Dragonborn
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I thought so too but now I don't know. Unless Titanfall is absolutely huge (I'm talking CoD huge), the X1 will continue to fade especially if Halo 5 gets pushed to next year. One game won't turn things around
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PS4 sales have surpassed 5.3 million units according to Sony (As of Feb 8)
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I thought so too but now I don't know. Unless Titanfall is absolutely huge (I'm talking CoD huge), the X1 will continue to fade especially if Halo 5 gets pushed to next year. One game won't turn things around
I forgot how great of a launch WiiU had. Sales really dropped of a cliff.
LookAtMeGo
Member
Wow this is great. I thought that 5 million projection for march was a lot. Looks like they will surpass that by quite a bit. Impressive.
I think that is a joke because MS don't have any more key territories to launch in.
Duxxy3
Member
Scalpers bought up a huge amount of stock at launch. The stock got returned in 2013.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Will be doing my part when FFXV gets a release window.
BoboBrazil
Member
Phire Phox is trolling. There's no way he believes what he says.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
No worries, "they" say that sales will plummet soon. It's only a matter of time.
MrCookiepants
Member
They might be key territories for Sony, but I doubt the smaller European countries will buy many Xbones.
Phire Phox doesn't joke about MS.
dungtongue
Neo Member
I'd imagine it's even possible that they've shipped more than 5.3 million PS4s and just took off 100-200K and say that is a sell-through number and be pretty close anyway.
Something tells me it has something to do with the Japanese launch. Maybe they think they can hype even more the maching (and attrack more JP devs) if they show that even even before the launch in Japan the console is been successful and they shoud join the party.
That's what i think anyway
Agreed. I just knew that if Microsoft didn't sell all 3.9 million Xbox One consoles that they shipped during their launch, that they would be in even more trouble once Black Friday & Christmas have ended.
Chobel
Member
How much is usually the error margin in such approximations?
Hydrargyrus
Member
Nothing stops this train.
Congrats for Sony and PS4
Congrats for Sony and PS4
Not anymore
It is kind of in stock now. Says 1 to 2 days to process order, which means Amazon must have received another shipment.
Killroyskbg
Member
Gratz to Sony and Playstation now just send more units to Sweden got 5 friends and family waiting to add to your numbers.
Dragonborn
Member
At the rate they're going it'll take a while before they sell dec stock off. My question is, does that mean they hold back shipments? Or do they continue to stuff warehouses? I'm not sure how that works
No, Cerny is probably still busy getting blow jobs from Sony's executives.
In seriousness, I think they are still busy with post mortems.
They have more than just Halo and Titanfall. Plus we don't know what new features they could be thinking of for future updates alongside (inevitable) price drops.
Based on my prediction, if the total number of consoles sold this gen is 200 million (just using it as a figure) then that would put the PS4 at 130 million, Xbox One at 70 million, and Wii U at 10 million. I think that's reasonable. We'll see though...
LookAtMeGo
Member
Does this mean the thirst is real?
Sadly no, Phire Phox , is as serious about this as chicken phox
People slanted Sony for not "innovating" (god i hate this term) or doing anything new, for not having a quirky, cutesy little alternative method of controlling and playing games like the Kinect and GamePad. After all this worked last time, so its bound to work again...right?
Turns out just making a game console with a few essential features is the way to go. Trying to replicate the original Wii is the trap both MS and Nintendo fell in and now they are selling products that are held back by the extra "special controller".
Kinect and GamePad are great..in theory. But in actual practice, neither company is using their special little devices. MS has barely made any Kinect games and Nintendo seems oblivious to what even to do with the extra screen.
Turns out just making a game console with a few essential features is the way to go. Trying to replicate the original Wii is the trap both MS and Nintendo fell in and now they are selling products that are held back by the extra "special controller".
Kinect and GamePad are great..in theory. But in actual practice, neither company is using their special little devices. MS has barely made any Kinect games and Nintendo seems oblivious to what even to do with the extra screen.
LiquidSolid
Member
Got to love the way some people are deluding themselves into thinking this. Never mind that none of those "key territories" have ever really favoured Xbox or anything, just blindly hope that things will change overnight.
Anyway, congrats Sony. You did an incredible job designing, promoting and launching the PS4. The fact that it hit 5.3 million while still experiencing widespread shortages is nothing short of insane.
While again acknowledging its mostly a worthless distinction, lets not assume how Sony derives their figures. We know, and they know, that at least in a few markets (Spain, Italy, Brazil) its not sold out, so shipped != sold exactly. Its pretty likely their shipped number is higher than 5.3M. Additionally there is lead-time from stock sold to retail then again to consumer.
REMEMBER CITADEL
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Fantastic sales, they've managed to tap into the current desires of the core audience really well. Good job, Sony.
Not 'especially since' . If it is out of stock regularly, that means they are selling everything they can make. And by most estimates that is around 1m a month. So this shouldn't be surprising.
Hurt and Scared
Member
Returned to the retailer? So if I understand this correctly, Nintendo didn't have a good consumer sell-through in the first month. That is why there were few shipments sent through out 2013.
Starting working on Vita 2. Believe
lol
Dragonborn
Member
Halo and Titanfall are their big system sellers. Stuff ike QD and SO is great but they won't be moving many consoles (see PS3). If TF can't do it, MS is screwed, significant price cut or self destruction
Ain't no way the X1 is hitting 70, unless you know something we don't? Their European and American marketshare is going to decrease significantly
shinra-bansho
Member
Sell-through number? Impressive.
Should ship maybe 6.5-7M for the fiscal year with the Japanese launch and another month and a half of re-supplying other territories.
Should ship maybe 6.5-7M for the fiscal year with the Japanese launch and another month and a half of re-supplying other territories.
Basileus777
Member
Nintendo over-shipped, especially to Europe, so when sales stalled outside of the holiday launch period, retailers still had left over stock for much of the year.
...I highly doubt that Sony will go back into being arrogant again, especially considering their financial situation.
DXLelouch153
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Sylvrfonic
Member
Wow, I like the cut of your jib, good sir.
Yep. You really have to wonder what this number would look like if there was no shortage.
Xbox one is doing badly sales wise, and not reacting to overstocks in the US by launching more quickly in other territories is just leaving those markets open to be dominated by Sony even more
Infinite Xero
Member
If that's the case then I Sony would have a good idea of their sell-through numbers since their shipped numbers would be sold-through as well.
I don't think SO can (too quirky/niche of a game) but QB definitely has the potential to do so based on how they are setting the game up to be. Again, we'll see though. We aren't even halfway into the first year of the gen.
I don't think they need as much headroom as last time as they turned the ship around in a major way (but at the same time, look at the Xbone hardware/os catastrophe). The PS4 is in many ways the 'ideal' computer architecture with an X86 hUMA APU with lots of compute power and one huge pool of high bandwidth memory (and storage). The simplicity of it's motherboard is beautiful.
The PS5 will in effect be a 2020 version of PS4 with focus on ultra-low-latencies for VR experiences.