PS4 Japan launch CELEBRATION (It's here!) - Predictions closed!

[colafitte]

jacks81x said:

colafitte said:
Uffff, I don't understand how people can be VP of a great company like Bandai-Namco and make this forecast...

"Bandai Namco Vice President Shin Unozawa shared his prediction with the prominent financial newspaper Sankei Shinbun today, mentioning that he thinks that the console will sell between 300,000 and 500,000 units in Japan before the end of the fiscal year on March 31st.

Unozawa-san also expects it to move 6 million units worldwide by the same deadline."

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/02/20/bandai-namco-vp-expects-ps4-to-sell-300000-500000-units-in-japan-by-end-of-march-6-million-worldwide/

The numbers don't make any sense. He expects only 700k units sold in 42 days, being 300-500k only in Japan??? Seriously, i don't understand anything...

Wouldn't shock me that the VP of Bandai-Namco knows something that the average Joe does not.  I was surprised to see that the PS4 is still readily available on Amazon JP and that there haven't been many reports of throngs of people lining up for the PS4 in Japan yet when it's now only 15 hours away from the JP launch.

It's not the 300-500k units for 5 weeks (for me is still a very low number but acceptable), it's the 6m PS4 WW for 31 March. That's basically impossible. That's why i can't take seriously his prediction for Japan. That, or he is just bad at maths and he forgot about the rest of the world....