Hiku said:
Nintyfan90 said:
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.
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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.
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Those are shipments not launch aligned figures. The PS4 has more quarters of global figures than PS2.
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These are launch alligned figures for shipments for each console after being out on the market for 8 quarters.
Launch alligned doesn't mean sold through figures. It's just a way to measure a statistic. In this case, the number of shipped units. It can also measure sold through, rented, sold back to BestBuy, or anything you want. It simply means that the calculation is based on the same amount of time tranpiring from the first day the consoles released anywhere.
After being out on the market for 8 quarters, PS4 has shipped 29.30m. After being out on the market for 8 quarters, PS2 had shipped 24.99m.
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Does the ps2s first quarter include global figures or Japan only?
