Neff
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Nobody sane ever did this. It was lack of software that screwed Wii U, pure and simple.
People love consoles. Always have, always will. But they need great games.
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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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Nobody sane ever did this. It was lack of software that screwed Wii U, pure and simple.
People love consoles. Always have, always will. But they need great games.
Because there is a significant population of console gamers that don't play highly demanding PC games. Add the fact that the game is already critically acclaimed and has a massive user base, the release would market itself.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Well holy fucking shit.
Woh.
Woh.
Technically the press release title states more than one million sold through. Now we just need the actual shipment number.
TacticalFox88
Banned
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Sounds about right, if the Wii U can do 600k the big boys should come in well above that.
The Last One
Member
Wow, pretty impressive!
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
A shit console? Yes. A console with nothing going for it? Wrong. It has the great off tv feature going for it, it has something unique and it has a number of good exclusives.
bigboss370
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ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
lol, for those who still doubt it. don't blame em though, this is mighty impressive.
Putting IGN in line lol. He was telling that Andrew dude how to play Resogun on twitter as well.
nextgeneration
Member
Would you be so kind to post the NPD sources for those?This actually means PS4 is the biggest console launch in NA. (yes NPD doesn't cover Canada but Canada is 6x smaller than US so its not gonna make a huge difference for the other consoles.)
I don't have the NPD sources for these. These are in my spreadsheet.
This was back in the days when NPD reported hardware and software numbers, and the NPD threads in gaf had crazy amounts of hardware/software numbers. So, during those times, I just compiled all the hardware numbers into a spreadsheet and still have that spreadsheet.
I blame the controller and the cost it adds to the system. I think Nintendo could have made a lot more money if they sold Wii U without the Game Pad and cut the price down. They wanted the controller to be the next Wiimote, but it's not.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Not to be a downer but WiiU selling 600k is less likely than PS4 selling 2 million units.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I don't think it was a stupid prediction, as you imply. Though it was wrong.
Canis lupus
Member
yosp's twitter account was haxed and spread misinformation...
There probably won't be any marketing outside of whatever banner is on the store. The game has had a mixed reaction and is F2P.
Prince Vultan
Banned
That's absolutely incredible. My guess was about half that number.
Congrats to Sony.
Congrats to Sony.
Unknown One
Member
There were tons if post like those on Gaf, but they might be insane.
Codeblew
Member
I am guessing they will sell less than 1/2 of that on the first day for no other reason than not having enough units. If my companies allocation ratio of PS4/XB1 holds nationwide, then yah. xboned.
Hot Coldman
Banned
bwahahaha
SwiftDeath
Member
Interesting that is the only such comment I can find in the whole of the thread
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/search.php?searchid=8817236
All other mentions of console war are based on your mention of other people in this thread claiming it was already over
1 person making 1 post stating such, a consensus does not make
I'm sorry but you were being a tad disengenous to suggest that
There really hasn't been such claims outside of 1 post among 500+
I do think there's a general notion that Sony will outsell MS globally year one but that doesn't mean the company will win automatically
Look at this gen
Acquiescence
Member
So it's not even shipped, it's sold? Wow. This is Sony right now...
How many of those are replacements?
noone, since they are sold out almost everywhere most of them should wait some days for a replacement. and this numbers are relative to the first 24h only.
You don't deserve to sport a Banderas avatar.
deputyspade
Member
Because console plebs are typically not PC gamers and have never played Planetside 2.
They're just gonna talk about how hardware sales will tank in the coming months instead.
Dunno who you're kidding here, the Wii U has glaring issues not limited to its mediocre software library.
Unknown One
Member
Either result would be funny. It will get very close.
Petrae
Member
Ouch. I don't know that I agree with that assessment, even though I believe the WiiU is the odd console out.
If nothing else, Nintendo's strong and very familiar stable of first-party franchises that consumers can't buy anywhere else is a plus and may make the WiiU desirable as a secondary or tertiary platform once gaming consumers reload after PS4/XBO expenditures.
I don't think it's an awful platform. Just unknown and arguably not what consumers wanted.
sleeping_dragon
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Oh no, I'm calm. But I'll elaborate on the vanilla comment. Say you go to a restaurant and on the desert menu there's nothing that really tickles your fancy, but there's some vanilla ice cream. It's a safe bet, relatively inoffensive. That's how I feel about the PlayStation brand. If I own one, then there's things I can pick up on the console, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one just to play those games. In the past, I've been one of those people to own all the consoles because I was young, had no dependents, and a large disposable income. I'm older now -- damn the generation has been long -- and those things no longer hold true. I no longer get every new piece of tech or every gaming console just because. So if vanilla is the only thing on the menu that appeals, maybe I'll just skip desert.
