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DJEVOLVE on 15 December 2014
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JustBeingReal said:
jacks81x said:

Units sold through would be my guess.  This was at the end of the montage right before Layden came out on stage and said PS4 is the fastest selling console of all time.


That's only where they cut off the video at the beginning, there was no sign that that's the final figure they'd reached by PSX. PS4 had shipped 13.5 million by the end of September, there's no way retailers would be ordering that many if they weren't going to sell that number at least by the end of October.

IMO VgChartz is under tracked, which makes sense because of a number of factors, like VG doesn't even have PS4 at 10M when Sony announced they'd sold well in excess of 10 million back in August. When Driveclub launched there were two other major releases, but the sales dropped compared to the previous week when Shadow of Mordor launched, SoM was a pretty big seller, was still on the markey, yet despite there being 4 new games on the market and a highly anticipated 1st party exclusive the numbers still dropped like a stone.

COD AW sold a million more on PS4 than XBox One, according to VGChartz, but the rise in hardware sales was nowhere near as big as Xbox One, which makes no sense.

 

17M seems like a minimum at this point, obviously sales hadn't reached some milestone that Sony felt they wanted to share, my guess is that they now want to wait until they hit 20M, as it has more of an impact from a marketing POV than coming out and announcing figures every 5 million units sold.

By the end of this year I think PS4 will have sold 20M at least, if not 21-22M, but I guess we'll see.


Vgchartz could have just as easily seen they undertracked PS4, adjusted numbers up and overtracked instead.

November 15th was the first release date for PS4, so if this is the number from November 15th 2013-2014. The ps4 should be at 15.6 Million by Nov. 29th or close to.  So worst case scenerio they are over tracked by 500,000 units. Which we already know they are over tracked by 200,000 from NPD results. So 300,000 is really not that much. 

So yes over 17 million by Nov. 13th seems likely but I would have to say I might drop my prediction of 17.5 by a few 100,000.