At this moment, the PlayStation 4 is at the absoluate peak of its abilities, with its last 2 full years on the market both doing over 17 million and this year being on track the match it or eclipse it, this thread will be centered around whether or not the system can reach a level beyond what it has seen these past two years to an incredible level of yearly sales!
Below is a chart that indicates the sales totals for the PlayStation 4 in the past 3 years, including the weekly sales and accumulative sales.
Bolded = Video game launched
Italicized = Hardware revision launches (PS4 Slim & PS4 Pro)
Bolded and Italicized = Black Friday week
Bolded, Italicized, and Underlined = Final Yearly Total
| Week | 2015- Weekly | 2015 - Total | 2016 - Weekly | 2016 - Total | 2017 - Weekly | 2017 - Total |
| 1 | 204,971 | 204,971 | 247,897 | 247,897 | 365,699 | 365,699 |
| 2 | 165,950 | 370,921 | 223,121 | 471,018 | 285,898 | 651,597 |
| 3 | 152,489 | 523,410 | 207,399 | 678,417 | 262,373 | 913,970 |
| 4 | 167,637 | 691,047 | 230,825 | 909,242 | 281,143 | 1,195,113 |
| 5 | 184,711 | 875,758 | 286,443 | 1,195,686 | 312,417 | 1,507,530 |
| 6 | 210,557 | 1,086,315 | 291,899 | 1,487,584 | 312,274 | 1,819,804 |
| 7 | 273,634 | 1,359,949 | 316,410 | 1,803,994 | 347,203 | 2,167,007 |
| 8 | 289,329 | 1,649,278 | 286,005 | 2,089,999 | 348,171 | 2,515,178 |
| 9 | 245,196 | 1,894,474 | 239,077 | 2,329,076 | 283,776 | 2,798,954 |
| 10 | 234,687 | 2,129,161 | 308,037 | 2,637,113 | 294,626 | 3,093,580 |
| 11 | 310,164 | 2,439,478 | 253,942 | 2,891,055 | 323,040 | 3,416,620 |
| 12 | 317,790 | 2,757,268 | 246,617 | 3,137,672 | 324,078 | 3,740,698 |
| 13 | 256,724 | 3,013,839 | 229,748 | 3,367,420 | 313,628 | 4,054,326 |
| 14 | 215,940 | 3,229,779 | 187,370 | 3,554,790 | 271,830 | 4,326,156 |
| 15 | 193,787 | 3,424,566 | 179,419 | 3,734,209 | 263,191 | 4,589,347 |
| 16 | 185,318 | 3,608,884 | 170,440 | 3,904,649 | 245,610 | 4,834,957 |
| 17 | 169,720 | 3,778,604 | 162,185 | 4,066,834 | 246,792 | 5,081,749 |
| 18 | 159,753 | 3,938,357 | 152,338 | 4,219,172 | 287,594 | 5,369,343 |
| 19 | 146,781 | 4,085,138 | 210,851 | 4,430,023 | 291,503 | 5,660,846 |
| 20 | 183,161 | 4,268,299 | 159,035 | 4,589,058 | 293,433 | 5,954,279 |
| 21 | 154,644 | 4,422,943 | 200,650 | 4,789,708 | 306,336 | 6,260,615 |
| 22 | 160,107 | 4,583,050 | 184,477 | 4,974,185 | 318,894 | 6,579,509 |
| 23 | 169,529 | 4,752,579 | 190,686 | 5,164,871 | 296,402 | 6,875,911 |
| 24 | 177,192 | 4,929,771 | 193,778 | 5,358,649 | 316,880 | 7,192,791 |
| 25 | 359,519 | 5,289,290 | 197,284 | 5,555,933 | 333,279 | 7,526,070 |
| 26 | 248,750 | 5,538,040 | 198,705 | 5,754,639 | 299,572 | 7,825,642 |
| 27 | 194,767 | 5,732,807 | 185,205 | 5,939,843 | 269,605 | 8,095,247 |
| 28 | 189,607 | 5,922,414 | 179,082 | 6,118,925 | 277,878 | 8,373,125 |
| 29 | 171,142 | 6,093,556 | 173,953 | 6,292,878 | 256,129 | 8,629,254 |
| 30 | 173,909 | 6,267,465 | 200,226 | 6,493,104 | 368,394 | 8,997,648 |
| 31 | 167,146 | 6,434,611 | 174,812 | 6,667,373 | 262,635 | 9,261,283 |
| 32 | 171,659 | 6,606,270 | 177,269 | 6,844,642 | 260,025 | 9,521,308 |
| 33 | 174,459 | 6,780,729 | 185,704 | 7,030,346 | 252,943 | 9,774,251 |
| 34 | 198,754 | 6,979,483 | 188,886 | 7,219,232 | 260,345 | 10,034,596 |
| 35 | 311,140 | 7,290,623 | 196,931 | 7,416,163 | 262,197 | 10,296,793 |
| 36 | 218,570 | 7,509,193 | 209,557 | 7,625,720 | 300,011 | 10,596,804 |
| 37 | 233,005 | 7,742,198 | 355,724 | 7,981,444 | 265,489 | 10,862,293 |
| 38 | 301,138 | 8,043,336 | 300,800 | 8,282,244 | 259,216 | 11,121,509 |
| 39 | 278,306 | 8,321,642 | 353,893 | 8,636,137 | 301,690 | 11,423,199 |
| 40 | 272,222 | 8,593,864 | 317,696 | 8,953,833 | 272,771 | 11,695,970 |
| 41 | 238,038 | 8,831,902 | 309,235 | 9,263,068 | 267,985 | 11,963,955 |
| 42 | 276,764 | 9,108,666 | 321,053 | 9,584,121 | 312,278 | 12,276,233 |
| 43 | 281,578 | 9,390,244 | 307,046 | 9,891,167 | 289,137 | 12,565,370 |
| 44 | 682,929 | 10,073,173 | 492,710 | 10,383,877 | 475,196 | 13,040,566 |
| 45 | 575,946 | 10,649,119 | 809,156 | 11,193,033 | 662,725 | 13,703,291 |
| 46 | 747,120 | 11,396,239 | 691,774 | 11,884,807 | 810,013 | 14,513,304 |
| 47 | 1,616,202 | 13,012,441 | 1,257,370 | 13,142,177 | 1,657,712 | 16,171,016 |
| 48 | 821,700 | 13,834,141 | 959,229 | 14,101,406 | 812,423 | 16,983,439 |
| 49 | 858,298 | 14,692,439 | 984,899 | 15,086,305 | 870,299 | 17,853,738 |
| 50 | 1,055,740 | 15,748,179 | 1,097,140 | 16,183,445 | 877,206 | 18,730,944 |
| 51 | 1,170,584 | 16,918,763 | 1,197,712 | 17,381,157 | 909,421 | 19,640,365 |
| 52 | 575,627 | 17,494,390 | 554,161 | 17,935,318 | 545,163 | 20,185,528 |
| +/- | - | - | - | +440, 928 | +2,250,210 |
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