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Over 1 million PS4 sold in France
- Thread starter John Bender
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Lion Heart
Banned
And this is why a 50/50 split in NA is a huge win for Sony.
John Bender
Banned
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UK has been Sony Land for 3 of 4 PlayStation generations.
The Praiseworthy
Member
Amazing... Maybe Japan will be next before the end of the year.
Can't wait to see how much the PS4 would be by the end pf March 2015.
Can't wait to see how much the PS4 would be by the end pf March 2015.
MastorofPuppetz
Banned
How the fook is France , Germany unimportant? There are already over 2 million ps4's there, please explain?
XxRampage07xX
Member
I see. I know nothing about UK 
As Xbox One had very good sales number on Black Friday, I thought the Xbox One would be able to catch up with the PS4 :O
Anyway, glad that consoles are doing great
As Xbox One had very good sales number on Black Friday, I thought the Xbox One would be able to catch up with the PS4 :O
Anyway, glad that consoles are doing great
RespectThySole
Member
Japan will be next. The XB1 numbers are a bit higher than I thought they would be though tbh.
Man did you ever choose the correct avatar
You quoted two lines, but only had the energy to read one of them?
I see. I know nothing about UK
As Xbox One had very good sales number on Black Friday, I thought the Xbox One would be able to catch up with the PS4 :O
I dont think Xbox One is leading in any market except Brazil and China.
I have a feeling China will fall too. Soony™.
Yeah I was too. It's not doing that bad as say Japan or Spain.
John Bender
Banned
The Xbox One "won" the November Sales Battle in the UK by only a few hundred units.I see. I know nothing about UK
As Xbox One had very good sales number on Black Friday, I thought the Xbox One would be able to catch up with the PS4 :O
Anyway, glad that consoles are doing great
Normally PS4 wins nearly every week in the UK.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Even Shinji Hashimoto forgot X1 launched in China.
Deadly Joker
Member
I wonder when Playstation will announce how many PS4 units they've sold so far. I also wonder how many they sold, could they be near 18 million shipped by now?
It took awhile but it finally happened. This is said in every European sales thread. Did you expect XB1 sales to be literally zero?
It could, but UK is working hard against it.
Jimmyfenix
Member
It will be a fight between Wii U & X1 for sure also Nintendo cannot compete in the UK
Leyasu
Banned
I live in France and it is playstationland.
Worth noting, last year I asked all my gaming colleagues if they were going to preorder the ps4 after it was announced..
They all said the same thing, the 360 was a great console and they wanted to see the new xbox before deciding..
Guess what they bought after microsoft unveiled the xbone? lol
I think had a good opportunity after the 360 that they just threw away with the xbone.
Worth noting, last year I asked all my gaming colleagues if they were going to preorder the ps4 after it was announced..
They all said the same thing, the 360 was a great console and they wanted to see the new xbox before deciding..
Guess what they bought after microsoft unveiled the xbone? lol
I think had a good opportunity after the 360 that they just threw away with the xbone.
It could... if it could sacrifice short/mid term profits for market shares. Microsoft can afford that. Nintendo, not.
Sony did good to actually acknowledge Europe this time around and not release the console a million years later than everywhere else.
This is why gaining such a large piece of the pie in the US is important for Sony, because it'll basically make them auto-win this generation and anybody saying otherwise are kidding themselves.
It's a bit of a lose lose situation for MS. Focus too much on the US and they risk losing Europe even more, but focus on both too much and they lose ground both places.
It'll be interesting as well to see how Asia will turn out this generation. So far Japan is a no show, but maybe Sony can turn it around? And then there's China
This is why gaining such a large piece of the pie in the US is important for Sony, because it'll basically make them auto-win this generation and anybody saying otherwise are kidding themselves.
It's a bit of a lose lose situation for MS. Focus too much on the US and they risk losing Europe even more, but focus on both too much and they lose ground both places.
