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Forums - Sony Discussion - xbone + wiii u will outsell the ps4 this holiday and sony will not have 50% marketshare by the end of the year (LTD)

 

will the ps4 have 5% LTD by years end

yes 104 59.77%
 
no 70 40.23%
 
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I think it's pretty clear PS4 is going to at least hit 50% market share by the end of this year, more likely a bit more than that. According to vgchartz numbers it's already at 46-47% (potentially under-tracked) and weekly global sales have been higher than Wii U and Xbox One combined for many weeks besides the odd week here or there.

I think PS4 can easily sell far more than Xbox One and Wii U combined between now and the end of the year.

I expect PS4 will sell in excess of 18 million by 31/12/2014, Wii U maybe 10 million and Xbox One possibly 8 million.

As for LTD, I think PS4 could already be above 5%.



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Zelhawks37 said:
Depends how well Smash does. Does PS4 have any big first party titles for the holidays?


As others said, it does not seem to matter. So FC3, DAI and others will probably shift a bunch of ps4s.

I live in a xb tier-2 country so xb1 just launched here and sold better than expected, but sales seems to have slowed down after the release.

Today I was at a big electronics store, and they had a mountain of xb1s but not a single ps4. That got me wondering if ps4 is getting supply constrained again maybe?



For the year 2014, the PS4 will in all likelihood maintain over 50% marketshare with 60% as of current, but I don't see it hitting 50% LTD.

I'm not going to bother doing the math, but it would have to sell something closer to 70% over 2014 to negate the extra one year of sales posted by the Wii U, which is a bit unrealistic.

As much as the PS4 continues to surprise, sales wise, it doesn't seem likely.

I'd look at the production/shipping projections through 2014 first, which probably aren't available. I don't see the PS4 failing to hit a near 100% sell through on production for 2014, so it will depend upon production numbers for the Wii U and XBO, assuming they hit a near 100% sell through as well.



I think Xbox plus Wii U will comfortably outsell the PS4 this holiday but that doesn't speak for what will happen throughout the next 6 years. Having said that I don't think its a given that the Ps4 will hold 50% market share. The wii U will do around 18-25m. The Xbox will do another 40m-60m (it too early to say otherwise) and I don't actually expect the PS4 to do more then 130m. So I could see it being a bit less then 50%, it all depends on how big the Xbox's long term recovery is.