Sony posts $280M profit. PS4 ships 4 million in Q2 & LTD = 29.3 Million

[Nintyfan90]

Hiku said:

Nintyfan90 said:

PS2 was out in Japan first for like 9 months. Launch aligned they are probably tied which means ps4 slowed down considering it launched bigger than both Wii and PS2.

These are launch alligned figures, meaning the same amount of months from the first available release date for each console. Which is the only accurate way to measure. Otherwise you'd be disregarding some sales. That one console was available in one region before another is not an issue here, unless there was still a stock shortage of PS2's after nearly 2 years, because everyone who wants the console will have picked one up at that point.
If someone who wants a PS2 was still holding out on getting one 2 years after it's initial release, then it's not because it launched in Japan 8 months earlier.

If we were talking 1 year after release, then that's a different story. But now it's nearly two years, and I don't recall PS2 having stock problems that long into its release.

Those are shipments not launch aligned figures. The PS4 has more quarters of global figures than PS2.