August 2014 NPD Thread! PS4 - 190k, XBO - 160k, Wii U < 60k, PSV < 6k

[johnsobas]

CGI-Quality said:

CosmicSex said:

Soundwave said:

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So much blatenly wrongness.  The PS2 is not pulling ahead of the PS4.  You are violently wrong lol

http://www.gamepur.com/news/13730-ps4-sales-outpacing-ps1-ps2-and-ps3-massive-margin-full-breakdown-revealed.html

PS2 took 13 months to reach 9 milion

PS4 took 9 months.  

 

It took an additional 6 months (19 months total in Sept 30, 2001) to for the PS2 to reach 20 million. From there it took an addition 8 months to get to 30 million (27 months total in May 2002).

There is no way you can extrapolate that far in the future and say the PS2 is pulling ahead.  You only know that the PS4 is trending ahead at this point. 

Lets at least try to be right.  

That's pretty much what I showed. What's key: 

PS2:

• 13 months – March 31st, 2001 – 10.61 million

PS4:

• 9 months – August 17th, 2014 – 10 million

Seeing how 10 million is the benchmark, that it was I felt was most important. It took the PS4 four months less (overall, I'm aware of the 7 month JP discrepancy for the PS2 and the 3 month difference for PS4) to hit it. Not sure how that can be spun, other than, again, mentioning Japan (which as I did with the Gran Turismo people last gen - the sales were made up elsewhere), but that's grasping at its absolute best.

those numbers only include 6 months in the US and 4 in EU for the PS2, they include 9 in both for PS4.  They both have a holiday so that's fair.  The only thing that's unfair for PS4 is Japan but the number is so small for the PS4 it would make little difference.