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chocoloco on 15 August 2014
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Shadow1980 said:
chocoloco said:

Awesome post. I say considering how closely the PS4 is selling to the (360's first year) this  summer and considering it's huge  launch it is doing pretty well historically. There are so many games coming this holiday I would not be surprised if it sells better than the 360 (360's first year) all fall. 

Through the first half of 2006 the 360 sold 1396k, while in the first half of this year the PS4 sold 1592k, meaning the PS4 is up 196k over the 360 in first-year sales. The 360 sold 671k in Q3 2006, which means that to have a better Q3 this year the PS4 needs to sell at least 485k in August and September combined. I think Destiny will easily put the PS4 past that, thus keeping it ahead of the 360's 2006. Going into the holidays, with no big system launches to detract from its holiday sales and with a lot of big titles releasing in Q4, it should end up at least a few hundred thousand ahead of what the 360 pulled in 2006.  47% of the 360's 2006 sales were in Q4, a bit less than what most systems sell in Q4 relative to Q1-Q3, and that may be because of other systems debuting and drawing attention away from it as well as the 360 not having many big titles in Q4 '06 besides Gears of War (it also had COD3, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Spliner Cell: Double Agent, and NFS: Carbon all released in Q4, but those weren't very big titles, at least in terms of sales).

Thanks for gathering and saving data.It would take forever to gather the data to do the math myself.