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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 worldwide shipments tops 102.8M, becomes second best-selling home game console of all time

Well there's no denying it; Sony is king of home consoles.



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DonFerrari said:
I'm just sad about they lowering the projection and also that it seems like they won't budge on not giving a price cut. Probably would be the highest average revenue per HW Sony ever had even with PS3 starting at a much higher price point, but discounted much faster.

Guess Sony not only saw no pressure from competitors, but even their metrics must have been met without needing to be aggressive, more money for them, less consoles and good deals for customers.

It definitely means they aren't budging on that price. Will probably do another nov/dec $199 promotion and that will be it. But when you think about it, maybe leaving the price of the PS4/PS4pro at $250/$350 respectively at the time of the release of a $500 PS5, actually makes the PS5 not look too expensive lol.



I thought the number is for sell through, seems I misunderstand it, but it's just a matter of time for it to make it the second place in this site.



Hiku said:

With software around a Billion, and the revenue from their PS Plus subscriptions, it may very well be a more profitable system for them than the PS2 was.

It have been for a long time Hiku.

Consider the pricecuts of PS2 probably all life it lost money on the HW.

So PS4 getting 1B SW (PS2 had 1.5B) plus and average 30M subs @50 USD for 6 years (9B rev) with higher margin than games or royalties I have no doubt they made more money out of PS4. Just need to find the books to be sure.

Annual reports

2000 - 654B Yen Revenue and 77.4B Yen profit (PS1 would still sell about 30M from 2000 until discontinued, but whatever)

2001 - 661B Rev and -51B (loss)

2002 - 1004B Rev and 83B profit

2003 - 955B Rev and 113B profit

2004 - 780B Rev and 68B profit (PSX launch, not relevant)

2005 - 729.8B Rev and 43.2B profit (PSP starting so some profit was sucked by it)

2006 - 958.6B Rev and 8.7B profit (PS3 development probably sucked all of it)

2007 - 1016.8B Rev and -232.3 (loss)

So summarizing PS2 results would be something like 6000B Yen rev and 400B Yen profit

Annual reports

2013 - 707.1B Yen Revenue and 1.7B profit (PS3 mostly here for revenue and low profit due to PS4 R&D plus launch and cost of the HW)

2014 - 1043.9B Rev -18.8B (loss)     Network generated 200B

2015 - 1388B Rev 48.1B profit         Network 351B

2016 - 1551.9B Rev 88.7B profit        Network 529B

2017 - 1649.8B Rev 135.6B profit      Network 715B

2018 - 1943.8B Rev 177.5B profit      Network 1033B 

2019 - 2310.8B Rev 311.1B profit      Network 1428B (Digital Software and Add-on Content plus PS+, about 25% is PS+ Rev)

So summarizing PS4 results until now would be something like 10000B Yen of revenue and 740B Yen profit.

When all is said and done PS4 will certainly have doubled revenue and profit of PS2 even if it sells 20% less hardware.

Last edited by DonFerrari - on 30 October 2019

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."

Evilms said:
Radek said:
over 1 billion software wow!

Indeed it is phenomenal, knowing that only the PS2 has achieved this feat in the past.

Probably PS3 is also above 1 billion.



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paulrage2 said:
Evilms said:

Indeed it is phenomenal, knowing that only the PS2 has achieved this feat in the past.

Probably PS3 is also above 1 billion.

with digital yes PS3 and X360 crossed it.



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."

Just read that.



polofresco said:

Sony also altered its previous forecast that it will sell 15 million PlayStation 4s in fiscal year 2019, which runs from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020, to 13.5 million PlayStation 4s.

oooomphf.....

That basically means no price cuts at all.
I'd have a hard time imagineing it doing less than 15m this year... but I guess, if they dont even try to sell them, maybe they only do 13,5m.



Radek said:
over 1 billion software wow!

wasnt it like that since almost a year ago? this isnt new news.



paulrage2 said:
Evilms said:

Indeed it is phenomenal, knowing that only the PS2 has achieved this feat in the past.

Probably PS3 is also above 1 billion.

The PS3 almost made a billion, it stopped at 999.4 million.

https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/data.html

PlayStation®3 More than 999.4 million
(As of March 31, 2019)