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Forums - Sony Discussion - Prediction: PS4 will sell 20,000,000 by Dec 31. 2014

Train wreck on 15 January 2014
Metallicube said:

What games are going to drive this insane kind of demand? Because I don't see it.. You realize the console is selling largely on hype, based off the natural boost of the holidays, and the novelty of new console technology, right? Soon all the extreme Sony diehards and tech junkies that must have all things new are going to all have their PS4s, and the console sales are going to plummet down to earth, at least until Sony gets some worthwhile games. Wii U, N64, PS3, and even Dreamcast all started out selling massively its first holiday season.. We simply do not know the REAL demand of the PS4 yet. And we will not until supply meets demand.

Remember, at the end of the day, the purpose of gaming consoles is to play games. Thus, Sony will need the worthwhile games to continue to drive the sales of the hardware.

The games that will be driving demand are games that wont be appearing on the wii u so i dont see why its a concern of yours.



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brendude13 on 15 January 2014
Metallicube said:

What games are going to drive this insane kind of demand? Because I don't see it.. You realize the console is selling largely on hype, based off the natural boost of the holidays, and the novelty of new console technology, right? Soon all the extreme Sony diehards and tech junkies that must have all things new are going to all have their PS4s, and the console sales are going to plummet down to earth, at least until Sony gets some worthwhile games. Wii U, N64, PS3, and even Dreamcast all started out selling massively its first holiday season.. We simply do not know the REAL demand of the PS4 yet. And we will not until supply meets demand.

Remember, at the end of the day, the purpose of gaming consoles is to play games. Thus, Sony will need the worthwhile games to continue to drive the sales of the hardware.

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BHR-3 on 15 January 2014

this is defiantly going to be a crow eating thread

i see can see it getting very close to that



                                                             

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vivster on 15 January 2014

Feasible yes, probable not so much. I think the Q3/4 numbers are a bit optimistic.



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Train wreck on 15 January 2014

Will definitely depend on Sony's monthly run rate. If they can crank it up to 1.5 mil per month then yes. Also there will be price drops for both consoles so that will fuel sales come holiday 2014.



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archbrix on 15 January 2014

The PS4 doesn't have any system selling games but it is selling amazingly well at the moment because it's a sure thing for the people anxious to jump into the 8th gen. Its price is not prohibitively expensive and we know we won't see a price drop anytime soon.

While PS4 is indeed tracking ahead of the Wii at the moment when aligning timeframes, it will have to do similarly throughout the year to hit 20m+ sold by the end of 2014 (Wii was at 19.5m at the end of 2007). While not impossible, I don't see that happening.



wangjingwanjia on 15 January 2014

I also think that 20 million is possible, not a very surprising number at all. 15+ millions, absolutely.





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Nintentacle on 15 January 2014

20 million is crazy. I can see 15 million LTD (10.8 million sales) at the most.



Metallicube on 15 January 2014

I still haven't seen a real answer to my argument. Kinda annoying to be so right all the time ;)



Fusioncode on 15 January 2014
Metallicube said:
I still haven't seen a real answer to my argument. Kinda annoying to be so right all the time ;)

Didn't you say the WiiU would sell 80m units? 



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