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PS4 sells 1 million in UK

Hasney said:
Oddly enough, the first person with an XB1 just showed up on my FB news feed, getting it with Destiny. Every comment about how he fucked up because we all have PS4 so he'll be on his own so much that we're considering all chipping in to get him a PS4.

But not the white one. He can't have a better console than the rest of us.
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Lol.
 
hey_it's_that_dog said:
I think you're right about Insomniac's games, but that point is going to be lost due to the rest of your post.
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I recently saw Fuse for $5 somewhere. Their sales have declined in recent efforts. I am sure Sunset Overdrive will do better, but they are still a long way from being system sellers in my opinion.
 
Culex said:
I think it much more impressive that the PS3 was listed for 600 dollars and sold as well as the PS4!
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The PS3's first Christmas in the UK came about nine months after launch (post price-cut), so it had the advantage of a first major holiday with ample supply. That will have helped it considerably.
 
RetroStu said:
I think if you take into account that the Wii was bought by housewifes, gran and grandad, the local undertaker, basically so many more people than just gamers, it puts it into perspective how well the PS4 is doing.
Oh and of course in the face of consoles dying etc lol.
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Yeah, let's not look at the trend line of the sales of the PS4, and the much much much much much worse overall console sales trend line as well. The pie is smaller, it doesn't matter if your personally emotionally invested slice is bigger, except as a dick measuring contest.

Does no one teach data analysis any more?
 
I am just wondering how the sales of the PS4 (or any next gen console) will fare mid-way into its cycle. Are the casual masses who bought their gen 7 system to play COD and Fifa with their friends even bother to upgrade to the newer systems? It seems like the old systems will always be supported by publishers.

I guess I am not sure if people will care enough to upgrade to prettier graphics and features even if the gen 8 console hit the sweet $300 price point. Imo, the exclusives like Uncharted and Halo will be the bigger driver for gen 8 uptake than COD and say AC (who were imo the bigger drivers for uptake last gen).
 
Starwolf_UK said:
*sigh* it is bad enough when forum goers say this. I understand they are trying to drum up the accomplishment (and what a fine one it is considering the PS4 doesn't offer a great deal yet) but it is just they should be better than this crap.
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It's a semi fair dismissal of the Wii, put simply a Metal Gear Solid game in the 90's is still applicable in 2014, whereas Wii Sports in 2006, doesn't mean shit today.

Granted it's not completely fair to dismiss the achievements of the Wii but it did feel like a non competitive tangent to what the PS360 are.
 
Bunta said:
He saw his future.

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Who seriously makes these awesome gifs?! I have not seen a bad Bish Banned Gif yet!
 
lensoftruth said:
Wow, people getting offended it seems, I'm aware it has software, which is why I bought it, it just doesn't have much that you need to get a PS4 to play.

I'll try not to be surprised in the future :)
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Since when is a gaming console a necessity? I never felt the need to buy one. I only ever felt greed to have one.
 
Mpl90 can sleep at night now.

TheDrowningMan said:
The PS3's first Christmas in the UK came about nine months after launch (post price-cut), so it had the advantage of a first major holiday with ample supply. That will have helped it considerably.
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Yeah, PS3 only needed 4 more weeks, but due to its release in March, it actually went through a full holiday season before it. The PS4 and Wii already went through one December as well, but it was really just a starved launch period for both.

Anyway, the fastest system to 1 million continues to be the PSP -- 24 weeks. It also benefited from having a regular holiday season with normal supply since it was released on September 1st in the UK.
 
Road said:
Anyway, the fastest system to 1 million continues to be the PSP -- 24 weeks. It also benefited from having a regular holiday season with normal supply since it was released on September 1st in the UK.
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Kind of funny that was the one that was heavily delayed for Europe compared with USA and Japan. Sends the wrong kind of message (rewards for delays, well software certainly benefits) but maybe those were different times.
 
Visualante2 said:
Strange how quick we are to forget that the Wii was supply constrained for a good part of its first year. Sony has managed to resolve that in a much quicker fashiom.

It's really difficult to compare the two.
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Honestly i dint get this. Supply issues or not it took however long it took it. So it's not difficult to compare the 2. History says it took however how long it took
 
Its obvious the PS4 will get a large part of the Microsoft and Nintendo fanbases, and new casuals too, very well played.
 
stryke said:
And I asked you where are these people? Otherwise you're just calling out people who don't exist.
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hey_it's_that_dog said:
You made a claim with no evidence. "Xbox fans" as a group cannot be hypocritical. You have to demonstrate that the exact same person who said one thing before is now saying the opposite if you want to make legitimate claims of hypocrisy. How do you know they are the same individuals? You don't

All you know is that in the past, some people who were Xbox 360 fans thought Insomniac wasn't great, and now, some Xbox One fans think they are. You have no evidence that they are the same exact people.
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So both of you know everyone I've ever interacted with? You know the same people I'm friends with, work with, interact with on social media and in other forums?