For the record, I don't think the 360 did a particular good job of offering up an alternative flavour. Because last generation we saw so many exclusives go multiplatform, and because anything remotely adventurous often saw the studio shuttered, it's been one of those menus where I'm just like "Fuck it, I'm going to McDonald's."
When I was a teenager, Wipeout was one of the reasons to look at a PlayStation. Today, Sony closed the studio because it wasn't successful enough. Times change, people grow old.
Oh, and Uncharted isn't vanilla, it's chocolate. I'm a strawberry man, myself.
EDIT: Just so I'm clear on why this line of thought has come up, I think that 1 million sales is great for Sony, but I don't necessarily agree that it's great for gamers. Well, at least not all gamers. Indeed, if Sony dominates this generation and forces the other competitors to throw in the towel, then for some gamers that will actually be a bad thing.
hahahah! so bitter!
He's not wrong about the reception of the general audience. It has one and really only one redeeming quality: first party software. It's a difference-maker, yes, but the box is not a success.
I had edited my post. There wouldn't need to be much marketing. Also an 84 on metacritic for an F2P game doesn't really indicate "mixed reactions". Anyway, both of us are speculating without much evidence. We shall see, I guess?
Some context:
At launch, PS3 sold 0.19M in 2 weeks in the US.
It took them about 50 days to ship 1 million units in NA
Wii sold 1.25M in the first 42 days in NA
Xbox 360 sold 0.9M units in the first 39 days in NA
Didn't find any numbers for the PS2 launch, but here Jack Tretton says they"
reach the one-million mark (with the Playstation 3) faster than our top-selling platform, PS2...".
EDIT: Hoho for breakfast points out that in NA, the PS2 sold "slightly more than 0.5M" in the first day.
At launch, PS3 sold 0.19M in 2 weeks in the US.
It took them about 50 days to ship 1 million units in NA
Wii sold 1.25M in the first 42 days in NA
Xbox 360 sold 0.9M units in the first 39 days in NA
Didn't find any numbers for the PS2 launch, but here Jack Tretton says they"
reach the one-million mark (with the Playstation 3) faster than our top-selling platform, PS2...".
EDIT: Hoho for breakfast points out that in NA, the PS2 sold "slightly more than 0.5M" in the first day.
The reception of the general audience doesn't make it a shit console with nothing going for it.
TacticalFox88
Banned
And even THAT is questionable/arguable.
Yes. I have made that clarification.
Majmun
Member
damnnnnnnnnnnn
Only time will tell if thsese crazy Ps4 sales will have some legs or not.
I think people are underestimating the €399 pricepoint.
fabricated backlash
Member
Congrats to Sony. Well deserved and a good serving of crow to all those in the press who've been harping about Smartphones/Tablets killing the console space.
Even as a Nintendo fan first and foremost, this is excellent news, as it means the WiiUs non-existent sales are solely to blame on Nintendo and not some market contraction/erosion.
Will join the PS4 when games are out I'm actually interested. With UC4 coming, that should be somewhere around this time next year.
Even as a Nintendo fan first and foremost, this is excellent news, as it means the WiiUs non-existent sales are solely to blame on Nintendo and not some market contraction/erosion.
Will join the PS4 when games are out I'm actually interested. With UC4 coming, that should be somewhere around this time next year.
oconnomiyaki
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What was the advertising like in the States, btw? Like in terms of how salient it was. Admittedly, I don't watch the channels that Sony would advertise the PS4 on, but I haven't seen a single advertisement here in New Zealand. Not a print ad or even an ad before a YouTube video. It's almost like Sony know they're going to sell out so they don't even need to bother!
About Europe shipments. As far as I know from insiders there's gonna be about a few thousands of PS4s on the first week of sales in Russia. And yes, there a LOT more confirmed (payed out) preorders. Though there's a rumor of a second shipment somewhere around the 20s of December.
PS. Selling quotas are ridiculously small when huge retailers like Media Marckt and M-Video are getting only 500 consoles each.
PS. Selling quotas are ridiculously small when huge retailers like Media Marckt and M-Video are getting only 500 consoles each.