67.5M PS4 shipped. 4.2M in Q2. Forecast for FY raised

[DonFerrari]

Lawlight said:

postofficebuddy said:
IIRC there were some people here who still thought PS4 wouldn't hit 100 million lifetime as recently as May. Sales would have to drop like a rock for that to happen at this point.

From September 2015:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=208434

How some people thought it would only sell 80M is beyond me.

Well that at least were 2 years ago or more so we can accept they being wrong (even if so much).

Barkley said:

Lawlight said:

From September 2015:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=208434

How some people thought it would only sell 80M is beyond me.

I can do one better. Predict When will PS4 Outsell Wii

Only 4 months ago people saying PS4 would never outsell the Wii, and probably a lot who said that still believe it now.

That is trully crazy prediction being already close to 70M at the moment.

Lawlight said:

Barkley said:

I can do one better. Predict When will PS4 Outsell Wii

Only 4 months ago people saying PS4 would never outsell the Wii, and probably a lot who said that still believe it now.

I think Alex The Hedgehog is a winner there. Not only did he predict that the PS4 will never outsell the Wii, he predicted 75M lifetime sales.

How he achieved that? Sony stop selling PS4 this holiday?

torok said:

KBG29 said:
I still think they are low balling with that 19 million figure. With Gran Turismo Sport coming out this quarter, and God of War most likely coming around late February or March, I don't see any reason for them not to match or exceed the 20M units they sold in FY2016

Yes, they are. Nintendo is too with their new forecasts. They are predictions that MUST be met at any costs. Annoucing predictions and failling to meet them is a terrible prospect. So when tehse companies rise their forecasts, it's because they know they will make it without breaking a sweat. Actually, it's just because they notice that their previous forecast would be pathetically low.

So, more than 20M is a total given. They are most likely aiming at 21 or 22M right now.

There is a possibility that sony to oversell the 19M, but they don't really lowball. They do a prediction with a high level of confidence to hit but not a low ball, it just happen that Sony on PS4 have done the initial forecast very conservative and when correcting they were always putting it a little higher.

Lawlight said:

torok said:

Yes, they are. Nintendo is too with their new forecasts. They are predictions that MUST be met at any costs. Annoucing predictions and failling to meet them is a terrible prospect. So when tehse companies rise their forecasts, it's because they know they will make it without breaking a sweat. Actually, it's just because they notice that their previous forecast would be pathetically low.

So, more than 20M is a total given. They are most likely aiming at 21 or 22M right now.

I don't think Sony uses that tactic - they've always met their expectations.

This gen they have often reviewed their forecast up on several quarters. So it's possible that they end up at 20M, 21M I think is unlikely.

Zekkyou said:

zorg1000 said:
Yesterday we got news of Nintendo kicking ass and now we find out Playstation is kicking ass as well, good news!!!

It's nice seeing it happen relatively independently too. We normally only see this kind of two-lane market with home consoles vs handheld, which makes me think the PS4 has maintained its grip on the home console market, and the Switch is predominantly pulling in and slightly re-shaping the handheld market. Works out pretty nicely for both Sony and Nintendo.

Or Nintendo really dig a new niche where Cell and Pads competition for the HH is deterred and also the console hungry also doesn't go deep. If their hybrid have almost all the benefits of HH while also attaining some of the console, plus being Nintendo then it have a second breath for HH.

Perhaps Sony will look at it for the next gen to have their PS5 and their PS5 hybrid.