That's why people are shitting on you. If you continue to argue that you haven't made a logical mistake, it will be further evidence of how confused your thinking is. People are so eager to uncover inconsistency and hypocrisy that they readily make this error. You're not the only one so don't be too defensive about it.
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Confused thinking... Logical mistake? On a purely statistical level, there's nothing "confused" or "logically erroneous" about it let alone on a personal experience level, well... I guess I should have recorded conversations with friends.

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Incidentally the same hypocrisy will be shown when Titanfall 2 is announced for PS4. Will you both get so defensive when that's pointed out?
 
lensoftruth said:
As an owner of the PS4 in the state of UK, Europe I'm surprised by this.

What are people buying these for? It can't be for the games library.
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You're right, I got home from work this evening and considered playing on my PS4. I idly thumbed through the cases on the shelf. Perhaps FFXIV, or Wolfenstein?

Then it hit me - I was lying to myself. There are no games in those cases, they're just blue placebos. Frustrated, I picked up my PS4 and shook it like a british nanny - sand.

All that came out was sand. It was a lie all along.
 
system11 said:
You're right, I got home from work this evening and considered playing on my PS4. I idly thumbed through the cases on the shelf. Perhaps FFXIV, or Wolfenstein?

Then it hit me - I was lying to myself. There are no games in those cases, they're just blue placebos. Frustrated, I picked up my PS4 and shook it like a british nanny - sand.

All that came out was sand. It was a lie all along.
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Y'all shake your nannies?
 
mike4001_ said:
Well they have 2 major exklusives with Sunset overdrive and HALO coming out this year.

I am sure this will narrow the gap (but of course not closing it)
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The issue with arguments like these is that they assume once again XBO is in a vacuum. Even if you genuinely believed that these two games would compel a decent amount of new people into the stores to get the XBO, they don't exist by themselves. Sony as well as exclusives this holiday season. They also have association with the biggest new IP of the year, and a slew of other minor products. IF PS4 maintained a huge sales gap even with Titanfall, arguably the biggest exclusive Microsoft is going to have for quite some time, why would Sunset Overdrive and MCC change things suddenly? Sony's going to have a bigger arsenal against those games then they did against Titanfall.

I think Sunset Overdrive is one of the most appealing game coming out this Holiday season, so I hope it surprises everyone and sells a billion units. But I do not think there's a compelling argument that there's a path for Microsoft to 'close the gap' given the arsenal both Sony and MS have this season. They'll both do better than usual, which would just mean the gap itself would maintain itself. Holiday season is going to be very telling indeed. I guess it depends on how aggressively Microsoft markets their system too everywhere.

lensoftruth said:
I didn't say there was, but a majority of these titles are available on previous gen. I'm just surprised Johnny Casual is upgrading is all.
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The thing is that there's not really one basic reason people buy a console.

Let's say you look and see you want inFamous and, say, DriveClub this holiday season. Well ok, you also know that if you want those you have to get a PS4. But those two games by themselves don't really warrant a purchase, perhaps. So then you start thinking about other aspects. "Well, I can play the best console version of Call of Duty, I like CoD. Well I can play the best version of Grand Theft Auto V. Well, hey, I like Assassin's Creeds game, and there's a next-gen AC coming out I want. Man, and there's a bunch of rad indie games coming out..."

Eventually, it starts an accumulation. You may think there isn't enough compelling -unique- software, but there may in fact be plenty in the eyes of someone else. Or someone else may think that the unique software in of itself isn't enough quite yet, but if you combine it with the other benefits of upgrading to next-gen hardware it's worth it for them.

It's not really complicated bro
 
FlyStarJay said:
Honestly i dint get this. Supply issues or not it took however long it took it. So it's not difficult to compare the 2. History says it took however how long it took
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I think thats a bit simplistic. In any in depth analysis you have to ask why a cetain thing happened, and if ot didnt, what would the results be if it did. If the Wii wasnt supply constrained, how much more could it sell?
 
FleetFeet said:
Most surprising bit of info from that article is the fact that the PS3 sold 1 million in 46 weeks.
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That's because people constantly assumed the PS3 was failing simply because it trailed the Xbox by 18 months. It outsold the Xbox on an aligned release schedule, and eventually passed it globally, so this figure doesn't surprise me at all.
 
Steroyd said:
It's a semi fair dismissal of the Wii, put simply a Metal Gear Solid game in the 90's is still applicable in 2014, whereas Wii Sports in 2006, doesn't mean shit today.

Granted it's not completely fair to dismiss the achievements of the Wii but it did feel like a non competitive tangent to what the PS360 are.
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Wii Sports is irrelevant now but it still sold more than twice the entire metal gear franchise so far.
 
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