Evilms said:
Japan : 8,3 million |
new sales figures, awesome! Very interesting, thank you.
It looks like Germany might surpass Japan soon, even with a significantly smaller population.
| Evilms said:
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At least, blu ray losses were lumped together with PS3 losses iirc and the mistakes helped Sony make PS4 into a great success. Still, ouch.
I wonder why PS1 was more profitable than PS2?
Replicant said:
At least, blu ray losses were lumped together with PS3 losses iirc and the mistakes helped Sony make PS4 into a great success. Still, ouch. I wonder why PS1 was more profitable than PS2? |
Yes, the PS3 was lumped with other products that were losing money, mainly because the PS3 started to become profitable, so it offset some of that loss. So, we'll never know how much it truly made/loss.
| Shadow1980 said: Based on the data I've collected up through this past May, the PS4 was at 29,413k in the U.S. This means the PS4 sold at minimum 587k in the June-Aug. period, meaning a minimum weekly average of a bit over 45k. Last year, sales in the same period were 761k, or about 58.5k/week. This means the drop for the June-Aug. period was no more than 22.86%, comparable to the drop for the Feb.+March period (January was not down much for no obvious reason, while April and, to a lesser extent, May were down a lot because 2018 had God of War). This also means the PS4 is so far at over 1.6M for the year, maybe a bit more, vs. 2082k for the Jan.-Aug. period of 2018. Assuming the average YoY drop remains about the same, the PS4 will sell 3.3-3.4M in the U.S. for 2019 as a whole. |
Can you at least continue with your graphs? I mean you might estimate those monthly sales, or just lump those months together.
Replicant said:
At least, blu ray losses were lumped together with PS3 losses iirc and the mistakes helped Sony make PS4 into a great success. Still, ouch. I wonder why PS1 was more profitable than PS2? |
The PS1 was cheaper to produce than the PS2, another factor the PS2 have a DVD.
So Europe is king and the UK doesn't buy much.
Radek said:
How come? Over 6.8 million is a lot for a country of 66 million people. I wish my country of Poland could sell half of that with population of 38 million, but I think we barely hit 1 million maybe. |
Lol, completely underestimated the population of Japan. My original point was supposed to be how a country which barely supports home consoles out performs the United Kingdom.
Evilms said:
The PS1 was cheaper to produce than the PS2, another factor the PS2 have a DVD. |
I suspected the reason to be cheaper manufacturing costs as well but I'm quite surprised that royalties from selling 1.537 billion PS2 games versus 0.962 billion PS1 games (link) didn't put PS2 on top.
Just did some amateur calculations using the populations per country with the most up-to-date numbers I could get with Google's search results. I only used the numbers from the post on the first page with PS4 sales per country.
Percentage of population in PS4 sales:
1. UK (10.30%)
1 in 9.71
6.8m consoles / 66.04m people
2. United States (9.17%)
1 in 10.91
30.0m consoles / 327.2m people
3. France (8.96%)
1 in 11.17
6m consoles / 66.99m people
4. Germany (8.70%)
1 in 11.50
7.2m consoles / 82.79m people
5. Spain (6.64%)
1 in 15.07
3.1m consoles / 46.72m people
6. Japan (6.55%)
1 in 15.28
8.3m consoles / 126.8m people
Edit: I'm curious how much these numbers would change if XB1 and Switch were to be included.
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