Aura7541 said:
Dec. 28, 2013: 4.2 million Difference: 1.8 million (64 days) = 28.125K/day Jan. 4, 2015: 18.5 million Difference: 1.7 million (56 days) = 30.157K/day At least from January through February, the PS4 has been outpacing last year by a smidge. It we extrapolate 2015 to 64 days, the PS4 would have sold 1.943 million units or +7.94% YOY. Not sure if it'll be down or flat when you take March into account. However, it's still pretty impressive considering the PS4 is still $399. |
I specifically wrote Jan 3rd to March 21st though, compared to the same period last year, and it's down for that period yoy. I don't know why you'd change the dates; I'm looking at all the available numbers we have and comparing the same time period from last year. I suppose one could argue that the Feb launch in Japan would skew the numbers in 2014's favor, but that would be wrong due to the fact that Jan is a strong month in Japan and the 5-6 weeks with zero sales more or less make up for the bigger launch numbers, it may perhaps be a disadvantage even. Cutting the comparison short at March 1st seems kinda arbitrary unless one is vocally opposed to the idea that a market leader can be down entering its second full CY.
My whole point, regardless of what time window we choose or not; if the One being down is bad then it is certainly not good for the market leader to be down as well, or even flat, this is only the second full calendar year we're approaching and consoles normally show decent levels of growth at this point in time.
