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TheGoldenBoy on 04 May 2016

I'm glad we got hardware numbers.

However, PS4, Wii U & 3DS numbers are overtracked.



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Intrinsic on 04 May 2016
TheGoldenBoy said:
I'm glad we got hardware numbers.

However, PS4, Wii U & 3DS numbers are overtracked.

i don't know. I think it's been somehow adjusted. 

According to Sony as of the ending of March 2016 a total of over 40M PS4s had been shipped. 

VGC has the PS4 at 40.4M as of Apr 23rd with about a week lest to go in the money of April. by the end of April I expect Sony shipments for that month to be around 1.2-1.3M anyways. which leaves around 800k-900k in the channels. 

it seems pretty on point. though I expect shipments to be higher this month than they usually are for non holiday months. Because if uncharted sales. 



TheGoldenBoy on 04 May 2016
Intrinsic said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
I'm glad we got hardware numbers.

However, PS4, Wii U & 3DS numbers are overtracked.

i don't know. I think it's been somehow adjusted. 

According to Sony as of the ending of March 2016 a total of over 40M PS4s had been shipped. 

VGC has the PS4 at 40.4M as of Apr 23rd with about a week lest to go in the money of April. by the end of April I expect Sony shipments for that month to be around 1.2-1.3M anyways. which leaves around 800k-900k in the channels. 

it seems pretty on point. though I expect shipments to be higher this month than they usually are for non holiday months. Because if uncharted sales. 

VGC has PS4 hardware numbers at 39.9 million as of Apr 2nd and Sony had them at 40 million at the end of March 2016 as you said. There's no possible way the numbers are as high as VGC is saying they are. It's probably overtracked by at least 500k if not more.



Keybladewielder on 04 May 2016

I'm hoping that Bravely Second End Layer has good legs. I wonder if it can reach 1 million sales like the first game, I kinda doubt it tbqh



Intrinsic on 04 May 2016
TheGoldenBoy said:
Intrinsic said:

i don't know. I think it's been somehow adjusted. 

According to Sony as of the ending of March 2016 a total of over 40M PS4s had been shipped. 

VGC has the PS4 at 40.4M as of Apr 23rd with about a week lest to go in the money of April. by the end of April I expect Sony shipments for that month to be around 1.2-1.3M anyways. which leaves around 800k-900k in the channels. 

it seems pretty on point. though I expect shipments to be higher this month than they usually are for non holiday months. Because if uncharted sales. 

VGC has PS4 hardware numbers at 39.9 million as of Apr 2nd and Sony had them at 40 million at the end of March 2016 as you said. There's no possible way the numbers are as high as VGC is saying they are. It's probably overtracked by at least 500k if not more.

GC did their adjustments, but I know that the numbers kinda add up at the end. If at the end of March Sony had shipped 40M PS4s, and we know that Sony shipps out around 1M-1.2M PS4s each month, it means that for April Sony had shipped a total of at least 41M-41.2M PS4s. 

So if VGC has it at 40.4M as of April 23rd, that means there are still around 900k PS4s in circulation. That's not an unreasonable number. Even less so when u consider that March shipments are now also entering the channels. So I dont think it's overtracked at all. 



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chakkra on 05 May 2016

I was really missing this



Jranation on 05 May 2016

Wii U above the PSVita this week by 10k! Very Nice!

3DS is just 50k behind the PS4 after how many years since its been out! And the Mobile Market beating its ass!

And the 3DS is above the XONE!



Pocky Lover Boy! 

JustcallmeRiff on 05 May 2016

More numbers and chartz. Thank you for them. That the first reason I come to this site.



czecherychestnut on 05 May 2016
Machina said:

Is there anywhere on the forums where the official shipment figures have been collated and compared to VGC figures? That way I can pester Brett to make changes.

Reason I ask is I don't see him making changes to anything anymore unless it's presented in a clear cut manner and he's constantly nagged to do so because... well, I just think his interest in these things nowadays is less than minimal. It's like pulling teeth getting him to make the software changes I ask for, let alone HW, which I don't particularly follow.

No official thread that I know, but as for Nintendo, can't get more clear and concise than this: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/&ved=0ahUKEwilxtWTtsLMAhUB_2MKHZcZDfEQFggmMAI&usg=AFQjCNHA1iRfKa9iz2ump8EtFNwwmID6FA&sig2=R6igOrC2hQzxCeOALZxEhg



retroking1981 on 05 May 2016
CGI-Quality said:
PlatformN. AmericaEuropeJapanGlobal
52,261 59,622 20,631 159,389
40,025 40,534 16,930 105,913
40,108 24,064 92 72,510
11,173 16,851 6,532 37,287
1,351 9,176 11,968 27,986
1,565 3,290 998 7,642
3,234 1,331 2 5,199

 

I don't believe those Wii U EU numbers at all.