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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware 29 December 2018

If we add those numbers to the ones on the global yearly sales page it looks like PS4 and Switch were almost tied this year. What an awesome point in time with the charts finally being interesting again: PS4 was the best selling console and Nintendo sold the most hardware overall. 2012-2016 was a bit boring with mostly clear winners (PS4) and clear losers (Wii U, PS Vita) and not much competition.



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Louie said:
If we add those numbers to the ones on the global yearly sales page it looks like PS4 and Switch were almost tied this year. 

Indeed, only 700k more for PS4 this year (17,7 million VS 17 million for the Switch)



So Switch, according to VGC went from 13'1M in 2017 to 17M in 2018, a 30% growth YOY. We know JP is 6%, USA is 14%, UK is 20% and France is 24%. So making maths compared to 2017...

13175k (worldwide) - 3324k (Japan) - 4880k (USA) - 736k (UK) - 911k (France) = 3324k in the rest of the world; so US+JP+UK+FR = 9851k

in 2018:

US 5585k + JP 3549k + UK 830k + France 1091k = 11055k, a 12% growth YOY compared to 2017.

16963k (total worldwide) - 11055k = 5908k in the rest of the world, a 77% growth YOY compared to 2017.

I really think that growth in those markets, outside JP, US, UK and FR is just too much. VGC shows a 40% growth just in Europe when UK+FR+GE seems to be around 20-25%. Those countries represented 65% of total Europe sales in 2017, now they only represent 54%. I expect some adjusting coming from Switch in the future...

PS4 also seems like it needs some adjusting coming from previous years, because despite the total matching lifetime sales data from Sony, it shows 17'7M for 2018 when it should be closer to 18'0M.

As for XBO, well, we'll never know for sure if the numbers are right or not, so no point in discussed them at all.

If in the end the numbers end being right i still will be satisfied with my prediction at the start of December:

PS4 18'0M, VGC shows 17'7M (being 18'0M the official number from Sony)
NS 16'3M, VGC shows 17'0M
XBO 7'1M, VGC shows 7'3M




switch is up 250k from last years last week of december! cant wait so see software data



colafitte said:

PS4 also seems like it needs some adjusting coming from previous years, because despite the total matching lifetime sales data from Sony, it shows 17'7M for 2018 when it should be closer to 18'0M.

I don't understand, you aknowledge it perfectly matches LT sales with what Sony said but you still think it's undertracked ? How ? Because if they indeed add 300k to the PS4 total, it would be overtracked



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SKMBlake said:
colafitte said:

PS4 also seems like it needs some adjusting coming from previous years, because despite the total matching lifetime sales data from Sony, it shows 17'7M for 2018 when it should be closer to 18'0M.

I don't understand, you aknowledge it perfectly matches LT sales with what Sony said but you still think it's undertracked ? How ? Because if they indeed add 300k to the PS4 total, it would be overtracked

That's why i said that the adjustment need to come from the previous years because it's obvious don't match.

Sony announced 12 months ago that PS4 had sold 73'6M and then this year they announced PS4 91'6M lifetime, that's 18'0M in 2018. VGC showed 73'8M at the end of 2017. If they are going to stick to official lifetime numbers from Sony in 2018 putting PS4 at 91'6M, they should be doing the same in 2017.



SKMBlake said:
colafitte said:

PS4 also seems like it needs some adjusting coming from previous years, because despite the total matching lifetime sales data from Sony, it shows 17'7M for 2018 when it should be closer to 18'0M.

I don't understand, you aknowledge it perfectly matches LT sales with what Sony said but you still think it's undertracked ? How ? Because if they indeed add 300k to the PS4 total, it would be overtracked

It's because they need to adjust previous years as well, the total sales are correct but they sold 18m this year according to Sony but this site has 17.7m



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Zombie9ers said:
Congrats to PS4 for being the top selling console in 2018! To think how many consoles they would have sold had they kept the $199 promotion through December- but I think Sony is content with their performance throughout the year.

They are definitely content. It beat their original projections and the revised ones after that. 



Kerotan said:
Zombie9ers said:
Congrats to PS4 for being the top selling console in 2018! To think how many consoles they would have sold had they kept the $199 promotion through December- but I think Sony is content with their performance throughout the year.

They are definitely content. It beat their original projections and the revised ones after that. 

Having your second best year in its 5th year, without any price cut, is simply amazing. No console has sold this good, so late a this price. PS4 is the most succesful home console ever...