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Forums - Sales Discussion - VGChartz Hardware Sales Update (16th July 2016)

Finally some numbers!  I was already starting to think that this website was dead.

Thank you so much btw.



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My poor Vita. Those NA numbers are a disgrace. I live in Canada. City of about 250 000. Almost every retailer that used to stock Vita now has no hardware, and no software. The only exception is EB Games. There are 4 locations, but the one I was at yesterday had no hardware either. The thing is they still get asked about it, and sold their last 5 rather quickly, but new stock is not coming in. Again, those NA numbers are gross. Almost unvelievable.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Aquamarine said:
Welfare said:
Laziest update. Absolutely no adjustments were made to the previous numbers, so now these numbers are even worse.

Agreed, no point in caring about this update because it's a pure estimate not based in any sort of fact outside of my NPD leaks and Media Create Japanese numbers.

Were the totals not adjusted? The updates are so infrequent that I don't pat attention like I used to.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

COKTOE said:
Aquamarine said:

Agreed, no point in caring about this update because it's a pure estimate not based in any sort of fact outside of my NPD leaks and Media Create Japanese numbers.

Were the totals not adjusted? The updates are so infrequent that I don't pat attention like I used to.

Nope. Absolutely nothing got adjusted. The PS4 is still at the same 40.7m week ending May 7th as it was before these new numbers.

I have no idea what took so long for "new" hardware numbers if there wasn't going to fixes. 



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

Welfare said:
COKTOE said:

Were the totals not adjusted? The updates are so infrequent that I don't pat attention like I used to.

Nope. Absolutely nothing got adjusted. The PS4 is still at the same 40.7m week ending May 7th as it was before these new numbers.

I have no idea what took so long for "new" hardware numbers if there wasn't going to fixes. 

That's strange. When I go to the hopepage it reads PS4 is at 42.5m.



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COKTOE said:
Welfare said:

Nope. Absolutely nothing got adjusted. The PS4 is still at the same 40.7m week ending May 7th as it was before these new numbers.

I have no idea what took so long for "new" hardware numbers if there wasn't going to fixes. 

That's strange. When I go to the hopepage it reads PS4 is at 42.5m.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/42512/Global/

If you go here, VG Chartz says the global sell-through hardware total for PS4 is 41,137,531 as of May 21st, 2016.

This is ridiculously inaccurate.

 

Sony released PR saying that the global sell-through hardware total for PS4 is 40.0 million as of May 22nd, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4

 

The fact that the hardware totals were not adjusted for their inherent inaccuracy speaks to how careless ioi was in preparing this update. These numbers simply cannot be trusted.



^So, 1 million overtracked again? That means probably about 5.5 million or so sold this year, making the 20 million CY even more unlikely. People have really been overestimating the PS4, I think many expect it to sell really great just because the competition is doing poorly, the fact that it isn't selling faster with said poor competition is actually cause for some worry, it would seem that consoles overall have lost some of their zest.
It was inevitable though, there were always quite a few fringe customers buying consoles, these are now situated in convenience gaming markets, for the most part.



Mummelmann said:
^So, 1 million overtracked again? That means probably about 5.5 million or so sold this year, making the 20 million CY even more unlikely. People have really been overestimating the PS4, I think many expect it to sell really great just because the competition is doing poorly, the fact that it isn't selling faster with said poor competition is actually cause for some worry, it would seem that consoles overall have lost some of their zest.
It was inevitable though, there were always quite a few fringe customers buying consoles, these are now situated in convenience gaming markets, for the most part.

I agree on that 5.5m. We'll have a ceiling soon (shipments) but I'd say at the end of June the PS4 is somewhat above 41.1m, and probably below 41.4m right now.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

Mummelmann said:
^So, 1 million overtracked again? That means probably about 5.5 million or so sold this year, making the 20 million CY even more unlikely. People have really been overestimating the PS4, I think many expect it to sell really great just because the competition is doing poorly, the fact that it isn't selling faster with said poor competition is actually cause for some worry, it would seem that consoles overall have lost some of their zest.
It was inevitable though, there were always quite a few fringe customers buying consoles, these are now situated in convenience gaming markets, for the most part.

?

Shipments are up yoy and that is all that matters when compared to the 17.7m shipments last year.

Even if they were down yoy so far, it hardly matters in the grand scheme due to how much the holidays contribute to the total.


Either way I think the 20m requires another price cut.



spurgeonryan said:

No one ia posting, all the newbs have no idea what an update is.

Not surpised, as we hardly have them anymore. Lol



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).