PS4 Sales Surpass 5.3 Million Units Worldwide as of February 8

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UNDERTRACKED!!!!

But seriously, amazing job VGC being accurate to almost 98%.

vivster said:

lucidium said:

vivster said:
Lame. Why not wait and announce a nice round number after the Japan launch?

Because two positive news releases are better than one?

By that logic they should release one every week. With a finger pointing gif and an X1 logo next to it.

Sony wanted to announce 5 Million, but it blew past that number before Sony could blink. So they had to go with a non-standard reporting number to put that 5 million number out there in the public domain BEFORE the Japan launch.

Or,

Sony might only do periodic sell through estimates, and 8 Feb was the date they chose. And they decided to report the 8 Feb number as long as it was north of 5 million.

I wonder if MS will have the balls to report 3.5 million sell through in about 2 week's time. It will take an embarrassingly long time to get to 4 million, so I think they might just ditch the whole idea of announcing sell through now that they are so far behind PS4. Even quarterly shipments is going to be a tough announcement to make. What MS might do is report HW sales on weeks with big releases. So if Xb one does 200K on TF week they might announce that.

Hmm,  has anyone done a poll to see what sort of spike people think Xb one will get on TF week?