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

Kerotan on 09 January 2018
twintail said:
Carl2291 said:

 

Damn.

Can get another YoY improvement??? haha

It would be cool seeing 6 years of data where it's increased every year. 

Hiku said:

Interesting. They had a somewhat weaker holiday season than last year, so it was improved sales in the other months that contributed to 2017 being the best year so far.

Haha I remember someone telling me Japan sales for ps4 this holiday were even worse considering its up YOY in the rest of the world. I guess it was down in December just like Japan. 

pxrocks said:
Nearly 75 million ps4 sold without big games like GOW,spiderman,rdr2,gt,last of us p2 and gta6.now imagine the sell through number after the release of these games.

Yeah huge year ahead plus all the smaller exclusives they got. Gta 6 is probably October 2020 but it will be absolutely huge especially with ps4 being under $200 by then. 

JRPGfan said:
Hiku said:

So roughly 38% of total software sales for PS4 occurred in 2017.
Makes sense, just making a note.

"A total of 243.9 million units of software were sold in 2017."

^ that is f***ing crazy, ton of game sales.

1bn is now a lock. It will end up around 1.5bn now by the end of its life. Maybe even higher. 

thismeintiel said:
If they had just kept it at $199, or just had better bundles, they could have beat last year's holiday season. Oh well, they'll have more ammo to try to make this year their peak year. Maybe 21M-22M.

They weren't bothered because they'll get those sales next year when it drops again. I'd imagine they'll drop it to $249 and then back to $199 on black Friday. They'll probably leave it at $19 for December aswell though. 

zorg1000 said:
Is it likely that PS4 will get a permanent price cut to $199 this year?

Im leaning more towards $249 permanently with $199 during the holidays again.

Agreed. There is no need to go to $199 yet when it's selling so well and with upcoming mega titles like God of war, rdr2 and spiderman coming out. 

ironmanDX said:
Yeah... We're not getting a PS5 until 2020.

Good.. The ps4 and ps4 Pro are more then enough. Last thing we need is a new gen. 2020 or 21 please. 

PAOerfulone said:

32 Million are paying $50 for PS+?
That's $1.6 Billion, BILLION, a year. Just off of PS+.

Good God!

They are swimming in ps plus cash. 32m plus subs from 74m sales. When they hit 100m+ they should be have around 50m subs. That's 2.5BN in cash annually. Holy shit. This aspect of ps4 alone could drive the profits of the company as a whole. 

JRPGfan said:

PSN at >70m is actually bigger than STEAM! which has 67m active users..... O_o'

Great news. 



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quickrick on 09 January 2018
Kerotan said:
twintail said:

 

Damn.

Can get another YoY improvement??? haha

It would be cool seeing 6 years of data where it's increased every year. 

Hiku said:

Interesting. They had a somewhat weaker holiday season than last year, so it was improved sales in the other months that contributed to 2017 being the best year so far.

Haha I remember someone telling me Japan sales for ps4 this holiday were even worse considering its up YOY in the rest of the world. I guess it was down in December just like Japan. 

pxrocks said:
Nearly 75 million ps4 sold without big games like GOW,spiderman,rdr2,gt,last of us p2 and gta6.now imagine the sell through number after the release of these games.

Yeah huge year ahead plus all the smaller exclusives they got. Gta 6 is probably October 2020 but it will be absolutely huge especially with ps4 being under $200 by then. 

JRPGfan said: ]

Im leaning more towards $249 permanently with $199 during the holidays again.

 

 

I agree. don't care  for a new gen yet.

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loy310 on 09 January 2018

Last 3 weeks must have dropped like a brick in water.



Intrinsic on 09 January 2018
Hiku said:

Interesting. They had a somewhat weaker holiday season than last year, so it was improved sales in the other months that contributed to 2017 being the best year so far.

What this shows is how much the PS4 needs to be at $199.

I can never understand this temporal price drop thing. You drop the price to $199 in November, then hike it back up in December. And expect everyone to not just wait for it to go back to $199?



PortisheadBiscuit on 09 January 2018

Awesome from Sony, love that console gaming is alive and well. Sony has navigated this gen perfectly



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NawaiNey on 09 January 2018
Hiku said:

Interesting. They had a somewhat weaker holiday season than last year, so it was improved sales in the other months that contributed to 2017 being the best year so far.

Yeah all those exclusives throughout the year really did the trick.



ZODIARKrebirth on 09 January 2018

congratulation to sony, amazing numbers😁



quickrick on 09 January 2018
Intrinsic said:
Hiku said:

Interesting. They had a somewhat weaker holiday season than last year, so it was improved sales in the other months that contributed to 2017 being the best year so far.

What this shows is how much the PS4 needs to be at $199.

I can never understand this temporal price drop thing. You drop the price to $199 in November, then hike it back up in December. And expect everyone to not just wait for it to go back to $199?

The worst part, is it was 299$ till like the 17th, before they did the 249.99$.



Kerotan on 09 January 2018

Fun fact: Sony have never released a home console that sold under 73m. What an achievement. The home console Kings.



quickrick on 09 January 2018
Kerotan said:
Fun fact: Sony have never released a home console that sold under 73m. What an achievement. The home console Kings.

LOL why use 73 million, you might as well say they never had a console sell less then 86 million, because ps3 will be the lowest, it's already confirmed.