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Intrinsic on 06 June 2014
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kowenicki said:
Intrinsic said:

Sigh.... and you are also doing what is causing that reaction by some. Its clearly understandable why the traditional handheld market is shrinking. And a lot have already said why in this thread too. But pls, share with us what indicated that the home console market is shrinking too? and how you can arrive at that conclusion when two of the players have not even got to the first post launch holiday season. What we simply have is one of the big 3 doing extremely poorly. One struggling and one doing much better than it ever has. Exactly what happened in the PS2 era. 

 

can you show me the maths of this please?

Of course..... here you go.

PlayStation:

4 months (one territory) – March 31st, 1995 – 0.85 million
10 months – September 30th, 1995 – 1.77 million
16 months – March 31st, 1996 – 4.26 million
22 months – September 30th, 1996 – 8.07 million
28 months – March 31st, 1997 – 13.50 million

PS2:

1 month (one territory) – March 31st, 2000 – 1.41 million
7 months (one territory) – September 30th, 2000 – 3.52 million
13 months (all territories) – March 31st, 2001 – 10.61 million
19 months – September 30th, 2001 – 19.58 million
22 months – December 30th, 2001 – 24.99 million

PS3:

1 month – December 31st, 2006 – 1.7 million
4 months – March 31st, 2007 – 3.5 million
7 months – June 30th, 2007 – 4.2 million
10 months – September 30th, 2007 – 5.5 million
13 months – December 31st, 2007 – 10.4 million

PS4:

1 day – November 16th, 2013 – 1 million
2 weeks – December 1st, 2013 – 2.1 million
1 month – December 28th, 2013 – 4.2 million
3 months – February 8th, 2014 – 5.3 million

7 months - ~ 8 million sold.

You may want to say its worldwide as opposed to territory restricted, but sales are sales. In the PS4 is doing better than any previous sony console to date as it stands, looking at a sales in relation to time on the market. Unless of course you want to dispute that too. At this rate the PS4 is on track to selling around 15M consoles after its first 13 months on the market. Yet its doing poorly? As I keep asking, compared to what? Can you show me something that makes you feel that console gaming is doing poorly? And don't forget, the PS4 actually cost more than the PS2 did at launch.