Wonktonodi said:
define dropped off a cliff? have you looked at the wii's sales in 2007? have you looked how many were in Japan? have a look at a comparison of the sales. Did you look at NPD ps4 was the best selling version of quite a few of the top ten software
Jan 7 2007 Japan
WW Jan 6th
without Japan thats 132,521 January 4th 2014
PS4 almost double though it does have a few more days in December Japan Jan14 07
WW Jan 13
without Japan 155,775 January 11th 2014
Ps4 still up though only about 25,000
Japan Jan 21st 07
WW Jan 20th
without Japan 161,647 Jan 18th 2014
PS4 down by less than 7,000
Japan Jan 28th 07
WW Jan 27th
without Japan 168,330 Jan 25th 2014
PS4 Down by a little over 20,000 Japan Feb 4th 07
WW Feb 3rd
without Japan 160,280 Feb 1st 2014
PS4 Up again by about 5,000
Japan Feb 11th 07
WW Feb 10th
without Japan 146,915 WW to date without Japan 2,922,110 WW YTD without Japan about 925,000 Feb 8th 2014 Ps4 140,308 down by about 7,000 WW to date without Japan about 5,1800,000 WW YTD without Japan about 1,050,000 So without Japan the ps4 is about 125,000 above what the wii did. Even if you take out most of the sales for the first weeks numbers, You can hardly call that dropping off a cliff. Not only that even without the million and a half sales the wii had in Japan by this point, the ps4 is still up by over 600,000 |
Great post. Some people prefer to deny reality.