January 2014 NPD Thread! - PS4: 271k, XBO: 141k, WiiU: 49k

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Aerys said:

MoHasanie said:

lucidium said:

MoHasanie said:
I think the PS4's sales aren't anything special, Considering the huge sales we keep hearing about, those numbers are kinda average. Everything else did bad so its making the PS4's sales look better than they actually are.

Nice downplay, but it applies to anything, for example, titanfall sales won't be as impressive they only seem so because other games did badly, the forums aren't that big they just seem that way because lots of others are smaller.

 

I'll be sure to look forward to you calling any successful result in future for your favored platform unimpressive and just a result of the competition doing badly.

I'm not downplaying anything. I just don't think 271k sales is good. I suppose for some of January it was out of stock so it would have certainly crossed 300k had it been stock for the whole of January but that's not so great either since in December we heard many people claiming how much higher the PS4 would have been had it been in stock. Some people made statements that the PS4 could have sold twice as much had it had enough stock in NA. Well now its in stock and  its sales aren't that impressive. 

 271k sales with supply issues isnt good enough even if 360(winner of last gen there) sold less on it's first january ? Total downplay. Only 2 consoles sold more than PS4 on their first january, PS2 and Wii, and this is  because they had no supply issues.

Now tell me how a console with no stock could have more impressive sales than it is already? You  dont know how many it would have sold if it was in stock, it could have done 300, 400, more, we dont know, so stop your downplay .

WIi was supply constrained pretty much from Fall 06 to Spring 09, except for maybe a break in mid 2008, then again in Fall 09 to Spring 10 after a price cut. PS2 had on and off again issues from late 2000 to late 2002 (when it was peaking), and then in late 04'-05' when shipments got stuck in the Suez Canal.

One thing that may be happening too is that late would be PS3/360 buyers are getting a PS4/Xbox 1 - that would explain the massive deterioration in PS3 / X360 figures and huge early launch of PS4/X1 to some extent. It isn't normal to go from 5.3m X360s / PS3s in 2013 to 1.5m we're on pace for 2014 right now. Was expecting around 2m minimally, 2.5m with a price cut.