I actually think its expected because fewer people have played MM, yet it has this cult following. Also where it landed in the 3DS life helped a bit too ;)

PS4 fter the adjustment is still dropped 180k in January (less than 150,000 in a week).
People can eat crow...

Any way, still amazing sales for PS4!

Kerotan said: Burek said: 20.2 million for PS4. VGC tracking spot on What happened to WiiU, it's dropping like a rock? i was wondering the same. with china launch coming and some big releases in japan the vita might maintain it's lead or even increase it over the wii u.

Mario party, X and splatoon will have so much fun :)

Are you looking at the same numbers as I am? Because the numbers I'm looking at seem pretty decent for the Wii U, I mean, at least it beat the Vi- oh wait...

Again, I don't think that's the case. The Wii U, who wasn't even competing with gen 7 and released 2 years too late, got a bunch of gen 7 ports. And those had a 180m+ lead. A successor explicitely competing with gen 8 in power and releasing in a timely manner should have no issue getting some 3rd party strictly on the basis of similar hardware. I also think that the fusion model renders most of that inconsequencial anyway.

2016 is a terrible date. PS4 and X1 will get a lot of software in 2015 and 2016 will probably be their hottest year, maybe even their peak. A new console would be crushed by that: people won't be ready to upgrade from their previous consoles after 3 years. Just making people upgrade from Wii U isn't enough since it won't do more thna 20M lifetime, so it's a tiny share.

Releasing so early would create a Dreamcast. Sega launched a console that collided with a PS1 that had a lot of games and had amazing releases in 98/99/2000. When the PS2 arrived, just its hype killed the DC. That's what Nintendo would end up. Releasing a console that would flop even harder and then get a killing blow with the next Sony/MS devices and ending up out of the race in another gen.

They screwed their release pipeline with the Wii. Weak hardware, weak legs. The Wii U made things worse. They have to fix their schedule and align with the launch of PS5/Xnext. The best strategy is to hold up this gen and get the next one right.

Lol, exactly 20.2M on front page. Wonder where they got that number :P

And wow 180k for 3DS!!!
Hope is not overtrcked.

Marketshare for 2015 in the U.S. is as follows,

PS4: 45.87%
X1: 36.63%
WiiU: 17.50%

Ruh Roh.

That's not right...? The PS4 sold 671,600 units in January, that's 167k a week. You must be counting the week of January 3rd in your numbers, but VGC counts them as December, othewise january sales would have been wwwwaaaaayyyy higher.