Source? And I'm not surprised the number has gone up--China has lifted the ban on gaming consoles only recently, no? Do the numbers track the number of units that were sold on the gray market?
Another factor is that Asian countries in general are better-off now than they were even 10 years ago. Higher disposable income.
1% of China cannot be wrong.
This is damn impressive considering asian countries tends to favor console that are pirate-able. Last gen it was x360.
What actually surprise me is how much higher the PS4 software sales are over the PS2. The gap is huge!
Zhuge may need to correct me, but that may be due to more (and higher quality) localisations than in the past.
Zhuge may need to correct me, but that may be due to more (and higher quality) localisations than in the past.
Hopefully this will translate into more Japan-only games being localised for Asia, i.e. Japanese audio / English subs.
The Xbox brand was always too US-centric to us.It amazes me how worldwide a brand PlayStation is. Stretching from Japan to all the way west.
The Xbox brand was always too US-centric to us.
The Our Filipino neighbors might prefer it though.
It amazes me how worldwide a brand PlayStation is. Stretching from Japan to all the way west.
Philippines is more of a PlayStation country.
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are hugely covering up the less than ideal US sales and underwhelming Japanese sales.
They're the reason WW PS4 sales are phenomenal despite mediocre sales in the US and Japan.
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are hugely covering up the less than ideal US sales and underwhelming Japanese sales.
They're the reason WW PS4 sales are phenomenal despite mediocre sales in the US and Japan.
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are hugely covering up the less than ideal US sales and underwhelming Japanese sales.
They're the reason WW PS4 sales are phenomenal despite mediocre sales in the US and Japan.
PS4 sales are not "mediocre" in the US. It's just not as far ahead of Xbone there as everywhere else.
Wait what? I thought the PS4 was selling well above the PS3 and close to PS2 on the same time scale?
Wait what? I thought the PS4 was selling well above the PS3 and close to PS2 on the same time scale?
Clueless, simply clueless.
Do some research before posting.
LTD wise it's doing well because sales were very front loaded. However, if you were to compare YTD, I'm pretty sure PS3 would be ahead of PS4.
Worldwide, it's doing extremely well, but 200k monthly sales in the US are what I'd call mediocre, the PS2 and Wii were selling 400k+ at that point in their lifecycle in the US.
Worldwide, it's doing extremely well, but 200k monthly sales in the US are what I'd call mediocre, the PS2 and Wii were selling 400k+ at that point in their lifecycle in the US.
They were also $150 - $200 cheaper than the PS4 at the same point as well.
It's still selling better than most game systems in history. That's hardly mediocre.
Worldwide, it's doing extremely well, but 200k monthly sales in the US are what I'd call mediocre, the PS2 and Wii were selling 400k+ at that point in their lifecycle in the US.
The Ps2 and the Wii also weren't $399 at any point in their life cycles. Consoles will never do those numbers outside of the holiday shopping season again, those days are over.
Has PS4 launched in India btw?
Yes. It sold 50k there in first few months.
Damn, nothing stops the PS train globally.
It's staggering to think they have the whole world on lock except US and UK.
Barely anyone I know uses an XB1 in my little corner of the globe.
That's great. Do we have any data for comparison sake?
Sony is quite invested in India and is one of their better performing markets, so glad that gaming is following that trend.
PS2 ~900k
PS3 ~300k
PSP ~500k
PSV ~30k
PS2 & PSP is LTD and PS3 & Vita was as of end 2013 I think so pretty much LTD really.
India is big but still a small gamin market. It is growing though but I don't expect Console to take off drastically this gen. PS4 is doing very well though and on track to exceed PS3 very easily.
Are you living in India?