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PS4 passes 60.4 million units sold through to consumers / 487 million software units
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Did you not comprehend what I wrote? I don't understand your reaction.
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
If PS4 stays on track it'll outsell both of those before Christmas 2018. The bold claim would be 100m before PS5.
Or they deserve the success for delivering a consistently fantastic games console for years now...
One shit decision doesn't undo the mountain of good they've done. You've got cross-play on one hand, and then Horizon, Uncharted, God of War, and the rest on the other.
You said the PS4 will sell less than both the PS3 and 360 that sold 85M~ lifetime. The sales would have to crater for that to happen and there is no sign of that happening at all (again, it's up YoY).
Even if it sells half what they'll sell this year in 2018 it'll surpass both the PS3 and 360.
Yeah let's forgot all about the incredible amount of 1st and 3rd party exclusives. The reason we buy consoles.
Lmao.
No I didn't. I said it's safe to say it will outsell both of them, but not combined (unless you truly think it's safe to say it will sale about 170 million units in its lifetime in which case lulz).
Ah eh. Disregard, I've misread beyond for behind, I'm sorry.
Cheers mate
Aceofspades
Banned
Next year Sony is expecting the highest profits in 20 years. I think most devisions are doing great except movies.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
I can't imagine them becoming too cocky with Layden and Shu at helm but only if they exchange the leadership. You know, just like what happen at MS when Moore left and Mattrick came.
Emoji movie dude.
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
3.9cm x 60,000,000 = 234,000,000cm, or 234,000m. So about 26 and a half Mount Everests.
And that's the slim model, ha.
RocknRola
Member
.....Are we expecting THAT to do any sort of good numbers?
I don't want to derail the thread, but Sony Pictures (or whatever their media arm is officially named) has a ton of subdivisions and holdings in TV. There's a lot of good stuff out there from them, it's just their headlining films group appears to be run by people who aren't that good at their job.
RocknRola
Member
Perfect haha
Yautja_Warrior
Member
I had to read that twice, I thought it said they had sold 487.8 Million copies of Horizon for a minute. I was like holy shit, sales suddenly shot up lol
Congrats to Sony though for the 60 million sold though.
Congrats to Sony though for the 60 million sold though.
.....Are we expecting THAT to do any sort of good numbers?
People said the same about Angry Birds movie which grossed $350 million
almostjuliuscaesar
Member
just checked again, PS2 was at 71.3M shipped at end of FY04. so from launch to here that's 4 years as March 00 to March 04.
Sony announced PS4 had shipped 60M at end of FY17. so from launch to here that's about 3.5 years given it was November 13 to March 17.
now when it comes to sell through, i can't find sell through, but ps2's were flying off the shelves so we can assume they were around that 71 mark.
as for the PS4 it took them another 2 months to sell through their 60M, but now they have a price cut as well as the upcoming summer & holiday seasons.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
This get me every time just like the "don't read to much in these numbers"
Oh man
DriftingSpirit
Member
probably see something like a $50 discount when xbonex launches
This always strikes me as funny...then I realize we're fanatics...and that I have way more than that on my PS4 despite it being my "exclusives" machine. I think I'm nearing 300 games on my X1.
David Ricardo
Member
234,000,000 cm = 2,340,000m = 2,340km.
PeterLegend
Member
$200 PS4 slim this holidays will set records
hanspampel
Banned
yeah. but i doubt you have 300 payed games on X1
- games with gold
- f2p titel
- demos / free trials and ea access
still the vast majority of console owner just buys 3 to 5 games lifetime
and many even just 1 or 2
RocknRola
Member
Fair enough. Though, my answer was more in the sense that out of all the movies Sony has/doesn't have to show us, I doubt that'll be the one that saves them (the films division)
Just wait until consumers catch whiff of that September release date for Knack 2.
thats being modest guys lets be real when knack 2 drops ,lets just say its the second coming
People began camping out at the local GameStop when it was announced. Their tents are blocking my access to the liquor store.
Omotesando
Member
Yea, PS4 attachment rate I believe is the highest ever on console. PS4 probably not going to touch PS2 total sales, PS2 had no real competition. But GTA 6 on PS4 definitely can give PS2 San Andreas a run for its money, even when they leak some percentage of the sales to Xbox. Sony first party is selling lots more also this gen.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
aspiegamer
Member
The momentum has always been apparent on GAF, but I never thought they could keep this pace up for so long and that the PS2 would jet off into infinity on the charts. Apparently not. Software number is ridiculous, too.
Their strategy has been interesting. Throw out a lot of first-party variety in Q1-2 from their established studios and go heavy on marketing deals for the big annual games in Q3-4. The later sells far more consoles but you need the former to keep background hype and recurring players happy. Microsoft has been launching its top stuff in the holiday window and its momentum through the first 9 months of the year is that of an asthmatic cat. 2017 has been extra extreme in this regard where there were a half dozen GOTY candidates through Feb-Mar that were all PS console exclusive-- The only exception being Zelda. Gran Turismo 6 was sent out to die at the end of last gen, but they've learned their lesson on when to better release things since then. GT Sport needs to be huge or Naughty Dog will take up the title as their flagship studio. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Interested to see how the X1X shuffles the situation but I can't imagine any substantial shifts and it's going to be hard for Microsoft to improve from the 1:2 sales ratio. For now the Switch is still "different" enough and new enough that I don't know if it changes this situation in a way that would, say, fork holiday sales numbers.
Their strategy has been interesting. Throw out a lot of first-party variety in Q1-2 from their established studios and go heavy on marketing deals for the big annual games in Q3-4. The later sells far more consoles but you need the former to keep background hype and recurring players happy. Microsoft has been launching its top stuff in the holiday window and its momentum through the first 9 months of the year is that of an asthmatic cat. 2017 has been extra extreme in this regard where there were a half dozen GOTY candidates through Feb-Mar that were all PS console exclusive-- The only exception being Zelda. Gran Turismo 6 was sent out to die at the end of last gen, but they've learned their lesson on when to better release things since then. GT Sport needs to be huge or Naughty Dog will take up the title as their flagship studio. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Awaiting GT Sport being delayed into the holidays so it can prove all my even somewhat intelligent observations wrong. In fact I'll just bookmark this post myself.
Interested to see how the X1X shuffles the situation but I can't imagine any substantial shifts and it's going to be hard for Microsoft to improve from the 1:2 sales ratio. For now the Switch is still "different" enough and new enough that I don't know if it changes this situation in a way that would, say, fork holiday sales numbers.
I'd like to think that that PS4 achieved this more because of their exclusives rather than third parties
Gravity Rush 2
Yakuza 0
Nioh
Horizon
Nier:A(PC release but still)
Persona 5
It's like, seperated they're insignificant, nothing but a blip on the radar, but together this shit is like
ethomaz
Banned
PS2 shipment was production shipment... it what Sony had produced and not what they shipped to retail.
The actual shipment was about 1-2 million lower than production shipment of PS2... Sony changed to shipment in 2006 and PS2 lost about 2 million in the LT count.
71.3m "shipment" for PS2 is more like around 69m shipped to retail... around 67m sold.
PS4 will probably continue outselling PS2 until the 5th or 6th year.