Normchacho said:
fatslob-:O said:
Normchacho said:
Any evidence to support that? Demand is still very, very high. Anytime it comes into stock at most places it sells out very fast.
Also, what numbers would be "The real deal"? Lets be honest here ok? You had your post for this pretty much planned out before we knew the numbers. It has nothing to do with the PS4s sales and everything to do with you wanting to downplay.
I'm not going to keep going around this circle with you this time. You either don't get it or you're just posting to stir people up, which is against the forum rules btw. Either way it's not worth the energy.
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Oh jesus ...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-12-03-sony-expected-to-ship-1m-ps4s-per-month
If you go take a look at the year to date totals the PS4 is maybe behind 500K units in terms of production already.
Why would I want to downplay when the PS4 is likely to be my ONLY choice of console early this generation ? I'm not anti Sony and infact I'm very much pro Sony seeing as how I was a fan of the PS1 and especially the PS2 but maybe not so much of the PS3 ... What I am is ANTI HYPE and many of us here were expecting the PS4 to do much better as evidenced by this thread. The "real deal" is when I expect the PS4 to be able to do at least 350K in march by NPD numbers and that should be an easy target considering that infamous is a moderate franchise.
I'm not here to stir up the people around this forum ... I want to lower the amount of hype so that people can comeback to making a more realistic outlook.
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Just because they can make a million a month doesn't mean they have 1.5 million ready to be bought in 1.5 months. Especially considering that it's the first 1.5 months after launch.
Also, they were holding stock for the Japan launch were they not? So lets say Patcher was off by 10% and Sony are making 900K a month (1.35M in 1.5 months). So if they saved 350K for Japan then that leaves them with 1 million left over and they've sold 980k through the 15th of this month. It's not exact math of course but it's not hard to imagine that Patcher was just off.
Do you really mean 350K in March from the NPD numbers? NPD is JUST the U.S. Even the Wii only did 286k it's first march in America.
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Even though infamous is not a huge system seller it should be able rack up atleast 100K gamers from NA. The way I see the PS4 needs more games to have WII like phenomens. The WII especially had goods legs in it's first 3 years until nintendo reverted back to their gamecube ways ... Even though playstation consoles are known for having much better sustained legs over 5 years it will need alot of decent software to be able to pull it off.
The WII had the best quality games whether you like it or not and I don't think the PS4 will have a great deal of alot of games that sell over 20+ million coppies. The PS2 on the other hand had the best library for consistent quality since there were tons of games that went over the 1 million mark but I highly doubt the PS4 will be able to match that up because AAA game development is getting prohibitively expensive.
