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Forums - Sony Discussion - PS4 Sells 5.9 Million Units Worldwide During 2017 Holiday Season, >73.6 Million Sold Through

TargaryenVers2 on 13 January 2018

Congrats to Sony!



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DonFerrari on 13 January 2018
KLAMarine said:
DonFerrari said:

Sure they aren't the same thing, ok then. If you think console is dying all the power to you.

I wouldn't use the word "dying", I'm just pointing out to the posters below and others that PS4/X1/WiiU is likely down launch-aligned compared to PS3/360/Wii.

The WiiU collapsed and died and the X1 is down compared to the 360 according to http://www.vgchartz.com/article/271185/xbox-one-vs-xbox-360vgchartz-gap-chartsnovember-2017-update/ .

If my math is right, launch-aligned, the PS4 is ahead of the PS3 by about 22 million. Impressive but not enough to make up the fall from the WiiU and X1.

think-man said:
100 million will be easy. Remembering when people said consoles are on the decline xD
thismeintiel said:

LOL, I remember a few "Well, if this how bad the Wii U is doing, just imagine how bad the PS4/XBO will do" comments back in 2012/early 2013. How things change. 

Penny for your thoughts?

X1 have been able to keep up with X360 for most of the time, and as you said PS4 is ahead of PS3.

So yes, PS4+WiiU+X1 is under PS3+Wii+X360, which doesn't mean the market have shrunk, just mean the one time owners of the Wii were just that.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

KLAMarine on 13 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
KLAMarine said:

I wouldn't use the word "dying", I'm just pointing out to the posters below and others that PS4/X1/WiiU is likely down launch-aligned compared to PS3/360/Wii.

The WiiU collapsed and died and the X1 is down compared to the 360 according to http://www.vgchartz.com/article/271185/xbox-one-vs-xbox-360vgchartz-gap-chartsnovember-2017-update/ .

If my math is right, launch-aligned, the PS4 is ahead of the PS3 by about 22 million. Impressive but not enough to make up the fall from the WiiU and X1.

Penny for your thoughts?

X1 have been able to keep up with X360 for most of the time, and as you said PS4 is ahead of PS3.

So yes, PS4+WiiU+X1 is under PS3+Wii+X360, which doesn't mean the market have shrunk, just mean the one time owners of the Wii were just that.

Is the Wii a console? Yes or no?



DonFerrari on 13 January 2018
KLAMarine said:
DonFerrari said:

X1 have been able to keep up with X360 for most of the time, and as you said PS4 is ahead of PS3.

So yes, PS4+WiiU+X1 is under PS3+Wii+X360, which doesn't mean the market have shrunk, just mean the one time owners of the Wii were just that.

Is the Wii a console? Yes or no?

Yes. So since Switch isn't a console we can say gen 9 nuked and have 0 sales?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

KLAMarine on 13 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
KLAMarine said:

Is the Wii a console? Yes or no?

Yes.

Thus it is part of the decline that occurred when going from Wii/PS3/360 to WiiU/PS4/X1.

The people who bought a Wii may not have returned. There's also a chance that people who bought a PS3 or 360 have also not returned.

People who were once there are there no longer. No amount of mental gymnastics will change that.

DonFerrari said:

So since Switch isn't a console we can say gen 9 nuked and have 0 sales?

If the Switch isn't a console, yes. Gen 9 has utterly bombed! So has gen 10, gen 11, and so on since sales are currently at zero.



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Barkley on 13 January 2018
KLAMarine said:

DonFerrari said:

So since Switch isn't a console we can say gen 9 nuked and have 0 sales?

If the Switch isn't a console, yes. Gen 9 has utterly bombed! So has gen 10, gen 11, and so on since sales are currently at zero.

Gen 12 consoles can probably time travel so they might have a few sales already.



KLAMarine on 13 January 2018
Barkley said:
KLAMarine said:

If the Switch isn't a console, yes. Gen 9 has utterly bombed! So has gen 10, gen 11, and so on since sales are currently at zero.

Gen 12 consoles can probably time travel so they might have a few sales already.

Ugh! What a gimmicky feature.