive marketing deal?

this is the future.

(in this moment, i am a video game analyst)

Insane Metal · Sep 17, 2014

Holy shit. 500k PS4 in September confirmed?

Eggbok · Sep 17, 2014

bananafactory said:
100 billion consoles isn't cool. You know what's cool? 100 trillion.

Why make trillions when you can make......

billions?

Meier · Sep 17, 2014

ATVI stock down around 10% in the past week or so. Very annoying.. quit with the profit taking, you jerks.

GhaleonEB · Sep 17, 2014

Amir0x said:
says since Christmas, so I would guess they're not actually counting Christmas week. It's smaller than Christmas week sales it seems, but higher than anything since. Which makes the potential weekly numbers range really huge.

Yeah I re-read that and realized immediately after what it meant. You caught me before the edit. *shakes fist*

Also, suggestion for those who feel like doing drive by Destiny trolling rather than discussing the actual topic of the thread: don't.

adamantypants · Sep 17, 2014

Damn, all that loot

BibiMaghoo · Sep 17, 2014

FunkyPajamas said:
Pulling numbers from ******** is a bannable offense, you should know that.

I guarantee what he said it 100% accurate, if by comfortably he means a shit load.

Dead Prince · Sep 17, 2014

hodayathink said:
IIRC, the PS4 did about 900K in the US in December. If you were to spread those evenly out over the 4 weeks, that comes out to about 225K per week as the low-end estimate.

So most likely September will put them at 360k. #1 for9 months pl. Still got what. 14 months to go to beat 360?

Rojo · Sep 17, 2014

I imagine the record will be broken again when GTAV comes out.

Allforce · Sep 17, 2014

So are they saying best WEEK of sales since Xmas 2013? Because we have rough estimate numbers of December 2013 PS4 sales to be:

[PS4] 858K - 863K

That would mean around 200K PS4s sold just in a week?

Edit: Never mind, this was already figured out.

So someone has to go through the sales numbers from Jan-August 2014 and see what the high month was to figure out was beat this week/month.

Amir0x · Sep 17, 2014

GhaleonEB said:
Yeah I re-read that and realized immediately after what it meant. You caught me before the edit. *shakes fist*

Also, suggestion for those who feel like doing drive by Destiny trolling rather than discussing the actual topic of the thread: don't.

Ah, yeah I see your edit. It's easy to be confused, the wording is easy to mistake.

Since December was 860 and we can factor in that Christmas week might have sold, say, 400-500k of that (random ass number here), then the range would be something like 120k-500k for Destiny week lol

Allforce said:
That would mean around 200K PS4s sold just in a week?

Not necessarily, because Christmas week sales are usually much higher than the weeks surrounding it. We would expect Christmas week sales to be higher than the surrounding weeks, significantly so. So again the range for potential Destiny weeks sales is stupefyingly huge lol

Raist · Sep 17, 2014

Amir0x said:
says since Christmas, so I would guess they're not actually counting Christmas week. It's smaller than Christmas week sales it seems, but higher than anything since. Which makes the potential weekly numbers range really huge.

Yeah it's fairly vague. Although, if it's not including christmas, then it's likely "low" as it's only the 2nd biggest, so I'm not sure why they'd mention it.

Tratorn · Sep 17, 2014

Deserved.

The game is great (if you play coop).

Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule · Sep 17, 2014

Insane Metal said:
Holy shit. 500k PS4 in September confirmed?

That wouldn't be impressive at all compared to last gen (Wii, 360)

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