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Sony FY2015 Q1 (PS4: 3.0m shipped) PS4 total = 25.3m shipped worldwide
- Thread starter ZhugeEX
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What war?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Really goes to show you how important the rest of the world is to the games industry, especially now.
https://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/hardware_sale_e.html
I don't really see how it would hurt to give the other numbers now.
I think so. I view the Xbox One as current as being as good a value proposition as the 360 was, so if Sony made a hideous mess of things like last gen then Microsoft would capitalise. Sony haven't though, hence similar results. I mean, the OG Xbox did way worse than the One is doing, but Microsoft were still highly competitive next time round.
The forecast is 16.5 million. Not 13.5
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I saw some someone say they raised the prediction from 16M to 16.5M for this fiscal year.
*edit Beaten by the guru
sturgboski
Member
Its threads like these that make me think back to the halcyon days of the start of this generation. A time when article after article stated that it didn't matter than PS4 sold 1m units in a day in two territories, matching what Xbox One did with 13. That everything but the holiday season is the preseason and doesn't matter. That the first to 10m will win the generation (ok this was a Don Mattrick quote and that prophecy seems to have been fulfilled).
All that money and success, show some love to Vita why don't you
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All that money and success, show some love to Vita why don't you
.so we can at least reasonably concludes that the PS4 is a global console while the Xbox One is a US/UK one....i'm not condescending the Xbox brand but being pragmatic about it. It is what it is.
They need to address the ROTW situation. Atleast make a better effort in continental europe.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
http://ca.ign.com/videos/2013/11/12/ps4-sony-on-wii-u-changing-your-psn-name
One doesn't need multiple manufacturers performing at the same level or "race," but having multiple competitors being successful in the marketplace is much better than having a monopoly dictating those terms.
Imagine Disney being the sole movie distributor, and not having Warner Bros., LionsGate, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Paramount, competing for the same $ - it would not be good for the industry or consumers.
Competition breeds great things for consumers. As it stands now, Sony is dominating, so MS has to try much harder to keep their marketshare from collapsing just from the hype factor alone. Thus Xbox owners reap the benefits.
Competition.
Competition.
I don't think he means in terms of sales, rather system features, IP, deals, pricing etc. Microsoft has been pretty reactive this gen, and consumers are benefiting from it. Removing Kinect as a forced pack in, re-designing the OS, toolsets, offering backwards compatibility, improving their Games for Gold service, securing more games, lowering prices etc. They're not all the way there yet (parity clause, blocking third party exclusives instead of securing new first party one's etc), but it's a hell of an improvement. Had they not been so positively reactive, I think they'd be dead in the water right now.
Windows RT
Banned
＊From FY2015, only PS4 unit sales is disclosed.
Does it mean PS3 has no chance to hit 100 millions mark?
I remember many people here predict PS3 will eventually hit that mark and even surpass Wii LTD shipments and no chance for Xbox 360.
Now it seems we will never know when Xbox 360 and PS3 will hit 90millions...
Does it mean PS3 has no chance to hit 100 millions mark?
I remember many people here predict PS3 will eventually hit that mark and even surpass Wii LTD shipments and no chance for Xbox 360.
Now it seems we will never know when Xbox 360 and PS3 will hit 90millions...
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Perfection."It's not a race."
No. We don't want anyone to have a pure, true monopoly, but neither do we need all three to be successful.
Hydrargyrus
Member
Nope unfortunately but PS3 should be around 90m shipped anyway at this point.
i want Nintendo to be reasonably successful though...i can't imagine a world without nintendo games.......
Alex_Mexico
Member
What's the Xbox 360 vs PS3 worldwide tally nowadays? Did the PS3 eventually outsold the 360 at some point? (I know the 360 remained untouched in the U.S. though).
vpance
Member
Except imagine those studios share 95% of their movies and each has their own on demand service
By the end of the fiscal year it could have reached 90m. Right now its more like ~88m. Same as 360. Both are pretty neck and neck based on all available data.
Windows RT
Banned
I am quite happy for all the big 3 are going back on the right track on their main business:
Microsoft: Windows 10 is well accepted so far by media/journalists and seems have a bright future;
Nintendo: profits, toys business - Amiibo is enjoying good sales;
Sony: PS4 is dominant.
Microsoft: Windows 10 is well accepted so far by media/journalists and seems have a bright future;
Nintendo: profits, toys business - Amiibo is enjoying good sales;
Sony: PS4 is dominant.
That has always been the case though, which is why the PS3 sold better than the 360 every year it has been on the market except for 2012.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Except imagine those studios share 95% of their movies and each has their own on demand service
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Sure. But your desires are not indicative of what the market needs.
38.8m (forecast) - 25.3m (current shipped) = 13.5m left to ship to meet that target by March 16.
March 15 - March 16 = 12 months.
13.5/12 = 1.125m per month.
Comes about that much per month. Perhaps what I am reading is wrong, but not the numbers eh...
I understand now. I honestly was not thinking of it from that way and it makes total sense. I
You're doing it wrong.....
The forecast is 16.5 million for April 2015 through March 2016.
The forecast is 13.5 million from July 2015 through March 2015.
That's the best part in my estimation. Just from PS4's overwhelming success alone, it has spurred a lot of the Japanese developers into trying to take advantage of that wave by putting games on the platform.
You can bet without those huge sales, SE, Sega and Namco Bandai would not have tried as hard to capitalize as they are now. They know they can't release any games in the west on consoles seriously without putting them on the PS4, thus easy PS4 Japanese support.
Nightengale
Member
July 15 - March 16. 9 months, not 12.
But there are 9 months remaining of the fiscal year.
I think that estimate is conservative, but not by that much.
superseohyun
Member
not bad for a console with no games.
now if consoles can be revived in Japan...
TBiddy
Member
Hard to do much about that now, considering it's all about perception.
In Europe (most of it, anyways), there's only the PS4. The Xbox brand isn't worth much here, outside of the Halo/GoW players. Also, it doesn't help that many of the cool features aren't available here..
But, kudos to Sony. They really hit the nail on the head with the PS4, although they got jumpstarted by Microsoft.
NVM then. So 25.3m shipped by June 15, not March.
Edit: Japanese fiscal year runs different, starting in April. Ok.
Correct. 1.5m per month on average.
John Bender
Banned
Yes, I still believe they will announce a price cut at the end of October (~Paris Games Week). Gonna be interesting.
Yeah it's pretty close with 90m in sight.
Unfortunately they haven't been able to cut costs and price like they did with PS2 so it's unlikely they'll reach 100m LTD but that is also helping the PS4 which is where they prefer to see sales going.
What? my 150 hours of Bloodborne.....turns out i am spending 150 hours on 'not a game'??Bummer
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You jest, but Japan is part of the reason PS4 shipments increased YoY, it was doing horribly last year, but the baseline nearly doubled this year.
unapersson
Member
That should resolve itself once developers are targeting consoles correctly rather than downporting the PC version.
zeopower6
Member
I think it should be fine eventually once PS3 cross gen stops being a thing. There still isn't much for Japanese gamers that isn't already available for them on PS3.
Fredrik
Member
You actually don't need sales figures to see that, I just have to look at the date of my "day 1" purchase, 4th september 2014 (!!) Yup, it hasn't even been out for a year in many countries because of that joke of a worldwide launch. They just don't cared about the rest of us. And maybe these figures are the best way for them to realize what an extremely bad decision that was. PS4 got a full year for themselves in many parts of the world to help them getting this kind of head start.