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Sony's drop is due to the competition doing a better job. Microsoft was force to discount their hardware and Nintendo now has quite a few games worth owning a WiiU to play. Last year at this time PS4 was cheaper and superior consoles while Microsoft kept shooting themselves in the foot. This year the PS4 is slightly superior more expensive console then Xbox One. The PS4 is still the market leader but the competition is adapting and taking a slightly larger piece of the pie.

PS4 is about to get two major boost when The Order: 1886 & Bloodborne release. These two titles should Improve PS4 2015 YTY comparison.



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PS4 is experiencing a huge drop in its second year. This has never happened before, not that Sony should worry much



SjOne said:
PS4 is experiencing a huge drop in its second year. This has never happened before, not that Sony should worry much

I think you need to change your definition of huge , the PS4 is still ahead 36K for the year and is only down around an average of 20 a week for the last 3 weeks and this is against the backdrop of last years pent up demand.



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yvanjean said:
Sony's drop is due to the competition doing a better job. Microsoft was force to discount their hardware and Nintendo now has quite a few games worth owning a WiiU to play. Last year at this time PS4 was cheaper and superior consoles while Microsoft kept shooting themselves in the foot. This year the PS4 is slightly superior more expensive console then Xbox One. The PS4 is still the market leader but the competition is adapting and taking a slightly larger piece of the pie.

PS4 is about to get two major boost when The Order: 1886 & Bloodborne release. These two titles should Improve PS4 2015 YTY comparison.

I don't think so, if you look at last year, you will see that when the initial launch frenzy settled, the PS4 settled into a baseline at $400 that is very similar to what we are seeing now. 140k-160k/week. Most of its weekly sales fell into that range outside notable game releases, region launches and the holiday season. Right now, the PS4 being right back to 150k just suggests its settled right back into its baseline, which should be expected. this is not indicative of the competition doing better, cause its baseline hasn't changed and its still priced the same.

The increased sales of the XB1 however simply show that at its lower price its selling better, which should also be expected. If the PS4 is averaging an all new baseline lower than anything it had last year, then we can reduce that its losing sales to the XB1. But that's not the case. 



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SjOne said:
PS4 is experiencing a huge drop in its second year. This has never happened before, not that Sony should worry much

one you are exaggerating. and two, you are wrong. read my last post. 



yvanjean said:
Sony's drop is due to the competition doing a better job. Microsoft was force to discount their hardware and Nintendo now has quite a few games worth owning a WiiU to play. Last year at this time PS4 was cheaper and superior consoles while Microsoft kept shooting themselves in the foot. This year the PS4 is slightly superior more expensive console then Xbox One. The PS4 is still the market leader but the competition is adapting and taking a slightly larger piece of the pie.

PS4 is about to get two major boost when The Order: 1886 & Bloodborne release. These two titles should Improve PS4 2015 YTY comparison.


Not necessairly, as last year at this time we had the sales bellow what they are this year, but then it got adjusted up. So before making hasty conclusions we better wait for the adjustments posts NPD and perhaps Sony announcement.



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yvanjean said:
Sony's drop is due to the competition doing a better job. Microsoft was force to discount their hardware and Nintendo now has quite a few games worth owning a WiiU to play. Last year at this time PS4 was cheaper and superior consoles while Microsoft kept shooting themselves in the foot. This year the PS4 is slightly superior more expensive console then Xbox One. The PS4 is still the market leader but the competition is adapting and taking a slightly larger piece of the pie.

PS4 is about to get two major boost when The Order: 1886 & Bloodborne release. These two titles should Improve PS4 2015 YTY comparison.


Not necessairly, as last year at this time we had the sales bellow what they are this year, but then it got adjusted up. So before making hasty conclusions we better wait for the adjustments posts NPD and perhaps Sony announcement.

Those are the original numbers in 2014.

4th January 2014

Ps4 265 000 

http://web.archive.org/web/20140114232456/http://www.vgchartz.com/

11th January 2014

Ps4 : 187 000

http://web.archive.org/web/20140123030556/http://vgchartz.com/

18th January 2014 

Ps4 :  149 000

http://web.archive.org/web/20140201002707/http://www.vgchartz.com/

25th January 2014 

Ps4 : 146 000

http://web.archive.org/web/20140207055355/http://www.vgchartz.com/

It doesn't mean that Vgchartz is wrong in 2015 but we will have to wait before any conclusion. 



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Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m