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colafitte on 17 February 2014
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pezus said:
kappie1977 said:
pezus said:
kappie1977 said:
ninetailschris said:
leo-j said:
Because of what sony did with the ps3.. They deserve trust and sales.. To go from barely having better first party than microsoft , to surpassing Nintendo.. With innovative IP after IP.. They proved themselves last gen

I needed a good laugh. The reason is it's under stocked. The wii and ps2 was doing way more per week than ps4 now. The hype was much bigger because (DVD and casuals). People on here are acting like wii numbers are here. People are not talking about the ps4 like they are iPhones.


Do you have an overview onthe weekly sales of PS2 and WII in their first few month?
Because I remember to have read something last week that the Xbox one and PS4 have set records in terms of first release sales and also weekly sales in the console market!

PS4 was the fastest selling console of all time at launch and it still is way ahead of Wii (which held the record before). Does anything more need to be said?

I thought the same thing, but because ninetailschris said PS2/WII weekly sales are still way more. I'm interested in his links/overview of the numbers.

We can't really compare to PS2 weekly sales, because they do not exist here this early on.

See this post for a Wii comparison for this year: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6073525

PS4 is way above PS2. PS2 launched in March 4 2000 in Japan ending the fiscal year 99 (31 march 2000)  with 1'41m shipped, Oct-Nov 2000 in USA-Europe. In fiscal year 2000 it shipped 9'20m PS2 for a total 10'61m. PS2 exploded after that.

So basically in 13 months (only 5 months for non Japan territories) it shipped almost 11m PS2. PS4 has already shipped probably more than 5m 3 months after launch. Only needs to ship more than 6m in the next 10 months to beat those PS2 shipments. if PS4 is going to ship this fiscal year around 7m by March 31 2014 it seems it will be a very easy task. 

For comparison Wii shipped 5'84m in the same time (until 31 March 2007), so people saying Sony is doing wrong with shipments know nothing. Nintendo shipped 18'61m Wii's in the next fiscal year. Maybe Sony won't ship so much, but i'm sure it will ship more than the 9'20m PS2 did. I think it will be no less than 15m shipments for FY 2014 for PS4.

For more information PS3 shipped 3'61m FY 2006 (until March 2007) and another 9'24m FY 2007 for a total 12'85m shipped until March 31 2008.

This is of course shipment numbers and not sold to consumer numbers, but at least, are facts.