anexanhume
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Both are sold to customers.
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PS4 sold (to consumers) 4.2 million units as of Dec. 28 2013
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Both are sold to customers.
TonkuySlon
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Nah...thanks for the advise though. Just a bit annoyed at people asking...why are people buying the XOne is all. Regardless, awesome number by Sony, hopefully people are enjoying their chosen device as much as I'm enjoying my XOne.
Peace!
Grinchy
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Well, then they should try harder, because McDonalds served billions.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
so i have to ask, how well do you think the PS4 will do at launch in japan and will there be a dynasty warrior at launch?
also who do you think is going to be first to launch in china now that the system ban is gone?
TheBanditKing
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Awesome, listen to your consumers, put value in your product and profit.
RedAssedApe
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Albert disappeared from Gaf. At least the Major is still with us 
Foghorn Leghorn
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9.7 million games sold retail and downloaded, so 2.3 so far.
Quadraphonic
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The industry doesn't work like that. If the Xbox One was $4,000 and the PS4 was $400, MS wouldn't need to sell just 420,000 to be ahead. The profit margin on consoles is razor thin compared to the attach rate of games over the course of 5 years.
Sons Of Anarchy
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Congrats Sony amazing stuff being done this gen
Yup,got one on launch day and damn that is an impressive number,I wonder if PS4 will reach 6 million by the end of March.
Dynasty Warriors is a launch title, yeah.
But the Japanese market is hard to predict these days... so who knows. I hope the ease of development spurs more console games out of them this generation.
crimsonspider89
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That makes no sense.
Where did Microsoft say sold through?
Where did Microsoft say sold through?
I would be much more interested in knowing how many hamburgers McDonalds sold during that time, because we all know the future of gaming is burgers.
AstroNut325
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Haven't seen anyone claim the 1-to-1 between the sales advantage and the power advantage! Amazing!
DangerMouse
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Manmademan
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The retail price is meaningless when discussing profit and revenue. Console profit margin is notoriously razor thin.
Most of the profit is going to be coming from software sales, and subscriptions (PS+ and Live). Since Sony is looking at a userbase 1.2+ million higher than microsoft is, that's a significant amount of consumers buying software and signing up to PS+ that increases their bottom line.
BibiMaghoo
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But you just....
Probably not. Either way, still incredibly impressive. We'll see how that continues into next year.
DangerMouse
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Hoping for this too, so much.
:lol
Didn't a Japanese dev just state in an interview that the PS4's architecture being more like a PC is going to help drive down costs for production and in time hopefully give us more games from Japan for PS4?
Manmademan
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it actually has. The WiiU's shipped to retail number was just over 4 million as of november, and we know it hasn't come close to burning through all of that.
The PS4 having a sell through of 4.2 million is well over what anyone has estimated the WiiU to have done yet.
Katana_Strikes
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Congrats on the sex, Sony!
Amazing numbers. Only made less impressive down to the supply issues from exceedingly huge demand. What could have been...
Also amazing they have outsold the WiiU (to consumers) in just a few short weeks vs over a year on sale. Absolutely madness and how much of an utter failure WiiU has been. I wonder if they've also sold more software than the WiiU as well?? Here you have over 4 million people gagging for new games, whilst the WiiU is struggling to sell it's more prominent hitters.
Amazing numbers. Only made less impressive down to the supply issues from exceedingly huge demand. What could have been...
Also amazing they have outsold the WiiU (to consumers) in just a few short weeks vs over a year on sale. Absolutely madness and how much of an utter failure WiiU has been. I wonder if they've also sold more software than the WiiU as well?? Here you have over 4 million people gagging for new games, whilst the WiiU is struggling to sell it's more prominent hitters.
iamvin22
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i see sony in japan taking the PS2-japanese approach with the PS4 but allowing for more ease of development with the type of architecture.
but yea the japanese market is hard to predict at this point.
anexanhume
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He didn't quote me.
Anyway, it's right on their news page: http://news.xbox.com/2014/01/xbox-one-january-thank-you
Bottles of Dew & packets of Doritos (altho Colorado might be skewing the latter upward).
Shmuely Bully
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Hesitant, but not unwilling. With how many companies went belly-up last gen I think people are underestimating the value of guaranteed money.
The more of an edge the PS4 gets the more leverage publishers and devs have in extracting money out of Microsoft for those kinds of deals, but it is very, very unlikely that they'll go away entirely. Game development seems to be an inherently risky proposition and if you're promised you can stay alive for another go around, it might be worth it.
Tallshortman
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Well you knew there were going to be meltdowns either way. I'm surprised some people don't actually read the level of salt they fill their posts with before hitting submit.
ShinMaruku
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The market is still niche you can't expect insane growth all the time. The market must settle consolidate then grow. Last gen everybody should know their will be a contraction and seeing how very few of the wii owners bought more games I think the money into studios and developers will be the same. I never count the casuals.
Neuromancer
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They listened to developers too. All in all Sony did all the right things just about. The amazing thing is that putting MP behind a paywall seemed like a gift compared to what Xbox was trying to do to us.
Mihos
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Most of my favorite types of games come out of Japan, I really hope everything he said comes to pass, reguardless of which platform it happens on.
TonkuySlon
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It may be hard to predict as to total sales...I don't think there is any question that MS is gonna get backed there...probably 7 or 8 -1
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opticalmace
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That's true. I wonder if these studios would consider shopping around though. If MS offered them an exclusivity contract for X dollars, would they approach Sony and request a counter-offer? Rhetorical Q, just wondering aloud.
Well the multiplayer is a horrible pile of crap which runs at 30-60fps *all the time*, and single player seems to be plagued with bugs just in the first level, collectables falling through scenery and that I couldn't access.
Why not link to the post he made two minutes after that one, where he agrees that it'll be around 4?
I think given the relative euphoria around the announce of the PS4, the price differential and the fact that it has been released in more markets, the only thing keeping this from being a larger sales discrepancy is availability.
This coming from someone who bought a Xbox One day one (but will eventually buy a PS4 as well).
This coming from someone who bought a Xbox One day one (but will eventually buy a PS4 as well).
It's even applicable to the WiiU!
Come on now, you know that doesn't fit the narrative. The narrative, man!
ArchedThunder
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If so we only have to worry about them getting released outside of Japan. Non-text or dialogue heavy games we can just import but there is no way I could get through a game like Yakuza in Japanese.
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