Shadow1980 said:
Oct. 2000: 391,245 So, the PS4 had a significantly better launch and a somewhat better first January than the PS2 in the U.S. Here's how it sold in Japan its first 13 weeks/3 months according to Famitsu: Week 1: 630,552 The PS4 is selling less than the PS2, but it's dropping at a similar rate. It had a bigger drop its second week but a shallower drop its third week. I don't expect it to jump up over the next couple of week, but neither do I expect it to keep bleeding out to PS3-level sales by this summer, either. We'll just have to wait and see. As for Europe, we don't have any actual sales figures, but according to Sony by March 31, 2001 it had shipped 2,850,000 units, which puts an upper limit on total sales. Assuming a similar sell-through rate as in NA — and assuming the U.S. accounted for 90% of all sales and shipments in NA, that's a sell-through rate of 78.6% —, it could have sold fewer than 2.3 million units. Even a sell-through of 90% gives us 2,565,000 units, a a sell-through of 95% gives us just over 2.7 million. So far the PS4 has sold 2,224,000 units in Europe and could hit 2.4 million by the end of this month. So the PS4 is likely selling roughly on par with the PS2 in Europe, maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. |
Cool thanks very much for the figures :)
So excluding Japan PS4 seems to be almost or pretty much on par with PS2, so that's good I guess!
What on earth happened in March 2001 to make the PS2 rise so much?