It'll be interesting as well to see how Asia will turn out this generation. So far Japan is a no show, but maybe Sony can turn it around? And then there's China
anexanhume
Member
Nothing was xbox or nintendo land since SNES until 360/Wii, FWIW.
If PSX was anything to go by, Shinji Hashimoto seems to have forgotten it isn't 1996 right now.
Yes, i do know personal experiences don't necessary mean something for the big picture, but for example, i'm hosting a gaming night next saturday : Among us, 5 PS4 owners, 2 WiiU owners, 0 XB1 owners.
I can feel it in the air.
thelastword
Banned
Vive la France! pretty good showing. France was always a sony stronghold anyways, but this console has massive popularity worldwide.
spatenfloot
Member
It will be close. Japan is over 900k so far.
dead monkey uk
Member
PS4 will be close to 1 million sales by the end of the year. Considering how western the lineup of games has been this year, I am sure sales will start to take off in Japan next year.
RespectThySole
Member
Of course not. I just expected the ratio of PS4:XB1 to be lower than in Germany or at least around the same.
Germany: 4.44:1
France: 3:1
I frequent the PAL threads and I don't recall this being something that is brought up often, but I'm probably just remembering incorrectly.
Yep. I thought the ratio would be slightly lower than in Germany because Nintendo has a relatively decent following in France.
If that's true, only way that's gonna happen if the DQ bundle does gangbusters these few weeks.
Sony is close to 1 million PS4s sold in Japan without a killer app.
Begaria
Member
Japan is just waiting on that new Hot Shots Golf.
Dirtyshubb
Member
Man did you ever choose the correct avatar
You quoted two lines, but only had the energy to read one of them?
I was about to post something along the same lines, luckily I had the energy to carry on reading before I posted so I avoided making a fool of myself
spatenfloot
Member
Depends on whether it drops off this week or continues selling well in the run up to Christmas. If not, it should reach it in January. Typically, Nintendo does well pre Christmas, Sony after.
Nothing wrong with the taste of PS4s. Just add some salt if you like.
thekiddfran
Member
Not really... in Brazil the gray market is bigger than the official channels.. There is no way to know for sure the real number of PS4's install base
PS: Just doing a simple search in a famous Brazilian auction site:
633 entries for PS4 new consoles
190 for Xbox One new consoles
not taking in account the fact that each entry can have as many consoles for sale.
XxRampage07xX
Member
Holy Hell! This salty post... :O
That Germany ratio is being disputed.
November NPD 2014.
We will never forget.
I hope your post was sarcasm cause mine was too. Come on man :/.
Leyasu
Banned
No other "insider" scoops for us today?
yeah...Uk the only bastion of power MS can count on ^^
Oh well kinda cool to see that not everyone has abounded the Wii U. It's mostly my MonHun machine but it's sad to see the little overall love in sales it gets....as a Vita lover I can sympathise
1.Not a funny joke
2.Stupid
3.What?
4.My weewee smells like Pringles
O yeah, 2013 PS4 EU launch was very unexpected! They always shafted us to get their consoles last, and this time all we had to wait is 2 weeks.
Cereal Enthusiast
Banned
Yeah but there is 130 million people in Japan, and around 60 million in France (and 80 in Germany). So it's not that great.
I wish you guys would cut it out. I've always held that I'm no insider. I'm just a guy who talks to as many people as I can and parrots what he hears.
:/
anyway onward to 2 million sold!
But didn't the PS4 launch in Japan in Feb? Which would give it another 1.5 months before a year is up for it.
Consumers are fickle, no country is anyone's land. If a console (or any consumer product) sells better in a particular region, it more than likely isn't because of any particular loyalty, but because that company just did a better job at selling into that reigion.
Microsoft did a better job at selling the Xbox 360 in the UK than Sony did the PS3. Sony are doing a better job at selling the PS4 into the UK than Microsoft is doing selling the Xbox One into the UK.
This "x country is <company> land!" stuff isn't really useful or accurate.