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thismeintiel on 13 July 2014
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torok said:
sundin13 said:
But the PS4 isn't really selling super well...? Its relatively good, but its more that XBO/Wii U are selling badly, and I think that the argument is that PS4 doesn't deserve to be selling so well relative to the others.

The fact that the PS4 is no longer killing it in the sales charts sort of destroys the whole video >.> (it also sounds like the guy who made it is a major fanboy...)


Why isn't it selling well? In the same week in 2007 we had: X360 at 69k and PS3 at 63k. It's outselling easily both of them, just isn't tracking with the Wii, but the Wii was a special case were sales died off in less than 5 years while PS4 will have legs like all of its predecessors. Right now, PS4 still is ahead of the Wii and PS2 on aligned launch data. Even X1 is pretty on par with the sales of the older consoles. And that's with price tags of US$ 400 and 500 while 360 was pretty cheaper.

It's time for people start to accept that it is selling well because it's current sales figures are a industry record for the same time period. How can a console that is at record pace be considered as "selling bad"? This doesn't make any sense.

Edit: Just to add some numbers, we had 360 in same week in 2006 doing 70k while completely alone in the market with zero competition. In 2008 we had both PS3 and 360 doing around 100k in their second and third years, respectively, with a massive library to help. Still, PS4 on par. If this month is like the others and VGC undertacked PS4, then it will be doing even better. Remember that MS talked about 9M PS4s and we probably don't have a lot sitting on shelves so VGC is probably way wrong.

Yea, PS4 is doing really well, all things considered.  Of course, it also could be slightly undertracked in US and EU.  We'll have to wait til NPD for US and Sony's next announcement for EU.  And 2015 should be the year things really kick into gear.  Sony has quite a few exclusives launching (some I'm sure aren't yet announced) and the PS4 will most likely get a ~$50 price cut near the end of the year.  Man, can't wait for this, and next year's, holiday seasons to see how high the PS4's sales fly.