This is amazing. They have got an amazing team right there.
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PS4 sells through 1 million units on Day 1 in NA, best start in PS / console history
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This is amazing. They have got an amazing team right there.
djblackice
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Best day one sales ever?
maquiladora
Member
About yae big.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Too early to tell how widespread that defect is (I expect: not very)... But PS2's Disc Read Error or 360's RROD hardly slowed down those mega-successful consoles.
Huge.
shinra-bansho
Member
1.39M sold through.
Very big.
If I recall 360 day 1 was like 300k units... most consoles are severly supply constraint on day 1... 1 million is an awesome number...
Yes!
Next Gen blue balls. This has been a LONG generation, people want something new
So PS4 sold more than Wii and 360 combined, right?
Nightengale
Member
Q1 next year:
- Thief
- MLB 14 : The Show
- Driveclub
- inFamous
- Destiny beta (maybe?)
Visualante2
Member
It is an important battle ground but it won't be hard for Microsoft to flood the UK market given that they're serving half as many countries
Xbox One November 22nd
Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, UK
PS4 November 29th
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK
OMG! Hope no one died! o_0
oconnomiyaki
Member
Only if it keeps up this momentum. For some context, not only did the Wii U bolt out of the gate only to taper of at the end, but the PS2 was severely supply constrained.
At the moment, it shows that Sony's been efficient in meeting initial demand. The test will be if that demand holds. Once you've saturated core gamers, then the real game begins.
I doubt there's much to fear -- current gen consoles are still selling -- but it's way too premature to call Day One figures evidence of a trend one way or the other.
FinalStageBoss
Banned
really curious about eu numbers now. They're going to sell every unit they can ship. cus ill admit i did not expect 1mill in NA for day 1
Hoho for breakfast
Member
I would suggest getting one asap and even if for whatever reason you decide you don't want it just sell it. These kinds of numbers create news and then hype and Christmas is coming. This could easily be the next Wii if there's no big issues.
I'm pretty sure planetside 2 is going to be huge as well.
bigboss370
Member
this would be impressive if it was over 1 week, but 24 hours is just nuts 
Monty Mole
Member
Let's wait a year before making that assessment. The real question is whether games consoles will still appeal to the greater masses over the coming years. They were always going to have success at launch. This is indeed great news though and an extremely promising start.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Yes, it is! Btw. PS4 beat the record of PS2 launch day in Japan which sold 980 000 units in 24 hours!
Wolves Evolve
Member
Driveclub is Jan? Where have I been - I thought April at the earliest.
Ricerocket
Member
Wait, sold to customers and not shipped? :0
Congrats to Sony.
Congrats to Sony.
SentryDown
Member
A few were injuried, my older brother were there and everything was sold within 2 hours, if I remember well
Nightengale
Member
Yeah, PS2 too.
I found it hilarious that the press tried to overplay the fact that Watch_Dogs and Driveclub delay was a hit on Sony. If anything, it was better for them.
MS's mess-ups and pricing allowed Sony to basically gain the consumer attention and demand of their product despite a smaller launch line-up, and Sony enjoyed the advantage of being able to push more system sellers later in the calendar when demand might had slowed down.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I showed up to a school group project today.. And half the group bought PS4s. 4 out of 7 students.
I thought it was just an unlikely anecdote... But maybe it was representative of the market.
A couple of them were 360 gamers last gen too...
I thought it was just an unlikely anecdote... But maybe it was representative of the market.
A couple of them were 360 gamers last gen too...
bigboss370
Member
I bet Uncharted reveal at the VGAs will bump the sales even more
I'm kidding myself if I think I won't get one. This is just a question of me having to justify to myself buying a shiny new gadget when I just bought an ipad air, a ps3+gtav and I'm about to buy new graphics card+SSD. I'm spending so much money on tech lately.
Some Japanese has already asked yoshida the number is shippment or sell-through, he answered directly it's sell-through. I really don't know why you try to act like PS4 is not sold out.
Canis lupus
Member
I suppose 1 million on launch day in Europe too.
Allocate consoles to the countries launching in december, then distribute the rest for NA and Europe as 2nd batch.
I think this year they're gonna sell 3 to 3.5 million consoles.
Is it not launching in the rest of the UK like ?
Don't think they released in Mexico yet.
For serious? The PS4 nearly outsold a year's worth of Wii-U sales in just 24 hours?
Jesus. Tretton must be dancing around in his underwear right now.
The entire argument that consoles were dying was based upon declining numbers of 360 and PS3 seeing year over year lower sales
Well no shit they are seeing lower sales, both consoles are waaaay past the typical life expectancy of a video game console. If anything, the sales of 360 and PS3 in the last 3 years are impressive considering their age. Yet the numbers were being framed as "worrying" for the console industry, which made me roll my eyes as it is such a tunnel vision mode to look at it.
That and the abysmal performance of the Wii U. But just like previous consoles have failed to catch on (Saturn, Jaguar, Dreamcast, GC, OG Xbox) others have thrived in the same generations, PSX, SNES, PS2 etc.
Nothing has changed, the industry moves forward much like it always has. Now that numbers are finally coming out, we can put the entire idea to rest and move on.
Well no shit they are seeing lower sales, both consoles are waaaay past the typical life expectancy of a video game console. If anything, the sales of 360 and PS3 in the last 3 years are impressive considering their age. Yet the numbers were being framed as "worrying" for the console industry, which made me roll my eyes as it is such a tunnel vision mode to look at it.
That and the abysmal performance of the Wii U. But just like previous consoles have failed to catch on (Saturn, Jaguar, Dreamcast, GC, OG Xbox) others have thrived in the same generations, PSX, SNES, PS2 etc.
Nothing has changed, the industry moves forward much like it always has. Now that numbers are finally coming out, we can put the entire idea to rest and move on.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Supply constrained. Heavily.
I bet Uncharted reveal at the VGAs will bump the sales even more
or the new game from SSM
Scary! Wonder what this launch is gonna look like!
This is actually insane. Congratulations to Sony
So PS4 and Wii U install bases are basically the same in US?..