TGS 2013: Sony Confirms 5 Million PS4 for FY2013

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the-pi-guy said:

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walsufnir said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
If Sony pulls this off this just shows that their brand power is coming back. I was going to say 3.5 million for 2013 but if they have the hardware and don't plan on ever being sold out, then they might be able to pull it off. Whats 1.5 million if you're properly watching the hardware WW?

Their brand power was never gone.

That's why Sony went from selling about 150 million PS2 consoles to selling less then a 100 million PS3 consoles.  And it's not that I think the PS3 will reach a 100 million, I'm just giving it room for error on my part so I don't under and overstate sells.

A 600$ video game system with no games* usually dies, so it's beyond impressive that it even managed to sell 50 million consoles.  Most of that was because of the brand power.  If a different company released a 600$ with the same games that the PS3 saw, it would probably only sell a few million, if that.  

*Not necessarily that it didn't have any games, but it had very few big system sellers that the Xbox 360 didn't have.  

Sony didn't sell 50 million consoles at $600 dollars.  You know price cuts give console sales a boost for those that where on the fence about buying.  The real factor about the PS3 was Blu-ray.  Being fairly new at that time, and what Blu-ray players cost in stores made the PS4 look like a steal even with its high price. Sony has nothing like that too help sell the PS4.